Feb
20
Power and Momentum for Thorium Fueled Nuclear
February 20, 2009 | 3 Comments
Are you a thorium fan? Got some of the hard details settled in mind and realize the potential of thorium and even better, the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor? With the basics already worked out for decades, a mass of people is getting on board from Senator Hatch to we bloggers and blog readers. That won’t […]
Feb
9
Oregon State University To Test a New Reactor Design
February 9, 2009 | 1 Comment
OSU with partners Texas A&M University and the University of Michigan are to build a one-quarter scale reactor and test design, to see what works best, simulate accidents, and provide safety data to regulatory agencies. The facility itself will cost $3.6 million of a five-year, $6 million grant from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, with $2.4 […]
Feb
5
A New Nuclear Reactor Company
February 5, 2009 | 3 Comments
Nathan Myhrvold the ex-Microsoft chief scientist who started Intellectual Ventures, a group think tank, has the firm spinning out a company named TerraPower to enter the new nuclear market with reactors that run on natural or depleted uranium. The idea is that with un-enriched fuel, the reactors could be loaded up with fuel and sealed […]
Jan
29
Cleaning Up Nuclear with Nuclear
January 29, 2009 | 2 Comments
Mike Kotschenreuther, senior research scientist with the Institute for Fusion Studies (IFS) and Department of Physics at the University of Texas at Austin is leading a team that has designed a hybrid fusion-fission reactor to burn fission reactor waste. When fully developed, the design would use fusion neutron products to eliminate most of the transuranic […]
Jan
21
The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Paradigm: Part I Thorium
January 21, 2009 | 9 Comments
This is a guest post by Charles Barton. Charles is a retired counselor who writes the Energy from Thorium blog. It covers in some detail the broad aspects of the advantages of thorium as a fuel source in fission reactions. His father Dr. Charles Barton, Senior, worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for 28 years. […]
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