Archive for August 30th, 2008

Alternative Energy - Part 1 of 4 - A Look At Four Different Options

If we can jump through the hurdles of politics and bureaucracy red tape, the US could start to increase its nuclear energy foot print and lower its dependency on foreign oil and help lower greenhouse gases too.

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Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Austria: Probe says IAEA nuclear leak did not reach environment

The August 3 incident at the Seibersdorf analytical lab, which occurred overnight and caused no injury, raised a stir in Austria, which hosts the IAEA but rejects nuclear energy itself as fundamentally dangerous.

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Saturday, August 30th, 2008

The Future of Energy

Of course, like anything else, there are problems with nuclear energy. Reactors, because of the neutron flux from fission, create radioactive waste. This material can be hazardous for thousands of years. Stable underground storage and

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Saturday, August 30th, 2008

AFTER IRAN: BACK TO BASICS ON "PEACEFUL" NUCLEAR ENERGY

As Bush and ElBaradei noted in their proposals to restrict construction of new plutonium reprocessing facilities, making separated plutonium is unnecessary for the peaceful production of nuclear energy. This also applies to HEU use in

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Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Salmond to take on nuclear advice?

They have recommended that he seek an independent assessment of nuclear energy before dismissing it. The article confuses, though. It says “Mr Salmond attempted to dismiss the challenges … indicating they will not alter his thinking”,

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Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Cruels = Israel + United States

this documentary confirms that the Israeli nuclear program is forty years old, and that the making of the Israeli atomic bomb in “Dimona”nuclear reactor dates back to 1962, which Israelis claim that it is only a textile factory.

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Saturday, August 30th, 2008