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Nuke News / Nuclear Regulatory Commission ...
Last post by Marlin - Today at 12:10
Nuclear Regulatory Commission panel hears worries, but mostly support for Three Mile Island restart

https://penncapital-star.com/energy-environment/nuclear-regulatory-commission-panel-hears-worries-but-mostly-support-for-tmi-restart/
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Nuke News / ORNL, Kairos Power partner to ...
Last post by Marlin - Today at 12:08
ORNL, Kairos Power partner to advance deployment of next-gen nuclear energy

https://www.ornl.gov/news/ornl-kairos-power-partner-advance-deployment-next-gen-nuclear-energy
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Nuke News / Scientists decry Trump’s rush ...
Last post by Marlin - Today at 12:06
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Nuke News / National analysis of cancer mo...
Last post by Marlin - Today at 12:03
Long and technical and does not reach a conclusion only a recommendation to study further. Sounds a bit like the "Tooth Fairy Project" or the "Portsmouth Shipyard radiation exposure study."

National analysis of cancer mortality and proximity to nuclear power plants in the United States

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-69285-4
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Nuke News / Re: US particle accelerators t...
Last post by Marlin - Today at 11:45
Quote from: Mounder on Today at 10:54"The technology can effectively "burn" the most hazardous components."  That's such an exaggeration of what high neutron flux is. It's just concentrated neutrons.  It's still neutrons hitting a nucleus and splitting or reordering.

I disagree and the people with the big brains and big degrees seem to disagree and say you can transmute the longer-lived isotopes. Happens in commercial reactors that produce plutonium then burn it to produce a fraction of the plants power.

"Instead of having a lifetime of 100,000 years in storage, for example, you can shorten the storage years down to 300," said Rongli Geng, head of SRF Science & Technology at Jefferson Lab and principal investigator for both projects."

https://www.nuclear-power.com/nuclear-power-plant/nuclear-fuel/plutonium/plutonium-pwr/
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Nuke News / Re: US particle accelerators t...
Last post by Mounder - Today at 10:54
"The technology can effectively "burn" the most hazardous components."  That's such an exaggeration of what high neutron flux is. It's just concentrated neutrons.  It's still neutrons hitting a nucleus and splitting or reordering.
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Nuke News / US unveils 'world’s first' irr...
Last post by Marlin - Today at 10:46
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Nuke News / Re: US particle accelerators t...
Last post by Marlin - Yesterday at 09:52
Quote from: Mounder on Yesterday at 07:38you can't just hit radioactive material with a particle accelerator and magically lower decay times (and you'll be running it forever and getting little done). You can split atoms with it.  It says there's a lot of heat produced. I'm sure there is a lot of energy released. It also uses a ton of electrical power. What it doesn't say in the article is that they're going to hit "fissionable elements" with it. Maybe they'll pick and choose some smaller activated stuff on the periodic chart.

It makes some sense to me that a high neutron flux would burn transuranics lowering half-life. They are still working on it.
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