Nuclear Crisis in Japan
By Bill Chameides from the Great Energy Blog, a project in partnership with National Geographic. A game-changer or the price of doing business? At first there was the shock — the unbelievable...
View ArticleThe World’s Aging Nuclear Workforce
There has not been a new construction of a reactor in the United States since 1977, so the average person who is earning their PhD in nuclear science now wasn’t alive when the last plant was built. How...
View ArticleAsk Bill Nye
Is nuclear power safe? Could tornadoes be linked to climate change? Do you prefer the freedom of boxers or the security of briefs? Bill Nye answered two of those questions when we sat down with The...
View ArticlePlans to Re-Open Mines Near Native American Lands Raise Environmental and...
Momentum is building to initiate new uranium mining efforts in northern New Mexico, where land that is sacred to local Native Americans contains the richest uranium deposit in the United States....
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First Nuclear License in 40 Years
Posted by Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson of Public Agenda on the Great Energy Challenge Blog The Watts Bar 1 reactor was the last built in the U.S. Will there be more? Photo: Tennessee Valley Authority...
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Does the Government Help or Hurt Innovation?
This Week’s Featured Topic: Government Green What’s the best role for government to spur innovation in the energy and sustainability space? In the past few weeks, the government has approved the first...
View ArticleWhat to do with Nuclear Waste
This week, our expert Christopher Cahill was asked: Why don’t we dump our radioactive waste into the Mariannas Trench, where it will be subducted? After a reactor uses its nuclear fuel, there’s still a...
View ArticleEM2: General Atomics’ new “convert and burn” clean energy-producing reactor...
EM2 is a revolutionary new compact fast reactor that actually runs on the spent-fuel waste of conventional nuclear reactors — a producing a virtually unlimited electricity supply with no greenhouse...
View ArticleAfter Japan Nuclear Power Plant Disaster: How Much Radioactivity in the Oceans?
Among the casualties of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan was the country’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. A result of the loss of electricity, overheating at the...
View ArticleA new type of Nuclear Power?
Here’s a new development on the nuclear power front. The technology involves small ceramic balls infused with thorium that are case hardened and emit very little heat. Thorium is currently being touted...
View ArticleNuclear Fuel Rods as Batteries
Since “depleted” nuclear reactor fuel rods are still radioactive, why not try to collect the radiation energy in them the same way that a solar cell works? By surrounding a fuel rod with transparent...
View ArticleIs There a Practical Form of Nuclear Fusion?
U-233 Ignited PACER Fusion Practical fusion to fully power the planet longer than the earth has existed or the sun will burn The complete conversion of deuterium nuclear fuel releases an energy content...
View ArticleNuScale Power Module
NuScale Power has created a new kind of nuclear plant, a smaller, scalable version of pressurized water reactor technology, designed with natural safety features.The NuScale plant uses natural forces...
View ArticleA Smaller, Safer Nuclear Reactor
Today’s nuclear plants are big, expensive and take a long time to build. On top of that, there’s safety concerns – ever since the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan after a major...
View ArticleAfter Japan Nuclear Power Plant Disaster: How Much Radioactivity in the Oceans?
Among the casualties of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan was the country’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. A result of the loss of electricity, overheating at the...
View ArticleA new type of Nuclear Power?
Here’s a new development on the nuclear power front. The technology involves small ceramic balls infused with thorium that are case hardened and emit very little heat. Thorium is currently being touted...
View ArticleNuclear Fuel Rods as Batteries
Since “depleted” nuclear reactor fuel rods are still radioactive, why not try to collect the radiation energy in them the same way that a solar cell works? By surrounding a fuel rod with transparent...
View ArticleIs There a Practical Form of Nuclear Fusion?
U-233 Ignited PACER Fusion Practical fusion to fully power the planet longer than the earth has existed or the sun will burn The complete conversion of deuterium nuclear fuel releases an energy content...
View ArticleNuScale Power Module
NuScale Power has created a new kind of nuclear plant, a smaller, scalable version of pressurized water reactor technology, designed with natural safety features. The NuScale plant uses natural forces...
View ArticleThe nuclear martyr: A vision of 2050
In the year 2050 there is an abundance of clean, renewable energy, due to a scientific breakthrough that defied conventional practices. However, the preceding decades faired not as conducive to...
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