Tag: nuclear waste
How To Use Up Nuclear Waste Generating Electricity
Sometime around 1989 or the early 1990s, Carlo Rubbia, the Director-General of CERN, put together a special working group with instructions to design a way to generate electricity using radioactive materials that would be different from anything that had come before. The method had to do its work without producing … [continued]
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Small modular reactors, big dreams: Ontario’s nuclear pitch
With the first SMR in North America being built at the Darlington nuclear site, the province is testing new ground to meet future power demand.
Whether The Endangerment Finding Stays Or Goes Will Be Up To The Supreme Court
Repealing the endangerment finding may tick of a lot of boxes for right wing extremists, but the result could be not what they expect.
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We Are The Simpsons, Or Worse
I was debating whether to write this article or not. I discovered the news of NREL’s name being changed from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to the National Laboratory of the Rockies from Michael Barnard’s article about it yesterday. That article is a much more professional look at the situation … [continued]
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LETTER: Nuclear Waste Management Organization lurking in South Bruce
There are two dates in Teeswater (South Bruce) that many residents will remember. The first date, Jan. 24, 2020, when the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) and an area farmer announced that 1,500 acres of farmland had been obtained for the possible site of a deep geological depository (DGR) for the storing of high-level nuclear […]