A report released by The University of Manchester claims that nuclear power can make a considerable contribution to the reduction of greenhouse gases. But, this contribution will also have a significant negative impact on the environment and natural resources of the country.
Elsevier, a supplier of medical, technical and scientific information services and products, has declared the arranging of a Nuclear Energy and Education Conference at the Church House Conference Center in London from 20 to 22 March 2012.
OnGreen, a web-based ‘green and clean’ market place, has announced a $1.4 million investment in raised from a fund that is jointly owned by Blue Marble Ventures in Los Angeles and China Southern Hong Kong Investment Ltd in Shanghai.
Loughborough University is joining forces with five other academic institutions to help enhance understanding of the performance of the materials used in the next generation of nuclear reactors.
A fission reaction in a nuclear reactor? There’s an “app” for that! An iPhone “application” or software developed at the University of Utah can display simulations of a nuclear reactor’s core on an iPod, iPhone or iPad.
NAMTEC, in partnership with the Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (NAMRC), are hosting Nuclear: Metals and Manufacturing Conference. This two day conference and dinner at the five star, Grade II, Oulton Hall, Hotel and Golf Resort near Leeds. The conference, which is being supported by the Special Metals Forum, will focus on the current, unified drive towards the Generation III+ nuclear power stations in the UK, from both technical and industrial stand-points.
That's searching professor Raúl Sánchez Fernández of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), who is the recipient of the “Miguel Catalán" prize, awarded by the Comunidad de Madrid to scientists under 40, for his research into plasma physics and thermonuclear fusion.
Advanced technologies offer ways of reducing the quantity of nuclear waste. “New types of nuclear power plants can switch to a closed fuel cycle. It means that nuclear waste wouldn’t be buried as such; instead, it would be chemically dissolved and the recyclable component re-processed into new fuel.
Together with his colleague Sevilimendu Narasimhan from the Bhabha Atomic Research Center in Kalpakkam, India, the chemist PD Dr. Börje Sellergren from the Institute of Environmental Research at Technische Universität Dortmund has developed a new method to reduce the amount of this radioactive waste in nuclear reactor cooling water considerably. His approach: small beads consisting of a special polymer which "fishes" the radioactivity out of the water.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced a new Request for Pre-Applications for universities interested in conducting cutting-edge nuclear energy research and development
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