Energy
Policy, technology, and resources
May 25, 2011
"Pools that hold spent nuclear fuel at American plants typically contain far more radioactive material than the spent fuel pool at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant, a new report says."
May 21, 2011
"The Nuclear Regulator Commission is asking Westinghouse to fix its calculations and to explain why it submitted flawed information in the first place."
May 20, 2011
"Emergency venting systems in Japan and the United States variously require button-pushing in the control room, electricity or compressed gas to operate the valves, and/or muscle power on a crank. After the quake in Japan, operators there couldn't make the valves work through any of these methods."
May 18, 2011
"Aftershocks from Fukushima shake political confidence in nuclear--and provide a boost for renewables"
May 18, 2011
"Vents that American officials said would prevent devastating explosions at nuclear plants in the United States were put to the test in Japan and failed."
May 10, 2011
"Despite volcanic activity and many hot springs, Japan's geothermal power plants account for only 0.3 percent of its electricity production."
May 9, 2011
"Radioactive byproducts indicate that nuclear chain reactions must have been burning at the damaged nuclear reactors long after the disaster unfolded"
May 8, 2011
"Critics have long painted the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as well-intentioned but weak, and incapable of keeping tabs on an industry to which it remains closely tied."
Apr 26, 2011
Apr 15, 2011
"Nuclear waste pools are packed more densely in the U.S. than those at Fukushima, with no removal plan in sight."
