We had success in Colorado last night! House Bill 25-1040 (“Adding Nuclear Energy as a Clean Energy Resource.”) passed through the Senate Transportation & Energy Committee with a vote of six in favor and three against. A recording of the entire proceeding is available from the committee’s website. Senator Larry Liston, the bill’s sponsor and […]
From October 14-15, 2022, thorium power enthusiasts gathered at the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History in Albuquerque, NM to learn from thorium innovators, supporters, and professionals in the nuclear energy industry. Friday speakers included: John Kutsch (Director of Thorium Energy Alliance) – Opened the conference and welcomed the attendees, while restating the value […]
ORNL recently published a report titled Safeguards for the Lithium Fluoride Thorium Reactor: A Preliminary Nuclear Material Control and Accounting Assessment. A summary of the report can be found below. This report was developed for Flibe Energy, Inc. The design of a LFTR (liquid fluoride thorium reactor) presents challenges for both the NRC’s and the […]
John J. Loughlin II is a former three-term Republican State Representative and former Republican Whip serving in the Rhode Island House of Representatives before running for US Congress in 2010. He served in a leadership role on the Naval Affairs Committee, and was a member of House Labor, Health Education and Welfare Committee, and House […]
Senator Tuberville is not backing down. In a continued campaign to move away from fossil-fuel consumption, Senator Tommy Tuberville (R) of Alabama is pushing for a transition to a new kind of clean energy: thorium. As we’ve discussed on this website, the Department of Energy, in a stunningly short-sighted move, is currently seeking to destroy […]
A recent paper by Lindsay Krall, Allison Macfarlane, and Rodney Ewing has garnered a great deal of attention: Stanford-led research finds small modular reactors will exacerbate challenges of highly radioactive nuclear waste Nuclear waste from small modular reactors The paper claims that small modular reactors (SMRs) will generate waste streams that are disproportionately large relative […]
Last night I was flying back to Alabama from TEDxYYC in Calgary, and somewhere over the middle of the continent I found myself with a few hours and a recorded program I had been meaning to watch. I pulled it up on my laptop: “Plan-B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization,” a PBS documentary built around the […]