Archive for July 2nd, 2009

The Nuclear Energy Debate among Friends: Another Round | Friends

First, however, it must be reprocessed at a specialized site to use again as fuel by separating the plutonium and uranium atoms from the fission products. This also makes it easier to steal. (For this and other reasons, the U.S. does …

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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

Stop Global Warming - Change.org: State your case on #ACES

Wether you believe global-warming/climate-change is real as stated and overstated, you have to admit the cleanest most efficient cheapest energy source is nuclear energy and LiFTR nuclear plants are the cleanest of the nuclear plants ….. These LIFTR reactors were developed since almost the beginning but the military industrial complex wanted plutonium for their nuclear weapons so what we’re stuck with today is conventional nuclear reactors not the clean efficient LiFTRs …

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Brave new power for the world « Climate change

It is a fast nuclear reactor known as the Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) that was developed by a team of hundreds of scientists working for more than 20 years at our top government national laboratory for nuclear energy (Argonne National Laboratory, at its branches in Illinois and Idaho). ….. Compare this one-time $3 billion investment to the $10 billion that will be spent on the AREVA Mixed Oxide (MOX) plant, which is being built to dispose of only 33 tons of plutonium. …

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Used fuel stuck inside reactor at Indian Point | PROS

Reactor Unit 3 is almost out of storage space for spent fuel - large rods of plutonium and uranium that have lost their juice but not their hazard. To keep operating, the plant needs to hoist that fuel out of the pool and move it to a longer-term storage site on the … (Picture: Nuclear Reactor Unit 3 at the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan is almost out of room to store spent fuel. Above, a worker walks in protective clothing at Reactor Unit 2 in 2008.) …

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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

Strategic Trends Update: The Treacherous Trio of Ezekiel 38 Part 2

Plutonium Production Nuclear Reactor: The Heavy Water Plant and future plutonium production center at Arak. In a May 2003 statement, U.S. State Department spokes-man Richard Boucher reported: The disclosure of Arak and Natanz raised …

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Nuclear power: problem or solution? - July 1 | Energy Bulletin

Their output could be met by a 1200- megawatt nuclear plant, which would fission about 9 pounds of uranium-235 and plutonium in the same period, emitting only water vapor. And Yucca Mountain is a geologically stable, effective storage … The French-designed EPR is the world’s most powerful nuclear reactor. Each is capable of generating 1600 megawatts of electricity — enough to supply a city of nearly 2 million people. While two EPRs are being built in Finland and France, …

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canada: Canada From: Pundette NP Editor Foreveralways21 Paul Wells

“The idea of giving India a nuclear reactor seems to have originated with either Nik Cavell, the Canadian administrator of the Colombo Plan, of W.J. Bennett, head of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL).” On May 18, 1974, India detonated a nuclear bomb made from plutonium manufactured by the CIRUS research reactor built by AECL in 1956, which was a commercial version of its NRX research reactor. - CBC. American Vampire League. foreveralways21 explains: …

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