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New designs recast nuclear power (images)
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CBS 60 Minutes: Stuxnet worm opens new era of warfare
Stuxnet showed, for the first time, that a cyber attack could cause significant physical damage to a facility. Does this mean that future malware, modeled on Stuxnet, could target other critical...
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20 percent of Japan's nuclear reactors online: 'Wrap up and cut down'
Customers and businesses are being warned to wrap up and save energy this winter as Japan faces potential energy shortages with only nine reactors left online.
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USS Enterprise: Nuclear power meets aircraft carrier (photos)
Fifty years ago today, the U.S. Navy commissioned the world's first nuclear-powered carrier. It's now the oldest ship in the U.S. fleet, but retirement looms.
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Nuclear power plants for settlements on the Moon and Mars
The first nuclear power plant being considered for production of electricity for manned or unmanned bases on the Moon, Mars and other planets "may really look like it came from outer space."
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A retro nuclear reactor eyes the future (photos)
Since 1958, MIT has housed a small nuclear reactor on its Cambridge campus for various experiments. Now the reactor's mission is shifting from cancer tests to aiding the development of new nuclear...
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Inside a nuclear power plant (photos)
CNET's Martin LaMonica reports on a tour of the Seabrook Station nuclear power plant, one of the 104 nuclear plants that supply 20 percent of the electricity in the U.S.
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Gallup: Nuke power support hits all-time high
So, this one must be particularly perplexing to people in Vermont, who decided a couple of months back to close the state's aging Yankee nuclear power plant. (It was scheduled to be retired in...
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Obama: The Nuclear President?
Will divisive politics melt down any efforts to modernize and augment our country's aging nuclear infrastructure and spent fuel storage capability?
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Happy Nuc Year, America
Billions of dollars will be loaned to the American nuclear industry this year, it seems.
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Nuclear power has political meltdowns
A next generation nuclear power plant was being developed in Ontario. Now all work has been stopped. The price tag was climbing and the provincial government pulled the plug even though it's...
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Nucs and realpolitik
I think the supporters of nuclear power as an alternative to burning coal and importing petroleum are not looking at a bright future in the U.S. At least not near-term. I've been hearing a lot...
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Forget the cockroach, jellyfish shall inherit the planet
If global warming increases the surface area covered by ocean as predicted, jellyfish may ride the waves of the future. Not those landlubber cockroaches. There's a new summary put together by...
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Nuclear renaissance has sprung a leak, or several leaks
Oops. France is the globe's leading nation for the use of peacetime nuclear power. Much of its electricity is generated by nuclear plants. So far France has carried a reputation of having...
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Dry up, that's a threat not a request
Map courtesy NASA and AAAS. Researchers are telling the western U.S. to prepare for water shortages. Does that mean fewer golf courses in Phoenix? Shorter showers in Vegas casino-hotels? Oh...
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From ecowarrior to nuclear champion
Nuclear is better for us than coal, says Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore. What's holding it back are environmentalists.
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No nuces is good nucs? Blogosphere begs to differ with this blogger, as usual
My recent blog on the drought possibly shutting down some American nuclear power plants raised some comment. All of it negative about this idiot blogger. I've now been labelled an "ecosocialist."...
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We are seeing the death of nuclear power's precious myth
Folks who want to build more nuclear power plants love to deride greener tech like wind or solar. Those aren't dependable they love to point out. The sun may not shine. The air may be still for...
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The wave and its powerful-looking future
The "sea serpent" use for generating electricity, the Pelamis. Courtesy Pelamis Corp. Among the European nations there seems to be a competition to become the greenest. Flat and windy, Denmark...
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The public face of nuclear power in the U.S.
Retired Navy Adm. Frank Bowman says that in an age of climate change, nuclear power deserves far more consideration as a source of alternative energy.
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