April 2017

Nuclear Weapons 276 - Evacuating Seattle Under Threat Of Nuclear Attack

       When Ronald Reagan entered office in 1981, his administration had a belligerent attitude towards the Soviet Union. Reagan wanted to expand U.S. nuclear forces and also wanted to convince the U.S. public that a nuclear war could be winnable. He supported the construction of a network of bomb shelters and called on states to draft plans for the evacuation of millions of citizens from major U.S.

Nuclear Reactors 276 - TerraPower Is Working On Traveling-Wave Reactors

       A traveling-wave reactor (TWR) can transmute fertile materials such as natural uranium, depleted uranium, thorium and spent nuclear fuel into usable fuel while burning fissile materials. The name comes from the fact that fission occurs in a boundary zone in the reactor core.

Nuclear Reactors 275 - Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute Developes New Uranium Molybdenum Fuel For Test Reactors

The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) in Daejeon, South Korea was established in 1959. It is the only professional research-oriented institute for nuclear power in South Korea, In 1995 KAERI designed and constructed the nation's first multipurpose research reactor, HANARO based on the Canadian MAPLE design.

Nuclear Weapons 275 - New UN Report On The Dangers Posed By Nuclear Arsenals

       The U.N. is currently hosting meetings of one hundred and thirty nations on the issue of banning all nuclear weapons worldwide. Unfortunately, the nine nations with that actually have nuclear weapons voted against holding the meetings. The United States and Russia have both said that they are interested in reducing the number of nuclear weapons in their arsenals but both have committed to spending hundreds of billions of dollars goes arsenals in the coming years.

Radioactive Waste 223 - The Los Alamos National Laboratory

    I have blogged several times about the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico. This plant takes waste from the U.S. nuclear weapons programs and it was temporarily shut down a few years ago by a serious accident involving waste shipped from the Los Alamos National Laboratories. The WIPP does not take liquid waste and the LANL adds an absorbent material to barrels of liquid waste to solidify the liquid.

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