Apr

26

A Deal for a Molten Salt Reactor in Canada

April 26, 2013 | 3 Comments

Terrestrial Energy Inc. (TEI) founded in late 2012 with Dr. David LeBlanc’s patent-pending Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) technology has oil sands production company partners and a plan for oil sand taxes to pay for the MSR development.  The U.S. investment in nuclear power using technologies that doesn’t produce an abundance of dangerous waste has escaped. [...]

Mar

13

The Nuke The Anti Nuke Crowd Should Love

March 13, 2013 | 2 Comments

Transatomic, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology spinoff is developing a nuclear reactor designed to overcome the major barriers to nuclear power.  For the anti nuclear folks the design offers to burn up the existing spent fuel from the world’s fleet of nuclear reactors in a design that doesn’t offer a chance for a meltdown.  That [...]

Jan

17

Nuclear Reactors to Produce Oil

January 17, 2013 | 4 Comments

Al Fin found news in Japan at The Daily Yomiuri that an as yet unnamed Canadian oil sands production firm is working with the huge firm Toshiba’s nuclear reactor section to build, get approvals for and install reactors to produce steam to heat the underground oil sand’s bitumen for extraction and oil production. The plan, [...]

Jan

14

At the Threshold of a Nuclear Fission Renaissance

January 14, 2013 | 1 Comment

M. Mitchell Waldrop offers a marvelous, compact and easily read overview of where the fission nuclear energy field is today.  With a history and review of the options, the article “Nuclear Energy: Radical Reactors” has been published by Nature.  It’s a medium length article well worth the time.  Meanwhile, here’s a quick overview for the [...]

Nov

26

Thorium To Be Used In a Working Reactor

November 26, 2012 | 4 Comments

A Norwegian company led by Alf Bjørseth will start burning thorium fuel in a conventional test reactor owned by Norway’s government with help from U.S.-based nuclear giant Westinghouse. Bjørseth is now running his private company Scatec AS, and establishing new companies within Scatec based on the latest technologies in the areas of renewable energy and [...]

Sep

26

Will There Be Enough Uranium for Generating Electricity?

September 26, 2012 | 1 Comment

The Nuclear Energy Institute announced a September telephone survey in a press release suggesting almost two thirds of U.S. adults favor the use of nuclear energy as one of the ways to provide electricity in the United States. This latest survey found that Americans strongly favoring nuclear energy outnumber those strongly opposed by a two-to-one [...]

Sep

24

The Nuclear Plant Locations with Tsunami Risk

September 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment

Researchers at the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) of the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium have completed and published their study on nuclear power plants with tsunami risk. The research shows 23 nuclear power plants with 74 reactors have been identified in high tsunami risk areas and one is the [...]

Aug

9

A Better Smaller Cheaper Uranium Fuel to be a Catalyst

August 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment

Scientists at Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) using light energy have created a rare molecular uranium nitride (U-N) complex. The constructed molecule contains a discrete terminal “U-N unit”, a situation where just one nitrogen atom is bonded to the one uranium atom. Prior work had the nitrogen atom always been bonded to two or more [...]

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