World's First Cold Nuclear Fusion Reactor Demonstrated Last Week
	Pseudoscience or finally the real thing? Well, that still remains to be seen, but if it indeed works then mankind will be able to generate large amounts of energy at room temperature without worrying about waste or fuel. In the last decades, researchers have been frantically trying to demonstrate that cold fusion is viable, but failed even before they made the first steps into their projects. When physicists say cold fusion, o ... [read more >>]
	27 May 2008, 11:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Antineutrinos to Pose as Alarm Against Plutonium Theft
	During nuclear fission reactions nuclear power plants produce a by-product element known as plutonium, which accumulates on the uranium fuel rods. Plutonium cannot occur naturally on Earth and is extremely important for the fabrication of nuclear bombs because it is used in the detonation mechanism initiating the nuclear fission reaction. Plutonium accumulation of the fuel rods is also extremely hard to track. International Atomic Energ ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2008, 10:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Chernobyl Receives Nuclear Waste Processing Complex
	On 26 April, 1986, during a test of the cooling system, the number 4 reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant suffered a total meltdown, determining an explosion that spread nuclear material throughout the surrounding regions of current Ukraine, and some parts of Europe. It still stands as the worst nuclear power plant accident in history. In the outcome of the disaster, the Soviet Union ordered the building of a sarcophagus ... [read more >>]
	25 April 2008, 05:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Ultra-efficient Nuclear Fuels, too Unstable for Use
	Nuclear fission reactors produce high amounts of relatively clean electric energy by burning nuclear fuels, such as uranium. Higher-efficiency nuclear fuel is required for the next generation of nuclear reactors, which will burn longer and stronger to produce even higher amounts of energy. However, researchers say that this may prove to be a big problem in case of a critical situation, since this type of fuels could prove to be m ... [read more >>]
	10 April 2008, 05:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nuclear Reactor Cooled with Diamonds
	Nuclear reactor cores are mainly cooled with the help of water, however if the water cannot remove the heat quickly enough from the core, the nuclear fuel might explode. In fact, this was the reason why the Chernobyl nuclear reactor failed in 1986; the core didn't receive enough cooling water, the heat build up determining the reactor to become unpredictable in operation. The computer failed to regain control over the reactor and fro ... [read more >>]
	31 March 2008, 09:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Heat Threatens with Nuclear Power Plant Shutdown!
	Severe drought raging across the southeast regions of the United States will probably determine a temporary reduction in electric power production capabilities of most of the nuclear plants, or even shutdowns, until the water levels in the rivers that supply the lakes near the power plants rise again to their normal debits. Water masses represent a critical component in the correct operation of a nuclear power plant, that's why all of ... [read more >>]
	24 January 2008, 09:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nuclear Fusion Gets $1.4 Billion Boost
	There is only one word on everyone's lips today: energy. And how to produce it more efficiently, without polluting the planet. The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, or ITER for short, has recently received a contribution of 1.4 billion dollars from the Republic of China, which covers about 10 percent of the total cost of the experimental nuclear fusion reactor. Unlike traditional nuclear fission reactors that use ... [read more >>]
	08 January 2008, 10:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Better Computers are Needed to Run the Nuclear Reactors
	The U.S Department of Energy has started a three-year project which will research the creation of a new generation of computers for a new kind of nuclear reactor, proposed by physics professor Michael Podowski. The reactor is called a sodium-cooled fast reactor, of SFR for short. Nuclear reactors are mainly used in nuclear power plants to produce electrical energy, by 'burning' uranium into its core, through a reaction called ... [read more >>]
	02 November 2007, 07:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia