An advanced reactor could be used to consume 112 tonnes of weapons grade material
The December issue of Nuclear News magazine, which contains a special section on instrumentation and control, is available in hard copy and electronically for American Nuclear Society members (must enter ANS user name and password in Member Center). The special section contains the following stories:
Colocating all back-end facilities will increase community acceptance because of job creation
The November/December issue of Radwaste Solutions is available in hard copy and electronically for American Nuclear Society members (must enter ANS user name and password in Member Center).
The November issue of Nuclear News magazine, which contains a special section on waste management, is available in hard copy and electronically for American Nuclear Society members (must enter ANS user name and password in Member Center). The special section contains the following stories:
As discussed in my June 20 post, small modular reactors (SMRs) have many potential advantages, and could very well represent nuclear's best prospect for the future. The industry has run into trouble, however, in getting government support for getting SMRs off the ground.
A collaborative effort between the American Nuclear Society and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission resulted in a successful 90-minute webinar on nuclear safety issues on October 4.
The September issue of Nuclear News is available in hard copy and electronically for American Nuclear Society members (must enter ANS user name and password in Member Center). The issue contains a variety of features, including:
Next stop, federal court!
Last month, the Blue Ribbon Commission (BRC) on America's Nuclear Energy Future released its long-awaited full draft report to Secretary Chu, based upon the findings of each of its subcommittees. Several nuclear bloggers offered their thoughts on the draft summary of the BRC recommendations when they were posted back in May. Since that time, the release of the full draft report expands upon earlier BRC recommendations, which largely focused upon centralized interim storage for spent nuclear fuel until a new permanent geological repository can be sited.
The hunt is on in Vietnam, Turkey, and elsewhere
Editor: Dan Yurman
The American Nuclear Society issues a comprehensive spent fuel report
A report by a Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff task force calls for sweeping regulatory change, but also acknowledges that information about the Fukushima accident is unavailable, unreliable, or ambiguous. What should be the response in the United States to the events in Japan?
Domestic liability laws and international issues may put limits on the country's ambitious plans to build new reactors
Perhaps one of the more enduring cartoons that relates to the quality of information on the Internet is the one that states, "On the Internet no one knows you are a dog." It shows a drawing of two dogs sitting in front of a computer terminal. Unfortunately, the cartoon is copyrighted material so it can't be reposted here, but you can see it here along with many variations. The point of the cartoon is that words and images on the screen can come from anywhere and anyone.
Clearing up misconceptions and outright falsehoods about nuclear energy since the March 11 Fukushima earthquake and tsunami is getting more attention these days. Problems range from not mainstream journalists not understanding the technical issues to people who are publicity crazed fear mongers out to get their face on a video.
Any time I'm having trouble getting actual work done, I like to barge in on other people and make it harder for them to work too. That's why I was over at Rerouted River National Laboratory the other day, hanging out in the office of somebody who insists that I refer to him as "Dr. N." This used to be his way of keeping me from jeopardizing his job by writing about what he actually says, but now he's also a big-time blogger, with scads of Twitter groupies who know him only as "Dr. N." So now, if I were to point out that his real name is Barlow Culbertson and he never got a doctorate, it probably wouldn't create a ripple in the blogosphere; he's much too cool as "Dr. N" for his first-life persona to matter to anyone.
The nation's nuclear energy bloggers have their say about what to do with used fuel