| Poll shows strong support for nuclear energy ahead of referendum in Bulgaria The Sofia Globe A public opinion poll in Bulgaria, which is scheduled to vote in a referendum in January on nuclear power, showed strong support for continued development of nuclear power, but only a small proportion of respondents said that they considered themselves ...http://sofiaglobe.com/2012/11/21/poll-shows-strong-support-for-nuclear-energy-ahead-of-referendum-in-bulgaria/ |
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Poll shows strong support for nuclear energy ahead of referendum in Bulgaria
Global Insider: Czech Republic Reaffirms Its Nuclear Energy Plans
| Global Insider: Czech Republic Reaffirms Its Nuclear Energy Plans World Politics Review Czech Prime Minister Czech Petr Necas announced plans earlier this month to significantly increase Czech nuclear power production by building new reactors at existing nuclear plants. In an email interview, Andrej Nosko, a senior program officer at the ...http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/trend-lines/12518/global-insider-czech-republic-reaffirms-its-nuclear-energy-plans |
Thorium Energy Conference - ThEC12 in Shanghai
| Thorium Energy Conference – ThEC12 in Shanghai – a ... - IThEO.org All Thorium Energy efforts look different and we believe this is good, at ThEC12 we have learned much about the Chinese program. Though there are ... itheo.org/.../thorium-energy- |
How to manage the dirty side of thorium and assure its global supply
How to manage the dirty side of thorium and assure its global supply ...
Thorium holds incredible promise to power alternative reactor designs and usher in an era of much safer nuclear power that would underpin a C02-free energy ...
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Thorium holds incredible promise to power alternative reactor designs and usher in an era of much safer nuclear power that would underpin a C02-free energy ...
www.the-weinberg-foundation.
History of the AntiNuclear Movement - 3 Parts Installment
Climate Change Causes Insurers to Rethink Price of Risk After Hurricane Sandy
REPORT AIR DATE: Nov. 21, 2012
Climate Change Causes Insurers to Rethink Price of Risk After Hurricane Sandy
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/july-dec12/makingsense_11-21.html
Methane Is Popping Up All Over Boston
Methane Is Popping Up All Over Boston
By JOANNA M. FOSTERThursday, November 22, 2012
Emotional evaluation of risks should favor nuclear energy
Emotional evaluation of risks should favor nuclear energy
Laser enrichment for 100,000 tons of Paducah tails
DOE is talking with GE about a second laser enrichment facility to enrich nuclear tails.
the DoE has started talks with GE-Hitachi (GEH) subsidiary GLE to evaluate the possibility of building another laser enrichment plant at the Paducah site to enrich its stockpiles of high-assay depleted uranium tails. The DoE owns some 100,000 tonnes of such tails, which are stored at Paducah as well as at the shut down Portsmouth diffusion enrichment plant in Ohio.
http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/
Russia is speeding up nuclear investment and targets getting 50% of power from nuclear by 2050 and 80% by 2100
Russia is speeding up nuclear investment and targets getting 50% of power from nuclear by 2050 and 80% by 2100
http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/
White House Announces $6 Billion to Promote Clean Energy – in Asia By Fred Lucas November 20, 2012 Subscribe to Fred Lucas's posts
White House Announces $6 Billion to Promote Clean Energy – in Asia
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
The International Nuclear Safety Journal has just published its first issue
Dear all:
The International Nuclear Safety Journal has just published its first issue
at
http://nuclearsafety.info/
We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web
site to review articles and items of interest.
There are another four articles under review and a second issue should be
published by the end of this year.
Today the INSJ has been assigned an ISSN number (2285 – 8717).
I hope we will receive more articles in the future.
Thanks for the continuing interest in our work,
Madalina Tronea
madalina.tronea@nuclearsafety.
International Nuclear Safety Journal
Vol 1, No 1 (2012): International Nuclear Safety Journal
Table of Contents
http://nuclearsafety.info/
Radiological Protection
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OPERATIONAL RADIATION PROTECTION AT THE KIEV’S RESEARCH REACTOR WWR-M
Yuri Lobach, Igor Khomich, Yuri Nesteruk, Valery Shevel
Nuclear Criticality Safety
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THE EFFECTS OF STORAGE PATTERNS ON THE NEUTRON MULTIPLICATION FACTOR OF
SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL CASKS
Mosebetsi Johannes Leotlela
Material Properties and Applications
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Monte Carlo Simulations about Neutron and Gamma Interactions and Shielding
Parameters of Algodonite Mineral
Turgay Korkut, Erhan Görmez
The International Nuclear Safety Journal has just published its first issue
at
http://nuclearsafety.info/
We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web
site to review articles and items of interest.
There are another four articles under review and a second issue should be
published by the end of this year.
Today the INSJ has been assigned an ISSN number (2285 – 8717).
I hope we will receive more articles in the future.
Thanks for the continuing interest in our work,
Madalina Tronea
madalina.tronea@nuclearsafety.
International Nuclear Safety Journal
Vol 1, No 1 (2012): International Nuclear Safety Journal
Table of Contents
http://nuclearsafety.info/
Radiological Protection
--------
OPERATIONAL RADIATION PROTECTION AT THE KIEV’S RESEARCH REACTOR WWR-M
Yuri Lobach, Igor Khomich, Yuri Nesteruk, Valery Shevel
Nuclear Criticality Safety
--------
THE EFFECTS OF STORAGE PATTERNS ON THE NEUTRON MULTIPLICATION FACTOR OF
SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL CASKS
Mosebetsi Johannes Leotlela
Material Properties and Applications
--------
Monte Carlo Simulations about Neutron and Gamma Interactions and Shielding
Parameters of Algodonite Mineral
Turgay Korkut, Erhan Görmez
Editor's Note
Dear Readers
I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving.
I am joining the crush of cars that will hit the interstates today to make it
to a family gathering tomorrow. And sometime here and there I will have a
chance to catch up on some of the news - hopefully there won't be too much
(fat chance of that). At least I'm glad that I don't have to travel through LAX
today. Best regards to all.
Michele Kearney
I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving.
I am joining the crush of cars that will hit the interstates today to make it
to a family gathering tomorrow. And sometime here and there I will have a
chance to catch up on some of the news - hopefully there won't be too much
(fat chance of that). At least I'm glad that I don't have to travel through LAX
today. Best regards to all.
Michele Kearney
Sizewell C nuclear power station consultation starts
Sizewell C nuclear power station consultation starts
Sizewell C’s two reactor domes (centre) next to the existing Sizewell B dome (left)
.More than 5,000 people are expected to work on the construction of a nuclear power station in Suffolk at its peak.
EDF Energy wants to build Sizewell C next to an existing plant at Leiston.http://energyandnuclear.com/2012/11/21/sizewell-c-nuclear-power-station-consultation-starts/
World Bank Report Released: Turn Down the Heat: Why a 4°C Warmer World Must be Avoided
World Bank Report Released: Turn Down the Heat: Why a 4°C Warmer World Must be Avoided
says that the 4°C scenarios are potentially devastating: the inundation of coastal cities; increasing risks for food production potentially leading to higher under and malnutrition rates; many dry regions becoming dryer, wet regions wetter; unprecedented heat waves in many regions, especially in the tropics; substantially exacerbated water scarcity in many regions; increased intensity of tropical cyclones; and irreversible loss of biodiversity, including coral reef systems.
. . .
The report notes, however, that a 4°C world is not inevitable and that with sustained policy action warming can still be held below 2°C, which is the goal adopted by the international community and one that already brings some serious damages and risks to the environment and human populations.
Climate Reports Forecast Dire Future, Even If Action Is Taken
Climate Reports Forecast Dire Future, Even If Action Is Takenhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/21/climate-reports-climate-change_n_2170101.html?utm_hp_ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=112112&utm_medium=email&utm_content=NewsEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief
IAEA Data on Sensitive Iranian Stockpile Mislead News Media
IAEA Data on Sensitive Iranian Stockpile Mislead News Media
Analysis by Gareth Porter- http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/
WASHINGTON, Nov 20 2012 (IPS) -
News stories on the latest International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
report suggested new reasons to fear that Iran is closer to a “breakout”
capability than ever before, citing a nearly 50-percent increase in its
stockpile of 20-percent enriched uranium and the installation of
hundreds of additional centrifuges at the Fordow enrichment
installation.But the supposedly dramatic increase in the stockpile of uranium that could theoretically be used to enrich to weapons grade is based on misleading figures in the Nov. 16 IAEA report. The actual increase in the level of that stockpile appears to be 20 percent.
The coverage of the completion of the installation of 2,800 centrifuges at Fordow, meanwhile, continued the media practice of ignoring the linkage between large numbers of idle centrifuges and future negotiations on the Iranian nuclear programme.
The latest round of media coverage of the Iran issue again highlights the failure of major news outlets to reflect the complexity and political subtleties of the Iranian enrichment programme.
The IAEA report created understandable confusion about the stockpile of uranium enriched to 20-percent – also called 20 percent LEU (low enriched uranium). It does not use the term “stockpile” at all. Instead, it says Iran produced 43 kg of 20-percent enriched uranium during the three months since the August report and cited a total of 135 kg of 20-percent uranium now “in storage”, compared with only 91.4 kg in August.
Based on those figures, Reuters suggested that Iran might already be two-thirds of the way to the level of 200-250 kg that “experts say” could be used to build a bomb. The Guardian’s Julian Borger wrote that Iran was enriching uranium at a pace that would reach the Israeli “red line” in just seven months.
But analysis of the figures in the last two reports shows that the IAEA total for 20-percent LEU “in storage” actually includes 20-percent LEU that has been sent to the Fuel Plate Fabrication Plant in Esfahan for conversion to powder for fuel plates to be used by Iran’s medical reactor but not yet converted.
If the world were serious about addressing Climate Change
If the world were serious about addressing Climate Change
A new World Bank-commissioned report warns the world is on track to a “4°C world” marked by extreme heat-waves and life-threatening sea level rise.The report is over 70 pages long.
The global community has committed itself to holding warming below 2°C to prevent “dangerous” climate change, the sum total of current policies—in place and pledged—will very likely lead to warming far in excess of this level. Indeed, present emission trends put the world plausibly on a path toward 4°C warming within this century.http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/11/if-world-were-serious-about-addressing.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2Fadvancednano+%28nextb
Levels greater than 4°C warming could be possible within this century should climate sensitivity be higher, or the carbon cycle and other climate system feedbacks more positive, than anticipated. Current scientific evidence suggests that even with the current commitments and pledges fully implemented, there is roughly a 20 percent likelihood of exceeding 4°C by 2100, and a 10 percent chance of 4°C being exceeded as early as the 2070s.
Warming would not stop there. Because of the slow response of the climate system, the greenhouse gas emissions and concentrations that would lead to warming of 4°C by 2100 would actually commit the world to much higher warming, exceeding 6°C or more, in the long term, with several meters of sea-level rise ultimately associated with this warming.
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