Waste shipment stirs debate over lack of nuclear store

Reframing nuclear power in the UK energy debate: nuclear power, climate change mitigation and radioactive waste.

In the past decade, human influence on the climate through increased use of fossil fuels has become widely acknowledged as one of the most pressing issues for the global community. For the United Kingdom, we suggest that these concerns have increasingly become manifest in a new strand of political debate around energy policy, which reframes nuclear power as part of the solution to the need for ...

The Debate Over Teledemocracy

incineration of nuclear waste

Since the end of 1989, ECN renewed its interest in incineration of transuranium elements and fission products. With respect to the transmutation of minor actinides ECN was requested by the clutch government to start a study of a scenario based upon thermal reactors and to work on incineration by means of new fast reactor designs. There are also plans for a study on the possible use of accelerat...

Alzheimer's debate boils over.

William T. Golden Treasurer Richard S. Nicholson Executive Officer John Abelson Frederick Alt Don L. Anderson Stephen J. Benkovic Gunter K-J Blobel Floyd E. Bloom Henry R. Boume James J. Bull Kathryn Calame Charles R. Cantor Ralph J. Cicerone John M. Coffin Robert Dorfman Bruce F. Eldridge Paul T. Englund Federic S. Fay Harry A. Fozzard Theodore H. Gaballe Roger 1. M. Glass Stephen J. Goff Core...

Fuel to the nuclear debate

Nuclear energy is one of the most popular topics of today’s publication market. The literature about the pros and cons of nuclear power may easily fill a whole library. Is there anything new to add to this voluminous body of arguments and contra-arguments that would justify editing another book on nuclear energy? Andrew Blowers and David Pepper obviously felt that way and published a reader on ...