Nuclear Power
High quality essays written by experts on nuclear energy are presented. Essays discuss the safety record and risk hazards related to nuclear power plants, the environmental benefits associated with nuclear energy, and societal fear of nuclear power. Key terms, definitions, and historical events are also discussed.
An Overview of Nuclear Power Plants
Despite these dangers, a properly running nuclear power plant is safer and less toxic than other types of power plants. Nuclear plants are designed to contain all residual radioactivity...
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History of Nuclear Energy Production
Physicist Enrico Fermi discovered the potential of nuclear fission in 1934, when he bombarded uranium atoms with neutrons and discovered that the products of this reaction were...
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Current Use of Nuclear Power
Nuclear power currently comprises 17 percent of the world's total power supply. The United States is slightly below the international average, using nuclear power for 15 percent...
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Editor's Choice
NUCLEAR INFRASTRUCTURE QUESTIONED.
Power Engineering
Examines the nuclear infrastructure in the United States. Information on the trends in the construction of nuclear power plants in the country;...
Clearing the Air Of Nuclear Myths.
Insight on the News
Assesses the use of nuclear energy. Advantages of nuclear power; Reason for the efforts of investors to avoid nuclear power plant investments;...
Nuclear Power's New Promise and Peril.
World & I
Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the utilization of nuclear power. Reasons for the emotional public reaction to nuclear power issues;...
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Our Nuclear World
Newsweek (Pacific Edition)
The article presents data on nuclear reactors and nuclear power.
Nuclear Nightmare?
Science World (Teacher's Edition)
Provides information on nuclear power plants.
The Nuclear Power Bargain
Issues in Science & Technology
Discusses the implications of the proliferation of nuclear power industry for international security. List of countries relying on nuclear power;...
COMMENTARY
Professional Engineering
Comments on the nuclear power in Great Britain. Contribution of nuclear power stations to the energy needs of the country; Decommissioning of nuclear...
symposium
Insight on the News
Presents opinion on the use of nuclear power. Amount of electricity produced by nuclear plants; Benefits of nuclear energy; Expensiveness of nuclear...
Early closure for nuclear vanguard
Utility Week
Reports the closure of the nuclear power plant of British Nuclear Fuels in March 2003. Reason for the closure; Information on the nuclear power...
Fallouts and fallouts: Nuclear power in Southeast Asia
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International & Strate
Focuses on Southeast Asia as a market for nuclear power. Advocation of nuclear power by the nuclear industry; Discussion concerns surrounding nuclear...
Nuclear Power's New Promise and Peril
World & I
Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the utilization of nuclear power. Reasons for the emotional public reaction to nuclear power issues;...
Atoms unleashed
New Scientist
Provides information on generation of electricity through nuclear energy. History of commercial nuclear power generation; Nuclear power reactors;...
Is nuclear power the answer to America's energy woes?
Westchester County Business Journal
Focuses on the potential of nuclear power as a reliable electric power in the United States. Characterization of the nuclear energy; Issues on power...
Iowa nuclear power fright
Corridor Business Journal
The author reflects on the nuclear power facilities and building of a nuclear reactor in Iowa.
A Principled and Knowledgeable Critic
Economic & Political Weekly
An obituary for Praful Bidwai, knowledgeable critic of nuclear energy and nuclear power, is presented.
Getting Hotter
ASEE Prism
The article discusses the efficiency of using nuclear fusion for nuclear power plant processes.
Section 8. Nuclear Energy
Monthly Energy Review
Presents illustrations and information on nuclear power industry in September 1999. Nuclear power plant operations; Nuclear generating units;...
Nuclear Power: Time to End the Experiment
Ecologist
Criticizes the destructive impact of nuclear power. How the nuclear industry has survived; Survival strategy of nuclear power; Discussion on nuclear...
Clearing the Air Of Nuclear Myths
Insight on the News
Assesses the use of nuclear energy. Advantages of nuclear power; Reason for the efforts of investors to avoid nuclear power plant investments;...
Nuclear Power Articles A-Z
- "No reason for curtailing" nuclear
- 1995 good to international nuclear
- `Nuclear Weapons Are Not The Great Equalizer.'
- A nuclear and sustainable energy reading list
- A Nuclear Power Resurgence?
- A Principled and Knowledgeable Critic
- A Seismic Switch: Certified Switchgear for Nuclear Power Plants is providing a critical link in the chain
- A technological dream turns into a nightmare
- Accidents cast shadow over Japan's nuclear strategy
- Atoms for (War and) Peace
- Atoms unleashed
- Australia declares war on nuclear weapons
- Bad year for Japan's nukes
- Barsebäck to close by 2005
- Believe it or not: Nuclear fusion in 1994
- Bet on nuclear for the new century
- BNFL wins Bulgarian work
- Building Plants Economically
- Checking in at the grassroots: NEI goes public
- China goes nuclear
- Clearing the Air Of Nuclear Myths
- Climate Change--the New Saviour of Nuclear Power?
- Comissioning of jaitapur nuclear power plant
- COMMENTARY
- Commentary
- Communism's nuclear power legacy
- Costs of nuclear incidents to rise for operators
- Courting disaster in orbit
- Cuba signs agreement with Soviet Union
- Decommissioning nuclear power plants
- Decommissioning Ukranian nuclear
- Dodewaard experimental nuclear unit close
- Early closure for nuclear vanguard
- electricity shock
- End the Double Standard for Nuclear Critics
- Erratum
- Fallout of Japan's nuclear policy
- Fallouts and fallouts: Nuclear power in Southeast Asia
- Fighting for the scraps
- Finland's Fennovoima says may downsize reactor project
- Fixing a hole?
- France's Plant Replacement Blueprint
- French reopen the nuclear debate
- Getting Hotter
- Government favours more nuclear power
- Government transfers Magnox shares
- heart pump, nuclear-powered
- I thought Japan's 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown would have sealed nuclear power's fate, but I keep hearing otherwise. Can you enlighten?
- In France, the nuclear honeymoon is over
- INTRODUCTION
- Iowa nuclear power fright
- Is nuclear power the answer to America's energy woes?
- Italy to China: four countries sidelining nuclear power
- Japan commits to power plants
- Japan disaster likely a setback for nuclear revival
- Japan Meltdown Irrelevant To Modern Nuclear Power
- JAPAN MELTED DOWN. BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THE END OF THE ATOMIC AGE
- JAPAN SLOWS PLANT BUILDING
- Japan's Nuke Plant "Amusement" Centers: Hello Kitty Meets Alice in Wonderland
- Japan's Road To Recovery
- Japanese nuclear safety report marred by leak
- Juggling nuclear fuel issues gets trickier
- Kazakh Power Play
- Kazakhstan
- Keeping the lights on
- Kozlodui to be modernized
- Learning from Chernobyl
- Letters
- Making nuclear power usable again
- Meltdown!
- More Nukes!
- More sour grapes on nuclear proliferation
- My brilliant Korea
- New Documents
- North Korea Goes Nuclear
- Not to Worry
- Nuclear design completed
- Nuclear energy growth
- Nuclear Energy
- NUCLEAR ENERGY: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
- Nuclear fever
- Nuclear Goes Broke
- Nuclear industry meltdown
- NUCLEAR INFRASTRUCTURE QUESTIONED
- Nuclear is the new black
- Nuclear Isn't Cheap
- Nuclear milestone
- Nuclear Nightmare?
- Nuclear or Not? Does Nuclear Power Have a Place in a Sustainable Energy Future?
- Nuclear plant starts in Pakistan
- Nuclear popularity improves but plants decline
- Nuclear Power (Book Review)
- Nuclear Power (Book)
- Nuclear power and health
- Nuclear Power and Nuclear Bombs
- Nuclear Power and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons
- Nuclear Power at Risk
- Nuclear Power Engineering in Kazakhstan in the Context of the New Energy and Environmental Strategy
- Nuclear power expansion predicted
- Nuclear power eyes global expansion
- Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer
- Nuclear power nears its peak
- Nuclear Power Plants in North America
- Nuclear power production costs plummet
- Nuclear power reaches the peak
- Nuclear power takes the credit
- Nuclear power today
- NUCLEAR POWER TOUTED AS CLIMATE CHANGE DETERRENT
- Nuclear power worries
- Nuclear Power's New Promise and Peril
- Nuclear Power's next generation plants accepted abroad, but approval slow here
- Nuclear Power--A Dead Loss
- NUCLEAR POWER-On a roll or on the ropes?
- Nuclear Power
- NUCLEAR POWER: BUILDING UP STEAM
- Nuclear Power: Time to End the Experiment
- Nuclear Privatisation: Voodoo Economics
- NUCLEAR REACTION
- NUCLEAR RENAISSANCE: TECHNOLOGIES AND POLICIES FOR THE FUTURE OF NUCLEAR POWER
- Nuclear risks
- Nuclear Waste
- Nuclear's no answer
- Nuclear's unclear future
- Nuke Pushers to Vermont: "Drop Dead"
- Nuke Waste Still a Problem
- nu·cle·ar
- NYPA nuclear sale set to boost Entergy stable
- Oh, for Those Halcyon Days When Nuclear Weapons Were Scarier Than Reactors
- Our Nuclear World
- Pilgrim's progress
- Plans for increased nuclear capacity
- Power of the Atom
- Radiation risks
- Reactor deal means taking coals to Bulgaria
- Rebottling the nuclear genie
- Rod Control Management System
- Role of Nuclear Power in the Power Supply of Mankind. Urgent Problems in Nuclear Materials Science and Technologies in the 21st Century
- Russia helps resurrect nuclear project
- Russian fleet flap
- Russian state nuclear specialists Rosatom targets South African market
- Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces, End of 1998
- SEABROOK AND THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION: THE LICENSING OF A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
- Second nuclear plant to go ahead
- Section 8. Nuclear energy
- Section 8. Nuclear Energy
- Section 8. Nuclear Energy
- Seven out of 10 for Germany
- Sizewell B starts up ahead of schedule
- Soundbites
- Sparring over Mochovce
- Split Atoms and Hot Air
- Stronger Future for Nuclear Power
- symposium
- TEST YOUR SELF
- Testing System
- Thanks
- The Answer Is Nuclear Power
- The art of asking the right questions
- The case for the new policy
- The Ecologist Declaration on Nuclear Power
- The fallen angel
- The Final Boltholes
- The Future of Nuclear Power
- The greatest threat
- The National Nuclear Debate
- The Nuclear Power Bargain
- The nuclear power debate
- The Politics of Nuclear Power
- The suddenly mighty creature
- The US Nuclear Monopoly and Europe
- This is your life, Atomic Flackery!
- Three Mile Islandsky
- Too expensive to meter
- Tritium on Ice: The Dangerous New Alliance of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power
- Tritium on Ice:The Dangerous New Alliance of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power (Book)
- TRUST INC
- Turkey
- U.S. NEEDS REAL-WORLD PROOF OF NUCLEAR ECONOMICS
- Undercurrents
- UNDERWATER WELDING IN NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
- Uranium sales to Indonesia
- VDEW hopes for sustainable nuclear future
- Vive la fusion
- Where the bombs are
- Which energy source?
- Why Not Nuclear Power?
- WILL IT KILL US?
- Work starts on Ling'ao nuclear project
- Zaporizha reactor starts up
