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Preliminary Lessons From Fukushima For Future Nuclear Power Plants

March 25, 2011 by Barry Brook
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No strong conclusions can yet be drawn on the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis, because so much detail and hard data remains unclear or unavailable. Indeed, it will probably take years to piece the whole of this story together (as has now been done for accidents like TMI and Chernobyl [read this and this from Prof. Bernard Cohen for an... [read more]

TCASE 6: Cooling water and thermal power plants

November 19, 2009 by Barry Brook
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Heat engines require cooling, to turn heat energy into mechanical energy (and then, via a turbine-connected generator, to electrical energy). This is an unavoidable physical principle, and is typically exploited via the Carnot cycle. Usually, this cooling requirement uses water. Why do I raise this point? Because it seems to... [read more]