At the University of Tennessee (where I have been a distance student for the past three years) they regularly have webcasts of nuclear colloquia that they offer on a variety of topics. In commemoration of Dr. Weinberg I wanted to post a set of links to broadcasts of four colloquia he gave over the last […]
Alvin Weinberg passed away last night at the age of 91 at his home in Oak Ridge. He was the director of Oak Ridge National Lab from 1950 to 1970 and supervised the development and construction of two molten-salt reactors. In his book “The First Nuclear Era”, he stated that the reason he took the […]
Introduction and Basic Principles of Energy The generation and use of energy is central to the maintenance of organization. Life itself is a state of organization maintained by the continual use of sources of energy. Human civilization has reached the state it has by the widespread use of energy, and for the large fraction of […]