Look! A wild George Lucas sighting!
"Nuclear Waste: Fission Products & Transuranics from Thorium & Uranium" is sincerely fascinating in its own right. A short documentary about the valuable materials often left in used-up fuel rods from nuclear reactors and how they might be extracted. Very interesting if you're at all into nuclear engineering and chemistry in general.
But let's face it: most people are going to want to...
Showing posts with label nuclear power. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nuclear power. Show all posts
Monday, March 30, 2015
Thursday, August 04, 2011
Swedish dude gets arrested for attempting nuclear reactions... in his apartment kitchen!
There's a chap named Richard Handl in southern Sweden who is right curious about things like physics and nuclear chemistry. So he, ummmm... attempted to build a nuclear breeder reactor in his flat's kitchen.But it can't honestly be said that he had any nefarious motives, because Richard has a blog set up chronicling all the steps that he's taken on his lil' adventure into...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
25 years after Chernobyl
It was twenty-five years ago today, on the morning of April 26th 1986, that the Chernobyl disaster - the very worst nuclear accident in history - happened.The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located at Pripyat in Ukraine, suffered a severe meltdown in Reactor No. 4 following an attempted experiment. The town of Pripyat was evacuated and thousands of firefighters and other...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
One blogger's support for nuclear energy
Like many people, I've been watching the developments in Japan since last week's earthquake (now measured at being 9 or possibly even 9.1 on the Richter scale) with keen interest. Especially with the drama unfolding at the Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukishima: the one that has had a number of its reactor buildings violently explode (NOT "nuclear explosion" as I heard...
Monday, June 15, 2009
Radioactive wasp nests plague dump site
Sounds like a Fifties B-movie, or maybe the genesis of a new Spider-Man villain: the country's most contaminated nuclear waste site has provided building material for swarms of wasps building their nests and now the nests themselves are loaded with radioactive isotopes of cesium and cobalt. The Hanford nuclear reservation near Yakima, Washington is currently being cleaned up and workers are having to deal with the nests, which fortunately have already...
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Iraqi uranium: It was never a threat
Three times today I've been sent or otherwise directed to the following from Investor's Business Daily..."Hear about the 550 metric tons of yellowcake uranium found in Iraq? No? Why should you? It doesn’t fit the media's neat story line that Saddam Hussein's Iraq posed no nuclear threat when we invaded in 2003. It's a little known fact that, after invading Iraq in 2003, the U.S. found massive amounts of uranium yellowcake, the stuff that can be refined...
Monday, October 08, 2007
The "Radioactive Boy Scout" gets 90 days in jail
Oddly enough this is the second story in the past few days involving Boy Scouts and hazardous materials (here's a link to the first). Curious, that...Anyway, last week David Hahn was sentenced to 90 days in jail for stealing smoke detectors from an apartment complex. After being caught taking one, police found 15 other smoke detectors in his apartment.Years ago David Hahn...
