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• Britain Planning to Have Ten New Nuclear reactors by 2018 and China Prepares to Independently Build Six AP1000 Reactors

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 626
  1. The British government wants to have 10 nuclear power plants online by 2018. They want the reactors to generate a quarter of Britains power, compared with 13 percent today. 2. China is building another six AP1000 reactors. These new units are to be the first built independently after the technology transfer ...
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• World Nuclear Power in 2009

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 626
  World Nuclear power generation for 2007 and 2008 Through September 2009, year-to-date nuclear generation in the USA was 610.9 billion kilowatt-hours compared to 607.0 bkWh for the same period in 2008 and 607.8 bkWh in 2007 (the record year for nuclear generation). During Q4 2009, and in particular since the end ...
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• Nuclear Fission for Dummies: Xenon-135

  
  Babeled - six guys who have never been in your kitchen — Authority: 124
  When Enrico Fermi fired up the first nuclear reactor at Hanford in 1944, he was in for quite a surprise.  Shortly after the reactor went critical, power stalled and the reactor shut down.  A few hours later, the reactor unexpectedly started up again all by itself.  This was the result of poisoning brought on by ...
  2 days ago

• Rival Angels Page 294-Victory! (5 Comments)

  
  Rival Angels — Authority: 120
  Sun wins! Just like clockwork, even.  Damage Inc had a plan with their new member and it worked. Everyone seems happy, at least about the victory! Okay, maybe not the York girls.  But now its on for some partying for Damage Inc!  More on that next update as well as setting the groundwork for the next match.  And ...
  3 days ago

• Theres No Such A Thing as Nuclear Waste

  
  The North Coast — Authority: 116
  One of the larger concerns surrounding nuclear power is the management of the byproducts of fission, popularly known as "waste". As matters stand at the moment, the Yucca Mountain repository is on hold, and further development of nuclear power could be curtailed until a "solution" is found. Only in a society ...
  4 days ago

• Main vessel for Indias fast breeder reactor to be lowered mid-November 2009

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 626
  Indias first indigenously designed breeder reactor - which breeds more material for a nuclear fission reaction than it consumes - is being built by Bhavini at the Kalpakkam nuclear enclave. Lowering of the huge stainless steel main vessel -- 12.9 metres in diameter and 12.94 metres in height, weighing 206 tonnes ...
  5 days ago

• The Future of Nuclear Energy: Facts and Fiction - Part IV: Energy from Breeder Reactors and from Fusion?

  
  The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future — Authority: 640
  This is the fourth part of a four-part guest post by Dr. Michael Dittmar . Dr. Dittmar is a researcher with the Institute of Particle Physics of ETH Zurich, and he also works at CERN in Geneva. The accumulated knowledge and the prospects for commercial energy production from fission breeder and fusion reactors are ...
  6 days ago

• An overview of future fission nuclear technologies

  
  Sustainable development and much more — Authority: 124
  After my articles on the 10 reasons to support nuclear power and the one the past and present of nuclear energy it is time to have a look at the main future technologies. David JC MacKay on his website mentions two main fission possibilities : fast breeders and thorium and fusion . We will have a look at ...
  6 days ago

• Who’s Who in Ufology Today

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 159
  Below are ten names of the most educated, respected UFologists alive today. By studying their theories and published works, you will be on the forefront of UFology research. Jerome Clark: Researcher and writer. He attended South Dakota State University and Minnesota State University, becoming interested in the UFO ...
  1 week ago

• Here Come the Japanese Nuclear Reactors

  
  New Energy and Fuel — Authority: 421
  Making the latest news is the new design from Toshiba is the 4S.  The four ‘S’s are for super, safe, small and simple.  The design is such that the tendency to call sealed reactors batteries applies as well. Toshiba 4S Graphic The technical specifications for the 4S reactor are unique in the nuclear ...
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• Assembling a Nuclear Boom

  
  New Energy and Fuel — Authority: 421
  Rod Adams at Atomic Insights Blog is a not to be missed weekly stop for this writer.  Mr. Adams is located close to the regulatory action, conferences and has the experience and background to make sense of it all with his gift of communicating to the informed masses – that’s us.  He recently made ammo with the ...
  1 week ago

• Nuclear : Past and present

  
  Sustainable development and much more — Authority: 124
  After my article last week on the 10 reasons to support nuclear power I wanted to write about the future technologies (fast breeders, thorium and fusion) as I was ending my article on that very topic. But before doing that I would like to provide you this week s ome historical insight on nuclear physics and power ...
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• Burn that Nuclear Waste

  
  New Energy and Fuel — Authority: 421
  The more energy pulled out of uranium fuels the less radioactive waste remains at the end.  That fact has been on the minds of many in science and business for decades. Nuclear experts say the proposed Advanced Recycling Center (ARC) could help to solve the biggest radioactive waste concerns as the world atomic ...
  2 weeks ago

• Who’s Who in Ufology Today

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 159
  Below are ten names of the most educated, respected UFologists alive today. By studying their theories and published works, you will be on the forefront of UFology research. Jerome Clark: Researcher and writer. He attended South Dakota State University and Minnesota State University, becoming interested in the UFO ...
  2 weeks ago

• Who’s Who in Ufology Today

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 159
  Below are ten names of the most educated, respected UFologists alive today. By studying their theories and published works, you will be on the forefront of UFology research. Jerome Clark: Researcher and writer. He attended South Dakota State University and Minnesota State University, becoming interested in the UFO ...
  2 weeks ago

• Main vessel for India’s fast breeder reactor to be built in two weeks (With Images)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  By Venkatachari JagannathanChennai, Oct 28 (IANS) Armed with the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board’s (AERB) clearance for erection of major nuclear reactor components, officials of Bharatiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam (Bhavini) building the Rs.5,600 crore fast reactor near here are gearing up for constructing the huge main ...
  2 weeks ago

• 10 reasons to support nuclear power

  
  Sustainable development and much more — Authority: 124
  One of my friends asked me on Twitter why I am supporting nuclear energy, and this even if it is a fossil fuel. Since this answer was quite elaborated I decided to propose you an English version of this reflection. Please note before I continue that I don’t consider that nuclear is perfect but instead believe ...
  2 weeks ago

• GE Hitachi Propose Nuclear Fuel Recycling with Prism Fast Reactor and Electroseparation

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 626
  GE (General Electric) Hitachi is proposing the Advanced Recycling Center (ARC) which would be the fourth generation PRISM sodium-cooled fast reactors and an electrometallurgical separation process that would make a new form of fuel from spent fuel rods without separating plutonium. The first of kind system they are ...
  3 weeks ago

• Some People Do Make a Big Difference

  
  New Energy and Fuel — Authority: 421
  One such ‘Big Difference’ person is Charles Barton who writes about nuclear energy at the Nuclear Green Blog.  By some wee bit of astonishment Mr. Barton has engaged Jesse Jenkins, the Director of Energy and Climate Policy of the The Breakthrough Institute, an active Energy/Environment Blogger, and an active ...
  3 weeks ago

• Nuclear Fission for Dummies: Moderation

  
  Babeled - six guys who have never been in your kitchen — Authority: 124
  Everything is moderation.  It would seem the universal slogan for healthy living applies to subatomic particles as well.  Moderation is the term used in nuclear science for the slowing of neutrons to a speed conducive to nuclear fission. When an atom sheds a neutron, either by fission or radioactive decay, it is ...
  3 weeks ago

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