Archive for October 5th, 2008
As soon as Dubya heard about it he suggested an alternative, a Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) which would be US-led & US controlled. It would make money for a same energy companies that have always overwhelmingly supported a …
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Sunday, October 5th, 2008
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India has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and though the Bush-Singh trade accord provides for nuclear energy it allows India to progress as “nuclear weapons state” without strings attached. …
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Sunday, October 5th, 2008
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Nuclear energy must be a primary concern of the energy future. The expansion and perpetuation of the nuclear power industry can only be accomplished by means of massive government subsidies. The public interest is not served by such a …
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Sunday, October 5th, 2008
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It almost seems like every major piece in the current edition is skeptical of, cautious about, pessimistic about, wary of, or simply all out opposed to new expansion of nuclear energy in the United States and the rest of the world.
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Sunday, October 5th, 2008
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On July 10, 1978, only seven months before the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, the final draft of the US-Iran Nuclear Energy Agreement was signed. The agreement was supposed to facilitate cooperation in the field of nuclear…
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Sunday, October 5th, 2008
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The North was supposed to be dismantling its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon as part of the agreement, which was announced with fanfare in June and was followed by North Korea’s public demolition of a cooling tower there. …
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Sunday, October 5th, 2008
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These parts regulate the plutonium-powered nuclear reactor, which in turn gives the flux capacitor the power to work! There are still a few more parts I need to get, but here are a couple of close-ups for now: …
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Sunday, October 5th, 2008
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…nuclear reactor cores — compact, but pouring out rivers of heat — produce enough energy to melt themselves that nuclear reactors must be elaborately protected by emergency cooling systems. It is because uranium and plutonium, …
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Sunday, October 5th, 2008
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In 1954 India for first time ever was gifted a nuclear reactor called the CIRUS (Canada India research US). A reactor that could make plutonium and in the following two decades, India was given exposure to other nuclear technology …
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Sunday, October 5th, 2008
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North Korea has continued to restore its disabled nuclear reactor, the US has said, despite the attempt of a top US envoy to persuade it not to do so. North Korea is moving equipment it had put into storage back to the Yongbyon reactor, …
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Sunday, October 5th, 2008
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