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Back to the future? The hype around small modular nuclear reactors
19 Sep 2023 10:01 GMT
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The industry has spent the decades since trying … president of the Australian Nuclear Association.
Advocates imagine … a nuclear engineer and director of SMR Nuclear Technology.
Nuclear reactors … . The reactors contain fuel rods filled with pellets of …
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Where will Australia store its nuclear waste?
12 Sep 2023 04:58 GMT
… of nuclear reactors and is expected to include the decommissioned radioactive fuel rods from … the SSNs. In addition, Australia has had radioactive- … 100,000 years, encasing spent nuclear fuel in copper canisters to be …
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Waste site: Govt reveals bill for dumped Kimba nuclear facility
11 Sep 2023 03:18 GMT
… work for the nuclear waste dump and the Australian Radioactive Waste Agency … relation to nuclear stewardship, operational radioactive waste and dealing with spent nuclear fuel rods.
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Bangor University to develop tiny nuclear fuel for future Moon bases
11 Sep 2023 02:33 GMT
… is developing a new nuclear fuel for the Rolls-Royce … of carbon and ceramics.
Unlike fuel rods, these particles are extremely … .
Cutaway view of a nuclear fuel particleUS DOE
The important thing … to the bottom, where the spent fuel is removed. Because the …
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The Countries With the Most Nuclear Accidents
06 Sep 2023 20:53 GMT
… toxic waste generated by spent nuclear fuel requires long-term storage … maximizing the use of radioactive fuel rods, the U.S. … 000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel annually that has … Kernenergie Archief – National Nuclear Energy Archive) archives, which …
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How a Louisiana appeals ruling could impact nuclear waste storage in New Mexico
01 Sep 2023 11:44 GMT
… license to operate a proposed spent-fuel facility in Andrews County, … for spent nuclear fuel away from reactors.
What is spent fuel?
Spent fuel is the highly radioactive remains … 000 metric tons of used fuel rods.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a …
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German nuclear phaseout leaves radioactive waste problem
30 Aug 2023 12:38 GMT
… in the near future, the spent fuel rods — packed into specialized containers called … investments in them.
At Ahaus, spent nuclear fuel elements and waste with negligible … A nuclear fortress
In 1992, the first CASTOR containers with highly radioactive fuel rods …
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Activists criticize evaporation of radioactive waste water at Pilgrim plant
25 Aug 2023 14:50 GMT
… the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which oversees the plant, said that radioactive emissions … of operation. The waste includes spent nuclear fuel rods and approximately 1.1 million … measured weekly to ensure its radioactive content complied with federal safety …
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Events at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant since the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster
22 Aug 2023 15:14 GMT
… releasing treated but still slightly radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima … still slightly radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant … TEPCO completes the removal of spent nuclear fuel rods from the No. 4 reactor …
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Why a German nuclear power startup set up shop in Vancouver
18 Aug 2023 23:21 GMT
… and where several nuclear power plants operate. … it comes to attracting nuclear physicists – the TRIUMF … fuel rods. Much of the fuel ends up wasted, and this leftover spent fuel is radioactive … company explains. “The nuclear fuel can unleash its entire …