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 […]
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 […]