I have blogged before about the use of thorium as a nuclear fuel for power reactors. Usually it is in reference to the creation of special reactors designed specifically for thorium. Today I am going to talk about work being done to create a mixture of thorium and plutonium that would be suitable to power existing light water reactors.
I have blogged in the past about research projects that are using molybdenum to produce a better nuclear fuel for reactors. Now researchers at the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Russia) Russia are working on improving the covering of nuclear fuel rods with a special form of molybdenum.
Uranium is a very common element on Earth. It combines with many other elements to form a wide variety of minerals. There are deposits of uranium ore in many locations that can be mined. Uranium is a main contributor to background radiation that is found in varying amounts all over the Earth.
Uranium is a very common element on Earth. It combines with many other elements to form a wide variety of minerals. There are deposits of uranium ore in many locations that can be mined. Uranium is a main contributor to background radiation that is found in varying amounts all over the Earth.
One of the biggest problems with nuclear power is disposing of the spent nuclear fuel. Thirty nations are running nuclear power reactors and spent nuclear fuel is piling up in all of them. While there have been test geological repositories built, there is no commercial storage for high-level nuclear waste such as spent fuel anywhere in the world.
Can we fight climate change without scaling up nuclear power? Pghcitypaper.com
Cybersecurity has been in the news a lot lately. In the past few years, there have been thefts of customer records from major corporations as well as government institutions. The interference of Russia in the 2016 U.S. presidential election via hacking emails from the Democratic side really generated a lot of headlines.
