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Thorium Not the Nuclear “Wonder-Fuel” Once Supposed

Leigh Hutchens — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 07:25:27 +0000

Thorium, once believed to be a nuclear wonder fuel, might not actually be as miraculous as first thought. In fact, nuclear energy specialists wrote in the journal Nature that the promotion of thorium as a superior fuel for future nuclear energy is unwise since it not proliferation-resistant, as once thought. Experts determined that thorium can […]

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Nuclear Power Plants Vulnerable to Effects of Climate Change

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 24 May 2011 15:18:37 +0000

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.

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