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Nuclear Power: Separating Fact from Fiction
Nuclear power is often considered a danger due to radiation, in particular ionizing radiation. What is real and important about radiation and how large is the risk? The imagined risks are poisoned...
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the Advantages of Thorium Reactors (long)
ARE ALL POWER PLANTS THE SAME? In a word, no, but a full answer requires more than a word. The one page answer is here. We’ll need a full answer to avoid simplistic praise or trite condemnation of...
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Failures of the Nuclear Regulatory Process
I’m asked why we don’t have Thorium based power plants operating today. The question is usually phrased this way after one of my presentations. “It sounds like Thorium reactors have lots of...
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The Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor: Why Didn’t This Happen
I posted on the history of Thorium reactor development in the US and called it Failures of the Regulatory Process. Kirk Sorensen (picture below) does a much better job in his Google Tech Talk video-...
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President Obama Replays Carter’s Energy Policy
I read this and my mouth fell open. I remember President Jimmy Carter and I was studying and designing nuclear power plants while he was in office. I watched Carter create the US Department of Energy...
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Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors- LFTR Without Equations 2012
I’ve ignored my blog, but has been a busy week. My wife moved her office. I had dental work. Five of us from work had food poisoning that gave us an unwanted three-day weekend. I dragged myself to...
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Baroness Worthington on Thorium Reactors
SmartPlanet is a pro-green website that interviewed Britain’s Baroness Bryony Worthington. The Baroness is an advocate of Thorium nuclear reactors, in particular the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor...
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Disruptive Thinkers and Thorium Power
I told a group of young men and women about Thorium reactors. Their group is called Disruptive Thinkers. They had an even mix of business and military backgrounds, at least for my talk. I reworked...
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The Long Carbon-Slick of Electric Cars
I expect electric cars to produce less carbon dioxide per mile than gasoline powered cars. They do, but I expected a bigger difference. Unfortunately, electric cars take much more electricity to...
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Thorium Nuclear Reactors (short)
A great idea has to be explained in one breath. I’m an advocate for nuclear power, and for the liquid fueled Thorium reactor in particular. Why would anyone want Thorium reactors? They produce safe,...
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TED Talk Why energy from dirt might save the world.
Here is another TED Talk on liquid fueled Thorium reactors. Why Making Energy from Dirt Might Save the World Enjoy. ~_~_ RobFiled under: energy, environment, Nuclear Power Tagged: invention, nuclear...
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Can Nuclear Power be Green?
Selected material taken from a lecture presented on 24 September, 2019 at San Diego City College. 7,000 words by Rob Morse What do you know? When we say, “I’m sure this is true.” we’re saying that we...
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There are two ways to change the world. One way assumes that magic is real. The other way assumes that people will do what is best for them. We’re facing that test today in the United States. In the...
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