Nuclear power plant of the future? – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Nuclear power plant of the future? – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
"Russia’s floating power plant could help nuclear energy sink or swim."
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After 60 Years of Nuclear Power, What About the Cleanup?
"It is 60 years since America’s first commercial nuclear power station was opened by President Dwight D. Eisenhower at Shippingport, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on May 26, 1958. But the hopes of a nuclear future with power “too cheap to meter” are now all but over. All that is left is the trillion-dollar cleanup."
Russia’s floating nukes to power oil and gas extraction in Arctic Ocean
"Russia has launched the first in a series of at least seven small-sized floating nuclear power stations largely to power its Gazprom’s massive expansion of offshore oil and gas extraction in the Arctic Ocean. The floating atomic power plants will also power new and renovated Russian military bases in the globally strategic region."
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"Today marks the 32nd anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. Never forget."
Russia’s Nuclear Industry Tries To Dispel Fears Over Mysterious Radioactive Cloud
"More than two months after a mysterious radioactive cloud was detected over Europe, Russia's nuclear industry went public Friday in an attempt to dispel fears that one of its facilities had released a plume of ruthenium-106. Russia's state nuclear corporation, ROSATOM, released the findings of a special commission, which concluded that the Mayak nuclear reprocessing plant, near the border with Kazakhstan, could not have been the source of ruthenium-106, a radioactive isotope."