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World's Most Advanced Nuclear Reactor Launched by GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) today announced it has achieved a key milestone in deploying the world’s most advanced nuclear reactor design

10 Sep 2009

Clean Up and Demolition of Nuclear Site Featured in Film

UK Government Minister Lord Hunt today visited the site of Scotland’s most successful nuclear clean-up project and watched the first screening of a film about its clean-out and demolition

8 Sep 2009

Cleaning Up Nuclear Waste With Bacteria

Using bacteria and inositol phosphate, a chemical analogue of a cheap waste material from plants, researchers at Birmingham University have recovered uranium from the polluted waters from uranium mines

7 Sep 2009

US Postal Service Hybrid Electric Vehicles Use Generator From Aura

Aura Systems announced today that Azure Dynamics Corporation incorporated the AuraGen generator into its Balance Hybrid Electric vehicle, which is the newest addition to the United States Postal Service fleet

7 Sep 2009

Renewed Interest in Nuclear Power is Behind Development of New Supermaterials

An upsurge of interest in nuclear power as an energy source in the era of global climate change is fostering development of a new generation of supermaterials to ensure the safety and reliable performance of tomorrow’s nuclear power stations

28 Aug 2009

Brookhaven Statement on Radiation From Marshall Islands Atomic Weapons Testing

In 1956, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) turned to Brookhaven National Laboratory to continue a program of medical evaluation and care of Marshall Islanders accidentally exposed to radioactive fallout following a U.S. nuclear weapons test at Bikini atoll on March 1, 1954. Brookhaven Lab was not involved in the weapons test

25 Aug 2009

Nuclear Power Plant in Finland to Get ABB Upgrade

ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order from the Finnish power producer TVO for power solutions to enhance reliability and ensure trouble-free and safe operations at the Olkiluoto 1 and 2 nuclear power plant units

17 Aug 2009

Research Grant to Assist Carbon Capture, Nuclear Energy, Renewable Fuels, Electrical Energy Storage and Energy Harvesting

DoE grant to assist with carbon capture, nuclear energy, renewable fuels, electrical energy storage and energy harvesting research

13 Aug 2009

Fusion Energy and Biofuels Research To Benefit From New Department of Energy Funding

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) will receive $40.3 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to support research in biofuels, fusion energy and the nation’s power grid and to ensure scientists have state-of-the-art equipment for their investigations

4 Aug 2009

Human Life Likely to be Destroyed by Nuclear Weapons

The Australian government is showing renewed interest in nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, but there is little evidence yet that either the government or the Commission is fully alert to the most momentous truth of the present era - nuclear arsenals are fundamentally incompatible with continued human existence

2 Aug 2009