The Palisades Nuclear Generating Station is located on Lake Michigan, 5 miles south of South Haven, Michigan. It was completed in 1971 at a cost of one hundred and forty nine million dollars.
The Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) reactor is an experimental nuclear fusion reactor called a stellarator. The W7-X is located in Greifswald, Germany at the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics(IPP). It was completed in October 2015.
Portland in the Australian state of Victoria is the oldest European settlement in the state. It was founded in the early Nineteenth Century but only designated as an Australian "city" in 1895. It currently has about ten thousand residents. The primary industrial activity in Portland is an Alcoa aluminum smelter. It processes about three hundred and fifty thousand tons of aluminum each year.
An 18-member team from the International Atomic Energy Agency carried out an Integrated Regulatory Review Service (IRRS) mission to evaluate the regulatory framework for nuclear and radiation safety in Italy in late November of this year.
I have discussed the possible impact of the Brexit vote on the nuclear program of the U.K. That post was dedicated to nuclear fission. There are also issues about the future of nuclear fusion research in the U.K. and Europe related to the Brexit.
Most of my posts on this blog about nuclear power reactors deal with fission reactors. Occasionally, I switch over to nuclear fusion reactors. Fusion power reactors don't exist yet but billions and billions of dollars over decades have been spent in the quest for fusion power. If fusion power can be achieved, it should have many important advantages over nuclear fission for power generation.
