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Thorium Nuclear Fuel Tested in Norwegian Power Plant

Benji Jerew — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:17:02 +0000

Nuclear power, essentially steam turbines driven by the fission of Uranium [isotope U-235], is powerful, doesn’t emit carbon-dioxide, and is reliable. On the other hand, nuclear disasters, such as Chernobyl in 1989, and Fukushima in 2011, point out the possibly deadly consequences of its use. In spite of the danger and rarity of Uranium, U-235 […]

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NASA May Build Nuclear Reactors on Moon and Mars

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:13:10 +0000

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 […]

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

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:10:36 +0000

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.

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

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 26 May 2011 18:19:43 +0000

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.

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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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Possible Solution for Storing Nuclear Waste Comes From MIT

Mike Sandru — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 19:43:12 +0000

The earthquake that hit Japan recently has got every state with nuclear waste thinking: what if the leak should happen to us? What then? So the United States are currently reviewing their nuclear waste policy in search of a better way to store residues. Otherwise, the current facilities are a somewhat easy target for natural disasters and terrorist attacks.

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

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 19:14:16 +0000

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.

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

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 21:18:47 +0000

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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MU Scientists Discover Nuclear Battery That Might Just Be Safe

Cristi — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:59:11 +0000

The scientists from the University of Missouri may have found a way to develop a nuclear energy source that is smaller, lighter and more efficient.

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