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France, Korea, Belgium, UK, China Will Expand Nuclear Energy
Posted in Business, Hardware, Science on 1st May, 2022
by Alex Muller
The UK has setup a new program called Great British Nuclear, which has the goal of building up to seven new nuclear reactors by 2050. They will identify sites, cut through red tape to speed up the planning process, and bring together private firms to run each site.
The World’s First Deep Geological Nuclear Vault Will Store Radioactive Waste in Finland for 100,000 Years
Posted in Business, Science on 31st Mar, 2022
by Alex Muller
Spent fuel rods from nuclear reactors will be encased in layers of various materials before being lowered into tunnels 430 meters underground.
The Plan For A French Nuclear Renaissance
Posted in Business, Hardware, Science on 3rd Mar, 2022
by Alex Muller
France will construct six new nuclear power reactors, consider building a further eight and push ahead with the development of small modular reactors, President Emmanuel Macron has said.
China Makes Innovation Alliance to Accelerate Extracting Uranium from Seawater
Posted in Science on 15th Nov, 2019
by Alex Muller
It is estimated that about 4.5 billion tonnes of uranium is reserved in seawater, about 1,000 times of the land proven reserves, but the concentration of uranium in seawater is extremely low.
Germany Solar and Wind is Triple the Cost of France’s Nuclear and Will Last Half as Long
Posted in Business, Hardware on 12th Nov, 2019
by Alex Muller
From 2006 to 2017, Germany increased the cost of electricity for households by 50%. (per an OECD report) French electricity costs are just 59% of German electricity prices. France produces one-tenth the carbon pollution from electricity compared to Germany.