Lefteri Tsoukalas, the head of Purdue University’s School of Nuclear Engineering wrote a guest column for the Lafayette Journal and Courier about ABC’s October 13, 2005 “Prime Time” investigation of university research reactors. His well written column is well worth a visit for “the rest of the story.”
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One of the big reasons that I continued to be fascinated by coated particle (TRISO) in graphite matrix fuel is the fact that it is possible to adjust the fuel to moderator ratios to obtain a variety of neutron spectra. By choosing to add less moderator, it is possible to harden the available neutron spectrum…
In the category of “you learn something new every day – if you pay attention” I have just spend a pleasant couple of hours geeking out on presentations full of graphs of plutonium exposures and depositions of other transuranic elements. The experience helped me to refresh my understanding of how careful studies performed during the…
Every once in a while, I like to share this global view of the visitors to Atomic Insights. It is rewarding to know that the discussions we host end up reaching so many corners of the world. It is no surprise that we do not have any regular readers in Greenland or the Democratic Republic…
Oops – my blog title might have provided a spoiler to the punchline for the below video. Never mind, it is only a minute and a half long, so the there is not much time to build up suspense anyway. However, please watch the video. If you have a blog, consider embedding it; if you…
As a patriotic and competitive American, I am worried about the long term effects of the difference in stimulus investments between my country and China. We spent $3 billion dollars subsidizing the purchase of new automobiles for individual people and are spending an untold amount of money helping other individuals to purchase homes through the…
I got motivated to build a small spreadsheet using tables 1.1 and 3 from the Energy Information Agency’s 2008 US Electric Power Monthly publication. Here is the comment that I have seen in a number of places that I want to clarify (most recently in an article titled THE NUCLEAR ENERGY DEBATE — A CASE…