Tag: Nuclear Power - Page 9
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Nuclear Reactions To Japan's Crisis From Around The World
It is an impressive explosion as the roof blows off Fukushima Daiichi Reactor 3 this morning, and even though the containment vessel is still secure, its effects are being felt around the world. In Spiegel, quoted in the Guardian, Roland Nelles
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Nuclear Threat Worsens as Japan Response to Earthquake and Tsunami Damage Continues
One Japanese expat blogger reports that life is beginning to return to normal away from the devastated northern coast, with the Shinkansen train running again between Kyoto and Tokyo. But as
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Serious Issues Reported At Japanese Nuclear Reactors In Wake Of 8.9 Earthquake and Tsunami
Japan declared a state of atomic power
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Nuclear-Powered Car and Other Dead Ends in Futuristic Auto Design
What looks like a spare tire at the back of the 1958 Ford Nucleon is really a small atomic reactor. In the late 50's, a personal-use nuclear power plant, with scaled down reactors and shielding, seemed within grasp. Engineers
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Top 10 Nations With Clean Power - Hydropower, Nuclear or Small Populations Figure Heavily
Apropos of President Obama's intent to have 80% of US electricity come from clean power sources by 2035, GE has just released a graphic detailing to the top ten countries with the cleanest energy sources--a small version is above, click here for
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The Sun Rises on a Solar-Powered Mosque in Turkey
When residents of the Turkish village of Büyükeceli decided to install a set of solar panels to demonstrate how renewable energy could be a viable
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Stewart Brand and Erich Pica Debate Nuclear Power
With the Republicans in control of the House and cap and trade dead for now, it's likely that over the next few years there will be renewed focus on the revitalization of nuclear power as an answer to our energy and climate problems.
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Sandia Announces Breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion Energy Generation
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have announced a breakthrough that could lead to break-even nuclear fusion reactions within 2-3 years. The goal of nuclear fusion research is to make energy from sea water,
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Controversy Explodes Over "Bias" in Documentary on the Green Movement
Some prominent environmentalists featured on a television documentary about the green movement and its future are distancing themselves from the final product, saying that it misrepresents their views and is overly biased against
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Time to End Nuclear Socialism?
As I noted in my posts on soil versus dirt, and on skeptics, deniers and denialists, words matter. So when I received an email arguing that it was "time to end nuclear socialism", my first reaction was to
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Public Mistrusts Nuclear Power, Report Says
Arkansas Nuclear One power plant. Photo by Topato via Flickr.com. Guest bloggers Andrea Donsky and Randy Boyer are co-founders of NaturallySavvy.com. Nuclear power is exploding. Right now there are 50 nuclear reactors being built worldwide, and more
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July Eco-Tidbits from Turkey
With summer in
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Russia Launches Barge For Floating Nuclear Power Plant
Does the idea of a nuclear
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What Deep Water Drilling and Nuclear Power Have in Common
Put simply, the capacity for something to go very, very wrong as a result of technical mismanagement (or otherwise). Now, there are surely a great number of things that could also fit the bill, but I highlight these for a reason:
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Nuclear Reactor Eaten by Leaky Acid, Again
Back in 2002, an Ohio nuclear power plant developed a leak that allowed highly pressurized cooling water containing boric acid to seep out. That acid ate away a football-sized hole into the 6-inch steel lid to the nuclear reactor,
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Colbert Grills Stewart Brand on Nukes, Oil
This week, Stephen Colbert brought on Stewart Brand, who has been an environmental leader almost since the first Earth Day but who has softened some of his positions. Brand created the Whole Earth Catalog, published between
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Does Russia & US Arms Reduction Treaty Lower Chance of Nuclear Winter?
Even if there are caveats abound, Obama and Medvedev's signing of a nuclear arms reduction treaty is a very big deal. The biggest caveat is probably that the actual reductions in arms from each nation's nuclear arsenal aren't
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DEC Rules Indian Point Cooling Technologies Will Not Meet NY Water Quality Standards
Obama last week expanded controversial sources of energy such as drilling along the coastlines, but the nuclear power plant near Westchester, NY may be in its final years of operation. On Friday, New York State's Department of
