On this day (December 2) in 1942, Enrico Fermi and his team demonstrated that they knew how to configure a pile of graphite and uranium in such a way as to produce a controlled chain reaction.
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Creamer Media Engineering News Online has recently published several articles about the PBMR and the project status. One article titled How PBMR’s Work provides good information about the history and design choices made during the lengthy refinement period since the late 1950s when Rudolf Schulten first developed the concept of enclosing nuclear fuel into graphite…
Though it has been a few days since a full new post here, I have not been slacking off. Instead, I have been spending some quality time engaging in some interesting, possibly rewarding and sometimes frustrating discussions in the expanding universe of nuclear related discussions. I even managed to spend some time in real, face…
On 21 April, 2006, I had the opportunity to attend a heart warming graduation ceremony for 332 outstanding young Americans who had just completed six months of exceedingly challenging study at the Navy Nuclear Power Training Command. They join a long line of more than 110,000 people that have survived similar training during the past…
On 12 November 2005, Angela Jameson published a story in The Times titled South Africa banks on new family of nuclear reactors. An interesting aspect of the story is that it begins with a description of the electrical power situation that exists for 40% of the population of that country – they have none. When…
Back in February 2007, I noted that there was a lot of interest among businesses that saw an opportunity to make some money by replacing the power output from the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant in Lithuania. That plant currently supplies 70% of the electricity consumed in Lithuania. It is a valuable anchor for the Soviet…
When I am not listening to podcasts on my daily commute, I often turn to NPR (National Public Radio) for some thoughtful stories. Though I missed yesterday’s edition, a friend sent me a link to an interesting story titled Face-Off Over ‘Fracking’: Water Battle Brews On Hill that describes the growing concern in some areas…
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