Here is a link to a well reasoned viewpoint from Donald A. Grant, Ph.D., P.E. He is the R. C. Hill Professor and chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Maine.
This piece is recommended reading for anyone trying to understand why so many people are waking up to the importance of nuclear power developments.
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Sometimes I forget just how many people have recognized that there is a potential market for smaller nuclear power plants. A friend of mine sent me a link recently to an excellent summary of the publicly available information about a myriad of projects from more than a dozen different countries. You can find the article…
Mark Cooper, of the Vermont Law School’s Institute for Energy and the Environment, apparently subscribes to the Al Gore theory that nuclear power plants come in only one size – extra large. In the above video clip titled The Economics of Nuclear Reactors from CleanSkies.com, dated July 17, 2009, he explains why he does not…
It took me a while to find a good link to this article, so I am a little late in talking about an interesting report that was published in the Mississauga Business Times on 27 October 2005. It describes a talk given by my friend and colleague Dr. Jerry Cuttler to his local Rotary Club….
Phosphate deposits often contain substantial quantities of uranium with concentrations ranging from a few parts per million to as much as 600 ppm. The spoils left over from phosphate mining for fertilizer can contain even higher concentrations that are in a form suitable for chemical recovery of the uranium. This recovery process used to be…
Amory Lovins – that “Oxford educated physicist” – continues to confuse me with his mathematical manipulations. (If you want to understand the reasons for the quotes around the description, see Amory Lovins’s Academic Career.) According to an October 22nd article in the Toronto Star titled Lovins Q&A , Lovins has claimed that 16 percent is…
A friend shared a link to an EBay auction for a vintage advertisement from General Electric describing its efforts to help the world move past its dependence on burning coal. This ad appeared in 1972, just a couple of years before Ralph Nader successfully gathered a large group of organizations that had been individually fighting…
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