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A community portal about Nuclear power with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Nuclear power is the controlled use of nuclear reactions to release energy for work including propulsion, heat, and the generation of electricity. Human use of nuclear power to do significant useful work is currently limited to nuclear fission and...more
A community portal about Nuclear power with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Nuclear power is the controlled use of nuclear reactions to release energy for work including propulsion, heat, and the generation of electricity. Human use of nuclear power to do significant useful work is currently limited to nuclear fission and radioactive decay. Nuclear energy is produced when a fissile material, such as uranium -235, is concentrated such that nuclear fission takes place in a controlled chain reaction and creates heat — which is used to boil water, produce steam, and drive a steam turbine. The turbine can be used for mechanical work and also to generate electricity. Nuclear power is used to power most military submarines and aircraft carriers and provides 7% of the world's energy and 15.7% of the world's electricity. Nuclear energy policy differs between countries.
ContributorNetwork - On Thursday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission granted its first approved licenses for new nuclear reactors built on American soil since before the Three Mile Island incident in 1979. The news brings with it the first manifestation of the so-called renaissance of nuclear power in the United States predicted back in 2007.
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TOKYO -- Leaks of radioactive water have become more frequent at Japan's crippled nuclear power plant less than two months after it was declared basically stable.The problem underlines the continuing challenges facing Tokyo Electric Power Co. as it attempts to keep the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant under control. A massive earthquake and tsunami badly damaged the plant last March, resulting in the melting of three reactor cores.Read More...
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- Fukushima: New Radioactive Water Leaks Found (sott.net)
Radioactive water has spilled from Xcel Energy's Prairie Island nuclear power plant near Red Wing, Minn., on two recent occasions, according to notifications the utility sent to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission this month.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's first new nuclear power plant in a generation won approval Thursday as federal regulators voted to grant a license for two new reactors at a site in eastern Georgia. Atlanta-based Southern Co. hopes to begin operating the $ ...
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I've been very skeptical about nuclear power and have said as much several times in this blog. However, George Monbiot's advocacy of the fast reactor technology has begun to change my mind in respect of that technology as it would appear to address the issus I have with nuclear power: The engineering firm GE Hitachi has submitted an alternative proposal based on its Prism fast reactor, which could consume the plutonium as fuel while generating...
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