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National Ignition Facility – No Closer to Useful Fusion Power Than Before

ByRod Adams

…elivered to the target. 3) Increase the density of the cryogenic Deuterium-Tritium fuel in the fuel capsule which should improve the chances of producing ignition. Obtain some ultra-dense Deuterium (or alternatively, ultra-dense Deuterium-Tritium cryogenic mixture) from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden and try it in a depleted uranium hohlraum. 4) Don’t put too much faith in the hohlraum computer simulations (which haven’t worked), just hit th…

Prevention is Easier and Less Painful Than Cure – Keep Vermont Yankee Operable
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Prevention is Easier and Less Painful Than Cure – Keep Vermont Yankee Operable

ByRod Adams

…ters of water from the off-gas system. https://atomicinsights.com/how-much-tritium-leaked-from-vermont-yankee-before-the-leak-was-stopped/ That system is a part of the piping system designed to remove non condensible gases from the main condenser; it is lightly contaminated with tritium since the steam in a boiling water reactor is directly heated by passing through a nuclear reactor. gallopingcamel Are you implying that I am wrong about the gener…

Neutron Doodle – a 2002 Song Whose Time Has Come to Go Viral

ByRod Adams

…the help of people like Gail, who shared this story and video on her blog and Kevin McCoy who wrote the song and produced the video with help from a company singing group called “Tritium”, perhaps hydroelectric dams and nuclear energy will have one more thing in common – the use of music to share their story….

Proud to be a Fusion Skeptic

ByRod Adams

…fuel–hydrogen–is virtually unlimited, although proposed reactors will use tritium, a hydrogen isotope made from lithium, which is scarcer. The current facility isn’t built to generate electricity. But Moses says that with the right funding (Emphasis added), a power plant using fusion from a system like the one at NIF could be running in a decade. Of course, you could also find the quote from another skeptic, Ian Hutchinson, who happens to be a pr…

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Fear of Radiation is Killing People and Endangering the Planet Too

ByRod Adams

…ar technology is involved in literally millions of applications, including tritium exit and airport signs, shrink-wrapping, and sterilizing everything from surgical instruments and bandages to cosmetics, condoms, tampons and vitamin pills. So the question of shutting down nuclear power involves much more than the fate of a few electric power stations. RESPONSIBILITY OF SCIENTISTS We in the nuclear community like to blame nuclear fear on technical…

Was Arnie Gundersen a Licensed Reactor Operator and Senior VP Nuclear Licensee?

ByRod Adams

…power plant operations, underground piping systems, the health effects of tritium leaks, radioactive material handling, the root causes of nuclear construction project delays, quality assurance systems, configuration management, nuclear plant reliability and the aging management program at nuclear power plants. He also claims a special expertise in nuclear power plant decommissioning – which might be one of the more accurate statements in his res…

Top Ten Posts on Atomic Insights for 2010

ByRod Adams

…Reactors – 771 9th Nuclear Energy Blog Carnival – 762 Comparing a Leak of Tritium That Causes a Flurry to Two Oil Leaks That Are Virtually Ignored – 754 NRC and Army Corps of Engineers Joint Public Meeting – Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Calvert Cliffs Unit 3 – 737 More About Bill Gates and Nuclear Energy – 714 Just to make this kind of analysis a bit more tricky, it is apparent that many Atomic Insights readers do not go to individual…

Myths About Radiation Hazards Debunked – But Why Are They So Often Repeated?

ByRod Adams

…“expert witnesses” to spread myths about the dangers from tiny amounts of tritium found in wells near nuclear power plants? Note about the source of the above thought provoking video: An associate shared the link to a YouTube reproduction of a segment out of a John Stossel Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity countdown produced by ABC. According to the YouTube channel where it is posted, the video has been up for a year and seen on the web by abou…

Questioning the Safety of Hydraulic Fracturing for Natural Gas Extraction

ByRod Adams

…ities of almost pure water containing tiny quantities of relatively benign tritium while supporting gas reservoir stimulation techniques that require injecting millions of gallons of water with tons of carcinogenic chemicals at high pressure deep into the earth. Actually – I do “get it”. The coordinated endeavor to promote gas and discourage nuclear energy makes sense – in a twisted sort of way – if the actual goal is to put more money into the po…

Another hurdle that Jaczko is erecting in front of the Nuclear Renaissance

ByRod Adams

…ers and the alignment with antinuclear activists with regard to very minor tritium emissions at sites like Vermont Yankee, Chairman Jaczko is also taking aim at the process of awarding licenses for new nuclear plant construction. By inserting as much delay as possible, he might be able to derail any hope of a recovery in the potentially enormous nuclear plant manufacturing and construction business in the United States. In an era where the number…

NRC and Army Corps of Engineers Joint Public Meeting – Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Calvert Cliffs Unit 3

ByRod Adams

…ng into the business of forcing clean-ups at sites that have experienced a tritium leak. We had a spirited hallway discussion about the lack of of any public health impact from those leaks. He tried to tell me that the Calvert Cliff draft EIS was flawed because the NRC had not fully considered the potential of wind in the waters off the Maryland shore because they used data collected off the shore of Georgia. I told him about my days becalmed off…

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