Coal Use Grows Despite Warnings “An average of 13 Chinese miners die every day in explosions, floods, fires and cave-ins.” This problem just keeps getting worse… Birth Defects on Rise in China Province “Coal mining regions of northern China are reporting soaring levels of defects in newborns, an apparent result of heavy pollution, state media […]
Dirty energy threatens health of 2 billion The health of about 2 billion of the world’s poor is being damaged because they lack access to clean energy, like electricity, and face exposure to smoke from open fires, scientists said on Thursday. Dangerous levels of indoor air pollutants from badly ventilated cooking fires are a common […]
Dr. John Gofman has passed away at the age of 88 of heart failure. Dr. Gofman is of special interest to those of us fascinated by energy from thorium since he (under the guidance of Dr. Glenn Seaborg) discovered uranium-233 and its fissionability. I remember reading somewhere (but I’ve not been able to find the […]
Dr. David LeBlancPhysics DepartmentCarleton UniversityOttawa, Canada In this presentaion I will attempt to explain a completely new concept for a Liquid Fluoride or Molten Salt Breeder Reactor. The basic idea may seem almost trivial in nature, given its simplicity, but I hope its importance will be evident once all aspects of the design are examined. […]
The terrible story of six trapped miners in the Crandall Canyon mine in Utah appears to have come to a painful and drawn-out conclusion. The mine owner, Robert Murray, told the families of the trapped miners that their loved-ones are most likely dead, and that further rescue attempts will not be made since there is […]
A ternary mixture is a three-part mixture of some substance. Ternary mixtures are especially important in fluoride reactors because there are some three-part mixtures that have very attractive properties. A three-part mixture of lithium, beryllium, and uranium fluorides can be used as a fuel in a fluoride reactor.The lithium and beryllium fluorides are mixed together […]
Every morning I read the online editions of the two main papers in Salt Lake City, because I was born and raised in Utah and want to keep up with what’s going on in my boyhood home. This morning there was a very interesting article: Deseret News: Utah nuclear plant construction a step closer I […]
About this time ten years ago, I bought a copy of the Tori Amos album Little Earthquakes. I listened to it over and over, especially the title track, which conveys the sense of pain and desperation that I felt back then over what I thought was heartache. I was living in the high desert of […]
On my previous post, I received an excellent comment from Alex Brown, that I would like to try to answer in a full post. Alex said: While the enthusiasm is a good thing there are several reason why this is more or less impossible for TVA to achieve. First off is the fact that TVA […]
Yesterday I posted on the issues that surround finding a good moderator. Today I’ll walk you through the math that will let you do the calculations yourself. At the end I’ll link a spreadsheet that already has the calculations done that you can download and monkey around with if you want. First of all, you […]