Nuclear Reactors 148 - The BRICS Countries Sign Nuclear Cooperation Agreements

         I have posted before about the trend among nuclear nations such as Russia, Japan, China, France and the United States to make export of nuclear technology and nuclear fuel a major part of their international trade in the near future. Recently there was a major announcement by Vladimir Putin at a BRICS summit meeting of a Russian plan to create an energy association that will include a fuel reserve bank and an energy policy institute.

CC3 is a New Material That Can Trap Radioactive Gases

         We usually think of radioactive contamination in terms of solid radioactive elements such as uranium and plutonium. However, there are also radioactive gases such as radon. This gas is created as naturally occurring uranium decays. In some parts of the country, natural radon can accumulate in basements and pose a health threat. When nuclear fuel is burned in a reactor, radioactive isotopes of xenon and krypton are generated.

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