The Nuclear ‘Demon Core’ That Killed Two Scientists – Atlas Obscura
The Nuclear ‘Demon Core’ That Killed Two Scientists – Atlas Obscura
"After World War II ended, physicists kept pushing a plutonium core to its edge."
Nuclear Power
Red Gate Woods – Willow Springs, Illinois
"A curious epitaph, but a forest preserve is a curious place to house a nuclear reactor laboratory, and Red Gates Woods in Cook County, Illinois had all kinds of unusual happenings occurring within its wooded acres. The original site of both Argonne National Laboratory and the Site A/Plot M Disposal Site, Red Gate Woods is the burial grounds of Chicago Pile-1, the world’s very first nuclear reactor, as well as other reactors that were built and then buried under the watchful eye of the Manhattan Project."
Ahead of Three Mile Island closing, nuclear safety advocates call attention to waste
"Nuclear safety advocates plan a series of events leading up to the March 29, 2019, commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Three Mile Island Unit 2 atomic reactor meltdown, starting with a news conference on Tuesday to call attention to the problem of what to do with radioactive waste."
"Nuclear waste isolation is a discussion that can no longer be postponed," said nuclear safety advocate Eric Epstein, chairman of Three Mile Island Alert, at a Capitol news conference on Tuesday."
"Regardless of whether state lawmakers are able to craft a plan to stop the closure of TMI slated for Sept. 20, 2019, Epstein said there are risks associated with the waste generated from this energy source that will be left behind."
"The industry has failed to deal with the riddle of what to do with the nuclear waste," he said. "Three Mile Island generates 30 metric tons of high-level waste a year. It's been operating for over 40 years. Three Mile Island, an island in a river, is not a radioactive waste site."
Nuclear power plant of the future? – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
"Russia’s floating power plant could help nuclear energy sink or swim."
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."
what happened 32 years ago? | The Week UK
"Today marks the 32nd anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. Never forget."