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Nuclear Power

2 Largest Steam Turbines Ever Made Are Heading For The English Countryside. Here's Why.

September 16, 2016
The Arabelle steam turbine has a name befitting a European princess, but it's anything but dainty. The machine—the largest steam turbine ever built—is longer than an Airbus 380 and taller than the average man. A pair of them, each capable of producing 1,770 megawatts—is now set to cross the English Channel to provide energy for generations.
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nuclear

Christine Todd Whitman: What’s the Most Effective Path to Clean Energy? Go Nuclear

Christine Todd Whitman President Of The Whitman Strategy Group
February 09, 2016

Overlooking nuclear energy as part of America’s clean energy strategy would be tantamount to unilateral disarmament.

Clean, green and reliable — these should be the core elements of our nation’s energy policy in the 21st century and beyond. Accepting any lesser criteria will hinder our efforts to reduce carbon pollution and provide clean air for all Americans to breathe. That’s why we cannot afford to lose the most important tool in our clean energy arsenal: carbon-free nuclear energy.
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power

Ultra Super Critical: These Badass Machines Help Make 30 Percent Of The World’s Power

Tomas Kellner
January 07, 2016
When GE acquired Alstom’s power and grid business last fall, it bought some of world’s largest wind and water turbines, “ultra-super-critical” steam turbines - that's their real name - massive generators and other advanced technology for making lots of electricity. So much so that with Alstom, GE technology can now generate one third of the world’s power.
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Medical Imaging

New Production Process Could Help Break Imaging Isotope Shortage

Erin Bryant
December 21, 2015
As aging nuclear reactors require increased maintenance, and even shut down completely, the strain on their production is being felt far beyond the energy industry: inside oncology and cardiac clinics. But help is on the way.
Every year, doctors order as many as 40 million medical imaging scans that require a radioactive isotope called technetium-99m (Tc-99m). The scans help them diagnose cancer, heart disease and other serious maladies.
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Nuclear Power

Sink and Swim: Stinger The Swimming Robot Keeps Nuclear Reactors Healthy

Tomas Kellner
October 16, 2015

Nothing says summertime in Georgia like a dip in the old swimming hole. But near the town of Baxley, there’s one pool that’s not open to the public: the crystal-clear blue waters of the containment vessel bathing the Edwin Irby Hatch Power Plant’s nuclear reactor.

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Perspectives

Taking the Carbon Out of Power Markets — Q&A with Manuel Baritaud

Manuel Baritaud International Energy Agency
November 17, 2014
As countries around the world seek to address climate change, one obvious place to focus is power production.
 

Not only does electricity generation account for about 40 percent of energy-related CO2 emissions, but the power sector is also expected to play more of a role in reducing the share of fossil fuels in the global energy mix than any other, the International Energy Agency (IEA) explains in its latest World Energy Outlook.
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Nuclear Energy

This Advanced Nuclear Reactor Feasts on Radioactive Leftovers

Tomas Kellner
November 06, 2014

 

Here’s the skinny on conventional water-cooled nuclear reactors: they produce hundreds of megawatts of carbon-free power, but when they are done digesting their nuclear fuel, more than 95 percent of the available energy still remains locked inside. “If that happened to us with regular food, we would never be able to stop eating,” says Jonathan Allen, spokesman for GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy.

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