Archive for July 27th, 2008

India-US Nuclear Deal

It is for peaceful purpose of civil nuclear energy only, in the fields of research, power generation, medicine, and NOT for nuclear explosives or any other military purposes. India has to allow inspections from the International Atomic

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Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Nuclear power in Francehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Plans were drawn up to introduce the most comprehensive national nuclear energy program in history. Over the next 15 years France installed 56 nuclear reactors, satisfying its power needs and even exporting electricity to other European

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Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Post 57. Waste needs not be a Barrier to Nuclear Energy Production.

About 97 percent of spent fuel is not waste at all, but valuable uranium and plutonium that can and should be recycled for use as fuel. It seems odd that we are enjoined by “environmentalists” to recycle paper — a truly renewable

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Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Resolution 362: A Grave Mistake to Avert

nor the construction of a uranium enrichment facility, nor the experimentation with plutonium are “illicit” activities. On the contrary, the NPT explicitly recognizes the development, research, production and use of nuclear energy

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Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Park Service board votes to designate 1st full-scale nuclear

(AP) - The National Park Service’s advisory board on Tuesday recommended designating the world’s first full-scale nuclear reactor, which produced plutonium for one of two bombs dropped on Japan during World War II, as a national

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Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Secret sale of UK plutonium to Israel

A brilliant analyst called Peter Kelly immediately realized they showed a secret nuclear reactor and he alerted the rest of British intelligence. Kelly recognized it was a French reactor and soon discovered where the heavy water to run

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Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Nuclear Power - Past Current and Future

A major concern since early days of nuclear power was that these reactors could be used for producing nuclear weapons. This is because the operation of nuclear reactor converts Uranium into Plutonium.

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Sunday, July 27th, 2008

25 new messages in 6 topics - digest

immediately realized they showed a secret nuclear reactor and he alerted the rest of British intelligence. Kelly recognized it was a French reactor and soon discovered where the heavy water to run it had come from.

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Sunday, July 27th, 2008