Windmills versus nuclear energy
Don't let HBO's acclaimed five-part series Chernobyl (HBO, IMDb, Wikipedia) demonize all nuclear power in your mind. It made this kid eager to read Mac MacDowell's important June 3 article here at …
Nuclear Power – Where’s The Uranium Coming From?
U.S. Domestic Uranium Production versus Imports 1950 to 2018. UxC/UCOM Since the 1990s, mostly from other countries like Canada and Australia. This is a good thing, as the uranium ores in these…
How to build a Thorium Reactor at home (in a nutshell) [Interesting]
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The formation mechanism of uranium and thorium hydride phosphorus: a systematically theoretical…
Activation of prototypical bonds by actinide atoms is an important aspect of material activity, and the results can be used for the study of nuclear material storage. In this study, the activation of…
Seaborg Molten Salt Reactor Will Fit on A T ruck and Expense Less Than Coal Power
Seaborg is the largest reactor design start-up in Europe and they are making an ultra-compact molten salt reactor (CMSR). Seaborg cannot meltdown and can use spent fuel. Conventional nuclear reactors…
Indonesian President Might Start Revolutionary ThorCon Reactor Job This Year
ThorCon demonstration plant’s safety and economics case are being studied by Indonesia Ministry of Energy in conjunction with Indonesia electric utility PLN. The study started in January, 2019 and…
C$10 Million to Develop First Molten Salt Molten Reactor
Moltex was founded in 2014 by Dr. Ian Scott, and was privately funded until 2018. Moltex’s mission is to enable low-cost clean energy as a practical economic solution. On 2018-07-13, New Brunswick…
Up and atom! This kid construct his own nuclear reactor
Photo: Michael Nicholson/Getty Images Wiki WormholeWe explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 5,664,405-week series, Wiki Wormhole. This week’s entry: David Hahn What it’s about: North Korea may…
Rare Earth Minerals and Thorium
There seems to be a similarity between international trade disputes and Texas Hold’em. There is always a certain amount of bluff that is part of the negotiations. The question is, how much is a bluff…
ThorCon Advanced Nuclear Reactor — More Than Worth Its Weight In Salt
Each ThorCon power plant is based on one or more hulls, each containing two 250 MWe power modules, a 500 MW super-critical turbogenerator, gas insulated switchgear (GIS), a decay heat pond, and…