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according to the IAEAThat is more than any other country by far. Many of those reactors should be viable for some time to come, as nuclear reactors can be licensed to operate for 60 years and in some cases for as long as 80 years, theWorld Nuclear Association...
Analysts have discovered more than 100 new missile silos in China’s northwestern desert region. The silos are the largest expansion of China’s nuclear weapons program in recent history. The real question: How many missiles are slated to go into the silos? Sharp-eyed analysts studying commerci...
Physics of Nuclear Fusion: Reactions Current nuclear reactors use nuclear fission to generate power. In nuclear fission, you get energy from splitting one atom into two atoms. In a conventional nuclear reactor, high-energy neutrons split heavy atoms of uranium, yielding large amounts of energy, ...
Although there was a dip in world generation of nuclear electricity after the tsunami that affected nuclear reactors in Fukushima, Japan, in 2011, otherwise world production of nuclear electricity has been nearly flat since 2004 (Figure 3). Figure 4. US Nuclear Electricity Generation based on da...
Less nuclear waste- Fusion reactors will not produce high-level nuclear wastes like their fission counterparts, so disposal will be less of a problem. In addition, the wastes will not be of weapons-grade nuclear materials as is the case in fission reactors. ...
The UK's JET nuclear fusion reactor has been shut down after 40 years, and now researchers hope to repurpose many of its components in a world-first attempt at recycling a tokamak reactor
most of the world’s supply of Molybdenum-99 came from nuclear reactors, most of which become less reliable and experience more frequent shutdowns as they approach the end of their life. Furthermore, most of these reactors utilize highly enriched uranium (HEU), which is a nuclear weapons pro...
The U.S. has reactors of the same designs that melted down at Fukushima Daiichi, but regulators hope changes could prevent a repeat of Japan's nuclear crisis
In China, public involvement of nuclear policies has not been welcomed. The lack of public participation has streamlined and simplified building procedures for nuclear reactors, which facilitated building too many reactors too fast. There are currently 27 reactors under construction in China that vary ...