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Nuclear power takes off (Part 2): the ongoing evolution of reactors
17 Apr 2024 13:21 GMT
… the captivating narrative of nuclear technology’s historical evolution. … occur on exposed high-temperature fuel rods cladding (an event that … latter. Inserting this spent fuel as a fuel source in these SRMs … 1.6 GWe. Their nuclear fuel cycles will be in synergy …
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Nuclear Russia: terror, torture and profit
16 Apr 2024 10:53 GMT
… spent the past two years threatening the West with nuclear … response has been: OK.
Nuclear fuel. Nuclear power is back in favour … to wean themselves off Russian nuclear fuel.
Bulgaria has turned to … with Rosatom to produce nuclear fuel rods of the kind used …
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To destroy Iran's nuclear threat, Israel should attack its missile launch sites
16 Apr 2024 04:16 GMT
… scientists involved in the nuclear programme and destroyed … withdrew America from a nuclear accord that strictly limited … Russia developed ‘civil’ nuclear energy, which produces plutonium … — repatriates to Russia spent fuel rods that could be reprocessed …
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MichMash: Michigan’s bipartisan support for nuclear power
12 Apr 2024 23:41 GMT
… the main concerns with nuclear energy is the radioactive waste that is … often stigmatized with nuclear energy. Filler … football field. It is small spent fuel rods that go into triple-encased …
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Letter: Reject nuclear power
10 Apr 2024 13:46 GMT
… editorial concerning nuclear power (“Don’t rule out nuclear power in … problem of disposal of waste fuel rods. This problem never goes … electricity (natural gas, or nuclear) would be greatly reduced. … money should be spent on investigating nuclear power as an …
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Wiscasset looks to negotiate after nuclear plant loses tax exemption
10 Apr 2024 05:05 GMT
… the former Maine Yankee nuclear power plant will … contains the radionuclides from spent nuclear fuel rods, preventing their release into …
Maine Yankee decommissioned the nuclear plant in 1996, and … 550 metric tons of spent fuel rods while it waits for …
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Nuclear war so devastating survivors will envy the dead: As newly declassified documents reveal what Armageddon would look like - how a lightning attack from North Korea would leave a US President six minutes to decide the fate of the world
08 Apr 2024 01:22 GMT
… -launched since January 2022 — including nuclear-capable weapons — was announced beforehand … attack against a nuclear power plant means radioactive pieces of spent fuel rods get seeded … run out of fuel. The last of the nuclear-armed submarines move …
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Spent nuclear fuel mismanagement poses a major threat to the United States. Here’s how.
02 Apr 2024 13:18 GMT
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Irradiated fuel assemblies—essentially bundles of fuel rods with zirconium alloy … cladding sheathing uranium dioxide fuel pellets … a nuclear reactor (spent fuel) generate a great deal of heat from the radioactive …
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Finland Debuts New Nuclear Waste Storage Site, Could Be the Model for Other Nations
01 Apr 2024 20:29 GMT
… of spent nuclear fuel disposal with the Onkalo Project, a scheme to bury spent nuclear fuel rods … in collaboration with the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company. … several approaches to dealing with spent nuclear fuel.
By safely isolating high- …
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Inside Sellafield: behind the razor wire, gun-toting guards and blast barriers at the toxic nuclear site
30 Mar 2024 06:23 GMT
… facility that, like a nuclear kidney, filters radioactive pondwater that it is … .
Barrels containing high-level radioactive nuclear waste are stored in a … byproducts of the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel rods, which basically means recycling them …