Category Archives: Nuclear Power

A Trendy Left-Wing Child Sacrifice: Transgenderism

Posted on 18 June, 2022 by alfin2101

I saw a video the other day featuring an American surgeon bragging that he had performed more than 3,000 double mastectomies on young women who had paid for gender reassignment, individuals confused – one might say encouraged – by those … Continue reading →

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How to Stay Alive in the Coming Ice Age

Posted on 22 February, 2021 by alfin2101

The arctic blasts of cold weather known as polar vortices, are just a foretaste of what is coming, as the long overdue “coming ice age” bears down on human civilization, with a vengeance. When the deep cold finally hits us, … Continue reading →

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Nuclear Micro-reactors In Case of Apocalypse

Posted on 29 February, 2020 by alfin2101

In Case of Zombie Apocalypse You’ll Want One of These Ordinary nuclear power plants require massive containment structures, take years to build, and typically produce about 1 GW of power per reactor. Micro-reactors are relatively small, and produce between 1 … Continue reading →

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Asia is Going Gangbusters for Coal!

Posted on 22 February, 2020 by alfin2101

Don’t write the obituary for coal just yet. In many lands near the end of global energy supply lines — China, Japan, Vietnam, Philippines, even India — coal is booming like never before! China and India are home to over … Continue reading →

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Where Electric Power is in Short Supply

Posted on 27 December, 2019 by alfin2101

In sub Saharan Africa, across MENA, and in large parts of Asia, many millions of people must live without reliable access to electric power. For most of these countries the problem is that the humans who live in these countries … Continue reading →

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Energy News

Posted on 16 November, 2019 by alfin2101

Good News for North American Nuclear Fission Compared to other forms of generating electric power, nuclear fission is safe, reliable, and clean. But for many reasons it costs a lot more to build new fission power plants than competing forms … Continue reading →

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Make the World Go Away

Posted on 25 June, 2019 by alfin2101

Intelligent readers can see the contradiction in the graph above: In order to achieve the “global decarbonisation” called for by the world green movement, the world as we know it must cease to exist… and an alternate universe must come … Continue reading →

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US Nuclear Power Industry Starts Waking Up

Posted on 1 May, 2018 by alfin2101

NuScale Power’s small modular fission reactor for producing both electricity and industrial process heat has completed an extensive and rigorous review by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The process required 115,000 hours of scrupulous review, and was carried out quite … Continue reading →

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Clever New Nuclear Fission Reactor Prototype Opens Doors

Posted on 19 January, 2018 by alfin2101

Nuclear energy provides energy densities not available from any other readily available source of power and heat. Nothing else even comes close. And nuclear fuels such as uranium and thorium are relatively cheap and readily available. If used wisely, Earth’s … Continue reading →

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A Safer, More Abundant World

Posted on 8 December, 2017 by alfin2101

Safer Forms of Reliable Power For advanced human societies, reliable and affordable power & heat is a life or death issue. It would be wisest for such societies to pursue the safest forms of reliable/affordable power available. But who ever … Continue reading →

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Fossil Fuels Beat Greens Into Submission

Posted on 6 December, 2017 by alfin2101

Continue to Supply Over 80% of World’s Energy Needs Every year since 1971, more than 80% of all our energy has come from fossil fuels. That’s still true today, which is surprising for two reasons. Most nuclear power plants came … Continue reading →

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As Much as 2 Trillion Barrels of Recoverable Oil in Texas, N.M.

Posted on 18 August, 2017 by alfin2101

In the Permian Basin alone, the southwestern US may eventually be found to contain as much as 2 trillion barrels of economically recoverable oil. “The research we’ve done indicates that we have at least half a trillion barrels in the … Continue reading →

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Even in Gas-Rich USA, Nuclear Energy is the Future

Posted on 17 June, 2017 by alfin2101

Nuclear demand is high where air pollution is at its worst and where economic activity is fast and furious — in Asia generally, and in China and India in particular… China and India are building half of the 60 new … Continue reading →

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Elusive Fusion Power: Our Greatest Challenge? It Will Not Invent Itself

Posted on 2 March, 2017 by alfin2101

We seek him here, we seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? — Is he in hell? That damned, elusive Pimpernel __ The Scarlet Pimpernel Controlled nuclear fusion is like the Scarlet Pimpernel: damned elusive, … Continue reading →

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Future Power: Particle Beams and Solid Ion Conductors

Posted on 18 November, 2016 by alfin2101

Without Abundant, Reliable, Affordable High Quality Power, Humans Have No Future Today’s article looks at some technologies that can make power systems more reliable, affordable, and more prolific creators of high quality power. To create an abundant and expansive human … Continue reading →

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Small Nuclear Reactors to Power Homesteads and Survival Compounds

Posted on 18 October, 2016 by alfin2101

Personal Power for the Coming Anarchy Western societies are aging, losing expertise and internal cohesion, and allowing the foundations of their civilisation to crumble. To survive, modern societies need to make their vital infrastructure as robust as they can. Instead, … Continue reading →

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Boosting Power Supply Resilience: Islanding via Microgrid

Posted on 24 June, 2016 by alfin2101

Basic Microgrid Concepts First of all, microgrids have nothing to do with unreliable intermittent energy schemes such as big wind farms and industrial solar power arrays. Microgrids are about building robust resilience into larger power systems. They are also about … Continue reading →

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Disruptive New Paradigms in Space Launch and Nuclear Power

Posted on 9 May, 2016 by alfin2101

A New Paradigm for Nuclear Technology Development What’s different this time is that there is a profound shift taking place from government-led, and funded, nuclear R&D to private sector-led efforts by people with strong entrepreneurial goals… These developers want to … Continue reading →

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How Stupid is Too Stupid?

Posted on 8 May, 2016 by alfin2101

Too Stupid for What? Consider that Russia wants to bring nuclear power plants to sub Saharan Africa. Given the crucial roles of maintenance and intelligent monitoring to nuclear plant safety, would building nuclear power plants in Africa be a good … Continue reading →

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Energy Bridge: Cheap Oil & Gas for Next Few Decades

Posted on 4 May, 2016 by alfin2101

The Age of Cheap Oil & Gas Begins Scientific American: Another 40 million barrels per day of global oil production looms on the near horizon. Geopolitics will never be the same. A world of growing and geographically diversified oil supply … Continue reading →

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April Energy Packets

Posted on 5 April, 2016 by alfin2101

Update: North American Shale Becoming Cheaper and Easier to Produce Advances in shale oil & gas production are keeping North American shale in the game long after Saudi Arabia and Russia thought they could out-produce the upstarts into the dirt. … Continue reading →

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Licorice-Stick Nuclear Fuel: Keeping Nuclear Power Alive Until the Next Generation of Reactors Arrives on the Scene

Posted on 1 April, 2016 by alfin2101

Evolutionary Nuclear Fuel May Extend Safe Lifetimes of Existing Nuclear Reactors by Decades The fuel rods made by Lightbridge differ from today’s in several ways. Rather than a ceramic oxide of uranium, they’re made of a uranium-zirconium alloy that transports … Continue reading →

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This Mini Nuclear Fusion Reactor Aims for an EROEI of 50!

Posted on 6 February, 2016 by alfin2101

Creating Abundant, Affordable, Reliable, Clean, On-Demand Energy Nuclear fusion promises an affordable, clean, abundant, and reliable energy future beyond the time horizon. While three other fusion devices roughly the same size as the ARC have been built over the past … Continue reading →

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Advanced Nuclear Reactors: The Future of Large-Scale Energy

Posted on 2 February, 2016 by alfin2101

Nuclear Power Evolving: Safer, Cleaner, More Reliable, More Affordable An Exciting Time to be a Nuclear Power Engineer “As a professor, now is a very exciting time to be in nuclear engineering. The students in the program haven’t been around … Continue reading →

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Time to Stop Worshiping the Fickle Ancient Gods of Wind and Sun

Posted on 21 January, 2016 by alfin2101

Advanced, safe, clean, affordable, reliable nuclear power is the future. Unless advanced human societies all collapse, wind and solar will always be the fickle gods of the past. Wind and solar energy are weather-dependent, variable and intermittent, i.e., therefore not … Continue reading →

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