Showing posts with label nuclear power. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nuclear power. Show all posts
Thursday, February 7, 2013

What A Nuclear Accident May Cost

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World Nuclear Association Major Nuclear Accident Would Cost France $580 Billion: Study -- Reuters (Reuters) - A nuclear accident sim...
Friday, March 23, 2012

Germany Unprepared For A Major Nuclear Disaster

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(Click on Image to Enlarge) Germany Unprepared For Major Nuclear Disaster -- Spiegel Online If a nuclear disaster comparable to Fukushima we...
Monday, March 8, 2010

The US Is Lagging On Nuclear Reactor Technology

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Backing old technologies (Image: Bloomberg/Getty) From New Scientist: IT SEEMS obvious: if you're planning a new generation of nuclear p...
Saturday, December 12, 2009

Map Of Every Nuclear Explosions Since 1945

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Our Century of Fallout: Every Nuclear Detonation, Mapped -- Gizmodo Everyone's got a notion of how the last century went, in terms of nu...
Friday, December 4, 2009

A Uranium Shortage Could Derail Plans To Go Nuclear To Cut Carbon Emissions

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From The Economist: THERE is an awesome amount of energy tied up in an atom of uranium. Because of that, projections of the price of nuclear...
Thursday, November 26, 2009

Nuclear Fuel: Are We Heading For A Uranium Crunch?

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Lack of incentive to invest in more uranium mines (Image: Robert Francis/Robert Harding/Rex Features) From New Scientist: AS THE world prep...
Monday, November 23, 2009

How Long Can a Nuclear Reactor Last?

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OLDIE BUT GOODIE: Extending the life span of aging nuclear power plants could be essential to meet the nation's energy needs. WIKIMEDIA ...
Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Ten Nuclear Stations To Be Built In the UK In Bid To Prevent Energy Shortage

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From Times Online: Ten nuclear power stations are to be built in Britain at a cost of up to £50 billion as the Government tries to prevent t...
Saturday, November 7, 2009

The Future Of Nuclear Power

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From MIT: Introduction An interdisciplinary MIT faculty group decided to study the future of nuclear power because of a belief that this tec...
Wednesday, August 19, 2009

NASA Successfully Tests Nuclear Reactor to Power Future Moon Bases

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Gone Fission : See it bigger . John MacNeil From Popular Science: For a while now, NASA has been planning to use a nuclear fission reactor t...
Thursday, August 13, 2009

Drive For Atomic Energy Adds To Nuclear Challenge: US

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Steam billows from cooling towers at a nuclear power generating station in Illinois. A senior US official acknowledged on Wednesday that th...
Sunday, April 5, 2009

Nuclear Industry's New Burst Of Energy

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The Salem nuclear plant's cooling tower forms a backdrop as a tanker cruises south on the Delaware River near Port Penn, Del. JOHN COST...
Friday, March 6, 2009

Yucca No Longer Option For Waste Site

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In this June 25, 2002, photo, the view from the summit ridge of the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump near Mercury, looking west to...
Sunday, February 15, 2009

Mini Nuclear Plants In Alaska

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The Toshiba 4S (Super-Safe, Small and Simple) nuclear power plant is designed to be delivered, installed, and carried away 30 years later. I...
Monday, February 2, 2009

Nuclear Fusion Fission Hybrid Reactor To Destroy Waste

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Photo from ABC News (Australia) From Future Pundit: The idea behind long term (tens or hundreds of thousands of years) nuclear waste storage...
Friday, January 30, 2009

Atomic Weight: Balancing The Risks And Rewards Of A Power Source

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DAVIS BESSE: The nuclear power plant near Toledo, Ohio, was shut down for two years due to an equipment failure that might have resulted in ...
Monday, January 26, 2009

How Long Will The World's Uranium Supplies Last?

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YELLOWCAKE: There should be enough uranium to fuel the world's current fleet for more than 200 years. Courtesy of Cameco Corporation Fro...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Can Nuclear Power Compete?

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From Science America: Newly approved reactor designs could reduce global warming and fossil-fuel dependence, but utilities are grappling wit...