Articles related to "Nuclear Power"



Nuclear Power Plants 101
Nuclear power plants provide about one-fifth of the world's electricity. How do they work? And why do they produce radioactive waste that will remain toxic for centuries?
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Lowering Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Nuclear Power has been ignored in the past in favor of alternative energy sources. Here are the pros and cons of the nuclear option in the fight against global warming.
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Allis Shad
Alosa alosa might be disappearing from the river Garonne in France.
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Climate Change in Southeast Asia 3
Will the impact of global climate change on Southeast Asia encourage governments to turn to nuclear energy?
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Covering the North Korean Nuclear
The mainstream media raised some terrifying possibilities this week regarding North Korea's nuclear test, but did not ask these same questions of current nuclear powers
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Is Nuclear Power Green?
Green house gas emissions, fossil fuel shortages and global warming happening now, we must consider nuclear power as a viable technology for our future energy needs.
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Nuclear Power Plants
This topic discusses the importance of nuclear energy today and explains the construction and working of a nuclear power plant.
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World's Best Uranium Countries
After being enriched, a finger-tip-size uranium fuel pellet stores as much energy as 17,000 cubic feet of natural gas, 1.8 thousand pounds of coal or 149 gallons of oil.
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Of Reactors and Regolith
For a manned mission to Mars, two needs must be addressed: available electrical power, and propellant for the trip home. Nuclear power and In-Situ Resource Utilization promise to address both.
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The Global Electricity Challenge
Worldwide demand for electricity is rising fast. How will this additional electricity be produced?
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An Introduction to Tin Whiskers
Tin whiskers are mysterious, hair-like metal crystals that sprout from circuit boards and hardware, causing shorts and power failures in critical electronic systems.
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Chernobyl Birds Endure Radiation
At the site of the world's worst nuclear accident, nature has taken over. Research on birds in the area tells us how things are going for species at Chernobyl.
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How Can the Laser Drill Solve Our Energy Crisis?
Laser drill technology can quickly sink geothermal wells down to where water can be piped in and high-energy steam returned to run electrical power plants.
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Investment Opportunities in Precious Metals
A look at some of the investment opportunities in the precious metals sector including gold, silver, platinum, titanium and uranium.
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The Equivalence of Mass and Energy
Einstein's theory of special relativity resulted in perhaps the most famous equation every created, and changed the world of science forever.
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Top Alternative Energy Investments
Oil stocks have reaped the reward of record oil prices, but demand for other solutions has grown. Alternative energy companies are now a big investment opportunity.
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Uranium Investing
In recent years, uranium has become one of the hottest commodities to invest in. What follows is an introduction to nuclear power and the growing global demand
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Zeolites – Chemicals for Cleaning
With applications in laundry detergents, nuclear power and hydrogen-powered vehicles, zeolites are chemicals of the future in the present
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The Big Boom
Everything you always wanted to know about propelling a ship using nuclear bombs, but were afraid to ask.
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Climate Change Misconceptions
As climate change has become a hot topic recently, misconceptions about global warming causes like human activity have become truths. Learn the facts on global warming.
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Crying Wolf?
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Aussie PM Rudd Damns Nukes
Australian Prime Minster Kevin Rudd has announced a new nuclear weapons ban initiative after visiting the site of the first nuclear attack in Hiroshima.
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Husbands and Lovers Sail to Cuba
The author of this article, while stationed at a Naval Base during the Crisis was shown a letter another WAVE had recieved from her husband. He was on his way to Cuba.
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Israel Nuclear Strike on Iran
Israel may be preparing to use its own weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East by using tactical nuclear weapons to destroy Iran's uranium enrichment capability.
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Mechanical Engineering Major
Mechanical engineering, the study of using energy, force, and motion to enhance the quality of everyday life, is a challenging major with diverse career possibilities.
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Non-Defense Nuclear Technologies
Nuclear radiation has great potential for destruction. But engineers and scientists have harnessed the power of atomic forces for a wide range of uses to help humanity.
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Propulsion Using Nuclear Energy
This article discusses another application of nuclear energy - Propulsion. Construction and working of the mechanism are discussed in brief.
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Science and Energy Museum Rocks
The American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge,Tennessee, is a storehouse of knowledge about the city's secret history, along with the science of power and energy
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New Age Hypnosis
Dr. Bruce Goldberg's book, New Age Hypnosis, is an excellent learning experience for the reader. This is the author of The Search for Grace, a documented story of a past life that was traced to a woman who had been killed in the roaring '20's!
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Concerns Regarding Nuclear Energy
The article focusses on the drawbacks of harnessing nuclear energy at present. It talks in detail of issues surrouding nuclear energy that are causing anxiety.
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Resource Exploration in the North
Northern countries are rushing to claim parts of the Arctic, as melting sea ice makes the North more accessible for resource exploration.
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Wrong Words at the Wrong Time
Many have covered themselves with ignominy and many with honors in the response to Hurricane Katrina. The low point in rhetoric came in the exploitation of racial politics.
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Great Lakes News, International News
New Great Lakes news site. NRDC as good as always.

Ralph's Corner -- an introduction
Engineering of filtration systems and the useage.
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The Secret Science of World War II
In 1942, a "secret city" sprang up in a Tennessee valley, as Allied scientists raced to beat the Germans at developing enriched uranium to fuel the first atomic bomb.
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Tour the Secret City of Oak Ridge
Hop on a bus at Tennessee's American Museum of Science and Energy and travel back to WW II, to the Cold War, and on to today's world-class sub-atomic research facilities.
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Investing With A Conscience
Can you make money and invest with your conscience?
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Korean Missile Distraction
North Korea's recent missile launch will not distract from its serious problems. In fact, it will make them worse
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Greenpeace - Globe Saving Plan
Environmental activists are boosting a plan they say is a blueprint to staving off future climate change and therefore averting catastrophe.
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Prospect of 'nuclear winter' looms
A small regional nuclear war could mean years of 'nuclear winter' for the entire globe, according to a new study.
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Rott-N-Gas (A Little Breed Humor)
Behold the power or Rottweiler Methane!

Astronomy: An Introduction
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Cooperatives
This week we begin our look at food related cooperatives
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Pushing Ice
Pushing Ice has echoes of Arthur Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama, Tau Zero, Greg Bear's Eon and Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon The Deep -- but is wholly Alastair Reynolds work
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Record Setting Firing of Railgun
The US Navy has tested the worlds largest rail gun making history in the evolution of large gun technology.
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Search for alternate fuels
This article discusses why it has become important to search for alternate fuels and explains about some of these fuels in brief.
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Von Braun's Vision
Reflecting upon the vision of one of the first true rocket scientists.

Waterway Pollution Simulation
This article discusses environmental simulation software developed at McMaster University in Ontario.
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A Big Picture of What Environment Means: Another Introduction t
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