Archive for January 15th, 2010
Further, IFRs can utilize excess weapons plutonium effectively and rapidly, while generating revenue instead of costs – a development consistent with Russian recommendations. Work on the IFR technology was halted just as commercial …
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
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It is first mined from underground, then processed several times before being combined with its buddy plutonium to create what we understand as nuclear energy. It is radioactive, and while being relatively advantageous from an energy …
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Nuclear Energy on the Moon. Not everybody is convinced sending a nuclear reactor to the moon is a good idea. Protestors objected to launching NASA’s 19-97 Cassini probe, which carried 72-pounds of plutonium fuel. …
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THE REAL COST OF NUCLEAR ENERGY. Thorium, radium, plutonium and uranium at the core keep the interior of the earth hot. There is something strange going on with interactive gravity waves being transmitted from star to star as we enter … …
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The long history of cover-ups, deceit and shoddy and dangerous practices stretches back over fifty years, when nuclear power was first developed as a means of producing plutonium for the atomic bomb. The industry wants us to believe …
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Over the last couple days I have participated in a very interesting discussion on how relevant proliferation concerns are to the renaissance in civilian nuclear energy. This closely preceded the announcement, a few minutes ago, by the Bulletin … Most civilian power reactors run on enriched uranium, and all produce plutonium. Any discussion on the putative nuclear renaissance will inevitably touch on proliferation, and it is naive to carry on as if that shouldn’t happen . …
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Despite nuclear energy’s apparent dangers, Dr. Caldicott was a Cassandra crying out at the Copenhagen conference with little or no attention from the major government and media players there. Caldicott, who was featured on major … Plutonium, the most dangerous substance on Earth, 1 millionth of a gram cause cancer, lasts for 250000 years. causes lung cancer, liver cancer, testicular cancer, damages fetuses so they are born deformed.In her interview with Truthout, …
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Implementing multinational management of the civilian nuclear energy fuel cycle with strict standards for safety, security, and nonproliferation of nuclear weapons, including eliminating reprocessing for plutonium separation; …
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The concept behind the ABR is to”Burn” the transuranic elements such as plutonium and other long-lived radioactive material. In this case, burning the radioactive waste is then translated: the destruction of transuranic elements, …
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But none of the long-lived toxic elements like plutonium and americium or curium, the so-called manmade elements. They’re the long-lived toxic ones. And they’re recycled back into the reactor … and work every bit as well as plutonium. …
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