Archive for June 11th, 2008

Laser Isotope Separation Of Hydrogen And Reactor Grade Plutonium

If you have a light water nuclear reactor typical of a nuclear energy programme all you need is a smallish reprocessing capacity to separate reactor grade plutonium. Add in the H2 and H3 separated by laser and hey presto you have the

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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Population: What To Do When There Are Too Many of Us

Nuclear energy leaves us with the potential for proliferating weapons-grade plutonium and waste that takes hundreds of human lifetimes to become harmless. “No primary energy source, be it renewable or nonrenewable,” write Jeffrey Chow,

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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Countering the Iranian Nuclear Threat? Or Blowing Smoke?

And obtaining the material is that much easier if we give them a nuclear reactor because all you have to do to get plutonium 239 or 240 is to put some depleted uranium 238 in the neutron flux of a reactor and then chemically separate it

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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

The Ten Craziest Concept Cars Of All Time [Concept Cars]

Let’s see, it’sa Ford, it’s got a nuclear reactor and it’sa Ranchero. Someone pinch us, because the Ford Nucleon is making us woozy. Or maybe that’s the radiation? Either way, the Nucleon stands out as our favorite car from the Nuclear

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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008