August 2016
Nuclear Reactors 397 - Safety Audit Of Proposed Finnish Nuclear Power Project Raises Troubling Questions
Fennovoima Ltd. is a Finnish nuclear power company. It was established in 2007 by a consortium of Finnish power and industrial companies. It does not currently own any nuclear power reactors but is preparing to build a twelve hundred megawatt nuclear power plant at Pyhajoki.
Geiger Readings for Aug 16, 2016
Nuclear Weapons 219 - U.S. Considered Storing Nuclear Weapons In Iceland During Cold War
The U.S. has arrangements with other nations to station nuclear weapons in some countries and bombers to deliver some of them in other countries. This has always been with the full knowledge of the leaders of those nations and permission from the governments. However, there was a time when the U.S.
Geiger Readings for Aug 15, 2016
Geiger Readings for Aug 14, 2016
Geiger Readings for Aug 13, 2016
Nuclear Reactors 396 - More Problems For Troubled Hinkley Point C Project
The Hinkley Point C project in the U.K. is like a Mexican soap opera or a train wreck in slow motion. The French utility EDF was selected by the U.K. to construct two new power reactors at the Hinkley Point power plant on the coast of Britain. The reactors are to based on the new European Pressurized Reactor design.
Geiger Readings for Aug 12, 2016
Nuclear Reactrors 395 - Problems Facing Chinese Great Nuclear Ambitions
China has one of the most ambitious nuclear power programs in the world. They currently have twenty two reactors in operation which are only supplying about two percent of their electricity. They have at least twenty seven nuclear power reactors under construction with sixteen more approved for construction. They hope to increase the percentage of electricity generation to at least seven percent.
Geiger Readings for Aug 11, 2016
Radioactive Waste 187 - Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository Revisited - Part Two of Two Parts
Part Two of Two Parts (Please read Part One first)