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hed by a worldwide collaboration that included representatives from governments academia and industrial partners is also the largest scientific construction project completed by the doe s nnsa the facility has the goal of achieving self sustaining nuclear fusion the process that powers the sun and the stars in the laboratory for the first time fusion power has many of the benefits of long term renewable energy sources such as being a sustainable energy supply compared to presently utilized sources and emitting no greenhouse gases initiated in 1996 and completed in march 2009 nif s 192 giant lasers housed in a ten story building the size of three football fields is capable of delivering at least 50 times more energy than any previous laser system this achievement is a major step toward developing inertial fusion energy as a clean safe and virtually unlimited energy source for the future in order to achieve this the facility contains more than 3 000 pieces of amplifier glass 8 000 large optics and 30 000 small optics that have been assembled into 6 206 replaceable units we had a firm deadline for construction so equipment could be installed and completed said dr edward moses principal associate director for the nif and photon science directorate lawrence livermore national laboratory it was imperative to have proper processes and standards in place so we could institute a high level of technical and scientific project integration with an international interdisciplinary consortium of scientists engineers vendors and suppliers we are honored that pmi recognized the hard work collaboration and dedication of the entire team that worked to create nif through the use of skilled and certified project personnel and the rigorous application of the project management standards processes and techniques promulgated by the project management institute as embodied in a project management body of knowledge pmbok guide fourth edition the project was completed approximately 2 million under the 3 502 million budget three weeks ahead of schedule since its completion the nif has consistently demonstrated outstanding reliability and availability serving a broad scientific community exploring new technologies in energy production and new frontiers in astrophysics materials science and nuclear science the national ignition facility is a stellar example of how properly applied project management excellence can bring together global teams to deliver a project of this scale and importance efficiently said gregory balestrero president and chief executive officer of pmi pmi is thrilled to present dr edward moses principal associate director of nif photon science directorate and his project team for these outstanding results with the pmi 2010 project of the year award dr moses and the lawrence livermore national laboratory team as well as deputy secretary of energy daniel poneman were presented with the 2010 pmi project of the year award on saturday 9 october 2010 during the pmi awards ceremony at pmi global congress in washington dc posted by anonymous at 5 37 pm 3 comments monday october 11 2010 self sustaining nuclear energy from israel we don t often hear of the israeli civilian nuclear program on a personal note i had a professor who was trained at the technion ben gurion university is the remaining school in israel with a nuclear engineering major http www israel21c org 201010118407 environment self sustaining nuclear energy from israel though the very mention of nuclear energy makes many people nervous it s no secret that we will come to depend on it more and more as highly polluting and costly fossil fuels go the way of the dinosaurs from which they derive that s why the world s best minds are focused on finding efficient and inexpensive methods of generating nuclear energy israeli nuclear engineer eugene shwageraus is one of those minds the 37 year old ben gurion university bgu of the negev lecturer and his research partner dr michael todosow of the brookhaven national laboratory in new york received a three year energy independence partnership grant last may from the us israel binational science foundation to develop a self sustainable fuel cycle for light water reactors speaking to israel21c from the massachusetts institute of technology where he is working during the first year of the grant shwageraus explains what this means building on proven nuclear technology the most common type of nuclear reactor in use for the past 40 or 50 years is the light water reactor lwr it is powered by uranium fuel and cooled with plain light inexpensive water the trouble is that lwrs are quite inefficient in natural resource consumption using less than one percent of the energy that could potentially be extracted from the uranium in the 1970s when the availability of uranium was feared to be a real concern people started to develop fast breeders that produce fuel at a faster rate than they consume it says shwageraus but in order to engineer such a system they had to move away from cooling the reactors by water they were cooled by liquid metal typically molten sodium requiring complex engineering that complicates the system to the extent that fast breeders become much more expensive than light water cooled reactors both due to the cost factor and because as it turns out uranium actually is quite plentiful fast breeders never came into widespread use despite its energy inefficiency the standard is still the lwr found in about 450 civil and naval installations around the world and that s where the israeli scientist s innovation comes in by taking advantage of proven lwr technology he and todosow intend to make a cost effective light water cooled reactor that will be as efficient as a fast breeder in extracting energy from the fuel the process of development is three years and at that time we ll choose from among several ways to see which is optimal to combine safety economics and resource utilization 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 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