Archive for October 26th, 2008

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Sunday, October 26th, 2008

Japan rejects nuclear accord with India

Tokyo, Japan — Japan has agreed to boost economic and security cooperation with India, but has rejected a suggestion of nuclear energy cooperation. Although both countries are interested in developing nuclear energy and would be

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Sunday, October 26th, 2008

Two Questions I'd Like to See Obama Answer

IFR technology has the potential to create nuclear reactors that run off of the waste products of traditional light water reactors, material from decomissioned nuclear weapons, and other depleted sources of uranium and plutonium.

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Sunday, October 26th, 2008

IOLANI - The Royal Hawk Vol III No. 206

So here’s the gist, right upfront: Possibly, in Lewiston, are buried the remnants of an experimental nuclear reactor dating from the 1940s. This reactor would have been part of a secret program to weaponize poisonous materials—a program

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Sunday, October 26th, 2008

日记[2008年10月23日]

Korea in principle to abandon its nuclear research program and close a nuclear reactor where scientists extract weaponsgrade plutonium from spent fuel rods.In focusing on the September 2005 agreement and later handing out a “work plan”

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Sunday, October 26th, 2008

Update of the Mundane Singularity: Tech Singularity Without

The mass produced uranium hydride nuclear reactor would be part of a relatively mundane energy abundance solution. These reactors would have far less waste since 50 times more fuel would be burned generating energy.

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Sunday, October 26th, 2008

The Issues

Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz said in June that Israel would be forced to strike the Iranian nuclear reactor if Tehran continues to pursue its uranium enrichment program. Safavi said Tehran recently drafted a new policy for

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Sunday, October 26th, 2008

“New” Nuclear - Thorium

In a conventional nuclear reactor the input fuel is uranium-235 (U-235) which is part of a much larger mass of uranium - mostly U-238. This U-235 is progressively “burned” over about three years to yield a lot of heat.

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Sunday, October 26th, 2008

DPRK to beat N-disablement deadline

SEOUL, Oct 24 (AFP): North Korea is likely to disable its plutonium-producing nuclear reactor well before the year-end deadline set under a multinatio.

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Radioactive Waste and Uranium Mines

High-Level Waste typically refers to ‘spent’ fuel from a nuclear reactor. Most reactors are powered by uranium fuel rods, which is at the beginning only slightly radioactive. However, when the fuel rod is ‘spent,’ or used,

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Sunday, October 26th, 2008