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Inside Story – Can the nuclear industry survive? by Al Jazeera English on Youtube Can the nuclear industry survive and what are the risks versus economic advantages? Guests: Jan Beranek, Paddy Regan, Imad Khadduri.
Finding a Future for Nuclear Power
The Safety of Radioactive Energy: Nuclear Relicensing Across the U.S.
by CIR Danger Zone: Aging nuclear reactors Despite the Fukushima catastrophe in Japan last March, nuclear power is experiencing a rebirth in the United States. Billions of dollars in federal funding has been allocated to develop nuclear capacity; [...]
Spent Fuel: The Story Behind Nuclear Waste Storage in America
Spent nuclear fuel is about 95 percent uranium. About 1 percent are other heavy elements such as curium, americium and plutonium-239, best known as fuel for nuclear weapons. Each has an extremely long half-life — some take hundreds of thousands of years to lose all of their radioactive potency. The rest, about 4 percent, is a cocktail of byproducts of fission that break down over much shorter time periods, such as cesium-137 and strontium-90, which break down completely in about 300 years.