Feb

27

New Technique Shows How To Improve Nuclear Waste Treatment

February 27, 2024 | Leave a Comment

Newly released University of Tokyo research reveals a method to more accurately measure, predict and model a key part of the process to make nuclear waste more stable. This could lead to improved nuclear waste treatment facilities and also to new theories about how some heavier elements in the universe came to be. The reporting […]

Nov

9

Fusion vs. Fission and Fission Won

November 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment

Hurricane Sandy offers an intense comparison between fusion an fission.  The region’s only functional fusion plant, the Sun, handicapped by distance, stunted by late season daylight hours and limited by the sunlit area of the North Atlantic still sent massive energy into the northeast coast of the U.S. hammering the area with rain, winds and […]

Nov

2

Burn that Nuclear Waste

November 2, 2009 | 4 Comments

The more energy pulled out of uranium fuels the less radioactive waste remains at the end.  That fact has been on the minds of many in science and business for decades. Nuclear experts say the proposed Advanced Recycling Center (ARC) could help to solve the biggest radioactive waste concerns as the world atomic power industry […]

Aug

11

Solving the Energy Issue In a Nutshell

August 11, 2009 | 4 Comments

I was going through the Oil Sands Development Centre in Fort McMurray last Friday evening with Gail the Actuary from the OilDrum.  We came upon a perma poster showing a part of the bitumen oil molecule, a very long carbon chain thing with a smattering of hydrogen atoms mounted here and there.  In the course […]

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