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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An article titled Alstom opens largest rotor balancing facility in Tennessee appealed to both my inner manufacturing geek and my patriotism. It described, in glowing terms, a tour of a factory that recently opened on the Tennessee river in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The facility includes an impressive rotor balancing tunnel that allows the manufacturer to spin…
Amory Lovins, of the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), one of the anti-nuclear industry’s leading mouthpieces has produced another diatribe against the use of the cleanest, cheapest, most abundant, and most reliable energy source available both now and in the immediate future. You can find this document at http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid1154.php. During the next couple of days, I…
On August 5, 2009 Time Magazine’s online arm published a story Areva’s Field of Dreams that begins with the following lede: This should be Areva’s time in the sun. As governments search for clean, renewable energy sources and consumers worry about volatile oil prices, nuclear power is hot again.(Emphasis added) I am certain that the…
I am not sure if anyone else will as amused as I am with the following quote, but I just had to share it. This is from an article titled International nuclear fuel program set for Monday published on January 9, 2009 in the Pahrump Valley Times, which bills itself as Nye County’s largest newspaper…
One of the arguments that is often used against new nuclear power plants is that they have the potential to contribute to the spread of nuclear weapons. That charge is debatable, but what is not debatable is the fact that only nuclear reactors can permanently destroy the material that is left over once nuclear weapons…
In Northwest Alabama there is growing interest in the prospect of new jobs tied to the Second Atomic Age. According to an article titled Nuclear future published on November 6, 2006, there is the potential for 90,000 new jobs associated with building new reactors during the period from 2007-2011. The source of that estimate, according…
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