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Overviews

• Is Nuclear Power Safe? (http://www.energybusinessreports.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=1200&affillink=NEC) - The Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power plant in Japan discharged approximately 350 gallons of radioactive water into the sea Wednesday after an earthquake shook the Japanese town, 160 miles northwest of Tokyo. 355-page report reviews global nuclear power outlook and opportunities. (Energy Business Reports; July 18, 2007)
  

Featured

Top 100:

• Cold Fusion (index page) (http://www.freeenergynews.com/Directory/ColdFusion/index.html) - Also known as Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR), or Chemically Assisted Nuclear Reactions (CANR), has had hundreds of replications. The difficulty has been in producing worth-while yield reliably.

Top 100:

• Colliding Plasma Toroid Clean-Energy Breakthrough (http://pesn.com/2006/03/08/9600242_Spheromak_Plasma_Toroid/) - Plasma Toroid technology by EPS remains stable without magnetic confinement, by using low-level background gas pressure. Could provide non-polluting electricity and heat for homes, as well as motive power for vehicles and aircraft, at a fraction of the cost of conventional energy generation. (PESN; March 8, 2006)
  

News

• Topix: Science/Technology Nuclear (http://www.topix.com/tech/nuclear-energy)
• One Nuclear Place (1NP) (http://www.1nuclearplace.com/)
• NUCNET (http://www.worldnuclear.org/)
• Nuclear Energy Institute (http://www.nei.org/)
• U.S. Dept. of Energy Nuclear Energy News Alerts (http://www.ne.doe.gov/newsalerts.html)

Technologies

• Rapperswil Group Resonance Power technology (http://www.rqm.ch/content.htm) - The basis of the technology is the conversion of nuclear energy directly into electrical energy by resonance coupling and not by fission. (ZPEnergy; Jan. 17, 2006)
  

• Hortong Electron Orbit Energy Generator - HORTONG (E=mc2) is a new process of transformation of energy with allegedly no need to use radioactive material to obtain the loosening of energy of the orbit of the electron. (PESWiki; Mar. 28, 2006)
  

• Toshiba Builds Household Nuclear Fusion Reactor - Toshiba has developed a new class of nuclear reactor 100 times smaller than a standard reactor. These micro sized nuclear reactors could be used to power large houses, apartment blocks or some city blocks.
  

• Arie M. De Geus' AMDG Scientific Corp - The late Mr. DeGeus discovered novel energy generating technologies, all of which feature ‘over-unity’ energy production, relating to fractional hydrogen, low-energy nuclear transmutations, electrodynamics, torsion fields and electro-gravitics.
  

• D2Fusion, Inc. - Company expects to bring cold fusion technology to market as early as Summer, 2007; first in the form of some kind of home heater technology, then with electrical generators for homes.
  

• Electron Power Systems™ (EPS) - Toroid plasma technology that remains stable without magnetic confinement, by using background gas pressure for confinement instead, could provide clean, non-polluting energy technology at one-tenth the cost of present energy generation.
  

• Focus Fusion - Lawrenceville Plasma Physics is currently researching and developing the Plasma Focus Device for hydrogen-boron nuclear fusion. Focus Fusion is projected to be a safe, clean, easy, reliable energy solution that could provide electricity at a few tenths of a cent per kilowatt-hour.
  

• Blacklight Power - New field of novel hydrogen chemistry; inventor of a new method: the BlackLight Process, which generates light, power, plasma, and a vast class of new compositions of matter.
  

• Hot Balls Chemical Nuclear Reaction - "While working as an engineer at the Idaho National Engineering Lab (INEL) for a private contractor, we invented Hot Balls that would heat to 450 degrees." Previous work regarding petroleum cracking with catalysts are listed as well as supply sources for steel balls and the catalysts.
  

• Hortong Electron Orbit Energy Generator by et3m - HORTONG (E=mc2) is a new process of transformation of energy with allegedly no need to use radioactive material to obtain the loosening of energy of the orbit of the electron.
  

• Joseph Papp's Nobel Gas Engines - A nuclear process may be involved whereby inert nobel gasses can be used to generate tremendous energy.
  

• Resonant Nuclear Reactor that uses U-238 - Not "free" energy since it uses U-238 as the power source. It radiates, but simple lead shielding stops it just fine.
  

Research & Development

• Green Atoms (http://bob-dratch.org/greenatoms.htm) - Bob Dratch proposes using Thorium as a clean, non-polluting, non-nuclear-weapons-creation source and replacement for Uranium in power reactors.Powerpoint Presentation (http://dhri.com/articles/THP.zip)
  

• Nanomaterial turns radiation directly into electricity (http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/energy-fuels/dn13545-nanomaterial-turns-radiation-directly-into-electricity.html?feedId=energy-fuels_rss20) - It will be at least a decade before final designs of the radiation-to-electricity concept are built, but carbon nanotubes packed with gold and surrounded by lithium hydride are hit with radioactive particles that slam into the gold, pushing out a shower of high-energy electrons, allowing current to flow. (New Scientist; March 27, 2008)
  

• Mirror particles form new matter: Di-positron (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6991030.stm) - A US team has created thousands of the molecules by merging electrons with their antimatter equivalent: positrons. There is a huge interest in the technology from the military as well as energy researchers who believe the lasers could be used to kick-start nuclear fusion in a reactor. (BBC News; Sept. 12, 2007)
  

• Purdue engineers create safer, more efficient nuclear fuel, model its performance (http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-09/pu-pec092705.php) - Purdue nuclear engineers have developed an advanced nuclear fuel that could save millions of dollars annually by lasting longer and burning more efficiently. (EurekAlert; Sept. 28, 2005)
  

• Nuclear > Floating Nuclear Power Station (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/10/1640212) - World's first, to be built by Russians, said to cost only $200,000 [slave labor? typo? (missing a few zeros?)]. The plant, slated for construction in 2006, will be equipped with two power units using KLT-40S reactors producing power at around 5 or 6 cents/kW-h. Will also be able to supply heat and desalinate seawater. (Slashdot; Sept. 10, 2005)
  

• Iran using biotechnology to extract purer uranium (http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3523) - Says bacteria makes the production of yellowcake 100 to 200 times cheaper. Yellowcake is a part of the early stages of the nuclear fuel cycle -- a process that Iran insists it only wants to master so it can generate electricity. (PhysOrg; Aug. 29, 2005)
  

• Method and Device for Obtaining Controlled Nuclear Fusion by Means of Artificial Plasma Produced by Gravity Control (pdf) (http://www.frandeaquino.org/New%20paper%20II.pdf) - Paper by Fran De Aquino, of Marnhao State University Physics Department. (FranDeAquino.org; 2005)
  

Pro-Nuclear Press

• Nukes are Green (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/09/opinion/09kristof.html?_r=1&ex=1113710400&en=4c6309f51c265692&ei=5070&oref=slogin) - (NY Times; Apr; 9, 2005)

• Nuclear Energy: A Bitter Pill to Alleviate Global Warming? (http://www.emagazine.com/view/?2529) - Some prominent environmentalists--as well as Senators McCain and Lieberman, who back legislation to reduce carbon dioxide emissions--are supporting further development of nuclear power to serve as an emission-free bridge to an economy based entirely on renewable energy. (Environmental Magazine.com; May 25)
  

Drawbacks

• Will CERN's Large Hadron Collider Destroy the Planet and More? - The particle accelerator set to begin experimentation this summer is now the subject of a lawsuit that alleges that "compression of the two atoms colliding together at nearly light speed will cause an irreversible implosion, forming a miniature version of a giant black hole." (PESWiki; April 3, 2008)
  

• The Rush To Patent the Atomic Bomb (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89127786) - It seems the pile of patents were filed to give the U.S. government an essential monopoly on the burgeoning nuclear industry and protect it against others who might patent similar technologies later. (NPR; Mar. 28, 2008)
  

• An Achilles’ Heel for Nuclear Energy? (http://www.jbs.org:80/node/3480) {article near end of page} - Just as the world is considering moving back to nuclear energy in a big way, the industry may be facing a fuel shortage. "Thorium, which is more abundant than uranium, can be bred into fissile U233 and should take care of things till the sun goes out." (The New American; March 30)
  

• Atomic Power Creates More CO2 Emissions than Natural Gas Plants? (http://alt-e.blogspot.com/2005/07/atomic-power-creates-more-greenhouse.html) - Atomic power stations do not emit CO2 themselves, but the processes involved in creating atomic energy do: including mining, milling, uranium enrichment, atomic fuel production, power station construction and operation, storage and reprocessing of spent fuel, long-term management of radioactive waste and closing down old power stations. (Alt-Energy-Blog; July 5, 2005)
  

• Huge radioactive leak closes Thorp nuclear plant (http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2005/may/09/environment.nuclearindustry) - About 20 tonnes of uranium and plutonium fuel dissolved in concentrated nitric acid, enough to half fill an Olympic-size swimming pool, has leaked through a fractured pipe into a huge stainless steel chamber, forcing the closure of Sellafield's Thorp £2.1bn reprocessing plant. (Guardian.uk; May 9, 2005) (Thanks Aerielle Louise)
  

• Japan Shuts Research Nuclear Reactor after Glitch (http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/31235/story.htm) - A Japanese research nuclear reactor was shut down on Friday due to a malfunction, but there was no radiation leak to the outside environment and no workers were affected. (Reuters; June 14, 2005)
  

• Illegal Aliens Arrested at Nuclear Power Plant (http://www.ice.gov/pi/news/insideice/articles/insideice_091605_web2.htm?searchstring=nuclear%20AND%20facility) - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents arrested three illegal aliens at the Omaha Nuclear Plant. (ICE.gov; Sept. 15, 2005)
  

Videos

(1 min)

• Nuclear Benefits? v Pure Energy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YW8D4KY-9w) - How green is atomic power? The 1950's "Atoms For Peace" program, plugged by President Eisenhower, asserted that nuclear energy could be used for anything from growing crops to powering your kitchen. Uh...look where that got us! (PES Network Video at YouTube; Sept. 17, 2007)
  

Cleanup

• Directory:Nuclear Remediation

• Pearls Before Slime Cleaning Uranium Waste with Bacteria (http://www.pnl.gov/news/release.asp?id=175) - U.S. researchers have discovered that some common bacteria (Shewanella) can convert deadly heavy metal into less threatening nano-spheres; and that these bacteria can convert soluble radioactive uranium into a non-toxic solid form called uraninite. (Pacific Northwest National Laboratories; August 7) (See Slashdot (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/12/1713232) discussion)
  

Tree

• Directory:Fusion
  • Directory:Electron Power Systems Ltd - Torroid Plasma Fusion
  • Directory:Focus Fusion
  • Directory:Cold Fusion
    • D2Fusion, Inc.
    • Cold Fusion report by DOE
• Directory:Beta Voltaics
• Jimmy Sabori's Papp Engine Variants
• Directory:Resonant Nuclear Reactor
• Directory:Hortong Electron Orbit Energy Generator
• Directory:Nuclear Remediation
• Directory:Plasma
  • Directory:Ball Lightning

See also

• Nuclear (http://www.freeenergynews.com/Directory/Nuclear/) index at FreeEnergyNews.com

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