Archive for July 8th, 2008

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So, this so called photographic evidence and video evidence which indicated that this was a plutonium producing plant made with North Korean help all of this is fabricated. S threat last week to strike Iran if it does not halt its

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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

What's Missing from the Nuclear Power Debate?

The graphite composite shells are designed to remain intact for a million years, outlasting even plutonium’s radioactive lifespan. Transporting the pebbles, while still a dangerous proposition, carries far more manageable risks: even a

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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Nuclear recycling - a dangerous dud

nuclear energy, the Bush administration is seeking to establish international spent nuclear fuel recycling centers that are supposed to reduce wastes, recycle uranium, and convert nuclear explosive materials, such as plutonium to

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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Nuclear Energy: Makes Sense!

95% of the stuff in a used fuel rod from a nuclear reactor is useable fuel. That 95% is the stuff with half-lives so long we have to worry about people in a gozillion years getting into it and killing themselves.

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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Bush keeps up apply pressure on North Korea over nuclear disclosure.

The US president, speaking to reporters on the threshold of the G8 summit in Japan, said: “North Korea did present a declaration of its plutonium-related activities and did blow up the cooling tower of its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon.

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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

John Feffer: A Foreign Policy Success for Bush?!

Never mind that North Korea has served up an accounting of its nuclear programs and even destroyed the cooling tower of its Yongbyon nuclear reactor, as per agreement. The bottom line: this is what diplomacy smells like.

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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

How many years of nuclear fuel do we have?

ISTM that if we want a nuclear reactor powered world (rather than a fossil fuel powered world) it’s going to have to be one with fuel recycling, and fast neutron reactors. Fast reactors. The main disadvantage of Fast Breeder Reactors is

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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008