Fissioning Fears

So this is it, the last required blog for my class. Though the mandatory three posts a week have sometimes been a major hassle, especially...

I ended the last part with an introduction to the Canadian Deuterium Uranium (CANDU) reactor design, a heavy-water moderated and naturally-e...

I spent the entirety of this last weekend on our senior design project so I decided I may as well write a blog on it since it's currentl...

In my comparisons with nuclear to coal and solar, I've described nuclear power plants as being used for the "base load" of the...

So we've talked about how nuclear stacks up against the power-house (pun intended) of coal, the two primary competitors for power grid l...

Last time we compared capital costs of coal and nuclear power plants (in which coal was the obvious victor) and fuel costs (where uranium...

As promised, here's a more detailed comparison between the two competitors for the electric grid's base load. We'll break it dow...