the energy released during nuclear fission or fusion, especially when used to generate electricity.
Questions tagged [nuclear-energy]
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Does one kg of rock contain more energy in the form of U-238 than one kg of petroleum?
Let's consider rock and petroleum. Which contains more energy per kilogram? Due to Einstein, we know mass is energy, and the energy contents of both are equivalent. However, let's forget this and consider only practically extractable energy in this…
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Are liquid Thorium reactors safe?
A reaction with Thorium is a nuclear reaction and Thorium seems to be getting good press as of late. For example, the descriptions given by Kirk Sorensen in his TED talk.
Could Thorium reactor accidents occur?
What are the waste products?
Can…
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Does radiation sensitivity decrease with age?
Just after 3:23 in this TED Radio Hour segment, featured guest Holly Morris makes the claim that "the older you are, the less detrimental the effects of radiation is." The context is in why explaining older people were allowed to return to their…
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Did Galen Winsor swim in a spent fuel pool of a nuclear power plant?
It is claimed here from minute 50 onwards. Also he claims that he drank 2l of the water and that he ate some uranium.
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Was the molten salt reactor (MSR) at Oak Ridge shut down over weekends?
I keep reading about this amazing claim such as quoted here:
And as it was described in the article, there the passive "walk away"
safety system using the freeze plug. This was routinely used in the
Oak Ridge MSR experiment, where they would…
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Would a meltdown/explosion at Zaporizhia mean the "evacuation" of Europe?
According to the Guardian, Zelenskiy said (on the fighting at Zaporizhia nuclear plant):
“If there will be an explosion, it will be the end to all of us: the
end of Europe, the evacuation of Europe,”
Source: The Guardian
While such a thing would…
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Has Brilliant Light Power developed a new source of energy from water molecules?
Brilliant Light Power is a company that claims, on their web-site, to have:
developed a new commercially competitive, non-polluting, plasma-based primary source of massive power from the conversion of hydrogen atoms of water molecules to dark…
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