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Nuclear Safety and the Fukushima Dai-ichi Explosion
The explosion at the Japanese Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, will undoubtedly and other events that are still unfolding will no doubt lead to further debates about nuclear safety. We know that the explosion was probably a hydrogen explosion...
Industrial Process Heat and the SmAHTR
Current energy plans, and energy discussions largely ignore several future energy problems. For example, may industrial processes require significant heat. About 2/3 of the energy used in industry is used in the form of heat. The other third is...
Should Nuclear Energy Be A Panacea?
Thus guest post is by NNadir, who cross posts on Nuclear Green, posts from his Daily Kos blog (http://www.dailykos.com/user/NNadir). NNadir is legendary among pro-nuclear bloggers. Part of my paen to consumerism this Christmas,...
Is the Obama Administration getting the message? I say, "NO"
From NPR's Ira Flatow, February 18, 2011:JEFF (Caller): Thank you. Tons of questions but one pops out is what can you say about these thorium-based nuclear reactors? I've heard - I've read good things about them, but no one wants to get it off the...
The Liquid Flouride Thorium Reactor in Social Media and in the Media
A couple of years ago Kirk Sorensen traveled to England to speak before a pnel gathered by the English newspaper, the Guardian. The panel was looking for innovative solutions to the problem of global warming, Part of the deal with the Guardian was...
Texas Power Blackouts and Green Energy
My brother David was in his Greenville Texas home, talking with me on the telephone when a rolling blackout cut off our conversation. When we resumed the conversation, David mentioned that not only were there rolling power outages all over texas,...
No Help with Global Warming: Wind and Gas
The Blog sphere is rapidly replacing the conventional media as a source of important ideas that effect the future of society. Several recent blog posts raise important issues about the future of energy and call into question the future energy...
Does Nuclear Energy Really Equate to Nuclear War?
In a previous post I looked at Mark Z. Jacobson's decision to exclude nuclear power as an future energy source in a recent paper. In that post I reviewed Jacobson's assertions that the global spread of nuclear generated electrical power would...
Nuclear power for weapons? Mark Z. Jacobson's proliferation of errors
In a new paper, Mark Z. Jaconson rejects consideration of nuclear power technology as a post carbon energy source:we do not consider nuclear energy (conventional fission, breeder reactors, or fusion) as a long-term global energy source. First, the...
Keeping up with China: The Economic Advantage of Molten Salt Nuclear Technology
Last Friday, Brian Wang called attention to a Boomberg's article on Chinese nuclear cost. The Bloomberg's story reported that the French designed EPR would cost 40% less to build in China that in Europe:Areva SA said the EPR nuclear reactor costs 3...
On the Persecution of Michael Mann
The Republican treatment of famed Climate Scientist Michael Mann, goes well beyond rational concern about scientific misconduct, and looks more and more like outright persecution of a scientist who has dared, like Galileo to contradicts the dogmas...
Charles Forsberg's views on Generation IV nuclear costs
ORNL MSR development work focused almost exclusively on MSBRs, although Ed Bettis's reactor design shop did design some deep burn MSR converters. The AEC was interested in breeder reactors, so the ORNL focus was on the development of a MSBR, rather...
