There is an upcoming meeting of the Reactor and Fuel Cycle Subcommittee of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future. It will be held in Washington DC at the Washington Marriott on Monday and Tuesday, August 30 and 31, from 8am to 4:15pm.
This is the place to make our voices heard about LFTR and the potential of thorium to meet our future energy needs!
Please consider attending the meeting and making your comments heard at the public session on the afternoon of the 31st. There will be one hour for comments.
I am planning to go and comment. I hope I am joined by many others!
I think you’re too enthusiastic about a meeting of a committee of a department of a federal bureaucracy.
There’s voices who will listen.
Kirk,
Do you happen to know if there is going to be any remote conferencing for people to ask questions? If so, if you could please post said info, I’m sure lots of us who cannot be there in person would appreciate it.
Ed
Ed – according to the public register notice, there will not be any remote conferencing capability, but there is an address on the announcement where the public is invited to submit written comments.
http://brc.gov/pdfFiles/FR_Notice_RFCT_Open_Meeting_2010-20432.pdf
Based on what I saw during last week’s meeting of the transportation and storage subcommittee, there will be a one way web cast of the event which will eventually be available as an archive.
Anon – you are far too cynical about our American democracy and government. I know that Ronald Reagan taught some folks that the government is the problem, but my experience has been that the government can do good things if people take the time to participate.
It can also do extraordinarily stupid things if the only people who take the time to get involved are the people who want those stupid things to happen.
I congratulate Kirk for making plans to attend and hope to see him there.
Kirk,
I am concerned that the focus of this Subcommittee is limited to the cycle for the current commercial nuclear fuel. I suspect that the 5 minutes you get may not be enough time to convince them that the full Commission needs to embrace and support a thorium fuel cycle.
However, it may be enough time to convince the Subcommitte and the Commission to keep the thorium fuel cycle on the table as an additional fuel option. To that end, you may want to recommend that they support the effort to terminate the U-233 Disposition Project at ORNL and transfer the U-233 to safe, secure, interim storage at another DOE site.
Perhaps if we can win this one small battle (saving the U-233), it will give us a chance to eventually win the war (DOE funded R&D on the LFTR).
Kirk,
I was looking at this wikipedia page and noticed that your site doesn’t have a link in the references at the bottom of the page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium_fuel_cycle
It might be worth the time to get your site added to some of the key wikipedia pages.
tomk
We’ve tried, but the wiki-masters keep booting us off. We gave up after a while.