The outlook for nuclear energy in France

Despite the fact that nuclear energy has lost much of its appeal in the last ten years or so, and especially after the Fukushima accident in Japan, France still gets approximately 77% of its electricity from nuclear energy, which is around 47% of nuclear electricity generated in the entire EU.

France has the very long nuclear energy tradition, and the key event that played the most important

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Energy history facts

From ancient times people use various energy sources. Geothermal energy were used for springs and heating, hydro and wind energy were used for mills, sailing, water pumps and other mechanical devices, solar energy was used for heating, biomass and coal were used for heating, illumination, cooking, and so on.  For example, nearly 2000 years ago the Greeks used water wheels to grind wheat into

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Nuclear fusion facts

Nuclear fusion is the process by which multiple like-charged atomic nuclei join together to form a heavier nucleus. It is accompanied by the release or absorption of huge amounts of energy. To say it simply, nuclear fusion is process of joining two or more light atoms into one heavier with release or absorption of energy. The fusion of two nuclei with mass lower than iron generally releases

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How does nuclear power produce energy?

Many people are still not aware that nuclear power is one of the most important energy sources, second after the dominant fossil fuels. In fact a significant amount (nearly 17%) of the electricity produced for the world's energy demand is generated by nuclear power in nuclear power stations. There are even some countries (like for instance France) where the majority of the electricity comes from

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Nuclear energy has great potential

Recently there are ongoing talks about climate change and global warming problem in which world seeks for an answer how to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. Many of these answers include full focus to renewable energy sources but some also suggest use of nuclear energy. However there is not only the question of climate change, there is also the question of constantly increasing demand for

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Nuclear energy safety report for Congress

Recently I found an interesting document called "Nuclear Power Plants: Vulnerability to Terrorist Attack" which was made for US Congress, which I think you may find interesting:CRS Report for CongressNuclear Power Plants:Vulnerability to Terrorist AttackCarl Behrens and Mark HoltSpecialists in Energy PolicyResources, Science, and Industry DivisionUpdated February 4, 2005SummaryProtection of

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Nuclear energy - Use in some countries

Nuclear energy is definitely one of the best solutions for growing energy needs of the modern world. Nuclear energy is much more abundant energy source than fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) and unlike them presents clean and safe method to produce electricity. Yes nuclear energy is safe energy source and new Chernobyl is almost impossible to happen again considering the safety measures in

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ITER project - The only real problem is time

ITER is joint international research/engineering project that has its goal to provide future electricity from fusion power. Fusion reaction releases energy when two light atomic nuclei fuse together forming heavier nucleus and this released energy could well be main future energy source. ITER's main goal is to harness nuclear fusion as the future energy source and if all goes well this project

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Alternative energy sources - Nuclear energy

Nuclear power creates energy once its atomic structure changes. All the nuclear power plants in operation today are based solely on fission, process where radioactive decay gets accelerated in a controlled chain reaction that splits an atom into two or more byproducts, including energy as one of these byproducts. Nuclear energy has enormous potential but there are also some disadvantages that

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