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Do the Benefits of Nuclear Power Outweigh the Dangers?

Annika Tostengard — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 18:59:45 +0000

Obama’s Clean Power Plan may actually be undermined if nuclear power plants are shut down. This news comes from a report by to Third Way, a non-partisan think tank located in Washington, DC. The goal of the the administration’s plan is to cut 32% of fossil fuel emissions by 2035, but the report concludes that without the […]

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Nuclear Power Could Provide Heat for Hydrogen Production

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:06:54 +0000

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 […]

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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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