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Savannah River National Laboratory Wins R&D 100 Award for Nuclear Waste Management Innovation

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6d ago In July, we welcomed students from South Carolina State University's BSRA-partner summer program for a day, exploring health physics, graduate education, nuclear science, & sustainable design. Th… ×2 +6.5
7d ago Inside the Experimental Traps Scientists Set for Ghostly Neutrinos Seventy years ago, the physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines took a custom-built 10-ton detector, surrounded it with thick … ×2 +3.0
6d ago #Bulgaria 's Kozloduy nuclear power plant is on the brink of emergency output reduction as the water level of the Danube river is approaching a critically low point. balkangreenenergynews.com/danub… -4.0
6d ago Danube nears critically low level at Bulgaria’s Kozloduy nuclear plant https://www.byteseu.com/2284963/ Nuclear power plant Kozloduy in Bulgaria is on the brink of emergency output reduction as t… -7.5
6d ago For any still in doubt in #Australia, An article last week about #nuclear power plants on the Danube in Hungary being curtailed by lack of river flow surely points to the inanity of any considerati… -6.0
6d ago rapidclimatechange.org/global-warmi... Jellyfish incursions + historically low river levels in the Danube and Rhine wreak havoc with nuclear cooling systems. The water in the Persian Gulf is 97.7F.… -6.5
6d ago They did the same with Dutch coal-fired electricity, seemingly for rising market prices, allowing those to compete again, as export to Belgium. Guessing this is, at least recently, also for taking… ×2 -3.0
6d ago Do NOT eat the fish out of any Pittsburgh river unless you’re prepared to play radioactive super power roulette. The lead content makes the water legally a metal What will it be: the ability to bre… -8.0
6d ago Romania has taken its last reactor off line due to the low water levels of the Danube River, in what is the latest example of how the heat wave in Europe has impacted the temperatures needed to ope… -3.0
6d ago Sure. However, this is rather nuanced. I don't think it makes sense to replace a nuclear power plant completely simply because its river is low during some of the hottest days of the year. That dis… +2.0
6d ago Sure. However, this is rather nuanced. I don't think it makes sense to replace the nuclear power plant completely simply because its river is low during some of the hottest days of the year. That d… +2.0
6d ago Sure. However, this is rather nuanced. I don't think it makes sense to replace the nuclear power plant completely simply because its river is during some of the hottest days of the year. That disre… +2.0
6d ago If the river water isn't going to be available for many of the current Nuclear power plants to keep operating, they would need to be replaced. -3.0
6d ago The heat is breaking infrastructure. Danube River at record lows Hungary shut its only nuclear plant for the first time in 44 years. Cooling water shortages are real. Spain's wildfires are 5.6x wor… -6.0
6d ago Not your research assistant, but try the Natrium design from Terrapower (and other liquid-metal-cooled systems), the various high-temperature gas systems (prismatic and pebble-bed), etc. The nuclea… +3.0
6d ago So, over the years a lot of nice-seeming science guys have been adamant that nuclear energy must be embraced to stop climate change, and now I’m watching Europe’s nuclear plants face shutting down … -3.0
7d ago 🔥📉 Europe's extreme heatwave "cripples nuclear output"! Romania's last operating reactor is offline due to record-low Danube River levels, with Hungary and France also facing challenges. Source -5.0
7d ago [From tourism to power generation and productivity, Europe feels economic cost of heatwaves | Economics | The Guardian] “Low river levels have stalled German freight traffic and forced closure of … -1.5
7d ago www.instagram.com/reel/DcFsPsu... 👈🏻 It’s been 58 days since a nuclear reactor was turned on inside the Colorado River Basin, thanks to Gov. Cox, excellerating the evaporation rate of the water sup… -6.5
7d ago ❝ sixtus.net: People sink ships to dam a river that is supposed to cool a power plant where a nuclear chain reaction boils water, which drives a turbine that generates electricity with a generator … -2.0
7d ago Perhaps he could take a trip along the Danube on a river cruise, taking in the sights of the nuclear power stations currently shut, oh and he’ll be on a coach or maybe a bike www.theguardian.com/ne… -1.5
7d ago According to Le Monde, France has been the worst affected country by the heat (most extreme changes for the longest period). Fires, water shortages, dry rivers, lower crop yields, nuclear power sta… -6.5
7d ago The Danube is so low that Budapest’s “Rock of Starvation” has reappeared; Hungary has cut nuclear output and towns are trucking water. A river story, not a metaphor. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-int… -4.0
7d ago The article that you cited is referring to exactly what I've stated. Low river water levels create a risk of damaging the local ecosystem if the nuclear plant releases its wastewater back into the … -3.5
7d ago 🇭🇺 "The plant currently operates at around 25% of its ​capacity due to a historic drought and record low ⁠water levels on the Danube river, from which the ​nuclear plant draws its coolant." www.reu… -6.5
7d ago The barges aren’t generating power; they’re meant to raise the river enough for cooling-water access. When drought starts threatening a nuclear plant’s basic infrastructure, “energy crisis” becomes… ×2 -6.0
7d ago Europe's weirdest dam: Hungary is sinking two 80m cargo barges into the Danube to raise water levels near the Paks nuclear plant. The river runs dangerously low in summer, and the reactor needs dep… -2.5
8d ago From tourism to power generation and productivity, Europe feels economic cost of heatwaves: Low river levels have stalled German freight traffic and forced closure of nuclear plants in France Acro… -5.0
8d ago Americas largest nuclear power plant works just fine out in a desert with no access to water. For any thermal power plant it's cheaper to use river water or the sea, but not a necessity. +2.5
8d ago From tourism to power generation and productivity, Europe feels economic cost of heatwaves Low river levels have stalled German freight traffic and forced closure of nuclear plants in FranceAcross… -6.5

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