Powered by Rock – Week 4
NUCLEAR
Lecture notes (PowerPoint) – 2014_PoweredbyRock_lect4_nuclear_SML
What is uranium and how does it provide energy? (World Nuclear Association)
The geology of uranium (World Nuclear Association)
Uranium in a nutshell (About.com)
Did the Fukushima accident cause increased thyroid cancer in children? (article in the Guardian, Mar. 2014)
Radioactive waste management in the UK (Nuclear Decommissioning Authority)
Sellafield geological storage site selection process ‘fixed’ (Guardian, Jan. 2014)
The Onkalo geological storage site, Finland (Posiva company website)
Could Jurassic shales be the answer? How France is disposing of its nuclear waste (BBC News story)
Yucca Mountain factsheet (US Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
Nuclear fusion technology hits milestone (CBC, Canada) – article based on the Nature paper by Hurricane et al. (2014).
What is nuclear fusion? (Culham Centre for Fusion Energy)
