November 2017

Nuclear Fusion 37 - Texas A&M University And Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory Collaborate To Test Nanocomposite Materials For Fusion Reactors

       Nuclear fusion could provide the electricity that is needed to power our civilization but there are many technical problems that still need to be solved. Nuclear fusion generates about four times the power of nuclear fission but does not produce the nuclear waste that is piling up at the fission power reactors around the U.S. and around the world.

Radioactive Waste 324 - Spent Nuclear Fuel Waste Will Be Shipped From Scotland To Australia

       Australia has about one third of the known uranium reserves in the world but is only the third largest supplier of uranium oxide concentrate to the world energy market. Currently, there are only three uranium mines in Australia with almost all of the uranium mined being exported to Australia. Australia does not use nuclear power and only has a few research reactors.

Nuclear Reactors 323 - The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Considers Energy Secretary Perry's Call For Subsidies For Coal And Nuclear Plant

       Energy Secretary Rick Perry has decided that the U.S. should subsidize coal and nuclear power plants if necessary for them to survive in the extremely competitive U.S. energy market on the grounds that the U.S. needs to have a reserve of base power that can only be provided by such plants.

Nuclear Fusion 36 - U.S. And Korean Researchers Improve Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) device

       In the research and development of a nuclear fusion reactor, one of the major problems is keeping the super-hot plasma in a stable configuration that does not touch the interior wall of the vacuum chamber that contains the plasma. If the plasma touches the wall, it can lose shape and temperature, quenching the reactions that produce fusion.

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