$1,000,000,000,000: the cost of capping greenhouse gas emissions PricewaterhouseCooper has released a study saying that it will cost roughly a trillion dollars to “cap” the emissions of CO2. These kind of numbers will clearly scare many policy-makers who are convinced that reducing CO2 emissions is incompatible with healthy economic growth. Without plunging into the debate […]
$48 million to remediate the Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment? Not only does it sound like these guys are “milking” the job, but if this money was being spent on fluoride reactor DEVELOPMENT rather than “remediation”, the entire remediation task (which appears to consist of fluorinating the MSRE fuel) could probably be accommodated in the reactor development […]
While cleaning up the “Document Repository” I find fantastic papers written back in the hey-day of the fluoride reactor work at ORNL. This one from 1971 is really neat…an examination of the resources of the world and how they might be affected by the large-scale development of power from thorium-fueled fluoride reactors. ORNL-TM-3563: Availability of […]
A tip of the hat to Ralph Palmer, Baron Lucas of Crudwell and member of the House of Lords for mentioning thorium and this site on his blog…
I found this the other day in the 37th edition of “Steam: Its Generation and Use”, published in 1963, an industry standard reference which has been published by Babcock and Wilcox for about a century now. On page 27-4 it said: Consolidated Edison Indian Point Station In meeting the challenges and responsibilities of providing electricity […]