Archive for September, 2008
Beside, concern for nuclear security complicates the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purpose. A possible engineering solution would be the development of a passive device situated near a teactor, which could transmit real-time data …
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
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plutonium, a by-product of commercial nuclear plant operation, can also be used as a fuel; the amount of waste produced is the least of any major energy production process; Nuclear energy provides benefits other than electricity …
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
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Tehran insists it is purely peaceful and aims to produce nuclear energy but the US and many Western nations suspect Iran’s goal is producing nuclear weapons.Saudi Arabia’s Saud expressed hope that Iran will take practical steps to …
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
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Not only has it restarted the program, but the North Koreans have removed all inspectors which creates a shadow over the nation that keeps the world from knowing exactly how they are using the nuclear energy and exactly how much danger …
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
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With the restart of the nuclear program in North Korea, the nation could quickly regain its status as a nuclear weapons owner in the fact “that making pure plutonium from spent fuel rods once the process starts could be only weeks away” …
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
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The Israelis were asked to provide irrefutable evidence that the facility was indeed enriching uranium or plutonium. This was apparently done by covert ground troop incursions into the area around the facility. …
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
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By using nuclear power generation to supply its energy requirements, the DPRK was simply following in the footsteps of Japan and its neighbor to the south — countries which had thriving civilian nuclear energy industries. …
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
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This may please the anti nuclear uranium/plutonium lobby.And what is more it is a rare rare earth, and Australia has lots of it, in a very few places.Apparently the mineral to look for is MONAZITE. …
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
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In June, the Bush administration’s diplomacy with North Korea finally produced the video clip negotiators had long hoped for: that showing the demolition of the cooling tower at the Yongbyon nuclear reactor. Now, it appears that that …
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
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Yongbyon has 3 parts to it: the nuclear reactor, the cooling ponds for the spent fuel rods and the reprocessing plant. The reprocessing plant is the easiest to restart. Earlier this year the North Koreans blew up the cooling tower, …
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
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