Operating Nuclear Power Reactors (by Location or Name) A power reactor is a facility that makes electricity by the continuous splitting of uranium atoms (i.e., a nuclear reaction).
This facility is often referred to as a nuclear power plant. To find information about a particular operating nuclear power reactor that NRC regulates, select that reactor from the map below, or from the Alphabetical List of Operating Nuclear Power Reactors by Name. Note: Region IV oversees the Grand Gulf plant in Mississippi (MS), which is part of Region II. Radioactive Waste Management. (Updated August 2015) Nuclear power is the only large-scale energy-producing technology which takes full responsibility for all its wastes and fully costs this into the product.The amount of radioactive wastes is very small relative to wastes produced by fossil fuel electricity generation.Used nuclear fuel may be treated as a resource or simply as a waste.Nuclear wastes are neither particularly hazardous nor hard to manage relative to other toxic industrial wastes.Safe methods for the final disposal of high-level radioactive waste are technically proven; the international consensus is that this should be geological disposal.
All parts of the nuclear fuel cycle produce some radioactive waste (radwaste) and the relatively modest cost of managing and disposing of this is part of the electricity cost, i.e. it is internalised and paid for by the electricity consumers. Science News – Science Articles and Current Events. A Terrifying, Fascinating Timelapse of 30 Years of Human Impact on Earth - Emily Badger. A new interactive project from Google, NASA and the US Geological Survey.
Since the 1970s, NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey have been amassing satellite images of every inch of our planet as part of the Landsat program. Over time, the images reveal a record of change: of cities expanding, lakes and forests disappearing, new islands emerging from the sea off the coast of rising Middle East metropolises like Dubai. If you could thumb through these historic pictures as if in a flip book, they would show stunning change across the earth's surface, in both our natural environments and our man-made ones.
Now, the digital equivalent of that experience is possible – three decades of global change as GIF – in a project unveiled today between NASA, the USGS, TIME, Google, and the CREATE Lab at Carnegie Mellon University. Landsat images taken between 1984 and 2012 have been converted into a seamless, navigable animation built from millions of satellite photos. The above image shows Dubai in 2011. International Home. Sierra Club Home Page: Explore, Enjoy and Protect the Planet. Breaking Nuke News. GreenPacks - Caring about the world we live in. V3Solar Spin Cell. Clean Power Published on January 24th, 2013 | by Zachary Shahan Quite frankly, if the company’s numbers are correct, this could be some big solar news.
(CleanTechnica got the inside scoop due to our sincere “passion” for helping the world, and probably also our status as the top cleantech or clean energy site in the world.) The key will be whether or not the technology performs as expected once a production prototype is created, and (even more so) if it eventually gets to mass production. As a quick refresher, we’ve covered V3Solar before, back when the name was Solarphasec.
No Impact Project. EARTH: The Operators' Manual : PBS. Energy Quest USA and Powering the Planet premiered April 2012.EARTH: The Operators' Manual premiered April 2011.
About the Program Around the globe, people are looking for ways to save money by conserving energy at home. Every day, ordinary people are showing that the politicians on Capitol Hill don't need to agree on climate change in order for us to take concrete steps to cut our carbon emissions. This community of pragmatists is on full display in EARTH: The Operators' Manual, the critically acclaimed documentary on climate change and sustainable energy solutions, which returns to PBS for Earth Day accompanied by two new specials, Energy Quest USA and Powering the Planet. About the Episodes Energy Quest USA Premiered Sunday, April 22, 2012. Visit five very different American communities where citizens are making smart energy choices based on economics and the environment.
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