What is nuclear fission?
What is fusion?
What is a radioactive isotope?
What are uranium-238 and uranium-235?
What is radiation?
What are the units of radiation?
What is the naturally occurring or background radiation received by people?
What are the environmental and human health effects of radiation?
How is electricity made from nuclear fission?
What is a nuclear reactor?
What is a burner reactor?
What is a breeder reactor?
What is a meltdown?
What nuclear power generating accidents have occurred?
What is the nuclear fuel cycle?
Are we likely to run out of uranium?
How is nuclear waste currently handled?
What will happen to high-level nuclear waste in the future?
What are the disadvantages of nuclear energy?
What are the advantages of nuclear energy?
Ecolinks On The Web
- http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~cz725/ - Frequently Asked Questions about Nuclear Power
in Canada - (unofficial). Mostly about the CANDU (a
registered trademark) stands for "Canada Deuterium Uranium". It is a
pressurized-heavy-water, natural-uranium power reactor designed first in the
1960's by a consortium of Canadian government and private industry.
- http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/nuclear-faq.html - Frequently asked questions about nuclear energy - A personal home page by
John McCarthy, who is admittedly "...not a doomster." He is a computer
scientist at Stanford University.
- http://www.cannon.net/~gonyeau/nuclear/index.htm - The Virtual
Nuclear Tourist - Joseph Gonyeau’s personal web page, with links to 200+
pages he has compiled about nuclear energy, nuclear accidents, and radiation
safety.
- http://www.eia.doe.gov/fuelnuclear.html - The Department of
Energy’s website for electronic information about nuclear power and nuclear
wastes - Check out the document entitled: "Spent Nuclear Fuel
Discharges from U.S. Reactors 1994". This publication provides current
statistical data on fuel assemblies irradiated at commercial nuclear reactors
operating in the United States. This year's report provides data on the current
inventories and storage capacities at these reactors. A good graphical depiction
of energy use in the USA is shown here: http://www.eia.doe.gov/fueloverview.html
- http://www.nrc.gov/ - United States Nuclear Regulatory
Commission - An official US Government site about nuclear power and its
regulation. Go to the "watch list" link. Here the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
evaluates the performance of the operating nuclear power plants in the United
States and identifies those which require additional regulatory oversight because
of declining performance. Once placed on the "watch list" a plant must
demonstrate consistent improved performance before it is removed from the list.
Also visit: U.S. Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal description and U.S.
High-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal.
- http://www.nei.org/ - Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) Home Page. - This is the nuclear power industry-sponsored web site that lists the benefits of
nuclear power, such as: "Because nuclear power plants do not burn anything,
they are non-polluting and kind to the environment. Unlike coal-, gas- and
oil-fired power plants, nuclear power plants do not emit carbon dioxide and other
harmful greenhouse gases into the atmosphere." This is true. But what
about the waste disposal issue? They also discuss that here. This is a very well
made and informative site.
