nuclear-energy

Nuclear energy is considered an important carbon-free and reliable energy source. However, ionizing radiation associated with nuclear power plants is a long-standing public concern. National surveys have been conducted over the last 30 years—in 1991, 2001, 2008, 2011, and 2022—to assess the trends in public perceptions about radiation associated with nuclear energy, as well as to investigate whic…

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Nuclear energy factlets and calculations Here are a number of interesting factlets about nuclear energy, including details of the calculations. - If you got 100% of your electricity from today's nuclear power plants for your entire lifetime, you'd be responsible for 8.7 floz of nuclear waste; less than 1 soda can - If you got 100% of your electricity from special breeder nuclear plants for your e…

The first issue since the transition is now live on NUCET’s new website Devoted to an extensive range of research fields within the domain of nuclear science, the open access, peer-reviewed Nuclear Energy and Technology (NUCET) journal moves to the journal publishing platform ARPHA, developed by Pensoft, in order to provide a whole set of novel technological advancements to … Continue reading "ME…

Uranium is a very heavy metal formed in supernovas (i.e. exploding stars) about 6.6 billion years ago. It is not common in the solar system, but its slow radioactive decay provides the main source of heat inside the Earth. One major use of uranium is to generate electricity in nuclear power reactors. It is estimated that we need 65,000 tons of natural uranium every year. Currently, the demand is …

Pandora's Revenge: Defending Pandora's Promise By Dr. Nick Touran, Ph.D., P.E., 2013-05-18, Reading time: 17 minutes On Januray 18, 2013, Robert Stone’s Pandora’s Promise [wikipedia] was released at the 2013 Sundance film festival in Park City, UT. This feature-length documentary attempts to convince mainstream society that nuclear energy is a good idea, and to make us rethink our many assumption…

We’ve gone nuclear this week and decided it was time someone tried to make sense out of the never ending obscurity and procrastination plaguing nuclear energy plans in the Arab world. Egypt has been huffing and puffing about it since the 1950s, and now Saudi Arabia seems to be on track to spend US$80 billion to build 16 reactors by 2030. Read more Continue reading →