Nuclear Reactors 432 - Kenya To Invest In Nuclear Power
The Republic of Kenya is a country on the East Coast of Africa.
Geiger Readings for Nov 30, 2016
Nuclear Weapons 244 - Continuing Resolution Threatens Timely Funding Of Modernization Of U.S. Nuclear Triad
Barack Obama came to the U.S. Presidency in 2008 with plans to work on the elimination of nuclear weapons around the world. However, the increasing nuclear belligerency of Russia and the deterioration of the U.S. nuclear arsenal motivated Obama in 2016 to propose spending a trillion dollars over ten years to upgrade and enhance the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
Geiger Readings for Nov 29, 2016
Radioactive Waste 200 - U.K. Cabot Institute Creates Nuclear Battery With Artificial Diamonds
As I have said many times on this blog, nuclear waste is a terrible problem. There are millions of tons of nuclear waste around the globe. It will either have to be buried in the geological repositories under construction or recycled into new nuclear fuel. There are schemes to build special nuclear reactors that can directly burn nuclear waste.