Political Ecology

The result of these trends: “In the past year, the lines have crossed in North Carolina,” say study authors John Blackburn and Sam Cunningham. “Electricity from new solar installations is now cheaper than electricity from proposed new nuclear plants.”If the data analysis is correct, the pricing would represent the “Historic Crossover” claimed in the study’s [...]

A system dynamics model is applied to study the impact of spent fuel recycling on the US nuclear energy system and the implications of a bilateral hypothetical collaboration between the US and Brazil. In particular, the impact of different options for advanced fuel cycle facilities needed for the US nuclear energy market alone and under [...]

(SAN DIEGO) – The European Union is moving ahead with plans to dispose of nuclear waste directly underground, with the first site due to be up and running in Finland, waste management experts said Friday.Finland’s deep geological repository for direct, underground disposal of spent nuclear fuel is due to come onstream in 2020, experts who [...]

Global climate change is one of the most important issues humanity faces today. This book assesses the sensible, senseless and biased proposals for averting the potentially disastrous consequences of global warming, allowing the reader to draw their own conclusions on switching to more sustainable energy provision. Burton Richter is a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who has [...]

In November 2007, China’s State Council approved its “Medium- and Long-Term Nuclear Power Development Plan”, which set as a goal to increase the nation’s nuclear capacity from about 7 to 40 GWe by 2020. In March 2008, the National Development and Reform Commission suggested installed nuclear power capacity might even exceed 60 GWe by 2020 [...]

In a major victory for environmental advocates, New York State has ruled that outmoded cooling technology at the Indian Point nuclear power plant kills so many Hudson River fish, and consumes and contaminates so much water, that it violates the federal Clean Water Act.The decision is a blow to the plant’s owner, the Entergy Corporation, [...]

Now, a team led by Hora has carried out computational studies to demonstrate that new laser technology capable of producing short but high energy pulses could be used to ignite hydrogen/boron-11 fuel using side-on ignition. The high energy laser pulses can be used to create a plasma block that generates a high density ion beam, [...]