There tens of thousands of tons of spent nuclear fuel stored in nuclear power plant cooling pools in the U.S. There is no permanent geological repository for this nuclear waste and more piles up every year from the ninety-eight operating U.S. commercial nuclear power plants.
Ambient office = 72 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 115 nanosieverts per hour
I have blogged before about the problems with magnetic confinement in nuclear fusion reactors such as stellarators and tokamaks. Now scientists from Princeton University and the Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) may have found a way to deal with a problems that have been known for decades.
A Japanese nuclear power plant created a habitat for tropical fish newscientist.com
Ambient office = 92 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 80 nanosieverts per hour
Part 3 of 3 Parts (Please read Parts 1 and 2 first)
The U.S. nuclear industry got a boost in 1990 when the U.S. Department of Commerce put restrictions on the import of uranium from the Soviet Union which was dumping cheap uranium on the U.S. market.
Ambient office = 90 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 91 nanosieverts per hour
Part 2 of 3 Parts (Please read Part 1 first)
The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) supports the proposals of the NFWG. They say that the creation of federal stockpile of uranium is important for the development of the next generation of nuclear technologies as well as advanced nuclear fuels.
