So, Russia apparently ran some nuclear war games simulating the invasion of Poland, right around the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland....
Did you miss the first three words of that quote: "Cheapest Hardware Possible"? You're welcome to embrace the zipcar phenomenon if you like. I just hope you'll...
Interesting, thanks. I liked the line, "The Gingko tree is different from many herbal remedies because it is a unique species with no living relatives..." All...
Well, Mister Billionaire has voted solidly against nuclear power: http://www.reuters.com/article/ousivMolt/idUSTRE5A22A720091103 Make no mistake: This is a...
Two questions: 1) By how much does coal freight 'out-freight' the trucking industry? 2) Isn't this also a pretty big bet against the Cap & Trade bill ever...
D2O is really good, carbon is OK. For many years I've been somewhat curious whether U interspersed with MgF2 could, at room temperature, just barely go. (Per...
Trucks carry much more freight than trains. According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), truck transport is about 6 times the tonnage of rail. ...
How about lighter fluorine salts? BeF2 might be very good. LiF, too. FliBe has been heavily studied for fusion, and was used in the Molten Salt Reactor...
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Focus_on_EPRs_systems_0311091.html Focus on EPR's systems 03 November 2009 A detail from Areva's UK documentation Areva...
Well, I hope that all the blog pundits at NEI Nuclear Notes who have ingratiated themselves with Obamolech the Destroyer and the liberal cretins of the...
Yes Paul... "the liberals" own all the news agencies except one. (Nuclear's a pretty new energy source, so 'Conservatives' don't get to be for nuclear energy,...
... You must have kudzu, and be a renter rather than an owner. As I recall, those bombs were, by nuclear bomb standards, duds. In the time it took for H nuclei...
Hello, Graham! ... Uh.... Ok! :D ... Yeah, I went and looked this up and it seems that the shake interval increased due to slower neutron speeds, thus fewer...
A typical 1GW coal plant releases the following pollutants INTO THE AIR every DAY: - 10,136.986 metric TONS of CO2 (per day, per plant) - 27.397 metric TONS of...
... High melting point for a fluoride. High transparency that extends far into the UV (http://www.crystran.co.uk/magnesium-fluoride-mgf2.htm ). High number...
... You might be interested in the discussion at http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?forumID=33011&p=3&topicID=16231100 ... http://www.eagle.ca/~gcowan/...
Here's a bit of moderator info for fluoride salts, sadly, no MgF2 in the bunch: http://www.ornl.gov/~webworks/cppr/y2006/rpt/124584.pdf As a thought: Plastic!...
... They probably would work. If perdeuterated, they certainly would. I am now persuaded that natural uranium and magnesium fluoride will not go, and that it's...
Hi Graham, At the risk of exposing my ignorance of all things nuclear, I was reading that rocketry forum and noticed that a poster dismissed the PWR due to...
... Oh, yeah. I went and looked a bit, and found that polyethylene, mainly CH2, has a moderating ration of around 120, or twice as good as light water! Well...
Yes, gasoline is highly chemically reactive, but so is liquid sodium, and that is usually the coolant of choice for fast reactors. I'm as pro-nuclear as they...
... Eureka! :) I was gnawing on this notion, and finally stumbled across this paper: http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/lib-www/la-pubs/00215722.pdf I...
I seem to recall Ted Taylor hinting at such in McPhee's "Curve of Binding Energy" and George Dyson's "Project Orion." The details were not included, being...
I've always found the Orion concept quite interesting. I even did a panel on the topic in Vancouver with George Dyson a few years ago (I recommend his book...
... We had an organically cooled reactor at the Whiteshell research station in Manitoba once. "Terphenyl" comes to mind as one of the components of the...
Hullo, Karl! ... I should read that some day.... Ehn, it'd probably only make me depressed. ... Pffft! In your opinion, maybe. The idiotic Test Ban Treaty...
This article from CBS News says that Japan is using "weapons grade" plutonium to fuel a nuclear power plant. Oh really? Doesn't "weapons grade" plutonium...
... It could not. The pressure in a PWR is, if I recall correctly, 150 bar, same as 1500 metres deep in the ocean. Acceleration at 1 gee could make that much...
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