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• Nuclear roundup - Russian Uranium Production and Indian Nuclear Plants

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 624
  1. The fifth nuclear reactor of the Rajasthan Atomic Power Station (RAPS-5) at Rawatbhatta, with a capacity of 220 MWe, reached criticality at 12.51 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov 24, 2009. This is the 18th nuclear power reactor to be commissioned in the country. With its commissioning, the total nuclear power-generation ...
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• Combine the Address Bar and Progress Bar Together in Firefox

  
  Your Daily Mixed Net Soup — Authority: 129
  Do you like the way that the Progress Bar is built into the Address Bar in Safari Browser? You can get the same functionality in Firefox with the Fission extension. Before Here you can see our example browser with the “Progress Bar” displaying as normal in the “Status Bar” and the “Throbber” spinning. ...
  5 days ago

• Latest on Four Small Nuclear Reactors

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 624
  Idaho Samizdat has the latest on NuScale, Babcock & Wilcox mPower, Hyperion Power Generation and Toshiba 4S from the American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting Hyperion Takes Steps to Speed to Market Within Four Years Hyperion Power Generation (HPG) uranium nitride fuel burns would begin before the end of the ...
  1 week ago

• US Team Sets Uranium Fuel Energy Release Record

  
  New Energy and Fuel — Authority: 420
  Idaho National Laboratory (INL) scientists are working with Babcock and Wilcox Inc., General Atomics, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory to establish standards and procedures for the manufacture of commercial-scale new uranium fuels.  The team has set a new world record with next-generation particle fuel (aka fuel ...
  1 week ago

• Hyperion Power Generation Reactor Design

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 624
  Here are 18 pages of slides, 8 pages on the Hyperion Power Generation Uranium Hydride Nitride Reactor (H/T Idaho Samizdat ) Fuel will be enriched to between 15-19.6% because this small reactor needs more highly enriched fuel to get power levels to point of economic value. Fuel is a uranium nitride alloy. No fuel ...
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• Kazatomprom Uranium Mining

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 624
  Total uranium production in Kazakhstan for the 9 months of 2009 amounted to 9,535 tU. Thus, the target was exceeded by 3%. The increase, as compared to the corresponding period of 2008, made up 61%, while a gain of U3O8 output in comparison with the corresponding period of 2008 was 50%. Full 2009 production should ...
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• Widetronix goes nuclear to build a 25-year battery

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 155
  A company called Widetronix has developed a 25-year battery. Reminiscent of Heinlein’s micro-fission reactors that could be worn on a belt, beta voltaic battery cells last 25 years or more, using semiconductors to turn high energy electrons known as beta particles thrown off by radioactive decay into a usable ...
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• Hyperion Power Generation Will Finally Reveal a Design for it Uranium Hydride Reactor on Wednesday Nnovember 18, 2009

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 624
  At the highly anticipated Annual Winter Conference of the American Nuclear Society on November 18, Hyperion Power Generation Inc. will present the "launch" design for the Hyperion Power Module (HPM) to be deployed into the global market. Details will be revealed by Mark Campagna, Hyperion Powers Chief Nuclear ...
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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: 624
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• World Nuclear Power in 2009

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 624
  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: 122
  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 weeks ago

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

  
  Rival Angels — Authority: 122
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Theres No Such A Thing as Nuclear Waste

  
  The North Coast — Authority: 110
  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 ...
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• Main vessel for Indias fast breeder reactor to be lowered mid-November 2009

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 624
  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 ...
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• 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: 653
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• An overview of future fission nuclear technologies

  
  Sustainable development and much more — Authority: 126
  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 ...
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• Who’s Who in Ufology Today

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 161
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Here Come the Japanese Nuclear Reactors

  
  New Energy and Fuel — Authority: 420
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Assembling a Nuclear Boom

  
  New Energy and Fuel — Authority: 420
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Nuclear : Past and present

  
  Sustainable development and much more — Authority: 126
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

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