I’ve been drawing the reactor cores from the ORNL MSRP reports lately. I hope you like them. Here’s the one from ORNL-4119: and here’s the one from ORNL-4528: Here’s the picture from ORNL-4528 that I used for reference. Doing these has helped me learn a lot about fluoride reactor core design.
Jan Leen Kloosterman is an Associate Professor at Delft Technical University in the Faculty of Applied Science. Professor Kloosterman specializes in the Physics of Nuclear Reactors, and Thorium Fuel Cycle MSRs are among his professional interests. He has prepared a list of the technological advantages of the LFTR/TMSR. Here is his list: The MSR in […]
(guest post by Charles Barton) Lars Jorgensen is an Electrical Engineer who is Chief Technologist for Radio Products for Texas Instruments. In his spare time Lars has an unusual hobby. He is doing unpaid work on the development of the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor, in a project that Rod Adams describes as the nuclear equivalent […]
Not far west from the ruined community of Cefn Croes lies the Snowdonia Mountains of Wales, the site of one of the United Kingdom’s most beautiful National Parks. It was to Snowdonia in 1971 that a young Amory Lovins came at the behest of David Brower. Young Lovins, a three-time college dropout with an unearned […]
The issue of human-induced global warming has been a concern of mine for many, many years and has been the subject of several of my previous blog posts. It is clear to anyone who takes the time to examine the problem that the “low-hanging fruit” for CO2 reduction is the elimination of coal-fired electrical generation, […]
Dr. Joe Bonometti, a great friend of this blog and the cause of thorium, gave a “Tech Talk” at Google this past Tuesday on the subject of Liquid-Fluoride Thorium Reactors. The video of his talk is available on YouTube and embedded here. You can also download a copy of his slides here: LFTR Google Presentation […]
(guest post by Charles Barton) Both Eugene Wigner and Enrico Fermi were brilliant scientists. Both made enormous contributions to the theoretical and practical development of atomic energy. Their educational background was different, and for this reason their thinking about long-range reactor design diverged. Fermi was a classic physicist. Fermi thought of reactors first in terms […]
The following legislation has been introduced in the US Senate today by Senator Orrin Hatch and Senator Harry Reid: 110TH CONGRESS2D SESSION To amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to provide for thorium fuel cycle nuclear power generation. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES introduced the following bill; which was read twiceand referred […]
(Guest post by Charles Barton) Shortly before Alvin Weinberg’s 80th birthday, Bill Cabbage and Carolyn Krause, journalists associated with ORNL, interviewed him. During the interview Weinberg was asked to comment on Milton Shaw. Weinberg responded, “Milton Shaw had a singleness of purpose. In many ways I admired him, and in many ways he drove me […]
(guest post by Charles Barton) Eugene Wigner spent a brief period as Research Director of what was then called the Clinton Laboratories. Oak Ride was in 1943 a town that did not exist, so the Laboratory could not be named for it. Instead the assigned name that of Clinton, the old East Tennessee town that […]