Consideration to Design a Nuclear Power Plant

1. Responsibility for the environment
2. Economical Challenge
3. Global warming
4. Fuel avalibility
5. Local Environment Support
6. Efficiency in that area
7. Cost benefit analysis to compare with other fuel
8. Construction time
9. High Security
10. Plant life time
11. Waest management

News about Nuclear Energy

3 March 2008
Nuclear Energy for New Europe 2008

Nuclear Society of Slovenia is organizing the international conference Nuclear Energy for New Europe 2008, which will take place in Portorož from 8 to 11 Sept [more]

6 February 2007
ISO 9001 Compliance

We have earned the ISO 9001:2000 certification in December 2006. [more]

30 August 2006
Geographic Distribution of Visits

We have made a map of Slovenia, showing where our visitors are coming from. [more]

17 January 2006

Mini Encyclopaedia of Nuclear Energy

Mini Encyclopaedia of Nuclear Energy has been published. Check it out on-line in PDF or order your free copy! [more]

28 November 2005

New Lecture and Exhibition on Nuclear Fusion

Permanent exhibition at Nuclear Technology Information Centre has been enriched by the Nuclear Fusion Exhibition. At the same time new lecture on fusion is possible as well. [more]

Energy Units

BTU Content of Common Energy Units 1 barrel (42 gallons) of crude oil = 5,800,000 Btu

1 gallon of gasoline = 124,000 Btu
1 gallon of diesel fuel = 139,000 Btu
1 gallon of heating oil = 139,000 Btu
1 barrel of residual fuel oil = 6,287,000 Btu
1 cubic foot of natural gas = 1,031 Btu
1 gallon of propane = 91,000 Btu
1 short ton of coal = 20,754,000 Btu
1 kilowatt-hour of electricity = 3,412 Btu