Electricity Technologies

The subjects treated in the Electricity Technologies pages are given below.

These pages mostly discuss nuclear power, both fission and fusion.

Nuclear Fission

Nuclear fission power is explained, concentrating on issues which have been used to generate general public opposition to building more reactors.

• Development History of Nuclear Power
• Three Infamous Nuclear Accidents
• Nuclear Waste Treatment
• Concerns of Nuclear Proliferation
• Costs of Nuclear Power
• Low Level Radioactivity

Nuclear Fusion  

Nuclear fusion power concentrating on the difficulties to arrive at actual commercial electricity generating power plants. Arguments that fusion is "better" than fission are countered.

• Will Fusion Power ever work?
• Nuclear Fusion and Nuclear Fission
• Requirements for Energy from Fusion
• Tokamak Fusion Reactors
• Immense Challenges for Nuclear Fusion Reactors
• Radiation Damage from Neutrons
• Impossibility of Tritium Fuel Supply
• Breeder Blanket
• Divertor
• Essential Test Facilities
• Risks with Superconducting Magnets
• Maintenance, Breakdowns and Availability
• Radioactive Waste
• Safety
• Reactor Costs, Fusion compared to Fission
• Timescales advertised for Fusion Power Plant
• Show-Stoppers for Mainstream Approach

A short sections exist on:

Hydroelectricity