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Nuclear Power for Electricity
Radioactive Wastes
Other Aspects of Fuel Cycle
Radiation & Health
Plant Safety
New Reactor Technology
Avoiding Weapons Proliferation
Resources & Uranium Market
Particular Countries
Mining & Environment
Climate Change
Non-Electricity Uses of Nuclear Energy
General/Sundry

Glossary

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Nuclear Power for Electricity

  • Table of the World's Nuclear Power Reactors
  • WNA Reactor Database

  • Nuclear Power in the World Today also PDF
  • The Economics of Nuclear Power
  • also: WNA 2005 position statement on New Economics of Nuclear Power
  • Global Nuclear Energy Partnership
  • World Energy Needs and Nuclear Power
  • Plans for New Reactors Worldwide
  • The Nuclear Renaissance
  • Sustainable Energy
  • Energy Balances and CO2 implications
  • Energy Analysis of Power Systems
  • Energy Subsidies and External Costs
  • Nuclear Fuel Cycle
  • Nuclear Power Reactors
  • Fast Neutron Reactors

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    Radioactive Wastes

  • Waste Management in the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
  • Transport of Radioactive Materials
  • Decommissioning Nuclear Facilties
  • Processing Used Nuclear Fuel for Recycle
  • Radioactive Wastes - Myths & Realities
  • Accelerator-driven Nuclear Energy
  • Synroc Wasteform
  • Japanese Waste and MOX Shipments from Europe
  • International Nuclear Waste Disposal Concepts
  • Uranium and Depleted Uranium
  • Radioactive waste repository & store for Australia (Appendix to Australian paper)

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    Other Aspects of Fuel cycle

  • Nuclear Fuel Cycle
  • Uranium and Depleted Uranium
  • Uranium Enrichment
  • Mixed Oxide Fuel
  • Plutonium
  • Japanese Waste and MOX Shipments from Europe

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    Radiation & Health

  • Radiation and Nuclear Energy)
  • Occupational Safety in Uranium Mining
  • Transport of Radioactive Materials
  • Naturally-Occurring Radioactive materials (NORM)
  • Uranium and Depleted Uranium
  • Mineral Sands (appendix to NORM
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    Plant Safety

  • Safety of Nuclear Power Reactors
  • Nuclear Power Plants and Earthquakes
  • Cooperation in the Nuclear Power Industry
  • Chernobyl Accident
  • Three Mile Island: 1979
  • Tokai-mura Criticality Accident
  • Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage
  • Early Soviet Reactors & EU Accession
  • RBMK Reactors

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    New Reactor Technology

  • Advanced Nuclear Power Reactors
  • Small Nuclear Power Reactors
  • Fast Neutron Reactors
  • Generation IV Nuclear Reactors
  • Thorium
  • Nuclear Fusion Power
  • Accelerator-driven Nuclear Energy

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    Avoiding Weapons Proliferation

  • Safeguards to Prevent Nuclear Proliferation
  • Military Warheads as a Source of Nuclear Fuel
  • Iran, North Korea & Iraq - Implications for Safeguards - also Israel, S.Africa, Libya
  • India, China & NPT

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    Resources & Uranium Market

  • Uranium Markets
  • World Uranium Mining
  • Supply of Uranium
  • also: WNA 2005 position statement on Uranium Supplies
  • Military Warheads as a Source of Nuclear Fuel
  • Processing Used Nuclear Fuel for Recycle
  • Plutonium
  • Thorium
  • Mixed Oxide Fuel
  • Geology of Uranium Deposits

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    Particular Countries

    Nuclear power and/or uranium production by country or region:

  • Africa
  • Argentina
  • Armenia
  • Australia
  • Belgium
  • Brazil
  • Bulgaria
  • Canada
  • Central African Rep
  • Central Asia
  • China
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Emerging nuclear energy countries
  • Finland
  • France
  • Gabon
  • Germany
  • Hungary
  • India
  • Iran
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Korea
  • Krygyzstan
  • Lithuania
  • Malawi
  • Mexico
  • Mongolia
  • Namibia
  • Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • Niger & Gabon
  • Pakistan
  • Romania
  • Russia
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Spain
  • South Africa
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Taiwan
  • Ukraine
  • United Kingdom
  • USA
  • Uzbekistan
  • Zambia

    Related papers:

  • Asia's Nuclear Energy Growth
  • California's Electricity
  • Early Soviet Reactors & EU Accession

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    Mining & Environment

  • World Uranium Mining
  • Environmental Aspects of Uranium Mining
  • In Situ Leach mining of uranium
  • Australia's Uranium Mines
  • Australia's Uranium Deposits and Prospective Mines
  • Former Australian Uranium Mines
  • Environmental Management & Rehabilitation of the Nabarlek Uranium Mine
  • Environmental Rehabilitation of the Mary Kathleen Uranium Mine
  • Jabiluka Background
  • Uranium Exploration in Australia

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    Climate Change

  • Global Warming - science
  • Global Warming - policy responses
  • Sustainable Energy
  • Renewable Energy and Electricity
  • Energy Balances and CO2 implications
  • Energy Analysis of Power Systems

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    Non-Electricity Uses of Nuclear Energy

  • Radioisotopes in Medicine
  • Radioisotopes in Industry
  • Research Reactors
  • Nuclear-powered Ships
  • Nuclear process heat for industry
  • Transport & the Hydrogen Economy
  • Electricity and cars
  • Nuclear Desalination
  • Smoke Detectors and Americium
  • Nuclear Reactors for Space
  • Australia's Research Reactors
  • Uranium and Depleted Uranium

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    General/Sundry

  • Glossary
  • Sustainable Energy
  • Renewable Energy and Electricity
  • "Clean Coal" Technologies
  • The Nuclear Debate
  • Cosmic Origins of Uranium
  • Outline History of Nuclear Energy
  • Hiroshima and Nagasaki, weapons testing
  • Uranium and Depleted Uranium
  • Nuclear Fusion Power

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