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Nuclear Power Daily Editorial Team
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Nuclear Power Daily Editorial Team

Editorial Team

The Nuclear Power Daily Editorial Team produces Nuclear Power Daily's coverage of nuclear energy. We report on reactors and small modular reactors, the fuel cycle, waste and safety, policy, and fusion research. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Nuclear Power Daily takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

Legacy Reports

Analysis: Kazakhstan’s uranium exchange

Washington (UPI) Sep 25, 2008 - A year that has seen record-high oil prices has left nations considering alternatives that seemed too expensive or environmentally unfriendly as recently as a year ago, when oil was still $60 a barrel. Wind and wave power, bio-fuels and solar energy are now attracting increased attention, as is nuclear power, which acquired a negative image worldwide after the 1979 partial meltdown at Three Mile Island and the 1986 explosion at Ukraine's Chernobyl power station, which released 400 times more fallout into the environment than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. As a consequence of the accident at Chernobyl, 237 people suffered from acute radiation sickness, with 31 of those most severely irradiated dying within three months of the accident.

Sep 25, 2008