Jan
14
At the Threshold of a Nuclear Fission Renaissance
January 14, 2013 | 1 Comment
M. Mitchell Waldrop offers a marvelous, compact and easily read overview of where the fission nuclear energy field is today. With a history and review of the options, the article “Nuclear Energy: Radical Reactors” has been published by Nature. It’s a medium length article well worth the time. Meanwhile, here’s a quick overview for the […]
Nov
26
Thorium To Be Used In a Working Reactor
November 26, 2012 | 6 Comments
A Norwegian company led by Alf Bjørseth will start burning thorium fuel in a conventional test reactor owned by Norway’s government with help from U.S.-based nuclear giant Westinghouse. Bjørseth is now running his private company Scatec AS, and establishing new companies within Scatec based on the latest technologies in the areas of renewable energy and […]
Nov
22
A Thanksgiving Day For One Small Nuclear Reactor
November 22, 2012 | 1 Comment
The Obama Administration’s Energy Department has announced an award to support a project to design, license and help commercialize a small modular reactor (SMR) in the United States. The lucky partnership members are Babcock & Wilcox with the Tennessee Valley Authority and Bechtel who will receive a dollar for dollar cost match in funding to […]
Sep
26
Will There Be Enough Uranium for Generating Electricity?
September 26, 2012 | 2 Comments
The Nuclear Energy Institute announced a September telephone survey in a press release suggesting almost two thirds of U.S. adults favor the use of nuclear energy as one of the ways to provide electricity in the United States. This latest survey found that Americans strongly favoring nuclear energy outnumber those strongly opposed by a two-to-one […]
Sep
24
The Nuclear Plant Locations with Tsunami Risk
September 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Researchers at the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) of the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium have completed and published their study on nuclear power plants with tsunami risk. The research shows 23 nuclear power plants with 74 reactors have been identified in high tsunami risk areas and one is the […]
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