Archive for October 26th, 2008
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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