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...NUCLEAR POWER: Current Percentage: 1.2% Percentage in 2010: 2-3% MAJOR PROJECTS: China is adding capacity faster than any other country in the world, and plans to build about two reactors per year for the next 16 years, at a cost of up to $2 billion per reactor. By 2020, China's energy mandarins estimate that there will be enough nuclear power capacity to generate 36,000 megawatts?sufficient to meet peak summer electricity demand for New York...
...firm proof. Over the past two years, experts believe, Pyongyang has significantly stepped up its nuclear program. A former director of the U.S. nuclear laboratory at Los Alamos, N.M., who visited the country this year confirmed that North Korea has removed 8,000 spent fuel rods from its nuclear reactor, enough to make as many as seven weapons. But no outside observer knows whether North Korea has actually finished...
...thing is clear: this story isn't over. Earlier this month, an IAEA team left Seoul after taking more samples at the TRIGA Mark III reactor. According to the Geneva-based diplomat, "There is more to come...
...Apparently, not completely, as revelations pouring out of Seoul this month have revealed. One centers around an idle TRIGA Mark III research reactor located in a dilapidated building in a residential suburb of Seoul. In the 1970s and '80s, the TRIGA Mark III was used by Korean nuclear scientists to test nuclear fuel and study isotopes. In April or May 1982, scientists took an irradiated test fuel rod from the reactor and placed it in one of the research installation's "hot cells," a room clad with lead to block radioactivity. Using robotic arms and peering through a leaded window...
...Cambridge, MIT has operated such a reactor since 1958, and its safety was scrutinized in the fall of 2001 as members of the City Council feared that it could be a vulnerable target for terrorist action...