A poll for the BBC indicates a small and diminishing appetite around the world for building new nuclear reactors, although the UK bucks the trend.
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Nuclear power ‘has small support’
The Fukushima disaster provides no reason to restrict UK nuclear reactors or stop building new ones, the official nuclear regulator has concluded
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Go-ahead for UK nuclear programme
Japan’s prime minister said Friday he has asked the operator to shut down of all nuclear reactors at the Hamaoka nuclear plant until earthquake and tsunami protections can be built at the facility.
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Japan PM wants nuke plant shut down
The Tennessee Valley Authority announced today that they were considering upgrading some of their facilities in wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Three of the TVA’s six nuclear reactors have the same design as the Japanese plants. The big changes appear to be reducing the amount of spent fuel kept in pools and adding backup generation. But it’s the little changes that the TVA is considering that are most interesting because of the problem set that they imply. The Times lays them out: “…improving electrical switchyards to make them more resistant to earthquakes, adding small generators to recharge cellphone batteries and keep the lights on, and reinforcing the pipes that provide cooling water to spent fuel pools.” Think about the problems they’re trying to solve with these changes. Any part of the grid could get knocked and cause trouble. That’s an appropriately high-tech problem. But look at the others: cellphone charging, lights and leaky pipes. In some other setting, problems with these things would be mildly important. At a nuclear power plant, they could make responding to a disaster difficult or help cause one. And it’s these small safety problems that make current-gen nuclear power difficult. Every single little thing has to work just right.
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Nuclear Power’s Little Problems
Japan is on “maximum alert” over the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, Prime Minister Naoto Kan announced Tuesday. On Monday, Japan found plutonium in soil outside of the nuclear reactors, and highly radioactive water was found in tunnels that reached…
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Japan PM: Country on ‘Maximum Alert’
There’s been another setback in the struggle to get Japan’s nuclear reactors under control. Workers pulled back from the No. 2 reactor when radiation in the water there was measured at more than 1,000 millisieverts an hour, the highest level detected…
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Japan Radiation Levels Skyrocket
Workers trying to cool one of the damaged Fukushima nuclear reactors are evacuated, as radiation reaches 10 million times the usual level.
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Radiation soars at Japan reactor
Japan has restored electricity to three of the damaged nuclear reactors at the Fukishima Daaichi plant, but it’s still not in the clear: Smoke was billowing once again from the No. 3 reactor, and the plant had to evacuate workers as it assessed the…
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Workers Pulled Again at Nuke Plant
In an acknowledgment of the seriousness of the crisis at the Fukusihima Daiichi nuclear plant, Japan has raised the alert level at its overheating nuclear reactors to five on a seven-point scale, placing it two rungs below Chernobyl and equal with…
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Officials Consider Burying Nuclear Reactors
Concerns are being raised over three separate nuclear reactors at Fukushima, Japan following an explosion at one on Saturday
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VIDEO: Radiation testing begins in Japan
Concerns are being raised over three separate nuclear reactors at Fukushima, Japan following an explosion at one on Saturday
Japan’s tsunami disaster took an even scarier turn Saturday when an explosion rocked one of the country’s nuclear reactors, blowing the roof off the structure and knocking down walls, and causing an unknown amount of radiation to leak. Pressure at the…
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Explosion at Japan Nuclear Power Plant
Plenty of reactors have received a 20-year extension when their 40-year permits were up; would regulators grant an additional 20?
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Green: An 80-Year Run for Nuclear Reactors?
