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What Are The Problems With LFTR Technology?
What are the problems with MSR/LFTR technology? This turns out to be a hard question to answer. Since there are a large number of LFTR design options, however, it is difficult to identify a set of problems that shared all of the options. Rather...
Deproliferation, India and the Thorium Fuel Cycle Part II
In the first part of this essay, I reviewed the almost inevitable rise of China and India to great power status. I pointed out that by 2050, current expectations are that by 2050, China and India will be ranked along with the United States as great...
Indian and Chinese Development, Nonproliferation and Thorium
This is the first of a series of posts which I plan to offer that will argue that current nuclear nonproliferation schemes are at best transitory, and are likely to undergo significant changes before the middle of the 21th century. Numerous...
Were the Japanese Engineers Who Built Fukushima Incompetent?
This is a guest post by NNadir.David Mabb, British, 2002.(Cross posted from Daily Kos, along with an amusing poll and with references to diaries therein. Link to the Kos Diary.)A news item in the June 2, 2011 issue of Nature, (page 10) which may...
Heat, Public Health, And Air Conditioning
I spent most of the last 37 years in Dallas, Texas. There is an old saying in Texas that Houston was built on oil, San Antonio was built on gold, and Dallas was built on paper. The truth is, however, that Dallas was built on chilled air. Dallas...
Climate Skeptics Need To Look Out Their Window
The Southeastern United States is experiencing an Unusual drought, part of the extreme weather condition pattern that is probably related to anthropogenic global warming.Government climate scientists are using terms such as exceptional and extreme...
Nuclear Industry Subsidies Part IV: Conclusions
This is Part IV of my review of Doug Koplow's "Nuclear Power: Still not viable without subsidies." In Part I, I examined the definition of subsidies and looked at several limiting cases, including subsidies to an energy related project, the Cape...
Google.org Is Confused About Paths To The Energy Future
Computer modelers can trip up in two ways. The model may be poorly designed in the first place. Secondly the data input may be flawed. As the old saying goes, "garbage in, garbage out." Models need to be tested, but if your model is designed to...
Nuclear Industry Subsidies Part III: The Military Connection
This is the Part III of my review of Doug Koplow, Union of Concerned Scientists report titled, Nuclear Power: Still not viable without subsidies. Part I offered some definition of subsidies, and noted that very large government subsidies to the...
Nuclear Industry Subsidies Part II: The Mining Sector
Nuclear Industry Subsidies Part II: The Mining Sector Doug Kaplow, in a Union of Concerned Scientists report titled, Nuclear Power: Still not viable without subsidies," has offered us an attempt to assess subsidies offered by the Government to the...
Nuclear Industry Subsidies Part I: Definitions
Any analysis of nuclear industry subsidies should begin with definitions of the terms "Nuclear Industry" and "subsidy." We need to understand what it is we are talking about before we can talk intelligibly.The broadest meaning of term "nuclear...
Doing Something About The Weather
Everyone talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it. - Mark TwainOn the evening of June 21, 2011, Knoxville, Tennessee experienced a strange onslaught from Mother Nature. A relatively small thunder shower moved through the area and...
