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Life After 40: Suppliers Anxious to Support Life Extension Initiatives for Aging Nuclear Power Plants

By Geoff Gilmore, President and CEO, Climax Portable Machine Tools, Inc., February, 23, 2010 - With the world's electricity demand continuing to grow, and with the desire to reduce the world's emission output from traditional fossil fuel plants, countries are turning to new renewable energy sources and to nuclear power to meet that demand. It is clear that the new renewable energy sources by themselves will not be sufficient to meet the demand. Because new nuclear power plants currently on the drawing board will not be in operation for a while, there is an initiative currently under way to continue operation of current nuclear plants at high performance levels to 2050 and beyond. more...
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The Future of Commercial Atomic Power -- A Case for Nationalization

By Jim McInvale, Nuclear Engineer, , August, 31, 2009 - Commercial atomic power was the moniker used when the current generation of nuclear plants were built. Distrust grew as the public mind fused the concepts of atomic power and atom bombs, and questioned the ability the government to both promote and regulate. A re-marketing scheme was necessary. The Atomic Energy Commission of the sixties became the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)1 of the seventies and atomic power became nuclear energy. Though the names have changed, the plants and many of the people that operate and regulate them are much the same as they were then... only older. With a focus on safety, this article examines the present state of the industry in part one, and looks to the future in part two. more...
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Deeper Thoughts Than Usual About Nuclear Energy

By Ferdinand E. Banks, Professor, , August, 07, 2009 -

"I'm a social scientist, Michael. That means I can't explain electricity, or anything like that, but if you want to know about people I'm your man." more...
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Nuclear Industry Leadership at the Crossroads

By J.K. August, Engineer, CORE, Inc., June, 29, 2009 - Thirty Years Avoiding Kemeny Report Three Mile Island Questions more...
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An Unexpected Solution to our Energy and Climate Crises

By Michael Keller, President and CEO, Hybrid Power Technologies, June, 22, 2009 - The global need for environmentally clean yet inexpensive and reliable energy is a problem that has yet to find a solution. more...
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Did Delays Kill GE Nuclear?

By J.K. August, Engineer, CORE, Inc., April, 24, 2009 - Would the last U.S.-owned nuclear reactor supplier please turn out the lights? more...
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The Potential for Air-cooled High-Temperature Nuclear Reactors

By Harry Valentine, Commentator/Energy Researcher, , March, 31, 2009 -

Nuclear power generation technology has undergone an evolution from fuel rods and heavy water to newer designs of reactors that can be cooled by light water and more recently by gas. There is much research underway in China and the USA involving gas-cooled, high-temperature reactors (HTR) based on the continually evolving pebble bed modular reactor (PBMR) technology. Advanced research into PBMR technology in China is focused on both uranium-fueled and thorium-fueled versions that involve cooling the reactors using pressurized helium circulating in a closed-cycle turbine. more...
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Nuclear: News Sounds From Sweden

By Ferdinand E. Banks, Professor, , March, 27, 2009 -

INTRODUCTION more...
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Nuclear and the New American President

By Ferdinand E. Banks, Professor, , December, 31, 2008 - Let me start by repeating what I said in an article in the journal Energy and Environment (2004), We do not know if global warming is the real deal, or just part of a cycle, but we have discovered that gas and oil can become extremely expensive in a very short time. In these circumstances the optimal behaviour is to get friendlier with the friendly atom, and do what former Prime Minister Blair and the founder of Greenpeace suggest, which is to increase the use of nuclear energy. more...
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Nuclear Plants and New Cars: How Different?

By J.K. August, Engineer, CORE, Inc., December, 15, 2008 - The Six Billion Dollar Price Tag for New Nuclear Plants Doesn't Include D-RAP -- the Owner's Manual more...
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