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lization shwageraus relates collaborating on alternative renewable solutions the goal is a self sustaining reactor meaning one that will produce and consume about the same amounts of fuel this isn t possible with uranium and light water coolant the better choice is thorium whose nuclear properties offer considerable flexibility in the reactor core design some experts believe that the energy stored in the earth s thorium reserves is greater than what is available from all other fossil and nuclear fuels combined thorium in the earth s crust is estimated to be at least three times more abundant than uranium and not difficult to extract according to shwageraus it can be found in large quantities in india the united states australia and turkey as well as norway which is where a swedish chemist first discovered the element in the 19th century and named it after the norse god of thunder while it has long been considered theoretically possible to use it to produce nuclear energy this potential has yet to be realized the competition for bsf energy independence partnership grants was tough and shwageraus admits he was pleasantly surprised to receive one the program enables scientists from israel and the united states to work collaboratively on finding alternative and renewable energy solutions supported by the ministry of national infrastructures the initial phase awarded 1 2 million in funding for six projects in solar energy biofuels and clean safe nuclear energy shwageraus who earned his bachelor s and master s degrees at bgu and a ph d in nuclear engineering at mit came to israel at age 20 from his native russia he and his wife and two young children plan to return to israel next year where he will continue the project i see it as a mission he states nuclear energy is a strategic option for israel and i want to be part of it it s a good thing for the country and for global society posted by anonymous at 1 51 pm no comments sunday october 10 2010 fee dispute hinders plan for reactor while many may have already seen news reports on constellation and the loan guarantee i have not seen any reports discussing how this would affect the other utilities seeking loan guarantees i e will this allow v c summer or comanche peak a better chance at the remaining loan guarantee funds http www nytimes com 2010 10 10 business energy environment 10reactor html _r 1 ref business by matthew l wald published october 9 2010 washington constellation energy said on saturday that it had reached an impasse in negotiations for a federal loan guarantee to build a proposed third nuclear reactor at its calvert cliffs site near washington the decision would appear to kill the project unless congress or the white house steps in constellation said in a letter to the energy department that the office of management and budget was seeking a fee of 880 million on a guarantee of about 7 6 billion which it said would doom the project or the economics of any nuclear project for that matter the fee is to compensate taxpayers for the risk of default the company argues that because the plant s model is being proven in finland france and china and because it has a strong partner électricité de france the fee should be 1 to 2 percent the project had once been hailed as a cornerstone of a nuclear power renaissance in 2005 president george w bush spoke at calvert cliffs the first presidential visit to a nuclear plant in 30 years it is time for this country to start building nuclear power plants again he said the last successful groundbreaking for a nuclear reactor in the united states was in 1973 the federal government authorized a loan guarantee program in 2005 intended to spur nuclear power development and congress agreed to finance it in 2007 so far however only one guarantee has been issued for two new units at the southern company s vogtle plant near waynesboro ga ground has been broken there and also for two more reactors across the savannah river in south carolina a project that is proceeding without loan guarantees but a variety of utilities around the country have stepped back from plans to build reactors constellation which serves a large area of maryland and owns generating plants nationwide announced its decision saturday after the impasse was reported by the washington post on saturday james l connaughton executive vice president of constellation and an environmental official in the bush white house stopped short of saying the project was dead we were in the middle of discussions he said the government had proposed a lower fee if constellation agreed to buy three quarters of the power and constellation and edf guaranteed completion of the plant said mr connaughton but he said those conditions were too onerous the site in question is 40 miles south of the district of columbia where baltimore gas electric a predecessor to constellation finished two reactors in the 1970s they remain in operation in a statement edf said it was extremely disappointed and shocked to learn that constellation has unilaterally decided to withdraw from the calvert cliffs 3 project it added we were at the finish line with the department of energy and were making significant progress constellation said edf would have to decide whether to proceed alone although by law it needs an american partner the companies had hoped to build a series of identical reactors around the united states with local partners a spokeswoman for the energy department said they were surprised by constellation s announcement constellation had been hinting for weeks that it had reservations in september mayo shattuck the company s chief executive speaking at a chamber of commerce luncheon in washington referred to the differences in economics between calvert cliffs and the vogtle plant the georgia plant he said falls under traditional regulations that pass the costs of construction on to power customers calvert cliffs he said was in a merchant environment where companies build at their own risk and sell power at market rates experts have pointed out that the current economic climate is not favorable to nuclear construction in part because the price of natural gas is so low congress has authorized loan guarantees of up to 18 5 billion for new reactors with 8 3 billion now earmarked for vogtle president obama has proposed an additional 36 billion the sums are simply guarantees by the government to repay lenders if the builder cannot do so their cost to the treasury is unclear if the reactors are built as planned and run profitably the cost would be zero in fact the treasury could make a profit on fees paid by the borrowers while the negotiations are secret constellation has been complaining for months that the fee treasury sought was too high a version of this article appeared in print on october 10 2010 on page a21 of the new york edition posted by anonymous at 1 46 am no comments tens of thousands take part in munich anti nuclear protest in petr bechmann s book the history of pi he describes how some state legislatures in the us tried to legislate a value of pi i thought of these attempts when reading this if we could only legislate the sun and wind to blow per the instructions of the load dispatcher http www dw world de dw article 0 6097663 00 html maca en rss en all 1573 rdf tens of thousands of people turned out on the streets of munich on saturday against the nuclear power policy of chancellor angela merkel s coalition government a focus of the protest was the formation of a human chain about 10 kilometers long through the center of the city organizers said that some 50 000 people in all took part in the day s events while police put the number at around 25 000 gabriel claimed the protest showed the nuclear policy was deeply unpopular it is an enormous success for us said marcus greineder chief organizer of the bavaria chain reaction group which organized the protest the heart of the demonstration was the city s odeonsplatz where a stage was set up to rally the crowd public simply does not accept social democratic party spd leader sigmar gabriel said that the turnout revealed the level of opposition to a planned extension to the operating lifespans of germany s nuclear power plants this shows once again that the population simply doesn t accept government s lobby group policy in favor of nuclear firms five bavarian nuclear plants are affected by the extension among them the particularly controversial isar 1 reactor which has been in use since 1977 the isar 1 plant is perhaps the most controversial of bavaria s nuclear sitesseveral political parties and action groups rallied people to join the demonstration calling for a move away from nuclear energy towards renewable energy reprocessing idea abandoned the action was the biggest anti nuclear event in bavaria in decades a rally against plans to build a nuclear reprocessing plant in wackersdorf in 1985 which was later abandoned was attended by 30 000 to 50 000 people organizers say around 100 000 people took part in a demonstration against the planned extensions in berlin in september police put the number at 40 000 a previous german government of the spd and green party decided to close all nuclear plants by 2021 but the current coalition has plans to extend that deadline by an average of 12 years author richard connor dpa afp editor ben knight posted by anonymous at 1 38 am 1 comment why we must embrace sustainable generation of nuclear energy for those who may not have read kenya has held discussions with south korea regarding nuclear energy development whether any orders will materialize may be a while http www standardmedia co ke commentaries insidepage php id 2000019982 cid 15 updated 3 hr s 34 min s ago by william ruto many people seem to harbour apocalyptic associations with the term nuclear once they hear or read it they immediately envision the end of the world as we know it as a result their knee jerk reaction is hostile or at best totally unreceptive however nuclear technology is not just about war in fact nuclear technology is already in use in kenya to solve some of the most pressing problem facing the people and in every day spheres like agriculture and medicine examples include mutation breeding which has been used to develop an internationally acclaimed early maturing high yielding and drought resistant wheat variety in kenya with tremendous potential to solve food security problems in the developing world the technology has been extended to cassava and banana breeding among other crops secondly radioactive medicine and healthcare a critical function of nuclear technology is now being used to treat cancer these successes in use of nuclear technology must spread to energy generation to power our industrial revolution and economic growth as the world population increases and more countries become industrialised demand for energy escalates kenya has one of the fastest growing populations with one million additional people every year 80 per cent of kenyans depend on wood fuel increased power generation would ease the immense and disastrous pressure on our forest and tree cover without a doubt nuclear technology is the most viable tool to access cheap clean energy on the basis on least cost analysis additionally if kenya is to realise industrial revolution and grow the economy by 10 per cent as envisaged in vision 2030 access to affordable sustainable and clean energy is no longer an academic matter a programmatic and strategic consideration of all the benefits of nuclear energy must be the centrepiece of the national development agenda today s energy options include hydrocarbon based sources oil coal and gas renewable sources wind hydro solar biomass and geothermal renewable sources indeed ameliorate greenhouse gas emissions and other deleterious impacts but are expensive and liable to compound the cost of sustainable development hydrocarbon based energy sources significantly contribute to global warming and climate change in 2008 alone the top 20 greenhouse gas emitters in the world released 24 trillion metric tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere there is a correlation between leading emitters and fast growing economies implying that energy directly fuels development the kyoto protocol limits levels of carbon emission per country while reserve depletion drives oil and gas prices higher as economic growth increases the demand for energy on the other hand this is the full cycle of the fossil fuel conundrum it presents no happy ending in environmental and economic terms quite clearly in very short time indeed there will be worldwide resurgence of nuclear power out of need not choice it is imperative that kenya moves with urgency to build full capacity for the sustainable generation of nuclear energy that is why the office of the prime minister is set to coordinate an inter ministerial energy industrialisation environment and higher education committee spearheaded by the national economic and social council and that is just the beginning development stakeholders must change their attitudes towards nuclear technology and begin to see opportunities instead of threats development instead of destruction and blessings instead of disasters the writer is minister for higher education posted by anonymous at 1 10 am no comments wednesday july 21 2010 china starts up 1st 4th generation nuclear reactor fast reactors typically use a molten alkali metal such as sodium as the coolant these reactors allow for higher energy neutrons that can be used for breeding or transmutation of actinide fission products http www chinadaily com cn china 2010 07 21 content_11032957 htm xinhua updated 2010 07 21 23 49 beijing chinese scientists have succeeded in testing the country s first experimental fourth generation nuclear reactor an expert said here on wednesday the successful start up of the china experimental fast reactor cefr marked a breakthrough in china s fourth generation nuclear technology and made china the eighth country in the world to own the technology zhang donghui general manager of the cefr project told xinhua over phone china s existing 11 nuclear power generating units all use second generation of nuclear power generation technology the country started the construction of its first third generation pressurized water reactors using ap1000 technologies developed by us based westinghouse in 2009 compared with the third generation reactors which have an utility rate of uranium of just one percent cefr boasts an utility rate of more than 60 percent a new recycling technology called pyroprocessing is also used to close the fuel cycle by separating the unused fuel from most of the radioactive waste the cefr is safer more environment friendly and more economic than its predecessors zhang said posted by anonymous at 8 52 pm 6 comments friday june 11 2010 king says tonga should move to nuclear power http www cnbc com id 37632317 by the associated press 11 ...
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