International Nuclear Watch & Discussion

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 11 Jun 2009 02:56

Gerard wrote:Company Calls New Small Nuclear Reactor a 'Game Changer'
Babcock & Wilcox Co.'s 125-megawatt reactor would be significantly smaller than the average 1,000-megawatt nuclear reactor and is aimed at plugging a major "market gap," CEO Brandon Bethards said at a Washington press conference. The new reactor might come online as early as 2018.

Wahrewah! Its back to future only! B&W used to have small 250 MW PWRs when it started.

However if you look at operating costs and licensing cost 1000Mw plants are best ROI. The reason is cost of ctmt bldg , operating procedures etc are quite high for even 125MW. So they are incremental when one goes for 1000MW.

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 11 Jun 2009 02:57

Russia 'could drop nuclear arms'

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 11 Jun 2009 18:49

Iranian Nuclear Quest Raises Proliferation Concerns

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 11 Jun 2009 18:51

Text of United Nations Draft Resolution on North Korean Sanctions

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 11 Jun 2009 18:55

Sandia Lab shuts shop that dates back to Manhattan Project

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 12 Jun 2009 00:03

Iran denies UN nuke agency camera request

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 13 Jun 2009 05:41

Nuclear blasts’ toll lingers for one man

At the time, Robertson said, military brass believed a nuclear confrontation with the Soviets was likely. They were intent on developing a group of troops hardened by repeated exposure to radiation. They thought exposure to radiation was like sunning on the beach: First you burn, then you tan.

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 13 Jun 2009 05:43

U.S. hospitals rationing nuclear imaging tests

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 13 Jun 2009 05:45

Japan delays MOX nuclear fuel goal by 5 years

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 13 Jun 2009 17:53

North Korea in plutonium threat

The North Korean foreign ministry statement said: "Firstly, all plutonium to be extracted will be weaponised. One third of used fuel rods have so far been reprocessed.
"Secondly, we will start uranium enrichment," the statement added.

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 14 Jun 2009 21:58

Nuclear terror would strain day-after bomb sleuths

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 14 Jun 2009 21:59

Trident move 'prompts confusion'

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 15 Jun 2009 04:52

U.S. Nuclear Policies and Forces by 2025 - N° 2 – Séminaire Stratégique du 5 December 08
George Perkovich, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C.

http://www.ceri-sciences-po.org/ressour ... 122008.pdf

Sanjay M · Post by **Sanjay M** » 16 Jun 2009 10:18

Babcock & Wilcox's new portable nuclear reactor:

http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/22867/

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 16 Jun 2009 21:40

U.S. Says N.Korean Nuclear Test Smaller Than First Believed

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 17 Jun 2009 02:29

South Korea to stay under U.S. nuclear umbrella: statement

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 17 Jun 2009 02:29

North Korea's May nuclear test few kilotons: U.S.

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 17 Jun 2009 02:30

Syria plays down uranium find by UN nuclear agency

NRao · Post by **NRao** » 17 Jun 2009 07:04

Fusion falters under soaring costs

Sanjay M · Post by **Sanjay M** » 17 Jun 2009 08:05

India should offer to host it, as this would undoubtedly save costs, while benefitting our local infrastructure and scientific community

Amber G. · Post by **Amber G.** » 17 Jun 2009 23:03

Bit of "local" news, after decades, first 'new generation' power plant in Ohio, US.
Sources: Duke Energy To Build Nuclear Plant In Piketon

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 18 Jun 2009 05:04

Iran seeking nuclear weapons technology: ElBaradei

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 18 Jun 2009 05:15

Leading IAEA Members Criticize N. Korean Nuclear Test

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 18 Jun 2009 05:23

Trident nuclear deterrent should be scrapped, says Nick Clegg

He said that Britain still needs a deterrent but that a "like for like" replacement for the submarine-based missile system was not necessary in the post-cold war world.

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 18 Jun 2009 05:24

Thorium as a green nuclear solution

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 19 Jun 2009 01:19

Obama-backed nuclear fuel bank plan stalls at IAEA

Diplomats in the boardroom said India led the objections. "A large number of delegations do not want to proceed," the Indian chief delegate said.

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 19 Jun 2009 01:22

Ending a dream, or nightmare

Should the province select either of two rivals—a French consortium headed by Areva or an American consortium headed by Westinghouse, both of which use different reactor technology—the new CANDU design will probably be aborted. AECL’s business would be limited to servicing the 48 nuclear-power plants around the world that use its technology. And Canada’s nuclear dream would have died.

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 19 Jun 2009 01:24

A naive approach to nuclear standoff

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 19 Jun 2009 02:22

Nuclear nations rush to lock in uranium deals

Sanjay M · Post by **Sanjay M** » 19 Jun 2009 09:26

Canadian Fusion Research Company Gets $14M Grant to Develop Sonofusion Device

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 19 Jun 2009 23:10

3 years for trying to sell nuclear gadgets

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 20 Jun 2009 18:47

Egypt signs agreement to build nuclear reactor

NRao · Post by **NRao** » 20 Jun 2009 19:28

Russia ready for deep nuclear arms cuts

Russia is ready to dramatically cut its nuclear stockpiles in a new arms pact with the United States if Washington meets Russia’s concerns over missile defence, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Saturday.

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 20 Jun 2009 21:57

Kick around Korea

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 20 Jun 2009 22:01

New US nuclear weapons plant advances

A replacement for the nuclear weapons plant at the Bannister Federal Complex moved closer to a fall groundbreaking after winning another round of support from a development agency.

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 20 Jun 2009 22:02

Big particle collider restart delayed till October

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 21 Jun 2009 01:02

Nuclear inaction puts half-century of Canadian innovation at risk

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 21 Jun 2009 01:08

Scientists plea to MPs: Don't let MAPLE reactors be another Avro Arrow

Some reactors around the world operate with a positive PCR, some are operated with a negative PCR. The AECL physicists did their math and predicted that the MAPLEs would operate with a negative PCR. Then they turned them on and, whoops, there was a slightly positive PCR.

That much we know. As to the causes and consequences of this mismatch between theory and reality, there is much debate. But at the end of the day, the regulator has the hammer and the regulator, believing this mismatch represented an unsafe condition, refused to let the MAPLEs get licensed.

Jean Koclas, Professor, Nuclear Engineering Institute, Engineering Physics Department, École polytechnique Montréal: If you don't know how the nuclear industry works: usually, when you modify something in a nuclear reactor, when you bring forth a new type of reactor, most of the time you have unforeseen difficulties. You can think of the Darlington reactor, which was just an increment in size of a standard design, and engineering problems arose which took more than a year to solve. So I think the MAPLE reactors, MAPLE-1 and MAPLE-2, do not escape these sort of engineer constants.

NRao · Post by **NRao** » 21 Jun 2009 02:11

Traveling–Wave Reactors (TWR)

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 21 Jun 2009 05:19

http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Docume ... irc759.pdf

The Secretariat has received a communication dated 12 June 2009 from the Permanent Missions of Germany and the Russian Federation, with the text of the working paper "Principles of fuel supply guarantees and the multilateralization of fuel cycle authorities" submitted by Germany and the Russian Federation to the Preparatory Committee for the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons..

http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Docume ... irc758.pdf

The Secretariat has received a communication dated 10 June 2009 from the Permanent Mission of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, with a note from the United Kingdom and the final remarks of the Chairman of the International Nuclear Fuel Supply Conference: Securing Safe Access to Peaceful Power, held in London on 17 and 18 March 2009

http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Docume ... irc755.pdf

The Secretariat has received a communication dated 26 May 2009 from the Permanent Mission of Austria, transmitting a working paper entitled Multilateralisation of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Increasing Transparency and Sustainable Security

http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Docume ... irc753.pdf

The Secretariat has received a communication dated 18 May 2009 from the Permanent Mission of Kazakhstan, transmitting a position paper of Kazakhstan regarding the establishment of IAEA nuclear fuel banks