Apr
26
A Deal for a Molten Salt Reactor in Canada
April 26, 2013 | 4 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 | 6 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 | 6 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 […]
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