A Russian Floating Nuclear Plant? ... Here are some details provided by Popular Science. The Russian nuclear-energy company Rosenergoatom is planning a mobile plant to deliver electricity to hard-to-reach northern territories near the White Sea, where harsh weather makes regular coal and oil fuel deliveries unreliable and expensive...
A Nuclear Scanner To Check Your Wine ... Here is a description of this wine scanner, which only can handle one bottle. The scanner, built last summer and installed in the fall, looks like a shining chrome water heater with a series of pipes and tubes protruding from the top that connect to computer and electronic gear, as well as tanks of liquid nitrogen and liquid helium....
Can Environmentalists Change About Nuclear Energy? ... I don't want to summarize the whole article and here I just want to focus on nuclear energy. But before, and even I don't want to enter a debate about genetically modified crops, here is a short -- and surprising -- quote of what Brand thinks about them...
Alaska Village Moves From Diesel To 'Micro-Nuke' ... First, where is Galena? Galena is a 700-person Athabascan Indian village on the Yukon River, located 275 miles west of Fairbanks and 550 miles northwest of Anchorage. (Credit: Shaw Pittman LLC)...
The Impact Of Nuclear Attacks On U. S. Cities ... Below is diagram showing the thermal impact of a 550 kiloton surface nuclear detonation on New York City with weather as of September 17, 2004... (Credit: CMADD) "The likelihood of a nuclear weapon attack in an American city is steadily increasing, and the consequences will be overwhelming," said Cham Dallas, Cham Dallas, the director of the Center for Mass Destruction Defense (CMADD), a CDC Center for Public Health Preparedness at the University of Georgia...
U. S. Nuclear Cleanup Carries Major Risks ... There is a 50% chance of a major accident while the US government attempts to clean up its dirtiest nuclear site over the next three decades, a new study concludes...
A Nuclear Space Battery To Go To Pluto ... Before going further, let's read on the New Horizons web site, maintained by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL), the reasons to go to Pluto. Our solar system contains three zones: the inner, rocky planets; the gas giant planets; and the Kuiper Belt...
Nuclear Energy To Go ... A nuclear reactor that can meet the energy needs of developing countries without the risk that they will use the by-products to make weapons is being developed by the US Department of Energy....
A Good Conclusion For My Research Paper? ... Though we can’t go back and change the past, we can, however, make it definite that there shall never be a nuclear war...
Developing Nuclear Power As Alternative Energy ... Nuclear power is generated at 80% efficiency, meaning that the energy produced by the fission reactions is almost equal to the energy put into producing the fission reactions in the first place... There is not a lot of waste material generated by nuclear fission although, due to the fact that there is no such thing as creating energy without also creating some measure of waste, there is some... The concerns of people such as environmentalists with regards to using nuclear power as an alternative energy source center around this waste, which is radioactive gases which have to be contained....
Sustainable Nuclear Reactors ... This research work about GFRs -- or GCFRs as they're also called -- has been done by a team of TU Delft researchers including Wilfred van Rooijen working in the Physics of Nuclear Reactors (PNR) group...
Nuclear Power - The Solution To Alternative Energy? ... Power plants based on nuclear powers are "clean-burning" and the efficiency with which they convert energy is staggering... Nuclear fission does not create too much waste, even though every producing energy produces some quantity of residue of some time... Environmentalists might have a thing to argue against nuclear power, because the radioactive residue and gases need to be stored in some places and disposed of in the safest way possible...