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Nuclear Fuel

Ridding The World Of The “Element from Hell”

| David Biello | Posted 05.10.2012 | Science
Read More: Radioactive Plutonium, Nuclear Waste, Video, Nuclear Fuel, Plutonium, Nuclear Power, Physics, Environment, Mox, Science, Nuclear Proliferation, Science News, Science News

The vast majority of the radioactive plutonium on the planet is man-made—roughly 500 metric tons, or enough to make 100,000 nuclear weapons by the c...

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Panel: Start Now To Replace Yucca Mountain Site

AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 03.27.2012 | Green
Read More: Energy, Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Dump, Yucca Mountain, Nuclear Waste, Video, Nuclear Fuel, Yucca Mountain Project, Obama Administration, Nuclear-Waste, Las Vegas, Yucca Mountain Panel, Green News

Panel: Start Now To Replace Nevada Nuke Site

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French Company Wins Federal License For U.S. Uranium Plant

AP | JOHN MILLER | Posted 12.12.2011 | Green
Read More: Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Video, Nuclear Fuel, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Energy, Nrc, Uranium, Areva, Nuclear-Power, Idaho Uranium Plant, Areva Idaho Uranium Plant, Areva Uranium Plant, Green News

BOISE, Idaho — France's state-owned nuclear reactor builder on Wednesday won a U.S. license to build and operate a gas centrifuge uranium enrich...

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Japan Scraps Plans To Increase Nuclear Energy Use

AP | MARI YAMAGUCHI | Posted 07.10.2011 | World
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TOKYO — Japan will scrap a plan to obtain half of its electricity from nuclear power and will instead promote renewable energy and conservation ...

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Doomsday Scenario at Fukushima

Marvin Resnikoff | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
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Marvin Resnikoff

The slow motion events occurring at Japan's (or GE's) Fukushima reactor cannot be sugar-coated. It is a doomsday scenario unfolding. Nuclear reactors are not the same as coal/oil/gas electricity plants -- they cannot be turned off.

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Dealing With the Issues of Nuclear Energy

Steven Chu | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Department of Energy, Barack Obama Nuclear Power, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Fuel, Iaea, Start Treaty, International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran Nuclear Program, IAEA Iran, Nuclear Power, Politics News
Steven Chu

Given the importance of nuclear energy, it is critical we continue to work with the international community. In Vienna next week, I will offer ideas for how we can promote an international "fuel bank" to encourage the peaceful use of nuclear power.

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Iran Offers Nuclear Deal

AP | NASSER KARIMI | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran, Iran Nuclear, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Ahmadinejad, Nuclear Enrichment, Nuclear Fuel, World News

TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian nuclear technicians set dozens of centrifuges spinning Tuesday to begin enriching uranium stocks to a significantly highe...

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Iran Could Expedite Nuclear Bomb, U.S. Says

The New York Times | DAVID E. SANGER | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Nuclear War, Iran, Nuclear Fuel, Iran Nuclear Facilities, Iran Nuclear Talks, Iran Nuclear Program, Mahmoud Ahmadenijad, Iran Nuke Program, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Iran Nukes, World News

WASHINGTON--American intelligence agencies have concluded in recent months that Iran has created enough nuclear fuel to make a rapid, if risky, sprint...

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Iran Receives First Nuke Fuel Shipment From Russia

AP | JIM HEINTZ | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Iranian Nuke Program, Russian Nuclear Fuel, Russia, Russian Nuclear Fuel Delivery, Iran, Iran Nuclear Program, Nuclear Fuel, Politics News

Russia has made its first shipment of nuclear fuel to an Iranian nuclear power plant at the center of the international tensions over Tehran's atomic ...

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