Tag Archives: Nuclear Energy

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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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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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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Making Your Home Self Sufficient in Power and Heat

Posted on 20 April, 2017 by alfin2101

Making Your Own Heat and Electricity In Any Climate or Location Suddenly it is becoming possible to make all the electricity and heat for your home that you could need — no matter your latitude or weather conditions. Using “micro … 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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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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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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Is Nuclear Power Really the Safest Form of Energy?

Posted on 4 December, 2015 by alfin2101

Historically, nuclear energy has proven the safest form of power generation in the nation-states that have implemented it. In countries such as France, Germany, the US, the UK, etc., nuclear energy has shown itself to be very safe. Contrary to … Continue reading →

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Breakthroughs that Could Make Nuclear Fusion Sustainable

Posted on 22 June, 2015 by alfin2101

On Tuesday, June 16, 2015, Dr. Dennis Whyte, the Director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center showed that a series of scientific and engineering breakthroughs could enable fusion to become a feasible a power source faster and cheaper … Continue reading →

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Cold Fusion (LENR) Refuses to Die: Will This Be Peak Oil At Last?

Posted on 2 March, 2015 by alfin2101

According to Brian Wang’s Nextbigfuture, a 1 MW LENR e-cat is producing heat in commercial quantities on a full-time production basis. Respected energy blogger Brian Westenhaus also published an article recently on LENR. A special issue of Current Science Association … Continue reading →

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Peak Oil: Isn’t It Time to Start Promoting Safe, Clean, Abundant Nuclear Power?

Posted on 18 February, 2015 by alfin2101

Even in the age of an apparent oversupply of oil & gas, the world is full of “peak oil doomers.” Such doomers believe that human societies are on the verge of a global energy collapse, with a subsequent collapse of … Continue reading →

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Next Generation Nuclear Fission: Slow Growth for Fast Reactors

Posted on 9 November, 2014 by alfin2101

… according to GE’s Eric Lowen, [GE’s PRISM reactor] should… be able to extract 99 times as much energy from a given unit of uranium than any reactor currently in use. This is due to the system’s use of liquid … Continue reading →

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Nuclear Fusion: Still a Force to be Reckoned With

Posted on 13 October, 2014 by alfin2101

As you can see from the chart, if humans can master the forces in the atomic nucleus, they and their heirs will have as much energy as they will need into the foreseeable future. Research into the production of affordable … Continue reading →

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Ingenious Nuclear Energy for an Abundant and Expansive Human Future

Posted on 28 September, 2014 by alfin2101

Molten salt reactors, however, are fundamentally different from conventional nuclear reactors. MSRs use a liquid fuel, whereas conventional reactors use a solid fuel – and MSRs operate at atmospheric pressure, whereas conventional reactors are highly pressurized. “The ability to operate … Continue reading →

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