Demand for electricity is rising and the burning of fossil fuel is climbing to dangerous levels. One half of pollutions is caused by coal, gas and oil burning power plants. Carbon dioxide is made by burning coal as well as producing radioactive material. Power plants...
Introduction For the past century, man has become innovative and he invented an energy which is very strong and reliable; this is the nuclear energy. At the start of the 21st-century man used nuclear energy to make nuclear bombs especially in the Second World War...
Low pollution Nuclear power releases the least amount of greenhouse gases compared to other types of energy. It has been determined that the number of greenhouse gases has decreased by almost half because of the prevalence in the utilization of nuclear power. Nuclear energy has...
It’s like something out of a science fiction movie. Nuclear waste – hundreds of millions of gallons of it – are buried underground after the Cold War. Years later, it threatens to contaminate major sources of food and water for an entire nation. The government...
Energy is used in different ways, and there are different types of energy. Nuclear energy was researched for years, has complicated methods of making energy, and has advantages and disadvantages. It is very valuable, because a small amount of uranium (common source of nuclear energy)...
An outstanding New Zealand Scientist, best some might say. Is he? A boy named Ernest Rutherford was given birth near Nelson, New Zealand in 1871. He was very inventive in his early years, which he used to help his parents’ farm, He said, “We haven’t...
Niels Bohr was a man who was born in Copenhagen in the year 1885, on the 7th of October. Niels Henrik David Bohr was already in the clear to be a strong influence to the scientific community. Bohr was raised in an educated family, where...
Technetium-99m is a nuclear isomer of Technetium-99, which is an isotope of Technetium. It is the most used medical radioisotope, used as a radioactive tracer which is traced in the body using gamma cameras. It emits gamma rays without beta rays making it useful as...
Engineering is arguably one of the most important professions in the world. Engineers create the bridges society uses everyday to get from place to place, engineers create the cars society uses to cross those bridges and engineers are even the reason why society can power...
Dangerous caesium-137, which has a long half-life, is still a problem. There are measurable levels in soils and some foods in a lot of Europe. Five million people still live in places with elevated radiation levels. It was caused by mankind because the people that...
Introduction to The Economics of Energy As the world moves towards a future where cleaner and more plentiful energy sources will be utilized over traditional non-renewables, the research field into the benefits and detriments of nuclear energy continues to grow. While health and safety risks,...
In the 1940’s, the world was at war between Germany, Italy, Japan and the Allies. This whole war could have been very catastrophic. Nazi Germany was planning on taking over the world. During the war, a brave and smart group of people got together to...
According to the World Nuclear Association, radioactivity from nuclear waste will take 1,000 years for the amount of radiation to be equal to that which is already naturally occurring and safe for the environment. There are three classes of nuclear waste, low and intermediate-level wastes...
The objective of IAEA Safeguards is to deter the spread of nuclear weapons by the early detection of the misuse of nuclear material or technology. Recently an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts said France has significantly strengthened its regulatory framework for nuclear...
Established in 1948, Indian atomic energy commission turned towards United Kingdom for their first help in the making of Apsara. Subsequently, with a similar vision, the CIRUS reactor was supplied by Canada, where, the heavy water came from the United States. India, over the years,...
There are a few different cycles that the earth rotates around. Some of the cycles were affected by the Fukushima Daihatsu disaster. The Fukushima plant had suffered from a 9. 0 magnitude earthquake. Plants, animals, and even people were affected by this disasters. Here’s a...
Introduction The production of energy for domestic consumption in Australia is currently dominated by coal, oil and gas, with only a minor component from renewable sources. Although Australia has significant reserves of uranium and is one of the world’s main exporters of the mineral, it...
Bangladesh’s first nuclear power plant (NPP) in Rooppur on the east side of the river Padma in the Pabna district is nearing completion. The atomic energy project which includes two units, with a capacity of 1.2GW each will make Bangladesh, only the third South Asian...
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