Iran’s Nuclear Deal: Challenges and Opportunities Air Commodore (R) Khalid Iqbal These days‚ almost everyone is curious about an erratic and hence potentially troublesome nuclear deal reached between Iran and the P 5+1 (read America). Soon after the agreement‚ the two sides have begun interpreting it in opposite directions. Americans are claiming that Iran would have to significantly roll back its nuclear programme‚ whereas Iranian interpretation does not endorse this point of view. Soon
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NEWSLETTER 20 I ISSUE NO. 328 I SEP. - OCT. 2012 BARC CELEBRATES FOUNDER’S DAY 24th DAE All India Essay Writing Contest The DAE All India Essay Writing Contest in Nuclear Science and Technology for students at the undergraduate level‚ was started by the Department of Atomic Energy in the year 1989. The 24th All India Essay Contest on Nuclear Science & Technology for regular full time students studying for graduation in any discipline was organised in 2012. The three topics for this year’s essays
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Vulnerability of the Nation’s Power Grid Mark Shelton San Diego State University PA571 November 18‚ 2014 Vulnerability of the Nation’s Power Grid There are some issues that United States governments (both state and federal) take more seriously than the others. Security matters are always given priority in the United States of America because there are many disgruntled parties who would like to see the sovereignty and unity of this nation go down the drain. The most recent security concern
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One of the most interesting phenomena in Nuclear Physics with far reaching consequences is nuclear fission. Nuclear fission is defined as the splitting of heavy nuclei to release energy. This aspect holds many opportunities and possibilities for our technologically advancing world. Fission Process (Theory) In the case of large atoms‚ such as Uranium‚ the impact of a particle on the nucleus loosens its binding force. The impact causes the nucleus to break apart into pieces‚ also known as fission
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Nuclear energy – Uses and abuses Nuclear energy is the energy created from the nucleus of atoms. The nuclear power is released in nuclear reactions which can be nuclear fusion and nuclear fission. In nuclear fusion‚ atoms combine together to form a larger atom. This is accompanied by the release or absorption of energy. Large scale fusion processes involve very high temperatures and densities‚ such as the production of energy from the sun and the shine from stars we see in the night sky. On the
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Throughout the world‚ countries are leaning towards nuclear energy due to the amount of energy it can produce with very little resources. This topic is worth investigating since energy is basically a must‚ now in the 21st century. It is now considered an essential to have energy in our lives to maintain our standards of living. We have gone to many different sources of energy other than nuclear energy such as coal‚ solar‚ wind‚ oil and more‚ but many of those energy source have flaws too. Some sources
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Has nuclear energy gone too far beyond its necessity?: Opposing Nuclear Energy Many people around the world ask themselves what are the disadvantages of adopting an alternative solution to solve the consumption of global nuclear energy? Based on what we have experienced through events with major disasters and the aftermath of many casualties‚ it has summed up to result in having failures outgrowing expectations. Therefore‚ global nuclear power usage is to be opposed due to the fact that it comes
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packs some 90% of the volume‚ but only 1% of the radioactivity of all radioactive waste. High-level waste is from the burning of uranium fuel in a nuclear reactor (Dixon). It contains the dividing products and trans elements generated in the reactor. It is highly radioactive and hot due to excess heat‚ so it requires shielding and cooling. It has thermal power and can be considered as the ash from burning uranium. The radioactive waste problem is not a new safety and health concern. It has been mixed
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820 MW of capacity—about six times India’s overall power capacity in 2011 and seven times the target for the 12th five-year plan (2012-17) The M&A space in the power generation sector in India is expected to gain further traction from hereon. InfraInsights is of the view that this is the most conducive time to buy these assets for anyone looking for strategic investment in India’s power story. Most of the Indian companies that entered into power sector with short term goals are seeing themselves
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In his article‚ “Why Fukushima made me stop worrying and love nuclear power”‚ Monbiot (2012) he uses inductive form approach on his fist key argument to support his main claim which stated that there is no ideal solution in the energy technologies but the impacts created by nuclear is smaller than other solutions. He supported his key argument with two observations. First observation is Fukushima nuclear disaster shows that there were no fatal cases caused by exposure to radioactive rays although
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