Energy industry likely prime cyber attack target

Critical infrastructure insiders say the energy industry is also the most vulnerable to cyber attacks and would have the most detrimental breach

Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository too small

Congress has placed a 77,000-ton limit on the amount of nuclear waste that can be buried in Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository (the repository will open in 2020 at the earliest); trouble is, the 104 active U.S. nuclear reactors, together with the Pentagon, produce that amount of waste in two years

Shape of things to come

U.K. project examines the idea of a nuclear-powered passenger aircraft

As worries about the rising price of oil and climate change grow, so grows the interest in nuclear power -- but not only for ground-based power generation; a U.K. government-funded project examines the idea of nuclear-powered passenger plane

Energy companies targeted by Web-borne malware

New report says the energy companies experienced more Web-based malware attacks than any other vertical market in the third quarter of this year, with an increased rate of exposure of 189 percent

Shape of things to come

New reactor design lessens risk of weapon proliferation

Nuclear materials for power reactors cannot be stolen by those interested in using it for nuclear weapons while the material is in the reactor -- it is too hot to handle; the risks of diversion are during the enrichment process, and while the material is being transported; to lessen the risk, researchers offer innovative reactor design

Nuclear matters

Breakthrough: Radioactive waste may no longer be dangerous to store

Aussie researchers have created a material which has the potential to filter and safely lock away radioactive ions from waste water; nanofibers which are millionths of a millimeter in size could permanently lock away radioactive cations by displacing the existing sodium ions in the fiber

Nuclear matters

Russia to build IAEA-supervised nuclear fuel bank

The nuclear fueled bank would allow countries, including Iran, to develop civilian nuclear power without having to enrich their own uranium, thus allaying fears over nuclear weapons proliferation

Nuclear matters

DSRL in £13 million Dounreay decommissioning contract

Britain's Dounreay fast reactor was proclaimed as “the system of the next century”; this was in the 1960s; the last 15 years have seen the site develop into a nuclear reactor decommissioning project

New three-in-one detection device

Lawrence Livermore researchers develop a "universal point detection system" which can detect explosive, chemical, and biological agents all at the same time

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