Jun

3

The German Nuclear Experiment

June 3, 2011 | 2 Comments

Al Fin noted that Germany is leading an anti nuclear charge in Europe while the Asian countries are setting up for a huge increase in fission based nuclear electric power generation. Germany’s announcement comes as no great surprise as only a short time ago the country had backed away from decommissioning nuclear installations out of [...]

May

26

Major Thorium Fuel Reactor Progress

May 26, 2011 | 5 Comments

The first firm we’ll look at is Flibe Energy, a new company that will develop small modular reactors based on liquid-fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR) technology.  Flibe Energy is a new company founded by Kirk Sorensen who was (is still?) chief nuclear technologist at Teledyne Brown.  The second is Thorenco LLC, founded by Charles S. Holden [...]

Mar

18

Japan’s Nukes – Scary or Interesting Concern?

March 18, 2011 | 6 Comments

Fast answer – an interesting concern.  Those words are chosen as the human tragedy unfolds.  Perhaps hundreds or thousands of people are exposed to the elements, including overnights in cold windy and wet weather.  Thousands more have perished.  The nuclear problems while serious in several ways are secondary shows.  Food and shelter progress information is [...]

Mar

7

A New Way to Get Power From a Nuclear Reactor

March 7, 2011 | 2 Comments

Sandia National Laboratories researchers are moving from theory and the lab bench to the demonstration phase of a new gas circulation system using supercritical CO2 for driving turbines for power generation. The theory and supporting lab work suggest that thermal-to-electric conversion efficiency will be increased to as much as 50 percent – an improvement of [...]

Feb

23

Its Time to Start Reprocessing Nuclear Fuel

February 23, 2011 | 4 Comments

Dale Klein, Ph.D., Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Texas, currently serving as a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Commissioner and former NRC Chairman pointed out again this week the U.S. has an extremely valuable resource in used nuclear fuel. Klein made his remarks Sunday morning at the American Association for the [...]

Feb

11

Nuclear Power On the Cheap

February 11, 2011 | 2 Comments

Gotta love Rod Adams and his Atomic Insights Blog. He has a knack for turning up the most worthwhile matters in the fission field of nuclear energy as it functions today.  Over the past weeks Rod has had a look at the Zion Nuclear Power Station. There in lies a story. It seems the Zion [...]

Dec

29

Good Energy Jobs in the Future

December 29, 2010 | 9 Comments

One sure thing for future employment is in nuclear.  Now with three decades past the partial meltdown of a reactor at Three Mile Island and further expansion of nuclear power at a standstill, years of stagnant hiring comes to, as the American Physical Society, an independent group of physicists put it, “a greatly reduced interest [...]

Nov

2

Hope to Rid the World of Spent Nuclear Fuel With a Benefit

November 2, 2010 | 4 Comments

Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) has signed a memorandum of understanding with GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) to explore the potential of deploying a prototype of GEH’s Generation IV PRISM reactor.  The PRISM reactor design is an advanced, Generation IV sodium-cooled reactor technology. A key attribute of PRISM technology is that it generates additional electricity [...]

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