Nuclear Reactors 703 - Diakont Provices Robots That Can Clean Cavities And Surfaces Underwater At Nuclear Power Plants

       Working around a nuclear power plant is dangerous because of the high levels of harmful radiation. This makes it difficult for some maintenance work to be done. Nuclear power plants operators are increasingly turning to robots to carry out some dangerous tasks.

Nuclear Reactors 702 - The Columbia Generating Station At The Hanford Nuclear Reservation Is At Risk From Earthquakes

       One major problem with nuclear power plants involves earthquakes. A major quake off the northeast coast of Japan in March of 2011 resulted in flooding and meltdowns that destroyed the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Radioactively contaminated water is still pouring the Pacific Ocean eight years later. Some Japanese nuclear power plants were permanently closed and others are just being restarted.

Nuclear Reactors 701 - MIT Working On Molten Salt Reactor Design

       Kieran P. Dolan is a second-year doctoral student at MIT’s Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering. He is working in the MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory on MIT Reactor-based experiments with respect to designing fluoride-salt-cooled high-temperature nuclear reactors known as FHRs.

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