On Atomic show #33, Shane and I cover history, technology and future prospects for pebble bed reactors. We chatted about the following projects – AVR, THTR, PBMR, HTR-10, and Adams EnginesTM.
Check it out and let me know what you think.
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Here are some gems found using Google Book Search. I will let you judge for yourself how you feel about the sentiments expressed in the quotes. “It is not possible to characterize en masse the various “No Nukes,” but there appear to be three major recurring themes in energy discussion. The first is a general…
According to an article in the Times of India, Bangladesh aims to set up a nuclear power plant by 2015. The country is currently hampered by a lack of enough generating capacity; the estimated peak demand is 5,000 MWe, but the capacity is only 3,600 MWe. The only way to make that work is to…
I have had the opportunity this weekend to engage in two rewarding online discussion threads about the future of nuclear energy in Minnesota, a state that currently has a law on the books that is viewed as an effective moratorium on new nuclear power plants. Though Minnesota is a bit too far north for me…
On Thursday I spoke with John Rubino, the author of Clean Money: Picking Winners in the Green-Tech Boom. You can listen in to our conversation at Atomic Show #116. You might learn something that could be valuable in the future.
The Alaska state legislature has approved $500,000 to fund a study of using nuclear power reactors – perhaps the Toshiba 4S described here a couple of days ago – to replace diesel generators as a source of electricity in remote areas. Even though Alaska is a large crude oil producer, the residents of the state…
My Google news alert yesterday pointed me to a story that surprised me. The link description indicated that it was from the St. Petersburg Times and gave a headline telling me that there was some opposition to a nuclear plant expansion. I subscribed to the St. Petersburg Times when I lived on the Florida west…
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