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Thorium at Indian Point

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 […]

Liquid Fuels from Nuclear Hydrogen

Hydrogen can be produced at high efficiency (~50%) from nuclear reactors that can produce high-temperature heat, such as the liquid-fluoride thorium reactor. Typically the hydrogen is generated from water using thermochemical processes and catalysts such as sulfur and iodine. With water as the feedstock, no CO2 or greenhouse gases are released during the hydrogen generation. […]

Comparing the Temperature Coefficients of Two-Fluid and One-Fluid LFRs

On a number of occasions in this weblog I have talked about the central importance of the temperature coefficient of reactivity in the safety of nuclear reactors, because the temperature coefficient governs how a reactor responds to changes, transients, accidents, etc. It must ALWAYS be negative, and strongly negative temperature coefficients are even better. While […]

Recent Thorium Announcement?

Several people have pointed me to this recent piece of news: Northamerican Energy Group to Launch Thorium Power Generating Research Development Division Unfortunately, I’ve never heard of this company (Northamerican Energy Group) before. Their website seems to indicate that they are involved in oil and gas development. As far as their plans to use thorium, […]

Meeting at Ohio State

We had another excellent meeting of our “Ohio thorium” group again at Ohio State University on Tuesday, August 8th, 2006. Early that morning, Ray Beach, Al Juhasz, and I drove from Cleveland to Columbus. Chuck Alexander and Eugenio Villeseca from Cleveland State were on the road doing the same thing. We arrived at OSU and […]