Archive for October 11th, 2008

Buying off your Enemies: Could it Work with Iran?

A potential trust-building deal would bind the US and other nuclear energy states to Iran as clients under the condition that Iran accepts more rigorous safeguards on its nuclear program. The clients would agree to buy Iranian enriched

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Saturday, October 11th, 2008

Fueling our Nuclear Future

2. How long can Uranium last for nuclear power? 5 billion years at double current world electricity usage. 3. World Uranium and Thorium Supplies 4. Supply of Uranium: WNA 5. How long will nuclear energy last? 6. Plutonium

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Saturday, October 11th, 2008

Doctor sounds alarm on risks of nuclear energy - Press-Telegram

Reactors also manufacture 500 pounds of plutonium per year, fuel for potentially 100 nuclear weapons. Any country possessing a reactor owns a bomb factory. Plutonium remains radioactive for 500000 years…

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Saturday, October 11th, 2008

News from Los Alamos National Laboratory for Oct. 6-10 Making a

The work at TA-55 supports a wide range of national programs, including stockpile stewardship, nuclear materials stabilization, materials disposition, and nuclear energy; all of the programs revolve around plutonium.

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Saturday, October 11th, 2008

Doctor sounds alarm on risks of nuclear energy - Press-Telegram

With one or two decades, as the available uranium ore declines in usable concentrations, a nuclear reactor will collectively, therefore, produce as much CO2 as a similar sized natural gas electricity generator.

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Saturday, October 11th, 2008

South Korea warns against North Korea’s nuclear missiles

Dr. Richard J. Wood, President of the Japan Society, speaks with Martin Savidge about North Korea’s potential move to make its primary nuclear reactor capable of producing plutonium again. Wood says these developments may be a result of

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Saturday, October 11th, 2008