April 2018

Nuclear Reactors 551 - Turkey's Nuclear Project Needs Money

        Turkey has been interested in building nuclear power plants since 1970. However, progress has been very slow and neighboring countries including Armenia, Bulgaria, Romania and Iran have all brought nuclear power to their grid before Turkey which is just breaking ground for its first nuclear power plant.

Nuclear Reactors 550 - Middle Eastern Countries Want Nuclear Power

       The market for nuclear reactors is shrinking in the developed world so nuclear companies are turning to developing nations for business. Companies that sell nuclear technology for power plants are competing for the nuclear market in the Middle East which is one of the most unstable regions on Earth. The Center for Climate & Security which is based in the U.S.

Nuclear Weapons 353 - Carnegie Mellon University Is Developing The RadPiper Robot To Inspect Pipes For Radioactive Materials

       Scientists at the Robotics institute of Carnegie Mellon University have developed a new robot called RadPiper for the purpose of finding radioactive materials in the pipes of the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) Piketon, Ohio facility.

Nuclear Weapons 352 - Soviet and Russian Systems For Deploying ICBMs On Trains

       Towards the end of the Soviet Union, the USSR put intercontinental ballistic missiles on trains. Their Soviet name was RT-23 but the U.S. referred to them as the SS-23 Scalpel. Each missile was seventy-seven feet long and carried ten five-hundred and fifty kiloton multiple-reentry warheads. The trains were referred to as Moldets. The first became operational in 1987.

Nuclear Reactors 549 - New Accident Tolerant Fuel Assemblies For Nuclear Power Plants Are Being Developed

       Current nuclear power reactors are fueled with assemblies of rods. The rods contain pellets of uranium or a uranium-plutonium mixture called MOX. The long thin fuel rods in a nuclear fuel assembly are coated in a process called cladding.

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