With future nuclear reactor designs, many nuclear engineers believe that it is, in fact, sustainable.
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India has been working on thorium for some years, but the technology is as different from today's nuclear power as gas is from coal, and very few nuclear engineers even hear about liquid fuel during their training, let alone get to work on it.
Nuclear engineers have long known of increased risks from high burn-up fuels, but scientists at Argonne have been sounding the alarm about storage dangers in recent years after their research ( pdf) showed high burn-up fuels may result in fuel rods becoming more brittle over time.
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This prospect has been accelerated by the departure of large numbers of America's top nuclear scientists and engineers from the Department of Energy's nuclear weapons laboratories and industrial complex since 1992.
Staff including nuclear scientists and engineers are planning to walk out of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) in Berkshire on Wednesday.
Staff including nuclear scientists and engineers had been planning to walk out of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) in Berkshire on Wednesday.
Why does France, the land of Pascal and Descartes, home to top nuclear physicists and aviation engineers--the birthplace of the World Wide Web's precursor, Minitel--lag little Israel in technology entrepreneurship?
Like surgeons, or engineers in a nuclear reactor, they wore sterile booties.
Russia has identified India as a new market for its civilian nuclear technology, with Russian engineers already building two reactors in India.
That safety, and indeed, the reliability and credibility of the nuclear deterrent will, accordingly, rely ever more critically on a dwindling number of highly skilled scientists, engineers and technicians in the U.S. nuclear weapons complex.
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The system cooling water which contained spent - but still highly radioactive - nuclear fuel rods failed and it took engineers some 30 hours to repair the damage.
Engineers are racing to avert a nuclear catastrophe at Fukushima Daiichi, badly damaged by Friday's quake and tsunami.
French and German engineers have already developed the next generation of nuclear reactors, expected to start commercial operation in the next five years.
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