Nuclear power plants are some of the most polluting structures in the world, and not necessarily as far as the actual amount of material they put out goes. Everyone remembers the Three Mile Island accident, and the Chernobyl reactor meltdown, in the Ukraine, to name just the most important mishaps that occurred since... |
15 May 2009
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Soybean has recently amazed all international experts, when it has proven that it can live in the radioactive waste-contaminated soils near the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant, in Ukraine. In 1986, reactor number 4 at the plant suffered a meltdown and then exploded, sending plumes of radioactive material all ove... |
12 May 2009
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Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced on Thursday that the proposed nuclear waste repository to be built at the underground Yucca mountain complex would not be completed, and that the project for the location would be dropped. He added that the new White House Administration was seeking at the moment a drastically-ne... |
6 March 2009
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On Tuesday, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approved a set of rules that determined the maximum amount of radiation allowed at the Yucca Mountain nuclear disposal site complex for the next 1 million years, although planning so far ahead may seem pointless to some. The current allowed radiation limits were ... |
18 February 2009
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The US Energy Department announced on Tuesday that the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste disposal site, scheduled to be fully operational by 2020, might not be large enough to hold residues that would be created until 2010, if Congress did not approve a plan to expand the facility. The report also stated that an a... |
10 December 2008
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Disposing of nuclear wastes is a tricky business, and countries wanting to get rid of the used fuel of their reactors must find appropriate places to do this, and must also build suitable facilities, to prevent any contamination to surrounding areas. The best way to do this is in an underground deposit, where thick c... |
7 November 2008
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Yttria-stabilized zirconia is a well known ceramic material revealed lately as being able to repair defects within its structure, while under the action of high-radiation levels. Computer simulations carried out at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory showed that the structure of the material can be altered at t... |
21 April 2008
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Uranium dioxide is the world's most common radioactive substance, alongside the natural uranium molecule. Most of this nuclear waste results in the nuclear reactors of the nuclear power plants, during the process of nuclear fission, or nuclear fuel 'burning', which involves splitting the uranium atom t... |
17 January 2008
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Though nuclear power was at first viewed as a great source of alternative energy, in the last three decades many countries turned their back on it. Now under the threat of global warming, the nuclear industry seems to be in vogue again. Nuclear power produces great quantities of electric energy, without emitting sign... |
20 November 2007
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