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Plutonium is a heavy, radioactive, man-made, metallic element used in the production of nuclear energy.

It concerns the impending opening of the first new nuclear weapons production facility in our country in 32 years. This, along with the current proposals for new nuclear energy plants, ought to be opposed strongly! Sat Nam, Jim Earles. Previous posting: “CWers COME TO … production of plutonium pit primaries or “triggers” at Los Alamos, NM, and thermonuclear uranium “secondaries” at Oak Ridge, TN: http://www.nukewatch.org/facts/nwd/NewUS-productionfacilities4-29-10.pdf …

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If the alternative base load power source of nuclear energy is excluded on grounds of cost, as was done on this TV show, one has to ask if such leadership is really responsible because the cost of runaway climate change is infinitely more … However, during the three years that single fuel rod was irradiated by neutrons, a goodly portion of that U-238 was transmuted to fissionable material (Plutonium). What this means is that virtually all of the 98% of U-238 can be …

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Daarnaast is het metaal ook nog eens superschoon: het eet haar eigen afval als het ware op en kan zelfs het plutonium dat kernreactoren nu achterlaten reinigen. “Dit is het,” concludeert expert Kirk Sorensen, van Energy From Thorium. …. and Detachment in Journalism · Milieunet recommended a blog post : New Warnings About Costs of Nuclear Power in Bulgaria and Britain · Milieunet posted to Twitter a blog post : Exelon, a Nuclear Energy Giant, Moves Into Wind Power …

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Lamar Alexander (R-TN), one of the Senate’s most ardent supporters of nuclear energy, reports there are three significant areas we must address: Nuclear Power for VehiclesFirst, there’s energy importation. The United States already …

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One of them, the Superphénix commercial-sized plutonium fueled reactor, was shut down in 1998 for political and technical reasons after experiencing high operating costs.” at 10:26. Labels: energy, environment …

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… promised Netanyahu that if Israel wouldn’t attack, the U.S. would not only be put Israel under America’s nuclear umbrella, but some interesting military hardware may be forthcoming, along with some advanced technology nuclear energy production. ….. Moreover, despite concerns that Iran could obtain plutonium from the spent fuel, there are technical reasons that make it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for Iran to obtain Pu, even if they did get the spent fuel. …

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After more than 50 years producing atomic weapons and nuclear energy, the USA has 500000 tons of depleted uranium stored, according to official data. Depleted uranium is radioactive and has an average lifetime of 4.5 billion years. This is why such waste has to … Uranium-236 and Uranium-238 (otherwise known as plutonium) is laced into the so-called “depleted” uranium weaponry. So let us be real. Stop saying “depleted” uranium, and call it what it is, “enriched” uranium. …

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Illustration courtesy GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy. By Chuck McCutcheon. for National Geographic News. Published September 1, 2010. This story is part of a special series that explores energy issues. For more, visit The Great Energy Challenge. … But dating back to the beginnings of nuclear power research, there have been efforts to deploy effective “fast” reactors, using a combination of plutonium and uranium. The neutrons were not cooled with water in these reactors; …

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Another nuclear energy topic that springs forward every now and again is thorium and its potential as a complementary or replacement fuel source for uranium. No question it has such potential. … But by then America needed the plutonium residue from uranium to build bombs. And: You might have thought that thorium reactors were the answer to every dream but when CERN went to the European Commission for development funds in 1999-2000, they were rebuffed. …

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Apparently it’s based on the fact that certain types of thorium reactors actually could burn their own fuel material, as well as plutonium scavenged from conventional reactor waste, much more completely than alternative designs. …

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