Thanks Rod Adams! It’s good to see the national director of the Sierra Club exhibiting rank hypocrisy by pushing the same natural-gas that killed six workers and destroyed a $1B facility only four weeks ago. The same national director of the Sierra Club who tells us in a recent Huffington Post article that nuclear power […]
Doug Caruso of the Columbus Dispatch has written a pair of articles that are appearing in today’s issue of the paper. In the article he quotes Dr. Al Juhasz and Dr. George Schmidt of NASA GRC, Dr. Dan Ingersoll of ORNL, Dr. Rich Denning of Ohio State, and me. All of these folks have been […]
“Even if nuclear reactors weren’t top terrorist targets…” Lie. A nuclear reactor is a terrible target. It’s about the hardest target you could even go after, encased in concrete and steel that would crush a plane in seconds. “Even if radioactive waste didn’t remain deadly for 10,000 years…” What are you talking about? Are you […]
In an event that has already faded into the dim and ancient memory of our media, two weeks ago there was a catastrophic explosion at a natural-gas-fired powerplant under construction in Connecticut. Six people were killed and many more were injured. A $1B development was destroyed. I can’t help but compare and contrast “clean and […]
Boy, sometimes someone mentions something to a group of people that give a concept a level of credibility no money could buy: 13:28 — “there are some innovations in nuclear…modular, liquid…” 23:10 — “there’s a liquid-type reactor, which seems a little hard…but maybe they say that about us.” Here’s the original link to the TED […]
Steven Kotler: Meltdown or Mother Lode: The New Truth About Nuclear Power Lately we’ve been seeing a lot more discussion about nuclear power on “environmentalist” and other left-leaning sites that have traditionally been opposed to nuclear. I know that part of this has been driven by the interest in building new reactors and reducing CO2 […]
A number of people are writing to their elected officials and others, asking them to preserve the precious U-233 inventory of the United States from permanent destruction at an absurd cost of $477 million dollars. This letter will be sent to Secretary Chu by one of our regular commenters “arcs_n_sparks”, who addressed some specific concerns […]
The latest news about the destruction of the precious uranium-233 at ORNL is that the price tag continues to go up: U-233 project in flux; pricetag’s on the rise The latest project estimate is $477 million. That includes the contractor’s “interim project baseline” (of $404 million), plus $73 million of DOE-held contingency, etc. The Oak […]
Image: Kleen Energy Middleton Natural-Gas/Oil Power Plant Witness To Middletown Explosion: ‘There Are Bodies Everywhere’ Early reports were that a natural gas leak could have caused a devastating explosion Sunday morning that killed two and injured as many as 100 at a power plant being built south of the city on the Connecticut River. Homeowners […]
Yesterday I was going through some old papers and I came across one that I must have photocopied quite some time ago. It was called “Advanced HTGR Systems” and was written by Peter Fortescue of General Atomics in 1975, and published in the Annals of Nuclear Energy, Vol. 2, pages 787-799. As I looked at […]