Wired Magazine has a nice article on nuclear energy in the latest issue (13.02: the Firefox issue). It’s mostly about the US industry: why it stalled, ideas for kick starting it, and potential problems with doing just that. It’s a good article; I learned a few things I didn’t know before. In particular, I didn’t […]
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Nuclear Power in China
3 September 2004 – 4:10 pm
I have just finished reading a very interesting article about nuclear power in China from Wired Magazine. To meet the demands of the world’s fastest growing energy market, the Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology (INET) at Beijing’s Tsinghua University has developed a new reactor called the HTR-10. They’ve apparently solved the problems of […]
Spent Nuke Fuel
Here’s something else I learned from the Wired Nuclear energy article. (I really should read the article all the way through before posting.) Here’s a fun fact: Spent nuclear fuel – the stuff intended for permanent disposal at Yucca Mountain – retains 95 percent of its energy content. That’s really remarkable. There is so much […]