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16 Aug 2011, 4:15 am
Nuclear power plants don't usually give off a lot of radioactive sulfur, but they do if you pour sea water on them, which Tokyo Electric did for quite a while at Fukushima. [read post]
15 Aug 2011, 8:34 pm by Karl-Friedrich Lenz
The nuclear power plant in Busheer, Iran, is scheduled to start running at 40% power at the end of this August. [read post]
15 Aug 2011, 5:31 pm by Karl-Friedrich Lenz
There have been nuclear powered ships before, but now there is a project underway to build a floating nuclear power plant, see this World Nuclear News report. [read post]
12 Aug 2011, 8:27 am by Katie Gray
This week in regional energy news … The Loring Development Authority in Limestone, Maine, is embarking on an expansion project that includes the installation of new sources of cleaner power, and the removal of old ones, including an implosion of an old heat plant tomorrow. [read post]
11 Aug 2011, 6:18 pm by Karl-Friedrich Lenz
Bigger plants means less cost per kw/h. [read post]
4 Aug 2011, 3:27 pm
Memorable movies about whistleblowers include Silkwood (nuclear power plant dangers), The Insider (tobacco and smoking health risks), and Erin Brockovich (toxic waste dumping). [read post]
3 Aug 2011, 10:43 pm by Karl-Friedrich Lenz
If they are not convinced of the safety of their nuclear plants, they would need to shut them down. [read post]
3 Aug 2011, 10:36 am by Julia Zebley
[JURIST] The National Diet of Japan [official database], the nation's bicameral legislature, voted [bill materials, in Japanese] on Wednesday to compensate those adversely affected by the recent Fukushima [IAEA backgrounder] nuclear power plant meltdown. [read post]
2 Aug 2011, 11:01 pm by Karl-Friedrich Lenz
If everybody had the good sense to stop listening to the hysteric claims of the radiophobia exorcists and build lots of nuclear power plants like the French, we could set the cap much lower. [read post]
1 Aug 2011, 1:44 pm by WIMS
In the weeks of intense media coverage that followed, many Americans became newly aware of the presence of tens of thousands of tons of spent fuel at more than 70 nuclear power plant sites around this country -- and of the fact that the United States currently has no physical capacity to do anything with this spent fuel other than to continue to leave it at the sites where it was first generated. [read post]
31 Jul 2011, 12:23 pm
A significant number were also reported in Orange County, including near the San Onofre nuclear power plant and Crystal Cove near Newport Beach. [read post]
29 Jul 2011, 12:02 pm by Steven Weissman
I thought of that family while reading in the New York Times about conservation efforts in Japan in the wake of the nuclear power disaster. [read post]
28 Jul 2011, 8:41 pm by Karl-Friedrich Lenz
One thing about nuclear technology I learned from that article: Actually reactors on submarines were first, land-based power plants were developed later. [read post]
27 Jul 2011, 11:25 pm by Karl-Friedrich Lenz
To bring the cost of nuclear power up to the 46 yen per kw/h of solar, one would need one severe accident with a $50 billion price tag every three months. [read post]
26 Jul 2011, 2:51 pm by Kim Zetter
Report Strengthens Suspicions That Stuxnet Sabotaged Iran’s Nuclear Plant Iran: Computer Malware Sabotaged Uranium Centrifuges New Clues Point to Israel as Author of Blockbuster Worm, Or Not Clues Suggest Stuxnet Virus Was Built for Subtle Nuclear Sabotage Blockbuster Worm Aimed for Infrastructure, But No Proof Iran Nukes Were Target SCADA System’s Hard-Coded Password Circulated Online for Years Simulated Cyberattack Shows Hackers Blasting Away at the… [read post]
26 Jul 2011, 6:41 am by Karl-Friedrich Lenz
That tax was only collected when the nuclear plants actually were working. [read post]
26 Jul 2011, 5:12 am by Karl-Friedrich Lenz
That is too bad, since the nation is on the brink of dumping perfectly safe nuclear power plants, leading to massive increases in CO2 emissions. [read post]
25 Jul 2011, 10:27 am by Glenn Reynolds
Of course, build lots of nice, clean nuclear plants, or orbiting solar power plants, or whatever, and that problem goes away.” [read post]