Nuclear Power
High quality essays written by experts on nuclear energy are presented. Essays discuss the safety record and risk hazards related to nuclear power plants, the environmental benefits associated with nuclear energy, and societal fear of nuclear power. Key terms, definitions, and historical events are also discussed.
An Overview of Nuclear Power Plants
Despite these dangers, a properly running nuclear power plant is safer and less toxic than other types of power plants. Nuclear plants are designed to contain all residual radioactivity...
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History of Nuclear Energy Production
Physicist Enrico Fermi discovered the potential of nuclear fission in 1934, when he bombarded uranium atoms with neutrons and discovered that the products of this reaction were...
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Current Use of Nuclear Power
Nuclear power currently comprises 17 percent of the world's total power supply. The United States is slightly below the international average, using nuclear power for 15 percent...
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NUCLEAR INFRASTRUCTURE QUESTIONED.
Power Engineering
Examines the nuclear infrastructure in the United States. Information on the trends in the construction of nuclear power plants in the country;...
Clearing the Air Of Nuclear Myths.
Insight on the News
Assesses the use of nuclear energy. Advantages of nuclear power; Reason for the efforts of investors to avoid nuclear power plant investments;...
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Our Nuclear World
Newsweek (Pacific Edition)
The article presents data on nuclear reactors and nuclear power.
Nuclear Nightmare?
Science World (Teacher's Edition)
Provides information on nuclear power plants.
The Nuclear Power Bargain
Issues in Science & Technology
Discusses the implications of the proliferation of nuclear power industry for international security. List of countries relying on nuclear power;...
COMMENTARY
Professional Engineering
Comments on the nuclear power in Great Britain. Contribution of nuclear power stations to the energy needs of the country; Decommissioning of nuclear...
symposium
Insight on the News
Presents opinion on the use of nuclear power. Amount of electricity produced by nuclear plants; Benefits of nuclear energy; Expensiveness of nuclear...
Early closure for nuclear vanguard
Utility Week
Reports the closure of the nuclear power plant of British Nuclear Fuels in March 2003. Reason for the closure; Information on the nuclear power...
Fallouts and fallouts: Nuclear power in Southeast Asia
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International & Strate
Focuses on Southeast Asia as a market for nuclear power. Advocation of nuclear power by the nuclear industry; Discussion concerns surrounding nuclear...
Atoms unleashed
New Scientist
Provides information on generation of electricity through nuclear energy. History of commercial nuclear power generation; Nuclear power reactors;...
Is nuclear power the answer to America's energy woes?
Westchester County Business Journal
Focuses on the potential of nuclear power as a reliable electric power in the United States. Characterization of the nuclear energy; Issues on power...
Radiation risks
BMJ: British Medical Journal (International Edition)
Discusses radiation risks from nuclear power plants. Public mistrust on nuclear power; Epidemiology of nuclear radiation exposures; Advantages and...
Section 8. Nuclear Energy
Monthly Energy Review
Presents illustrations and information on nuclear power industry in September 1999. Nuclear power plant operations; Nuclear generating units;...
Clearing the Air Of Nuclear Myths
Insight on the News
Assesses the use of nuclear energy. Advantages of nuclear power; Reason for the efforts of investors to avoid nuclear power plant investments;...
A technological dream turns into a nightmare
Management Today
Provides information on the danger of nuclear power. Cost of nuclear power; Lobbying by Nuclear Electric; Study on nuclear power by the Royal...
Sparring over Mochovce
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Focuses on the Mochovce nuclear power plant in Slovakia. Operation of the nuclear plant; Arguments on the power plant; Risk assessments on the...
Soundbites
Professional Engineering
Presents different views on the establishment of nuclear power plants in Great Britain. Risks and benefits of nuclear power plants; Arguments for...
Fixing a hole?
International Power Generation
Comments on the issue of nuclear power. Danger of nuclear plant; Safety of the people near the power plant; Importance of nuclear power plant...
Nuclear Power Articles A-Z
- '94 performance, safety and reliability indicators continue positive trend: Capacity factor now
- 1995 good to international nuclear
- 5th Finnish nuke given the go-ahead
- `Nuclear Weapons Are Not The Great Equalizer.'
- A Better Time Now to Consider New Reactors
- A nuclear and sustainable energy reading list
- A technological dream turns into a nightmare
- Accidents cast shadow over Japan's nuclear strategy
- An Incredible Performance in the Past Decade
- ANALYZE THE MAP
- Angra-2 construction restarts
- Atoms for (War and) Peace
- Atoms unleashed
- Australia declares war on nuclear weapons
- Bad year for Japan's nukes
- Barseb�ck to close by 2005
- Belgium starts nuclear reaction
- Belgium wil phase out its nukes
- Believe it or not: Nuclear fusion in 1994
- Bet on nuclear for the new century
- BNFL wins Bulgarian work
- Books for middle readers: Nonfiction
- Books for older readers: Nonfiction
- Brice Smith
- Building Plants Economically
- CHECK FOR UNDERSTANDING
- Checking in at the grassroots: NEI goes public
- China goes nuclear
- Clearing the Air Of Nuclear Myths
- CLOUDS THREATEN NUCLEAR PARADE
- COMMENTARY
- Commentary
- Communism's nuclear power legacy
- Courting disaster in orbit
- Decommissioning nuclear power plants
- Decommissioning Ukranian nuclear
- Dodewaard experimental nuclear unit close
- Early closure for nuclear vanguard
- End the Double Standard for Nuclear Critics
- Energy-hungry Armenia
- Europe and USA sign nuclear trade deal
- Fallout of Japan's nuclear policy
- Fallouts and fallouts: Nuclear power in Southeast Asia
- Fighting for the scraps
- Fixing a hole?
- FOUR NEW PLANTS ADDED TO WORLD NUCLEAR FLEET IN 1999
- FPL buys Seabrook
- France's Plant Replacement Blueprint
- French reopen the nuclear debate
- From Nuclear Power to Nuclear War (Book)
- Government favours more nuclear power
- Government transfers Magnox shares
- Grabbing the Headlines
- Grades 5 & up: Nonfiction
- In France, the nuclear honeymoon is over
- In site of safety
- INDUSTRY TRENDS
- INTRODUCTION
- Is nuclear power the answer to America's energy woes?
- Italy to China: four countries sidelining nuclear power
- Japan commits to power plants
- JAPAN MELTED DOWN. BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THE END OF THE ATOMIC AGE
- JAPAN SLOWS PLANT BUILDING
- Japan's Nuke Plant "Amusement" Centers: Hello Kitty Meets Alice in Wonderland
- Japan's Road To Recovery
- Japanese nuclear safety report marred by leak
- Jolly good oversight
- Juggling nuclear fuel issues gets trickier
- Kazakh Power Play
- Kozlodui to be modernized
- LEARN PAST NUCLEAR LESSONS
- Letters
- Meltdown!
- Milk--it doses a body good!
- More Nukes!
- More sour grapes on nuclear proliferation
- My brilliant Korea
- New Documents
- No joined up thinking
- No Nukes
- North Korea Goes Nuclear
- Not fade away
- Not to Worry
- Nuclear design completed
- Nuclear energy growth
- Nuclear Energy
- Nuclear fever
- Nuclear future
- Nuclear Goes Broke
- NUCLEAR INFRASTRUCTURE QUESTIONED
- Nuclear is the new black
- Nuclear Isn't Cheap
- Nuclear milestone
- Nuclear Nightmare?
- Nuclear or Not? Does Nuclear Power Have a Place in a Sustainable Energy Future?
- Nuclear plant resumes
- Nuclear plant starts in Pakistan
- Nuclear popularity improves but plants decline
- NUCLEAR POWER (Book Review)
- Nuclear Power (Book)
- Nuclear power and health
- Nuclear power and nuclear-weapons proliferation
- NUCLEAR POWER AND SOCIAL PLANNING (Book Review)
- Nuclear Power at Risk
- Nuclear Power Browning Out
- Nuclear power expansion predicted
- Nuclear power eyes global expansion
- Nuclear Power in India
- Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer
- Nuclear power nears its peak
- Nuclear Power Plants in North America
- Nuclear power production costs plummet
- Nuclear power reaches the peak
- Nuclear Power Reactor Safety (Book Review)
- NUCLEAR POWER RECONSIDERED
- Nuclear power takes the credit
- Nuclear power today
- NUCLEAR POWER TOUTED AS CLIMATE CHANGE DETERRENT
- Nuclear power will boost N.J.'s economy
- Nuclear power worries
- Nuclear Power's next generation plants accepted abroad, but approval slow here
- NUCLEAR POWER-On a roll or on the ropes?
- Nuclear Power
- NUCLEAR POWER: BUILDING UP STEAM
- Nuclear Renaissance: Technologies and Policies for the Future of Nuclear Power
- Nuclear risks
- Nuclear's no answer
- Nuclear's unclear future
- Nuke Waste Still a Problem
- NYPA nuclear sale set to boost Entergy stable
- Oh, for Those Halcyon Days When Nuclear Weapons Were Scarier Than Reactors
- On nuclear power, the warnings are clear
- Our Nuclear World
- Partial nuke privatisation
- Perry good
- Pilgrim's progress
- Pioneer 10
- Plans for increased nuclear capacity
- Radiation risks
- Reactor deal means taking coals to Bulgaria
- Reactor sale does not break treaty
- Rebirth of nuclear?
- Rod Control Management System
- Role of Nuclear Power in the Power Supply of Mankind. Urgent Problems in Nuclear Materials Science and Technologies in the 21st Century
- Russia helps resurrect nuclear project
- Russia to supply nuclear plant
- Russian fleet flap
- Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces, End of 1998
- Second nuclear plant to go ahead
- Section 8. Nuclear energy
- Section 8. Nuclear Energy
- Section 8. Nuclear Energy
- Seven out of 10 for Germany
- Sizewell B starts up ahead of schedule
- Soundbites
- Sparring over Mochovce
- Stronger Future for Nuclear Power
- symposium
- The Answer Is Nuclear Power
- The case for the new policy
- The fallen angel
- The Future of Nuclear Power (Book Review)
- The Future of Nuclear Power
- The Gentle Killers (Book Review)
- The greatest threat
- The National Nuclear Debate
- The Nuclear Power Bargain
- The nuclear power debate
- The Politics of Nuclear Power
- The Real Costs of Nuclear Energy
- The suddenly mighty creature
- This is your life, Atomic Flackery!
- Three Mile Islandsky
- Tokai nuclear station first to close in Japan
- Too expensive to meter
- Tritium on Ice: The Dangerous New Alliance of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power
- Tritium on Ice:The Dangerous New Alliance of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power (Book)
- Trouble at Temelin
- Turkey
- U.S. NEEDS REAL-WORLD PROOF OF NUCLEAR ECONOMICS
- Undercurrents
- VDEW hopes for sustainable nuclear future
- Vive la fusion
- Where the bombs are
- Which energy source?
- Work starts on Ling'ao nuclear project
- World's oldest nuclear plant is set to close
