What about Hanford? Catch up on some perhaps surprising study conclusions and realities. madihilly.substack.com/p/hanford-wh...
America has a massive, unresolved waste problem at the Hanford Site in Washington with no clear end in sight
For Jimmy Carter's 100th birthday, I sent in paperwork to begin the digitization process of a film summarizing the recovery and rebuilding of the NRX reactor that he participated in. Who knows, maybe he'll make an appearance in it!
On Jimmy Carter's 100th birthday, let's honor him by considering his real actions, not a made-up exaggeration! This is the link you should read on his part in cleaning up the NRX accident.
Morgan Brown wrote this article for the North Renfrew Times about former President Jimmy Carter's role in the cleanup following the NRX accident in 1952,
If you want a *REALLY* small nuclear reactor that still has high power, you need a compact power conversion system. Here's a film about a cycle where mercury is boiled and sent through a turbine. It was developed for compact space power reactors. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa0S...
YouTube video by PeriscopeFilm
Here are some pros and cons of different reactor types as seen through the eyes of Walter Zinn in November, 1953. Zinn was the legendary reactor developer who developed EBR-1 and the BWR. You can see he lays the case out for the LWR and the HWR. archive.org/details/sim_...
Important new DOE Advanced Nuclear Liftoff report posted! Got a preview of it last week in NYC. liftoff.energy.gov/advanced-nuc...
Learn more about the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pathways to Commercial Liftoff Report on Advanced Nuclear Technology
"This sodium-cooled reactor is charting the way to economic nuclear power" (thanks to high temperature, low pressure coolant). The graphite-moderated Sodium Reactor Experiment (SRE) just outside of LA, Nucleonics, September 1958 archive.org/details/sim_...
This may be the first documented prediction of the now infamous "fusion will be commercial in 20 years" trope, from the September 1958 issue of Nucleonics. archive.org/details/sim_...
The "Nuclear Gas Engine" was a 1958 nitrogen-cooled reactor concept that sent hot gas to pistons that directly drove propellers in cargo ships. Studies suggested it would be cheaper than the steam turbine that drove the N.S. Savannah doi.org/10.2172/4282...
Time to make 2024 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon is new this year. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of October. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...