Late at night on February 3, 2009 the crew of the French nuclear submarine Triomphant, experienced something of a shock. The 138-meter-long submarine, the lead boat of four serving today as a key part of France’s nuclear strike force, was … Read more
Photo by Jason Pratt Jacob was finally fed up with his debilitating social anxiety. As a successful businessman with a wife and kids, he had achieved what most people would call success, but for some reason his anxiety levels and … Read more
Nuclear Power at McMurdo Station, Antarctica Tyler ReidMarch 21, 2014 Submitted as coursework for PH241, Stanford University, Winter 2014 Introduction Fig. 1: Important Antarctic Bases, Including McMurdo Station. (Source: Wikimedia Commons) During the 1960s and early 1970s, McMurdo Staion, the … Read more
(This piece is the first part of an edited excerpt from Robert Bryce’s 2020 book, A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations. The second part can be found here.) Since the 1970s, the largest non-governmental environmental organizations … Read more
Benefits Microreactor designs vary, but most would be able to produce 1-20 megawatts of thermal energy that could be used directly as heat or converted to electric power. They can be used to generate clean and reliable electricity for commercial … Read more
Since 2016, the canopylike New Safe Confinement has sealed off and protected the ruined Chernobyl reactor. Pyotr Sivkov/TASS/Getty Images By Richard StoneMay. 5, 2021 , 11:20 AM Thirty-five years after the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine exploded in the … Read more
Hello, and welcome back to Beyond NERVA! Really quickly, I apologize that I haven’t published more recently. Between moving to a different state, job hunting, and the challenges we’re all facing with the current medical situation worldwide, this post is … Read more
reader comments 74 with 42 posters participating Share this story More details have emerged about the climate and energy priorities of President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan, and they include support for nuclear power and carbon capture with sequestration (CCS). In … Read more
Nuclear power faces a wobbly future 10 years after an earthquake and tsunami triggered a triple reactor meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan. But the industry’s unstable footing has less to do with the Fukushima accident—and more to … Read more
Many environmentalists have opposed nuclear power, citing its dangers and the difficulty of disposing of its radioactive waste. But a Pulitzer Prize-winning author argues that nuclear is safer than most energy sources and is needed if the world hopes to … Read more