nuclear

So, I'm given to understand that the 1977 cessation of nuclear fuel reprocessing in the USA was based on the idea that plutonium might be harvested from spent fuel and used to make a bomb. Furthermore, I am given to understand that given the technology of the time, this was nonsense on stilts...

The 'Waste Annihilating Molten Salt Reactor (WAMSR)'. Runs on waste fuel pellets from conventional reactors by dissolving them in a molten salt. Generates power by using up to 98% of the energy in the dissolved pellets (compared to around 3% for PWRs), resulting in around 3 kilos of relatively...

It sounds like [New York] Governor Spitzer and AG Cuomo have decided that they should be inserted into the process for determining whether Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant's operating license should be renewed. NYT has an editorial about it here, predictably stating they support the Governor...

Someone is claiming that 1300+ cars within a mile of the WTC spontaneously ignited. The reason he claims is an EMP. Just ignore that stupid part. Is there any evidence to the claim that 1300+ cars caught fire around WTC. Where were they located. When did they catch fire?

inspired by this breaking news in the UK.... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6364281.stm I wonder - what is the case for nuclear power? Do the benefits outweigh the costs? It seems to me that the first generation power plants' cost per energy produced is going to be incredibly high...

I'm sure I'm not the only one that's noticed Iran is no longer bothering with the "for electrical generating purposes only" as regards their nuke program. They are openly admitting they are building a nuke. I think that the only people who think diplomacy will solve the problem are the feeble...

Data Found In Drug Raid Contains Weapons-Design Secrets I have some questions: How the hell does a 22-year-old get access to top-secret data??? Don't you have to, say, work your way up and prove that you are trustworthy? Or does the government just hire anyone who comes in off the street and...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/03/world/middleeast/03cnd-documents.html?hp&ex=1162616400&en=d6e60f288e881789&ei=5094&partner=homepage NYT...may need to register. Apparently, they were posting all kinds of documents on the web that are now being questioned as possibly providing something of a...

Are these guys nuts or what? Guardian Fox Google it all you want.

North Korea announces nuclear test (Filed: 03/10/2006) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/10/03/ukorea.xml Maybe they will just blow themselves up like they did with their last missile test.

Great news from Tehran for a change. Turns out all we need to do is keep begging and bribing Iran to give peace a chance, and in exchange they promise to keep moving ahead with uranium enrichment anyway. Let the cynics eat their hateful words, now that we're finally making some progress: W...

Some guy just dropped a flyer off on my doorstep that says nuclear war will begin no later than 9/12/06. Wow, that's only a couple of weeks. Aparently this guy and his 12 followers are the only people in the world who know the truth, none of the world's religions have gotten it right. This...

If you thought a nuclear attack on Long Beach would be good for the city, you're apparently wrong. Thanks to the hard work of the people at Rand Corporation, we now know the truth. Can't we assume that a nuclear explosion in any city isn't going to be a good thing?

...and how much is enough? Check this site http://www.truemajorityaction.org/postcard/ Anyone have any reliable links/info regarding its accuracy? I honestly couldn't say offhand (this is one area of the military I never got into....). PS didn't put this in the Politics forum because I'm...

Do you get the feeling that someday very soon, you are going to wake up and read the headlines, "Nuclear weapon detonated in the Middle East!". I'm pretty sure that Iran has at least one. Nuclear weapons are not difficult to make. The hardest part of making a nuclear weapon is preventing it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr2TFLlA3jA ((((( A preview of what will happen in Iran?)))))

In the thread about hydrogen powered cars use of nuclear power to generate electricity (and then hydrogen) has been mentioned briefly. Here are my thoughts. Nuclear power will be an important source of energy over the next 100 years or so. However, early attempts to tap nuclear power were...

Well, former Green Peace anyway. He was somewhat excommunicated for reaching a single logical conclusion... Still, he retains his green credentials. snip Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace, is chairman and chief scientist of Greenspirit Strategies Ltd. He and Christine Todd Whitman are...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4627862.stm :eek: :boggled: :eye-poppi :jaw-dropp :covereyes :shocked: :wide-eyed :yikes: :what:

Something I've pointed out to the luddites over and over about our present stupid use of nuclear power was examined carefully in the last SciAm. It basically, with references, makes the same point I have made over and over, which is that nuclear power plants (I mean fission, I'll believe in...

If that doesn't stain your shorts, what will? http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5427703,00.html

There is much disagreement on nuclear power. In Germany it's a stiff "nein danke", while in France it's "Oui, d'accord". Here in insular Europe it's a "Let's form a commitee and talk about it". What are the pros and cons in terms of environmental risk and energy price?

Has there been any research into whether or not the nuclear arsenals of the US and the Soviet Union prevented a conventional war between the two countries? If there never were any nuclear weapons, would there have been a 3rd world war, with the US and its allies on one side, and the Soviet Union...

Of course, I expect it isn't going to be very straightforward making sure they stick to their promise. http://www.theage.com.au/news/north-korea/pyongyang-pledges-to-end-nuclear-program/2005/09/19/1126981994009.html

Source Assuming that's credible...? So it seems they're expecting the worst. Is the worst likely to happen? I can't believe that the US would just go ahead and bomb it.

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Well? Why not. What kind of example are we setting? Who do we think we are? Or, has the United Nations voted us in to be the world's guardian? if that has ben the case, then my question is answered. if *not*, then it goes unanswered.

French President Jacques Chirac said Monday he believed the EU would soon reach agreement with Japan over the site of a proposed experimental nuclear fusion reactor. Progress on the $13 billion international project known as ITER (Latin for "the way") has stalled as Japan and the EU vie to host...

Time Magazine On a visit last month to Tehran, International Atomic Energy Agency director Mohamed ElBaradei announced he had discovered that Iran was constructing a facility to enrich uranium — a key component of advanced nuclear weapons — near Natanz. But diplomatic sources tell TIME the...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6485378/ TEHRAN - Iran notified the U.N. nuclear watchdog in writing Sunday that it would suspend uranium enrichment and related activities to dispel suspicions that it was trying to build nuclear arms I think we'll still invade Iran, regardless of what they do.