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Intellectual Ventures Designing New Type of Nuclear Reactor
Intellectual Ventures of Bellevue, WA hired 30 nuclear engineers in Aug 2008 to design a new type of nuclear reactor that doesn't require enriched uranium for its fuel. - Read More
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John Gilleland a Nuclear Expert
John Gilleland is a powerhouse in the reactor physics field. Anyone who wants to work on the new reactor design will need to be able to keep up with him. - Read More
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Malaysia to Go Nuclear by 2023
Malaysia will turn to nuclear energy to generate electricity by 2023 as supplies of fossil fuel eventually run out - Read More
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Malaysia's Tenaga to Construct Nuclear Power Plant
State utility Tenaga has said it could construct the country's first 1,000 MW nuclear power plant at a cost of US$3.1 billion after being asked by the government to look at the option - Read More
France generates 80% of electricity from nuclear energy!
France, the world's leading country in nuclear power which produces 80 per cent of electricity from atomic energy - Read More
Nuclear Waste at Yucca Mtn. Clears Another Hurdle
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has established final radiation standards for the proposed spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste disposal facility at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The EPA has determined that the final standards (pdf) for the planned Yucca Mountain high-level waste disposal facility are “fully protective of human health†and the repository will not be allowed to open unless it meets these requirements - Read More
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Nuclear Power Corp of India Diversifying When Biz Should be Booming
As the doors of India's nuclear market are being opened to global suppliers, an Indian public sector company, expressly set up to produce nuclear power, is ironically shedding its brand image. The Nuclear Power Corp of India Ltd (NPCIL) in Mumbai has said in its latest annual report that "business sense has propelled" the company into diversifying into wind, hydel and solar thermal power plants. - Read More
India to start nuclear vendor negotiations in 2009
India aims to start final negotiations next week with General Electric Co., Areva SA and Westinghouse Electric Co. on building reactors as early as next year, after U.S. approval of a nuclear accord with the South Asian nation. - Read More
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Nuclear power plant capacity
A typical nuclear power plant has between 600 and 1500 MW installed capacity -