... DUPIC as I had read of it is the pulverization of oxide fuel, followed by toasting in oxygen. Most fission fragments are unmoved by this -- they stay in...
Wondering whether geoneutrino imaging of the Earth's interior was a near-term or farther-out hope, and reminded of the neutrino-nucleus scattering reported at...
Hey! Weren't we assured repeatedly that President Obama would be staunchly pro-nuclear? Lies! We've been deceived! <sigh> Dammit, it's just like Carter again,...
Obama ran against Yucca Mountain during the Democratic primary and in his campaign against the Republicans. I'm also against throwing away good nuclear fuel at...
Bowing to the inevitable doesn't mean the President is anti-nuclear. As Senate majority leader, Harry Reid had more than enough firepower to get Yucca Mountain...
AREVA just formed a venture in Idaho Falls to build the Eagle Rock enrichment plant - and is asking for &2 billion in DoE loan guarantees. (Why the DoE would...
I spotted that I mistook Trillo for Trino. The Trillo PWR is actually a Spanish reactor that was shut down just after first criticality. It's BWR cousins...
2/24/2009 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7908434.stm Italy's ENEL signs with France's EdF to explore building 4 EPRs. Italy believes it needs 8 to 10 EPRs....
The chief problem with your proposal, as I see it, is that you propose the reactors be in a new Federal organization. I'm sorry, but if there's any one thing...
Philosophically, I believe the government should do what either private industry can not do, or will not do, or should not do, or simply can't do as...
There's a new WNA report on Russia's nuclear capacity and plans at http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf45.html -- in it, the Russians are investigating...
[I received an email that should have gone more like this.] Help Continue Safe, Effective Nuclear Reprocessing Scheme Dear Sir, The Global Nuclear Energy...
Chu embarrassed himself by repeatedly talking about solidification of the spent fuel waste. He said they can solidify it and then store it at existing sites. ...
Chu did however say that spent fuel can be safely stored on site at nuclear facilities which is true. McCain's point that other countries can reprocess spent...
I agree we shouldn't reinvent the wheel when it comes to reprocessing. PUREX was first developed in the US for crying out loud, and other nations use it, but...
I think he's responding to the fear of proliferation that has been pushed by every administration since the Ford one. This is why many who are pro-nuclear have...
http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/col/new-reactor-map.html shows where the projected plant sites are (except not the two partially-complete B&W reactors...
There was an article in Monday's (March 9) Washington Post headlined: "Obama Aims to Shield Science From Politics" I sent the following letter to the Post (It...
Just throwing away spent fuel which contains both fissile uranium and plutonium sends the wrong message, IMO. This stuff is most fuel. So there' no logical...
Initial reports from the Climate Change conference are that ice sliding into the oceans, as opposed to ice melting, along with ocean warming are going to be...
Actual rise since the year 2000 has been about 30 millimeters (1.2 inch). The rate of melting will have to significantly increase to make 1 meter by 2100 ...
... I think a meter is not that much. 3 feet. Most ocean side power plants are bermed or protected already from high sea levels. It would not be hard to 'add'...
Dear Mr David Walters, The points covered in the discussion are very relevant for coastal sites. When tsunami hit the eastern coast of India on December 26,...
... I was thinking about that side 'benefit' even before I saw your post. I'm not sure circulating water flow would actually go up. For a once-through cooling...
The Wall Street Journal OPINION <http://online.wsj.com/public/search?article-doc-type=%7BCommentary+%28U\ .S.%29%7D&HEADER_TEXT=commentary+%28u.s.> MARCH 13,...
The Public Comment Period for the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (GNEP-PEIS) comes to a close Monday, Mar. 16. ...
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