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  • Aker's nuclear Accelerator Driven Thorium Reactor wins prestigious Energy Award

    01/07/2011 9:47:41 PM PST · by Straight Vermonter · 42 replies
    pennenergy.com ^ | November 18, 2010
    Aker Solutions' Accelerator Driven Thorium Reactor™ (ADTR) has won the prestigious Energy Award at this year's IChemE (Institution of Chemical Engineers) Innovations and Excellence Awards. The Energy Award recognizes the best project or process to demonstrate innovation in renewable energy, alternative energy sources, efficient energy use or the development of energy production methods that reduce energy and water intensity. More about the ADTR(TM) power station The Accelerator Driven Thorium Reactor™ (ADTR) power station is the name given by Aker Solutions for the company's new design of a nuclear power station. Given world-wide expansion in nuclear power generation, driven by many...
  • A Battle Over Uranium Bodes Ill for U.S. Debate

    01/02/2011 7:09:46 PM PST · by neverdem · 23 replies
    NY Times ^ | December 26, 2010 | KIRK JOHNSON
    NATURITA, Colo. — The future of nuclear power in America is back on the table, with all its vast implications, as global warming revives the search for energy sources that produce less greenhouse gas. But in this depressed corner of western Colorado — one of the first places in the world that uranium, nuclear energy’s primary fuel, was ever dug from the ground in industrial scale — the debate is both simpler and more complicated. A proposal for a new mill to process uranium ore, which would lead to the opening of long-shuttered mines in Colorado and Utah, has brought...