I have blogged about nuclear accident liability before. In the U.S., the Price-Anderson Act sets limits on the amount of money that nuclear utilities would have to pay in case of an accident. In India, a stringent liability law has been preventing international nuclear technology companies from doing business with India.
I have been blogging a lot lately about small modular nuclear power reactors (SMR). This is a new design concept in the nuclear industry. SMRs are defined as nuclear reactors that produce three hundred megawatts or less. One of the big selling points for these SMRs would be that they could be manufactured in factories and shipped in modules to their operational sites.
Since the dawn of the nuclear age in the 1940s, the U.S. public has been subjected to a propaganda campaign to create acceptance for the U.S. nuclear program and the nuclear industry. The New York Times has been a part of this campaign since it was enlisted during the Manhattan Project to build the first U.S. nuclear bombs during World War II.
Disposing of nuclear waste is a huge problem for the U.S. nuclear industry. In 1982, the U.S. Congress passed the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. The purpose of this act was to review possible sites and then select one site for development.
A great deal of world attention is focused on the negotiations between six major powers and Iran over Iran's nuclear program. Israel is known to have over a hundred nuclear warheads although they publicly deny it.
I have posted several articles about small modular reactors (SMRs). So far, they only exist as designs and some test systems. The idea is to manufacture standardized parts in a factory to take advantage of economies of scale and standardization. They are designed to produce up to three hundred megawatts of electricity each.
