as they fire everyone. norm ... Press of Atlantic City, Jan. 29, 2005 NEW MANAGERS AT SALEM BOUND BY SAFETY VOWS, NRC SAYS By Jerome Montes, (856) 794-5115 The...
I used to be concerned about Exelon regarding their cuts in staff and short outages. The performance of Palisades has changed my mind. This plant has had 3...
... 00 ... According to http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/helium/330498.pdf the US knows where its next 6 km^3 of gas-well helium will come...
Sorry, NMC owns Palisades, not Exelon. Still, NMC is known for staff reductions. ... and ... are ... the ... which ... County's ... regardless ... executive ...
Do you guys realize that there is a difference between a nuclear weapon and a nuclear reactor that generates electricity, just as there is a difference between...
YES. norm ... -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.2 - Release Date: 1/28/05...
Mauk's recent liquid metal discussion reminds me of an idea I long ago had for an aircraft reactor: pressurize (11-B)2O3 at 1,000 C or so, run it through a...
Well, it requires fusion to work. It is aneutronic...and incorporates fuel and working fluid together. Maybe run the B2O3 reactor as a closed-loop core...
... First, you have to remove all the B-10. Second, you can never let the reactor cool below 450 C, or it will freeze and do bad things. Third, you must...
... I suspect the same thing that was wrong with the other nuclear-powered aircraft engine that was tested in the 50's. Namely, you'd need a lot of shielding...
With Indian Point, region has its own Vesuvius By PHIL REISMAN THE JOURNAL NEWS (Original publication: February 1, 2005) I don't know, maybe I'm missing...
... Sure... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Know_Nukes_Archives/message/7851 -- Hold the door for the stranger behind you. When the driver in the adjacent lane...
... Not as I had it in mind. 11-B is not like 10-B; it absorbs only a little more than 12-C, and (11-B)2O3, being 60 percent oxygen, is, AFAIK, like...
... First-class tickets would be kind of pricey? The plane would need a containment dome? The plane would not withstand an impact with a containment dome? ...
... It has little tendency to evaporate. When they tried to run B-70 motors on fuel whose combustion produced it, they were ruined because the droplets wanted,...
... Yes, that's all correct. Even at 500 it would be pretty well gummed up. Residual power could be our friend. ... I think it might not be too bad if the...
calculating risks Can the science that judges the safety of nuclear plants secure the infrastructure of a nation? by Harry Hutchinson, Executive Editor January...
... True. But little activity would get into the heat engine proper; not like the flibe system that was tried, where it all did. ... A nuclear aircraft with...
What?!? Base public policy on the cold hard facts produced by a bunch of anti-democratic elitist experts instead of on the maleable whims of the Real...
You can say they're both "highly regulated," but if the FAA applied NRC's philosophy, an "airplane" would have to be called a "locomotive," and it would never...
... <blink,blink> LIGHTBULB! Ohhhh! Hrrrrrrrm. That's a pretty nice working fluid, then, aside from the high solidus temperature. Any idea what the specific...
... No, just a heat transfer fluid. Air is the working fluid. ... Around 1800 J/(kg K). Thermo tables give a C_p for the crystalline phase, but probably not...
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Thanks. Now is I can just figure out where the place is . . . ... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Know_Nukes_Archives/message/7851 ... ===== +++++++++++++++++++...
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