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The MSR, LMFBR decision: Reason and Science Take a Back Seat

May 24, 2010 by Charles Barton
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Nuclear Green has in the past offered sketches of the early history of reactor design. The classic reactor design was created by Enrico Fermi, and featured a solid core. Fermi was a physicist, and in a way designed his first reactor as a physics experiment. From the view point of process, materials were placed in the nuclear core and... [read more]

Will We Run Out of Uranium?

February 7, 2010 by Charles Barton
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I noted on Friday, that there is strong evidence that a nuclear Renaissance is underway, and that the number of new reactors under construction, being planned, and under consideration is rapidly increasing. Brian Wang has pointed out in a private communication that present world Uranium mining capacity would be unable the demand for... [read more]

Alvin Weinberg, Prophet of CO2 Driven Global Warming

December 8, 2009 by Charles Barton
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 Alvin Weinberg greets President Kennedy during a visit by the President to Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Weinberg was one of Kennedy's science advisors.Update Note: This post was one of the first I wrote for Nuclear Green in December 2007. Because it deals with the early history of studies of carbon mitigation and Alvin... [read more]

Two paths to Copenhagen: Weinberg and Lovins

October 4, 2009 by Charles Barton
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In 1975 Alvin Weinberg left his final post as an energy administer, that of energy programs research director for the Federal Governments, a post he only held for a year. Weinberg was not yet ready to retire, and founded his own think tank, the Institute for Energy Analysis, where he conducted long-range analytic studies of energy... [read more]