I really love to talk and think about nuclear power in a maritime environment. But strangely enough, until recently, not many other people seemed to feel the way that I do. A lot of people seem to think that it is strange to talk about nuclear power being used to move a big ship across […]
Guangming Daily: After building the Shanghai Light Source, he pioneered a new generation of nuclear energy for 16 years At the 11th “Serve the Country Forum” held by the Shanghai Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently, Researcher Xu Hongjie, Director of the Academic Committee of the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics of the […]
Senate Joint Resolution 67 was introduced into the Alabama state Senate on Thursday, April 10, by state Senator Greg Albritton. It passed the Senate on April 15, and passed the House earlier today. It goes to Governor Kay Ivey for her signature. (UPDATE: Gov. Ivey signed the resolution on April 23!) For many years, we […]
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 […]
Flibe Energy’s approach to sustainable nuclear energy is a liquid-fluoride reactor that runs on the thorium fuel cycle. Our design builds upon the technologies that were demonstrated and proven during the early days of nuclear development. To better understand the validity of our approach, we will look at the history of these early nuclear programs […]
I traveled to Jackson to speak to the three members of the Mississippi Public Service Commission on Tuesday, October 22. They had assembled a “2024 Nuclear Summit” and were gracious enough to allow me to present our technological approach to them. I started my talk by describing the unique economic challenge that the entire nuclear […]
Ten years ago I gave a TEDx talk in Colorado Springs. My kids pointed out to me the other days that it had about 1.7 million views. I had no idea it had gotten to that point. Ten years is a lot of time. A lot of time to pass since then, which just doesn’t […]
I was invited to speak at a panel hosted by the Greek section of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) at the Posidonia 2024 conference in Athens, Greece, this week.
I really enjoyed the chance to go back to my alma mater, the University of Tennessee, and to present to their nuclear engineering department as part of their colloquium series. The department head and my former teacher, Wes Hines, was kind enough to host and I was also very glad to see Harold Dodds there, […]
Targeted alpha therapy is an example of a technology that is used to kill cancer. It shows particular promise against dispersed cancers such as leukemia and lymphoma. A radioisotope that undergoes alpha decay is chemically bonded to an antibody and injected into the body. The antibody seeks out and binds to the desired cell, then […]