Archive for June 20th, 2009
They are the nuclear energy poster child, are they in danger? Life suck over there? Maybe we should send an emissary to do a French “man in the street” series to see what the average person there thinks about nukes. … Since all reactors also produce plutonium during the fission process — as much as 40 atomic bombs worth per year, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council — the net reduction of plutonium by MOX reactors is virtually zero and contributes …
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Saturday, June 20th, 2009
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Suggesting that the movement should switch to “nuclear power – yes please”, or even “nuclear power – maybe”, is enough to get you harangued and vilified, as a number of recent converts to nuclear energy, like Mark Lynas and James Lovelock, … There are major safety issues with nuclear power, some of them massive, including the potential for misuse of by-products such as plutonium for nuclear weapons. Newer technologies promise to deal with some of these by reducing waste …
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After installing the Shah Globalists like Henry Kissinger opened the door for Iran to develop sophisticated nuclear energy programs which laid the foundation for today’s crisis. Twenty three reactors were built with the help of … In 1976, President Gerald Ford even authorized the Shah to buy and operate a plutonium-extracting and processing facility – a big step toward converting energy processing to weapons making. After the revolution of 1979 the fundamentalist …
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They would be making a political bomb that would undoubtedly use a lot of high explosive to ensure it got a good compression of the plutonium pit. The 4 KT bomb, however, might very well fit on a DPRK missile. …
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Elite guards rigged elections because Moussavi is for nuclear energy without enriching Uranium/plutonium! Well,my believe is; this regime will need alot of blood shed to supress these tireless young men and girls! …
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Syrian nuclear energy chief Ibrahim Othman briefs the media as he attends an IAEA board of governors meeting in Vienna’s U.N. headquarters in this November 27, 2008 fiile photo. VIENNA (Reuters) - Syria on Tuesday brushed off U.N. … The International Atomic Energy Agency has been examining U.S. intelligence reports that said Syria almost built a North Korean-designed, graphite reactor to yield plutonium for atom bomb fuel before Israel bombed it to pieces in 2007. …
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five years later, four scientists found the key to nuclear energy-Otto, Lisa Meitner, Fritz Strassman, and Otto Frisch. They discovered that a neutron,when placed into a uranium nucleus through radioactive bombardment, … In july 16, 1945, the first plutonium bomb was tested at Alamogordo Airbase in New Mexico. The test proved that the possibility of a nuclear war was at hand. The result of the succesful test were sent to the president who was in the meeting in Potsdam, …
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[3] IAEA inspection of the Arak site is a prerequisite to ensuring that Iran does not use the reactor complex under construction to separate plutonium from the reactor’s spent fuel. … Iran plans to begin operating a light water nuclear reactor at Bushehr during the summer of 2009.[16] In February 2009, Iran announced the successful testing of the Bushehr reactor.[17] Begun in the mid 1970s, the Bushehr project temporarily halted after the 1979 Iranian revolution. …
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Fire destroyed the core of a plutonium-producing reactor at Britain’s Windscale nuclear complex – since renamed Sellafield – sending clouds of radioactivity into the atmosphere. … Japan’s Monju prototype fast-breeder nuclear reactor leaked two to three tons of sodium from the reactor’s secondary cooling system. March 1997. The state-run Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation reprocessing plant at Tokaimura, Japan, contaminated at least 35 workers with …
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95% of spent fuel rods are Uranium or Plutonium which we can reprocess. Most of the remainder can be used in an Integral Fast Reactor which we will also build at the facility. It may be 50 years before we find out what is actually waste and … Design a nuclear reactor that can be used to retrofit existing coal plants to use nuclear energy. Build an Integral Fast Reactor as mentioned above. Design a reactor that produce electricity as cheaply as coal and is proliferation …
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