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Kirk Sorensen – Why didn’t molten salt thorium reactors succeed the first time?

ByRod Adams

…he epithermal reactor was more forgiving and quite beautiful to watch. The Chernobyl reactor had the following qualities when it exploded. 1… It ran on thermal neutrons. Bombs run on fast neurons and can experience 1000 generations during the life of one neutron in a thermal reactor. 2… Compared to bombs, Chernobyl experienced a very slow reactivity insertion rate as water turned to steam and was ejected. 3… The reactor was running at low power, s…

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Call to action might be more effective if Bill Nye would stop denying the usefulness of nuclear energy

ByRod Adams

…s. G.R.L. Cowan I believe the designers of the N reactor had the lesson of Chernobyl in mind. See “A comparison of N Reactor and Chernobyl“, published after the shutdown (http://www.osti.gov/scitech/biblio/6913274 ): N Reactor design and safety features that represent key differences from the Chernobyl plant are: — N Reactor’s design inherently reduces power when the reactor cooling water temperature increases and especially if the cooling water s…

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Arnie Gundersen – Still spreading unwarranted fear far and wide

ByRod Adams

…he line – oh, wait, too late for that! Rather than Arnie’s Fukushima as a “Chernobyl on steroids”, it turned out to be more like a Chernobyl on sedatives. Daniel The State of Vermont also told Vermont Yankee that it would have to foot the bill for the court fees. Vermont Yankee told them that they would not pay Vermont’s legal fees. Daniel @ Jeff S No one would probably be affected by specks of plutonium. No other elements has been studied, but tw…

Hormesis – Low Doses of Most "Poisons" Can Be Beneficial

ByRod Adams

…ou wrote as suggesting that we should build all of our nuclear plants like Chernobyl-4, and when the inevitable accident occurs, we can make the radiological protection standards so low that we can claim that there’s “nothing to see here.” After all, wasn’t the “containment” that housed the Chernobyl-4 reactor built like any other large building? Sorry, but I think that you’re oversimplifying a complex issue with the intent of laying more blame on…

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