October 2021

Nuclear Reactors 960 - TEPCO Should Be Dissolved And Assets Dedicated To Fukushima Cleanup

     TEPCO is the giant Japanese utility company that brought the world the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011. They had a bad record of managing nuclear power well before 2011. They had been chastised in court by the Japanese government for incompetence. Three years before the Fukushima disaster, they had generated an internal report that warned of the possibilities that did come to pass.

Radioactive Waste 819 - Scientists Find A Way To Use Spent Nuclear Fuel To Produce Valuable Additive For Biodiesel

     Most efforts to deal with spent nuclear fuel involve getting rid of it permanently. The most popular method is deep burial in geological repositories. However, there are also efforts to find a commercial use for it.

Getting Kids To Read More Often

Some people love to read. You couldn't get them to stop if you tried. Many of us have stayed up way too late just to read another chapter (and another, and another...). But there are lots of people who don't enjoy reading, either, which is actually fine. Some people see it as a red flag, but everyone has different interests and abilities. One member of my family, for example, doesn't enjoy reading due to a disability but loves being read to and occasionally reading aloud with me.

Nuclear Reactors 958 - The Fluctuating Price Of Uranium - Part 1 of 2 Parts

Part 1 of 2 Parts
     Few of my posts in this blog have been concerned with the price of uranium on the international energy market. One reason for this lack lies in the fact that the cost of uranium to fuel nuclear power reactors is a small part of the overall cost of construction, maintenance and decommissioning.

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