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
11
A 50% Efficient Turbine Solution
September 11, 2012 | 4 Comments
A steam turbine that drives a generator is usually only about 30% efficient. Based on the Brayton-cycle system, developed by George Brayton more than 100 years ago, an air or steam system heats the air or water in a confined space and then releases the compressed air or steam to turn a turbine generator. The […]
Aug
9
A Better Smaller Cheaper Uranium Fuel to be a Catalyst
August 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Scientists at Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) using light energy have created a rare molecular uranium nitride (U-N) complex. The constructed molecule contains a discrete terminal “U-N unit”, a situation where just one nitrogen atom is bonded to the one uranium atom. Prior work had the nitrogen atom always been bonded to two or more […]
Jul
3
A Big Nuclear Breakthrough
July 3, 2012 | 1 Comment
Dr. Stephen Liddle in the School of Chemistry at The University of Nottingham leads a team that seems to be first to create a stable version of a uranium ‘trophy molecule’, a compound that has eluded scientists for decades. The research paper has been published in the journal Science. The Nottingham chemistry team has shown […]
Jun
26
Great News For Spent Nuclear Reactor Fuel
June 26, 2012 | 2 Comments
Al Fin spotted the news story at PhysOrg yesterday that describes a new method to recover the uranium in spent fuel enabling access to the nineteen times of the energy already produced to be used. The process also deeply concentrates the very nasty actinides the justifiably worry so many folks and even that is back […]
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