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Research Grant to Assist Carbon Capture, Nuclear Energy, Renewable Fuels, Electrical Energy Storage and Energy Harvesting

DoE grant to assist with carbon capture, nuclear energy, renewable fuels, electrical energy storage and energy harvesting research

13 Aug 2009

Fusion Energy and Biofuels Research To Benefit From New Department of Energy Funding

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) will receive $40.3 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to support research in biofuels, fusion energy and the nation’s power grid and to ensure scientists have state-of-the-art equipment for their investigations

4 Aug 2009

Human Life Likely to be Destroyed by Nuclear Weapons

The Australian government is showing renewed interest in nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, but there is little evidence yet that either the government or the Commission is fully alert to the most momentous truth of the present era - nuclear arsenals are fundamentally incompatible with continued human existence

2 Aug 2009

Global Cooling the Likely Result of Nuclear War

While global warming looms large as a serious threat, a leading physicist visiting Sydney this week says we should be just as concerned about the catastrophe that would result from widespread global cooling following a nuclear war

29 Jul 2009

How and Where Should Nuclear Waste Be Disposed

The withdrawal Yucca Mountain in Nevada as a potential nuclear waste repository has reopened the debate over how and where to dispose of spent nuclear fuel and high level nuclear waste

9 Jul 2009

Construction Begins on World's First Floating Nuclear Power Plant

Russia is the first country to build a floating nuclear power plant. Similar projects have existed in other countries, but their realization was never adopted

6 Jul 2009

Greenpeace Says Spains Fails on Climate Change by Increasing Life of Dangerous Nuclear Power Plant

Greenpeace deplores President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's decision to extend the operating life of the dangerous nuclear plant Garoña (Burgos province) for four more years till 2013

2 Jul 2009

A Million Reasons to Study Nuclear Fuels For Florida State University

A Florida State University researcher has received a $1 million, five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for a study that could lead to the design of better nuclear fuels and safer and more efficient reactors to generate nuclear power

30 Jun 2009

Government Asked to Support Research into Recycling Used Nuclear Fuel

As the White House and U.S. Congress create a new national strategy for managing used nuclear fuel, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) is encouraging lawmakers to support the research and development necessary for recycling nuclear fuel

22 Jun 2009

We Can Win The Climate Change Fight But Will Need New Technologies and a Completely New Energy System by 2050

VTT just published a book entitled 'Energy Visions 2050'. The scenarios described in the book suggest that new technologies coupled with close international climate co-operation could enable us to mitigate climate change, but success will be dependent on renewal of the entire energy system by the year 2050

18 Jun 2009