I’m really sorry for how long it has taken me to get to the second part of a response to Peter Zeihan’s brief video about small modular reactors. The video was released on November 28, 2023, and I threw up a blog response the same day, but spooled up a bunch of thoughts as a […]
HALEU is basically 20% enriched uranium, and I have watched with disbelief as it has gone from an obscure fuel option to the central fuel form for the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Reactor Development Program (ARDP). But boy oh boy, is this stuff expensive. And other people are starting to notice and realize that […]
I really enjoyed the chance to go back to my alma mater, the University of Tennessee, and to present to their nuclear engineering department as part of their colloquium series. The department head and my former teacher, Wes Hines, was kind enough to host and I was also very glad to see Harold Dodds there, […]
Another day has dawned with another video from our favorite geopolitical strategist, Peter Zeihan, but this time talking about small modular reactors and why they won’t “save” us. Yesterday’s video on thorium has already hit 250,000 views. I’d be lucky if my rebuttal was seen by 1/1000th of that. But oh well, I’ll try it […]
I have been following Peter Zeihan for many years now. Even last night I was sitting on my couch, catching up on his latest videos, learning about things like why the drug cartels in Mexico pose different threats to increased US manufacturing in Mexico. It’s easy to think, this guy knows everything about everything! So […]
Targeted alpha therapy is an example of a technology that is used to kill cancer. It shows particular promise against dispersed cancers such as leukemia and lymphoma. A radioisotope that undergoes alpha decay is chemically bonded to an antibody and injected into the body. The antibody seeks out and binds to the desired cell, then […]
Day three was the day I got my chance to say something, and here’s what I said: Clean, affordable, reliable energy is at the heart of economic growth. Fossil fuels have powered the ascent of civilization for centuries, but a replacement energy source is needed and we believe that it will be nuclear energy, but […]
Near the end of the day, I had an opportunity to record a message, and here’s what I said: Here in London at the ARC conference we’ve been asked to tell a better story, and that really resonates with me, because I feel like there’s a story to tell around energy that many of you […]
I’ve had the great pleasure and honor to be invited to attend and speak at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship’s inaugural conference in London, UK, this week. Yesterday was the first day of the conference and I found it, just remarkable. There is a tremendous gathering here of people dedicated to several key propositions, which […]
“ORNL molten salt concept could lead to ‘smartphone’ of reactors”, Carolyn Krause, Oak Ridger I recently had the opportunity to speak to the some of the ORNL “old-timers” who comprise the Friends of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (FORNL) in Oak Ridge, TN. FORNL is a non-profit organization focused on promoting the goals of ORNL. I […]