I'm still waiting to see who President Obama appoints to the NRC. As of July 1, Lyons is no longer on the commission, so there are currently two openings. I...
I'm not entirely sure what this even means: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D996DQF01&show_article=1 "Not reconciled." He's 'not reconciled' to Iran...
I wonder what would be the consequences if USS SHILOH (CG-67) shot down the North Korean missile with her RIM-161 Standard Missile 3. There's food for...
That's correct, Mike, but He3 ends up on the moon as a component of solar wind. The ions are adsorbed onto dust particles. You dig up the dust and heat it to...
I have been thinking about the future of fusion. I am a firm believer that fusion is an 'eventual' power source. It's just too abundant not to be used. But...
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One of the big unresolved issues surrounding magnetic fusion is the so-called "first wall" problem. The D-T and D-D reactions both produce highly energetic...
That might be right handy, if your "first wall" is Li6. Mike Harris ... From: schedule80 To: Know_Nukes@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 1:34 PM ...
... No, no, no. Why fight the neutrons? Or worse, throw them away in Li6? Instead of FIGHTING the neutrons, USE them. Make the 'first wall' out of U238. ...
Of course not. I wasn't suggesting wasting perfectly good neutrons. I had in mind: Li6 + n = He4 + T If we manage to economically fuse D + T on a commercial...
Seriously - the Japanese expect to get around 1300 tons (1/6th of their 8000 ton annual consumption) of uranium yearly from a roughly 300-square-mile sponge...
... Seriously? Yes, very serious. The current spot price for uranium is 52 dollars a pound. 1300 tons at 2205 pounds per ton is 2,866,500 pounds per year. At...
We'll see if the Democrats In Charge can 'change' 40 years of anti-love. http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE56677B20090707 Change we can...
During a heat wave in 2003, the river water temperatures upstream of several of France's nuclear plants exceeded the 24C limit. The following link (pdf)...
Yes, it is difficult to cool a reactor with intake water that is warmer than the discharge water. NASA had a small research reactor at their Plum Brook...
Wow...considering fresh water IS radioactive, that would be a hard hurtle to pass. Kind of like the panic over the Japanese earth quake in 2007 where there was...
This gets more questionable the more I look into it. There are descriptions, usually with pictures, of the French nuclear stations in Wikipedia. Almost all of...
Pete, like you, I'm more familiar with once-through cooling systems. Actually, evaporative cooling systems, excluding latest 'keller'? models which only...
I recall eating at a restaurant on the coast in the Los Angeles area. One could see a clump of dozens of fishermen, shoulder to shoulder, happily fishing,...
... Actually I've fished at my power plant out fall as well on my time off. The problem, more seriously, with 'thermal pollution' isn't the thermal part, that...
"Why We Don't Want A Nuclear-Free World" by Melanie Kirkpatrick http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124726489588925407.html "Plumage - But At A Price" by Charles...
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... The site would not be contaminated. Spent fuel rods that are old enough to go in casks have little residual power to heat themselves, and so no tendency to...
Nuclear's Model T The future of nuclear energy could lie in plants that can be factory built, shipped to a site, and operated 30 years without refueling. By...
... He is correct. ... Because of 50 years of anti-nuclear hysteria? There's no engineering reason for it. ... See above. Those casks are so incredibly...
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