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• No Friends of Champagne

  We had a little fun with the Heritage Foundation earlier today, but at least it was in the context of some good ideas they’re putting forward. We thought we’d try a little balance and see what’s up in the environmental activist sphere – an inexact match, since environmentalism is hardly the sole province of liberals. But while the Heritage Foundation couches their arguments in a comfy cocoon of ideological... Posted Jan 30 2009, 05:33 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: New Nuclear Plant Design, New Nuclear Plant, New Nuclear Plants, New Nuclear Plant Costs, Nuclear Fuel, new technology, nuclear power industry

• Magnetic Nanoparticles to the Rescue ... Maybe

  The Department of Energy is funding the University of Idaho with $732K to prove the feasibility of using highly magnetic nanoparticles to reprocess used nuclear fuel . If successful, scientists at the University of Idaho will kill three birds with one nanoparticle by recovering usable nuclear fuel, making nuclear waste easier and safer to dispose of, and accomplishing the task in an environmentally... Posted Nov 06 2008, 12:45 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: DOE, Fuel Recycling, Nuclear Fuel, magnetic nanoparticles

• INL Reached a Milestone on Nuclear Fuel Performance

  From ScienceDaily : The research to improve the performance of coated-particle nuclear fuel met an important milestone by reaching a burnup of 9 percent without any fuel failure. Raising the burnup level of fuel in a nuclear reactor reduces the amount of fuel required to produce a given amount of energy while reducing the volume of the used fuel generated, and improves the overall economics of the... Posted Mar 11 2008, 09:57 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Nuclear Fuel