X-Nico

2 unusual facts about Nuclear power


Colonization of the outer Solar System

---by who?---> Nuclear power is believed by some to be the only suitable power source for the colonies, although there have been proposals to use concentrated starlight/sunlight and the gravitational potential energy of planets or dwarf planets with moons.

The Energy Construct

The book examines alternative transportation fuels, renewable energy, nuclear energy, and clean fossil energy to develop a path forward.


ABB Group

Also, in the early 1990s, ABB purchased Combustion Engineering (C-E), headquartered in Stamford and Norwalk, Connecticut, a leading U.S. firm in the development of conventional fossil fuel power and nuclear power supply systems to break into the North American market.

Anti-nuclear movement in Canada

Some environmental organisations such as Energy Probe, the Pembina Institute and the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility (CCNR) are reported to have developed considerable expertise on nuclear power and energy issues.

Armen Abaghian

Armen Artavazdi Abaghian (January 1, 1933, Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh – November 18, 2005, Moscow, Russia) was a Russian-Armenian specialist on nuclear power, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor (1985), Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Bill Wattenburg

Wattenburg expresses strong support for nuclear power and disdain for the Sierra Club and the environmental movement, supporters of which he calls eco-freaks, eco-frauds or eco-nuts.

Darkhovin Nuclear Power Plant

The Darkhovin Nuclear Power Plant (also known as Estehlal Nuclear Power Plant) is a planned nuclear power plant located about 70 kilometers south of Ahvaz, Iran at the Karun river.

Dublin Food Co-op

The origins of the Co-op lie with a group of activists brought together by the successful campaign against the construction of a nuclear power plant at Carnsore Point in County Wexford.

Gavel

In 1954, it broke when Vice President Richard Nixon used it during a heated debate on nuclear energy.

Hassan Rahimpour Azghadi

Some of the subjects he addresses are notably that of the Islamic Hijab (veil), Westoxification, American hegemony, Communism, Christianity, Hezbollah, Jihad, Ayatollah Khomeini, Freedom, Marxism, Western moral corruption, nuclear energy, Shi'a Islam, Israel, Aristotle and Plato, Liberal Democracy, Islamic economics, political Islam but also youth affairs and social struggle.

Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

Prius fans might do the planet more good by convincing the American Public of the merits of nuclear energy, the closest thing to a genuinely "green solution" to energy challenges in the real world.

Hugh Montefiore

He was a Friends of the Earth trustee for two decades, but was forced to resign in 2004 after expressing support for nuclear power as a means to achieve climate change mitigation.

Idaho National Laboratory

In the early 1950s, the very first full-scale prototype nuclear plant for shipboard use, called S1W Prototype, was constructed to test the feasibility of using nuclear power aboard submarines.

International Framework for Nuclear Energy Cooperation

The International Framework for Nuclear Energy Cooperation (IFNEC) formerly the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) began as a U.S. proposal, announced by United States Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman on February 6, 2006, to form an international partnership to promote the use of nuclear power and close the nuclear fuel cycle in a way that reduces nuclear waste and the risk of nuclear proliferation.

Jake Epp

The government of Dalton McGuinty appointed Epp to the Ontario Power Generation Review headed by John Manley to examine the future role of Ontario Power Generation (OPG) in the province’s electricity market, examine its corporate and management structure, and decide whether the public utility should proceed with refurbishing three more nuclear reactors at the Pickering nuclear power plant.

Leo Kinlen

His hypothesis, explaining the higher rate of leukemia in the areas around the British Sellafield nuclear complex, than in other parts of the country, is that the mixing of the population, which occurred when people started moving into the area to work at the facility, resulted in the spreading of a virus that could cause leukemia.

Ned O'Keeffe

In the pre-election debate on Today FM he voiced his support for the use of Nuclear power and an incinerator in Cork Harbour.

Ririe, Idaho

In addition to those who farm, many residents work at the Idaho National Laboratory (a.k.a. "the Site"), a regional division of the Department of Energy that focuses on nuclear energy and security technology.

Robert Del Tredici

His first book of photographs and interviews, The People of Three Mile Island (Sierra Club Books, 1980), was a social critique of nuclear power.

Rolling blackout

This is because about 40 percent of the electricity used in the greater Tokyo area is supplied by nuclear power plants in the Niigata and Fukushima prefectures.

Russia in the European energy sector

Claude Mandil, the former head of the International Energy Agency, has said that "We need more energy efficiency, more liquefied natural gas, more renewable energy, more nuclear energy".

Tricastin Nuclear Power Plant

The Tricastin Nuclear Power Plant is a collection of sites run by Areva and EDF located in 4 different communes Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux and Pierrelatte in Drôme, Bollène and Lapalud in Vaucluse, and four departments (Drome (26), Vaucluse (84), Gard (30) and Ardeche (07)) on right bank of the Channel of Donzère-Mondragon (diversion canal of the Rhône River) between Valence (70 km upstream) and Avignon (65 km downstream).

William L. Laurence

In May 1940, Laurence published a front-page exclusive in the New York Times on successful attempts in isolating uranium-235 which were reported in Physical Review, and outlined many (somewhat hyperbolic) claims about the possible future of nuclear power.

Zircotec

Zircotec began life as part of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, where its high temperature coatings and heat barrier processes were originally developed for the nuclear power.


see also

Akkuyu

Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant, a planned nuclear power plant in Mersin Province, Turkey

Aurunci Mountains

The Garigliano Nuclear Power Plant was constructed from 1959 to 1963 by General Electric on the Garigliano River, the water of which they used for cooling, on the border of the Monti Aurunci.

Bailly Nuclear Power Plant

The Bailly Nuclear Power Plant was a nuclear power plant project to be located near the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in Porter County, Indiana, United States.

Baltiysky

Baltiyskaya Nuclear Power Plant, or Kaliningrad Nuclear Power Plant, a nuclear power plant under construction on the Neman River in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia

Blayais Nuclear Power Plant

The Blayais Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear plant on the banks of the Gironde estuary near Blaye, South Western France operated by Électricité de France.

Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant

In 1975, German Kraftwerk Union AG, a joint venture of Siemens AG and AEG Telefunken, signed a contract worth US$4–6 billion to build the pressurized water reactor nuclear power plant.

Cillit Bang

In August 2009 it was revealed that household cleaners such as Cillit Bang and Mr. Muscle have been used to clean plutonium stains at the defunct Dounreay nuclear power station in Caithness, Scotland.

Commonwealth Televiews

Topics included the Arts Council of Great Britain, life in contemporary Harlow, an interview with Kwame Nkrumah, who was Prime Minister of the Gold Coast (now Ghana), nuclear power featuring Robert McKenzie's interview with John Cockcroft and an interview of Robert Scott, Commissioner-General for Southeast Asia, by Matthew Halton.

Compagnie maritime d'expertises

The nuclear power plant would be able to produce large volumes of hydrogen and oxygen through the Electrolysis of water.

Cost of electricity by source

Masayoshi Son, an advocate for renewable energy, however, has pointed out that the government estimates for nuclear power did not include the costs for reprocessing the fuel or disaster insurance liability.

Dampierre Nuclear Power Plant

The Dampierre nuclear power plant is located in the town of Dampierre-en-Burly (Loiret), 55 km upstream of Orleans and 110 km downstream of Nevers, it uses water from the Loire for cooling.

David Muir

In 2011, Muir reported from Tahrir Square during the political revolution in Egypt and from Fukushima, Japan following the deadly tsunami and nuclear power plant accident.

Economics of nuclear power plants

As of July 2013, economist Mark Cooper has identified some US nuclear power plants that face particularly significant challenges to their continued operation due to regulatory challenges by local politicians.

Electricity sector in Brazil

Also in 2007, Electronuclear was granted permission to resume construction of Angra 3, a 1,350 MW plant, and is currently in the process of selecting a site for a fourth nuclear power plant.

Electricity sector in Sweden

Swedish nuclear power is owned by the state company Vattenfall, Finnish Fortum and German Eon.

Elektriciteits Produktiemaatschappij Zuid-Nederland

Borssele nuclear power plant is the only operational nuclear power plant in the Netherlands.

Energy policy of the United Kingdom

Greenpeace challenged the Government's process of consultation on proposals to develop nuclear power and following a judicial review requested by Greenpeace, on 15 February 2007 the consultation process was ruled 'seriously flawed', and 'not merely inadequate but also misleading'.

Fort Greely, Alaska

A nuclear power plant, designated the SM-1A was flown-in and installed between 1960–62, and was based on the Army's first prototype reactor, the SM-1 at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

Fukushima disaster

Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, in which the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant was heavily damaged by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami

Galena, Alaska

In 2004, the Galena City Council tentatively accepted a proposal from Toshiba Corporation to build the Galena Nuclear Power Plant, a small, self-contained nuclear power plant.

Golfech Nuclear Power Plant

The Golfech Nuclear Power Plant is located in the commune of Golfech (Tarn-et-Garonne), on the border of Garonne between Agen (30 km downstream) and Toulouse (90 km upstream) on the Garonne River, from where it gets cooling water, and approximately 40 km west of Montauban.

Heap leaching

Rio Tinto is commercializing this technology in Namibia and Australia, the French nuclear power company Areva in Niger (two mines) and Namibia, and several other companies are studying its feasibility.

Henry Hurwitz, Jr.

(December 25, 1918 – April 14, 1992), was a physicist at General Electric Company who pioneered the theory and design of nuclear power plants and helped engineer the reactor for the Seawolf nuclear submarine.

Kenichi Ohmae

In 2011, he became a Project director for Team "H2O", and coordinated in preparing the report "What should we learn from the severe accident at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant?" and submitted the same to Goshi Hosono, the Minister of Environment & Minister for the Restoration of Nuclear Accident.

Kenzaburō Ōe

Following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, he urged Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda to “halt plans to restart nuclear power plants and instead abandon nuclear energy”.

Korea Electric Power Corporation

Construction of KEPCO nuclear power plants is undertaken by major Korean construction companies, while the manufacture of key elements of a nuclear power plant is done by companies including Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction and Westinghouse Electric Company.

Leichenschmaus

This first Zombie Nation record contained the song "Kernkraft 400", German for "Nuclear Power 400," which is considered one of the most famous songs of electronic dance music.

Mark Cojuangco

As the main proponent of the Bill is Representative Mark Cojuangco's presentation at the Congressional hearing on February 2, 2009 came under scrutiny from the Bill's oppositors for citing Wikipedia articles about nuclear plants in other countries and quotes from non-experts like Patrick Moore, who left Greenpeace in 1986, to argue for the re-commissioning of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant.

Nuclear energy in Croatia

In 1978, the Adriatic island of Vir was selected as a location for a future nuclear power plant, but these plans were abandoned.

Nuclear Power 2010 Program

The "Nuclear Power 2010 Program" was unveiled by the U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham on February 14, 2002 as one means towards addressing the expected need for new power plants.

Nuclear power in the European Union

Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann expects anti-nuclear petition drives to start in at least six European Union countries in 2012 in an effort to have the EU abandon nuclear power.

Offshore Power Systems

When President Jimmy Carter placed a moratorium on nuclear power plant construction, OPS began laying off employees.

Pact

U.S.-North Korea Agreed Framework concerning the latter country's development of nuclear power (1994)

Plogoff

In the early 1970s, the French state power company, EDF decided to establish a production's nuclear power plant in Brittany.

Reactimeter

A reactimeter is a diagnostic device used in nuclear power plants (and other nuclear applications) for measuring the reactivity (in inhours) of fissile materials as they approach criticality.

Richard Brodsky

Brodsky has been concerned with the potential safety hazards of nuclear power plants located at Indian Point Energy Center.

Ruppur Nuclear Power Plant

The nuclear power plant will be built at Ruppur, 200 km north-west of Dhaka, in the Ishwardi sub district of Pabna District, in the northwest of the country.

Saint-Alban Nuclear Power Plant

The Saint-Alban nuclear power plant is located on the Rhone river, in the Isere department 50 km downstream from Lyon in the communes of Saint-Alban-du-Rhône and Saint-Maurice-l'Exil.

San Onofre

San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), a nuclear power plant adjacent to the state beach

Single-phase generator

Neckarwestheim I in Neckarwestheim is a unique nuclear power plant in that it is equipped with high-capacity single-phase generators to supply Deutsche Bahn railway with specific AC voltage at frequency of 16 2/3 Hz.

SNR-300

Klaus Traube, then director of the executing company Interatom, is today one of the most prominent German opponents of the usage of nuclear power.

United States Navy Nuclear Propulsion

The United States Navy first began research into the applications of nuclear power in 1946 at the Manhattan Project’s nuclear power-focused laboratory to develop a nuclear power plant.

Unterweser Nuclear Power Plant

The nuclear power station Unterweser is a nuclear power plant in Kleinensiel (Municipality of Stadland), close to Nordenham.

WNA

World Nuclear Association, an international organization that promotes nuclear power and supports the many companies that comprise the global nuclear industry.

Workshop for All Beings

The organization conducted projects on preservation of the Wapienica Valley in Bielsko-Biała, they protested against building a coke plant just by the Polish border in Stonava in the Czech Republic, against building of a nuclear power plant in Żarnowiec as well as against deforestation of Bielsko-Biała.