Analysts have discovered more than 100 new missile silos in China. The silos are the largest expansion of China’s nuclear weapons program in recent history.
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Chart: While many countries have turned away from nuclear power, China maintains a huge commitment to the technology. It currently has 55 operating reactors and 23 more under construction. Source: China continues rapid growth of nuclear power capacity, Energy Information Administration, US Department ...
a1621 GMT: The crisis at Fukushima has focused world attention on the plant's six nuclear reactors -- but its fuel-rod pools may pose an even greater peril, experts said.Highly radioactive spent fuel rods are immersed in cooling water until they shed enough heat to become manageable for st...
A tsunami(海啸)hit the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant(福岛第一核电站)in Japan in 2011.It broke the nuclear reactors(核反应堆),so the reactors became very hot.Since then,workers have been using a lot of water to keep them cool.The water touches the reactors,so ...
Such attacks have traditionally been on other nations’ agencies, a kind of cyber James Bond action. Hence the Stuxnet attack that damaged Iran’s power grid, notably two of its nuclear reactors. The United States, possibly working with Israel, is thought by many to have been behind the ...
nuclear power plantrenewable energyMany countries are facing a dilemma over whether to extend the lives of their old reactors or make costly capital investments on Renewable Energy (RE). This paper explores the determinants of Willingness-To-Pay (WTP) for RE in France by means of a contingent ...
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aOn April 16, 2011, a tornad damaged the electrical switch yard at the Surry nuclear plant in Virginia and caused the automatic shut down of both reactors from near full power. The emergency diesel generators auto matically started in response to the loss of power from the electrical grid, ...
in the Georgia W. Bush administration, that Iranian nuclear weapons are a “serious threat” to the United States to pass unchallenged. (Iran has no nuclear weapons or even a program to make them, simply a civilian nuclear enrichment program to make fuel for reactors for electricity generation...