Posts Tagged Nuclear Power

Nuclear Power Could Provide Heat for Hydrogen Production

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Hydrogen Power on March 26, 2012

Ibrahim Khamis, Ph.D at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Austria, has recently described to the scientific community a method nuclear power plants could use to provide the heat necessary for the production of hydrogen from water, through electrolysis. He presented his research at the 243rd National Meeting & Exposition of the American [...]

New Nuclear Waste Recycling Technology Discovered by Notre Dame Researchers

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Nuclear Power on March 23, 2012

Maybe the folks at Fukushima should hear about this, or more precisely those handling the recovery process, which is far from over: as the latest discovery in the field, the Notre Dame Thorium Borate-1 (NDTB-1) is apparently just what you need to clean up a radioactive mess. Although the current trend is all for clean [...]

New Butterfly-Shaped Uranium Molecule Helps Cleaning Nuclear Waste

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Nuclear Power on March 12, 2012

A new uranium molecule developed by scientists from the University of Edinburgh can literally clean the waste that nuclear power plants leave behind. The researchers found out that the molecule may be involved in forming clusters of radioactive material in waste that are difficult to separate during the cleanup process. The new discovery could lead [...]

U.S. Nuclear Power Not Dead: Two New Plants to be Built in Georgia

Posted by Chris Bretto in Nuclear Power on February 20, 2012

Green light for the construction of nuclear reactors in Georgia. On February 9th, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a licence for Southern Company, an energy utility, for the building of two nuclear reactors at Vogtle, Georgia. In the past 34 years no such licence has been granted and no new reactors have been built [...]

Japan to Set Nuclear Power Plants Lifespan to 40 Years

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Nuclear Power on January 7, 2012

After last year’s March 11 events, the Japanese government wants to impose strict limitations to the lifespan of future nuclear power plants. Environment and Nuclear Crisis Minister Goshi Hosono said that the limit would be 40 years. Only in rare cases would this time be extended, and that would be done with rigorous security checks [...]

Bill Gates Deals New, Safer Nuclear Reactors With China

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Nuclear Power on December 8, 2011

If you’ve gotten used to seeing Bill Gates in the role of Microsoft CEO, then as the image of his foundation fighting for poverty alleviation, now it’s time to see him entering the energy business. Not kind of energy business, though, but a specially controversial one: nuclear power. Gates has begun discussions with Chinese authorities [...]

New Nanofiber/Nanotube Material Filters Radioactive Contaminated Water

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Nuclear Power, Water Purifiers on November 3, 2011

A new innovation from Professor Huai-Yong Zhu at Queensland’s University of Technology can clean up all the water contaminated by radioactive materials. The material Zhu made is based on nanofibers and nanotubes, and uses an approach that had never been tested before. Titanate nanofiber and nanotubes are the materials he uses, to be more exact. [...]

NASA May Build Nuclear Reactors on Moon and Mars

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Nuclear Power on August 29, 2011

Nuclear power has originally been designed for use in terrestrial environments, but scientists at NASA think people could use nuclear fission reactors in extra-terrestrial environments such as the Moon, Mars or any other planet they may need power on. Nuclear fission doesn’t depend on sunlight, wind or any other element that may link it to [...]

Coal Mining Produces More Deaths Per TWh Than Nuclear, Study Says

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Nuclear Power on July 13, 2011

Everybody’s been talking lately about the threat that nuclear power poses to humans, that’s a known fact. Another fact which few think of is the number of deaths coal mining produces, both direct and indirect, through the various diseases triggered by the fine carbon dust.

France To Build More Nuclear Power Plants, Also Invests in Renewables

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Nuclear Power on July 1, 2011

In a total defiance to what happened in Fukushima, and the negative reaction of Germany, Italy and Sweden to nuclear power, French president Nicolas Sarkozy reaffirms the country’s reliance on nuclear power by announcing the investment of a billion euros in this field.

Beznau Protest Success: All Swiss Nuclear Power Plants To Go Offline Until 2034

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Nuclear Power on May 26, 2011

In a recent article I published, I’ve been saying that it’s hard to almost impossible for a country like France, which depends heavily on nuclear power, to give up using it. Well, it looks like the democratic process worked after all in Switzerland, where crowds peacefully demonstrating near one of the oldest nuclear power plant in Beznau succeeded convincing the authorities to give up nuclear for good until 2034.

Nuclear Power Plants Vulnerable to Effects of Climate Change

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Nuclear Power on May 24, 2011

Lately, nuclear power has proven itself vulnerable not to terrorist attacks, but to nature itself. Disasters such as the well-known from the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in Japan raise questions about how safe nuclear power really is and how current and future plants will be able to cope with climate change.

25 Micro Nuclear Plants 10 MW Each Could Get Built in Nunavut, Canada

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Nuclear Power on April 27, 2011

Despite of all what’s happened in Japan lately, despite of all the activists and all of the dangers associated with nuclear fission power plants, there are places on Earth where people want to build their own local nuclear power plant. Scaled down, 10 MW versions are within the building plans of Nunavut, Canada.

Green Algae Able to Eliminate Radioactive Strontium from Water and Nuclear Waste

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Nuclear Power on April 11, 2011

Just like hound dogs sniffing around for burglars, Closterium moniliferum, an green alga that usually lives in ponds, could sniff and eliminate radioactive strontium 90 (Sr-90) from water and from existing nuclear waste. 80 million gallons of radioactive nuclear waste are already stored in the United States. The discovery has been made by Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory researchers.

Fukushima Events Offer Bad Perspective on Nuclear Power: Dump It or Continue Making Technology Better?

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Nuclear Power on March 14, 2011

I wanted to give people an insight to read these days about nuclear power, how clean it is if it works properly and how dirty and “sinful” it is when things like an earthquake and a tsunami both hit the respective power plants at the same time.

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