]> http://www.greenedia.com/tags/fission Blog Articles Tagged with 'fission' at http://www.greenedia.com en http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/154262?rsstype=tag&tag=fission I have followed Ben Sovacool's escapades as an anti-nuclear scholar and/or pseudo-scholar for sometime, and recently noted an improvement in his scholarly discipline in a review on one of his recent papers. But alas the improvement may turn out to b... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/154262?rsstype=tag&tag=fission Sun, 04 Jan 2009 12:41:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/154192?rsstype=tag&tag=fission Though I often describe Russia as a nation of skilled chess players to my colleagues as I attempt to remind them that Russia's Great Power aspirations did not start or end with the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, even good chess players can make... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/154192?rsstype=tag&tag=fission Thu, 01 Jan 2009 07:39:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/154193?rsstype=tag&tag=fission I hope some of you have missed having regular updates to Atomic Insights during the past week, but I also hope that you have been able to take some time away from normal routines to think, visit with friends and family and consider future actions in ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/154193?rsstype=tag&tag=fission Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:18:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/154266?rsstype=tag&tag=fission Probably no more than a thousand people in the entire world fully understand the paradigm, although thousands more understand bits and pieces of it. Much of the paradigm was shaped by Eugene Wigner, a authentic genius and a man of singular vision. Wi... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/154266?rsstype=tag&tag=fission Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:30:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/153561?rsstype=tag&tag=fission The Podcast Network has rebuilt the hard drives and data bases that provide access to The Atomic Show and the other fine independent audio shows. I am slowing restoring the show archives to provide access to the library of shows produced since March ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/153561?rsstype=tag&tag=fission Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:33:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/153563?rsstype=tag&tag=fission As a life-long lover of words, I enjoyed reading a PalmBeachPost.com article titled State's green-energy future down to one choice: Renewable or clean?. It was a well-written piece that should help people understand just how important the battle over... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/153563?rsstype=tag&tag=fission Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:58:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/153564?rsstype=tag&tag=fission I have been aware that many nations in the Middle East are looking towards nuclear power as a vital part of their future energy mix, but until this morning I was unaware of the scope of the Kingdom of Jordan's plans. According to Taylor Luck's Decemb... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/153564?rsstype=tag&tag=fission Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:35:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/152822?rsstype=tag&tag=fission President-elect Obama is expected to name John Holdren as assistant to the president for science and technology during his next weekly radio address. Professor Holdren teaches environmental policy at Harvard University. His selction adds to a slate o... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/152822?rsstype=tag&tag=fission Sat, 20 Dec 2008 04:52:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/152823?rsstype=tag&tag=fission I grew up in South Florida, a place where the only hills are overpasses. Nearly every summer, we traveled to northeast Georgia or western North Carolina where Dad, a good ol' boy from southern Georgia, shared his love of mountains with all of us. We ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/152823?rsstype=tag&tag=fission Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:22:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/152919?rsstype=tag&tag=fission Lars Jorgensen is an Electrical Engineer who is Chief Technologist for Radio Products for Texas Instruments. In his spare time Lars has an unusual hobby. He is doing unpaid work on the development of the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor, in a projec... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/152919?rsstype=tag&tag=fission Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:52:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/153007?rsstype=tag&tag=fission President-elect Obama often mentions the safety of used nuclear fuel as a block to a whole-hearted embrace of nuclear energy, so we wondered what thinking was going on that seeks to mitigate or even eliminate permanent or even (long-term) interim ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/153007?rsstype=tag&tag=fission Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:40:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/152086?rsstype=tag&tag=fission I have to admit that I could not have written the blog headline before a few minutes ago. I simply did not know enough about President-elect Obama's choice for Secretary of Energy to make an educated statement. However, with the help of Google and so... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/152086?rsstype=tag&tag=fission Sat, 13 Dec 2008 05:35:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/152261?rsstype=tag&tag=fission So how is Steven Chu playing as the purported candidate for Department of Energy secretary? Before we look at the developing narrative, let's remember the lesson of John Ford's movie The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Here's the question: Did Senat... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/152261?rsstype=tag&tag=fission Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:28:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/152087?rsstype=tag&tag=fission I am one of the biggest nuclear technology fans I know, but I have to express my strong disappointment in the people who are making decisions for the nuclear industry. They are tone deaf when it comes to politics and marketing. We are on the cusp of ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/152087?rsstype=tag&tag=fission Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:55:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/151518?rsstype=tag&tag=fission Not far west from the ruined community of Cefn Croes lies the Snowdonia Mountains of Wales, the site of one of the United Kingdom's most beautiful National Parks. It was to Snowdonia in 1971 that a young Amory Lovins came at the behest of David Bro... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/151518?rsstype=tag&tag=fission Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:09:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/151601?rsstype=tag&tag=fission In The American magazine, Vaclav Smil (a Distinguished Professor at the University of Manitoba) wrote a big idea piece titled Moore's Curse and the Great Energy Delusion (nothing to do with Patrick Moore). Smil's piece rebuts Al Gore's claim that... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/151601?rsstype=tag&tag=fission Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:10:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/151427?rsstype=tag&tag=fission Over the past few days I have been engaged in some very interesting email correspondence with a number of talented, aggressive, inquisitive people who are excited about various ways to use fission based technologies as contributing ways to solve a nu... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/151427?rsstype=tag&tag=fission Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:12:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/151521?rsstype=tag&tag=fission The primary goal of Nuclear Green, and for that matter of Energy from Thorium is and has been the relaunching of the development of the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor/Molten Salt Reactor approach to reactor design. I believe that the LFTR represent... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/151521?rsstype=tag&tag=fission Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:26:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/151428?rsstype=tag&tag=fission On December 2, 1942, Enrico Fermi and a small team started, controlled and stopped the first fission chain reaction in a graphite/uranium pile in a squash court under the stands at a defunct football stadium at the University of Chicago. On December ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/151428?rsstype=tag&tag=fission Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:25:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/150822?rsstype=tag&tag=fission In early October, I mentioned that I had purchased a new book titled Beyond Fossil Fools by Joseph M. Shuster. During my nice, long Thanksgiving weekend, I have had the opportunity to catch up on some long overdue reading, so I have now finished the ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/150822?rsstype=tag&tag=fission Sun, 30 Nov 2008 08:15:00 -0500