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Alternative Energy / Nuclear Power

Niger’s Uranium Facilities Under Assault

Jun 03, 2013 at 16:54 | John Daly

One of the scariest scenarios for Western intelligence analysts is the possible nexus between terrorism and nuclear materials.Recent events in Africa have heightened these scenarios.On 23…

Third Party Tests Prove Rossi’s E-Cat HT2 Works

May 22, 2013 at 16:55 | Brian Westenhaus

An independent test report of Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat HT2 is available at the Cornell University Library archive.  The team, seemingly led by Hanno Essén of the Royal Institute…

Not Just Oil: The US is also Dependent on Foreign Uranium

May 14, 2013 at 16:58 | MINING.com

What most Americans don't realize is that dependence on foreign oil isn't the main obstacle to US energy autonomy. If you think America's energy supply issues begin and end with…

Two Years After Being Destroyed, Fukushima Hold Anti-Terrorism Drill

May 13, 2013 at 17:00 | John Daly

A little more than two years ago, only nuclear energy specialists had ever heard of Tokyo Electric Company’s six-reactor Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant complex.Then, on 11 March…

Ireland Protests New British Nuclear Plant

May 10, 2013 at 17:59 | John Daly

To say that British-Irish relations over the past few centuries have been strained would be an understatement.Now Ireland’s An Taisce, the National Trust for Ireland, is pursuing a…

What’s Happened to Andrea Rossi and his E-Cat?

May 08, 2013 at 16:53 | Brian Westenhaus

Yesterday Sterling D. Allan of PESN and Frank Acland of E-CatWorld conducted a one and a half hour interview with Andrea Rossi hosted by Gary Hendershot on his…

Scientists must Study the Nuclear Weak Force to Better Understand LENR

May 07, 2013 at 16:33 | Daily Energy Report

In the early part of the 20th Century physicists theorized that a mysterious force held the nucleus of an atom together.  When it was demonstrated that this force could be…

Nuclear Fusion – Possible at Last?

May 02, 2013 at 17:03 | John Daly

On 26 April, the world largely yawned as a nuclear anniversary came and went.Twenty-seven years ago, the Ukrainian SSR nuclear power plant at Chernobyl exploded, providing a severe…

Ghana to build black Africa’s first Nuclear Power Plant?

Apr 12, 2013 at 17:58 | John Daly

Say what you will about the 11 March earthquake and subsequent tsunami that destroyed Tokyo Electric Power Company’s six reactor Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant complex, the subsequent management of…

NASA Funds Research into Fusion Powered Rocket for Deep Space Travel

Apr 12, 2013 at 17:21 | Futurity

Scientists are building components of a fusion-powered rocket aimed to clear many of the hurdles that block deep space travel, including long times in transit, exorbitant costs, and health risks.

The Coming Nuclear Waste Disaster

Apr 08, 2013 at 17:33 | Wolf Richter

Engineers around the world have done a great job developing nuclear technologies to serve mankind’s many endeavors: medical devices, power generators, naval propulsion systems, or the most formidable weapons ever…

Nuclear Powered Light Bulbs

Apr 04, 2013 at 17:40 | Brian Westenhaus

Lewis Larsen, a Chicago physicist associated with the Widom-Larsen Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) theory is exploring slow nuclear fusion reactions among elements that are not radioactive.  Larsen has…

Despite Fukushima, Britain to Press Forward with Nuclear Power

Mar 26, 2013 at 18:02 | John Daly

As the world moves beyond the fears raised by the 11 March 2011 Tokyo Electric Power Co. Fukushima Daiichi debacle, when an offshore earthquake and subsequent tsunami effectively destroyed the…

Cold War: U.S. up Against Russia in Competition for Czech Nuclear Contract

Mar 26, 2013 at 17:57 | RFE/RL staff

If Cold War battles are still being fought in Europe, one major battlefield today is the Czech Republic’s Temelin nuclear power station. Consortiums backed by Washington and Moscow…

Developing Countries Expected to Drive a Nuclear Power Boom

Mar 20, 2013 at 18:11 | Energy Digital

Global nuclear energy generation will climb by almost 30% by the end of the decade, thanks in part to an influx of new nations developing nuclear programs, says research and…

Taiwanese Strongly Opposed to Expansion of Nuclear Power

Mar 19, 2013 at 18:07 | John Daly

March 11 marked the second anniversary of the nuclear catastrophe at Tokyo Electric Power Company’s six reactor Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, when a tsunami effectively destroyed the site on…

MIT Develops Meltdown-Proof, Nuclear Waste-Eating Reactor

Mar 16, 2013 at 15:16 | Brian Westenhaus

Transatomic, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology spinoff is developing a nuclear reactor designed to overcome the major barriers to nuclear power.  For the anti-nuclear folks the design offers to…

France Predict Cost of Nuclear Disaster to be Over Three Times their GDP

Mar 14, 2013 at 18:07 | Wolf Richter

Catastrophic nuclear accidents, like Chernobyl in 1986 or Fukushima No. 1 in 2011, are very rare, we’re incessantly told, and their probability of occurring infinitesimal. But when they do occur,…

Never Mind Fukushima – Vietnam to Embrace Nuclear Power

Mar 08, 2013 at 17:34 | John Daly

When on 11 March 2011 a tsunami destroyed TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant complex, many believed that the catastrophe, if not ending nuclear power generation worldwide, would at least…

Indian Nuclear Power Plant Sparks International Fears

Feb 26, 2013 at 16:53 | John Daly

If the 1986 Soviet Chernobyl disaster and, more recently, the destruction of Japan’s 11 March 2011 six reactor Fukushima Daiichi Tokyo Energy Power Co. installation, proved anything to the global…

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