Liquid Fluoride Reactor Talk on Google Tech Talk
I have not yet had a chance to view this, but the material in this video was partially prepared by my friend, Kirk Sorensen, so I know it is good. Hope you enjoy:
I have not yet had a chance to view this, but the material in this video was partially prepared by my friend, Kirk Sorensen, so I know it is good. Hope you enjoy:
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The tag line for the ANS winter meeting was “Talk about Nuclear Differently: A Good Story Untold”. Based on the sessions that I managed to attend, in between coughing fits, I heard a number of themes that were significantly different from those that I had heard at other ANS meeting attended over the years. There…
I noticed the following brief comment about Toshiba’s Westinghouse purchase in an article on Bloomberg.com titled Japan’s Bank Lending Gains, Fueled by Company Demand (Update3). Toshiba, Japan’s biggest nuclear reactor supplier by generating capacity, obtained agreements in July to borrow as much as 400 billion yen ($3.4 billion) to finance its purchase of Westinghouse Electric…
Alternative Energy Holdings, Inc. has acquired the rights to about 4,000 acres of land on the Snake River in Idaho where it is investigating the possibility of building a new nuclear power plant to serve markets in the Pacific Northwest and California. (See Start-up company pursues plan for nuke plant near Bruneau)Though the site is…
Lloyd Yates, the CEO of Progress Energy, has published a terrific op-ed piece in the Charlotte News-Observer titled Coming clean on coal that clearly explains why his company has chosen to shut down coal fired power plants that supply 30% of its current electricity demand. More importantly, he explains HOW his company will continue to…
The Boston Globe has a tightly written opinion piece by Jeff Jacoby titled The Coming Nuclear Renaissance. Here is a small sample from that article to encourage you to go and read it. The problems with nuclear energy have not vanished. To build a nuclear plant is an expensive undertaking, the disposal of spent fuel…
Corrected with New Headline (Updated information and graphics on Sunday, March 13, 2011 at 0440 EDT) I am going to leave my original text below, so it does not look like I am using updated information to avoid responsibility. During a day of confusion, there were conflicting reports about the source of an explosion and…