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A new analysis of Department of Energy (DOE) figures shows that in the wake of the 2002 Senate vote to approve the Yucca Mountain dumpsite, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission quickly and quietly approved license extensions at nuclear reactors nationwide.
Low-level radiation from nuclear plants may be up to ten times more hazardous than has been previously estimated, a panel of experts said today.
Thousands of tonnes of radioactive scrap metal from nuclear plants could be melted down and recycled into cutlery, saucepans and baby buggies under a scheme being promoted by the nuclear industry and its regulators.
With uncertainties increasing about supplies of natural gas and oil, nuclear energy is making a powerful global comeback, prompting concerns about atomic terrorism in the post-Sept. 11 era.
Uraniam prices are nearly triple what they were four years ago, and Cameco Corp., a Canadian company that owns the last two active uranium mines in the United States, is stepping up exploration and production.
Adaptation of a talk by Caltech vice provost and professor of physics and applied physics David Goodstein, author of Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil (W. W. Norton) // Sidebars on global warming and on Goodstein are included.
A British company claims to have found the “holy grail” of the nuclear energy industry – a solution to the problem of radioactive waste disposal.
Damage to the reactor head of the Davis-Besse power plant in Ohio ranks among the top five most serious nuclear plant accidents or near-accidents since Three Mile Island, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Monday.
Despite concerns over safety, including uncertainty over how long the reactors will be able to keep running, some licenses have been renewed through 2040.
Building nuclear power stations would risk landing future generations with ‘difficult’ legacies, the Environment Secretary, Margaret Beckett, warns today in a clear rebuff to the nuclear industry.
Dependable? Uranium is a finite natural resource, just like fossil fuels. Safe? The Nuclear Regulatory Commission exists simply because nuclear technology is flat-out dangerous.
In 20 years, windmills may generate more electricity than nuclear power plants, but Germany may not have access to the energy it needs for its industrialized economy, according to Gerhard Ott, chairman of the World Energy Council’s German committee.
