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
15
A New Fusion Reactor Design
January 15, 2013 | 1 Comment
Professor José Luis González Díez from the Higher Technical School of Naval Engineering at the Universidad politécnica de Madrid (UPM) has patented a nuclear fusion reactor of the inertial confinement type. The design is proposed for use both to generate electric power for utilities, as well as applied to ship propulsion. The design appears to […]
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 […]
Nov
22
A Thanksgiving Day For One Small Nuclear Reactor
November 22, 2012 | 1 Comment
The Obama Administration’s Energy Department has announced an award to support a project to design, license and help commercialize a small modular reactor (SMR) in the United States. The lucky partnership members are Babcock & Wilcox with the Tennessee Valley Authority and Bechtel who will receive a dollar for dollar cost match in funding to […]