Finland's much-delayed Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor started test production on Saturday
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The nuclear industry argues regulators don’t understand new small reactors
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Why do manatees die when power plants shut down?
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SpaceX’s Texas Starbase needs natural gas for a new power station and rocket fuel. But how will it get there?
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India’s power outage risks increase as coal stockpiles plummet
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A German power plant just ran out of coal in latest energy shock
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Why California is shutting down its last nuclear plant
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New Form Energy iron-air battery outperforms best lithium ion tech
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5% of electric plants responsible for 73% of power sector emissions
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A Finger Lakes power plant plans to ramp up energy-intensive Bitcoin mining
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TVO cleared for fuel loading at Olkiluoto Unit 3
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IAmA chemical engineer who works with spent nuclear fuel. AMA!
Thanks to @suspended and @deimos for the suggestion! Hey y’all, I am a basin chemistry engineer for the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. Our facility stores spent...
Thanks to @suspended and @deimos for the suggestion!
Hey y’all, I am a basin chemistry engineer for the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. Our facility stores spent nuclear fuel from a variety of research and experimental reactors underwater. Our specialty is highly-enriched aluminum-clad fuel, but we have a diverse array of unusual fuels from around the world. A good overview of fuel types can be found here.
My primary responsibility is ensuring the basin water is kept highly pure to minimize corrosion to the fuel, as well as ensure it is free of radionuclides to the extent practicable. I’m happy to answer any questions I can about nuclear fuel, nuclear power, radioactive waste, etc.
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Corrosion of Al-clad fuel
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Carbon Capture Convolution - An exploration of a plan to keep a New Mexico coal plant running
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Georgia Power receives first nuclear fuel shipment for Vogtle Unit 3
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Why are nuclear plants so expensive? Safety’s only part of the story
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At Iceland's Blue Lagoon you can swim in power plant wastewater – here's a story about geothermal energy, cheap heat, and how to keep some ducks warm
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US gives first-ever OK for small commercial nuclear reactor
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Coal industry will never recover after coronavirus pandemic, say experts
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Sweden closes last coal-fired power station two years ahead of schedule – country becomes third in Europe to exit coal, ahead of mass withdrawal from polluting fossil fuel
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Nearly half of global coal plants will be unprofitable this year
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Group of Canadian premiers will work together to research and build small modular nuclear reactors
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Two of America’s biggest coal plants closed this month
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Renewable electricity generation overtakes fossil fuel generation in UK for first time
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Nuclear power offers an abundant supply of low-carbon energy. But what to do with the deadly radioactive waste?
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Rural Colorado electricity provider announces early coal plant closure, focus on renewables
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Power has been restored to much of Argentina and Uruguay after a massive electrical failure left tens of millions of people in the dark
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Nuclear power is not the answer in a time of climate change
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I oversaw the US nuclear power industry. Now I think it should be banned.
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This company says the future of nuclear energy is smaller, cheaper and safer
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The removal of fuel from Fukushima reactors begins, eight years after the disaster
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Mapped: The world’s coal power plants
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As US coal use drops to 1979 levels, EPA may ease rules on new coal plants
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Hurricane Florence, worries grow over half dozen nuclear power plants in storm's path
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