Radioactive Waste 230 - Holtec International Building Dry Cask Storage Facility For Ukaine
One of the biggest problems with nuclear power is how to dispose of the spent nuclear fuel produced by nuclear power reactors. One solution is to reprocess the fuel to recover uranium and plutonium which can be used to make more nuclear fuel but can also be used to make nuclear weapons. Nuclear fuel reprocessing is complex and dangerous.
Geiger Readings for May 18, 2017
Nuclear Reactors 281 - Financial Problems At Toshiba And Westinghouse Cast Doubt On U.K Moorside Nuclear Power Plant Plant
The Moorside Nuclear Power Station is a proposed power station to be build near Sellafield on the northwest coast of the Cumbrian state of the United Kingdom. Three AP1000 nuclear power reactors are planned to be built by NuGeneration (NuGen), the British subsidiary of Westinghouse Electric Company which is, in turn, a subsidiary of Toshiba, the Japanese company.
Geiger Readings for May 17, 2017
Nuclear Reactors 280 - Tomsk Polytechnic University in Russia Is Developing An Improved Coating For Zirconium Nuclear Fuel Rods
Physicists at the Department of General Physics of Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) in Tomsk, Russia are working on improving the coatings on nuclear fuel rods. TPU was founded in 1896 and it was the first technical university established east of the Ural Mountains. TPU currently has twenty two thousand students.