Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 30, 2024

Even casual followers of energy and climate issues have probably heard about the alleged wonders of small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs). The failure of these projects to come in on time and under budget undermines arguments that modern nuclear power plants can overcome the problems that have plagued the nuclear industry in the past.

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Global Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

That means much less waste and a better deal for the environment. That’s why gas-powered cars need complex and expensive radiator systems with their associated belts, pipes, and heat exchangers. Nuclear is by no means ideal, but it is serving to bridge the gap to a zero-carbon future. You’ll feel the loss of energy.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

The Regulation sets a time limit on the inclusion of nuclear energy but not on fossil fuels and grants the Commission special powers to rule on nuclear taxonomy compliance. The Regulation sets a deadline on the operation of final disposal facilities for radioactive waste. This makes the condition impractical.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2023

Forty-four years ago on March 28, 1979, Pennsylvanians woke up to a much different world -- the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Dauphin County. commercial nuclear power industry. Nuclear power was touted as the safest form of supplying energy. Wasn’t there a bubble? Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 17, 2022

A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making Time and again, mining company Homestake and government agencies promised to clean up waste from decades of uranium processing. million tons of uranium waste left over from milling ore to supply power plants and nuclear bombs. It didn’t happen. Video, Mauricio Rodríguez Pons and Ed Ou.

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Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

140 Billion gallons per day to power plants (plus 60 Billion saline). Million tons/yr of waste: 7,600 industrial, 250 municipal, 25 hazardous. 1,900 landfills, 21 for hazardous waste. 100 nuclear reactors; 2,000 tons/yr nuclear waste. 8% nuclear. 23% from groundwater. Food supply requires 1.2

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Environmental Science

AUGUST 7, 2018

Responsible for nuclear physics which has given us nuclear power, and nuclear medicine which has opened up new avenues of medical treatment for such things as cancer. Nuclear Physics. Nuclear physics conjures up ideas of nuclear bombs and nuclear power , but it is much simpler than that.

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Energy & the Law

AUGUST 5, 2021

He says the old fission power model is out and a complete rework is on the way from, for example, TerraPower, a nuclear reactor design company developing a class of nuclear fast reactors called the traveling wave reactor. It uses depleted uranium as fuel and could reduce our 700,000 metric tons of nuclear waste.

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