]> http://www.greenedia.com/tags/reactor Blog Articles Tagged with 'reactor' at http://www.greenedia.com en http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/154262?rsstype=tag&tag=reactor 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=reactor Sun, 04 Jan 2009 12:41:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/154263?rsstype=tag&tag=reactor FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE :Thorium for Finland's 6th reactor ? Memo on thorium Molten Salt Reactor filed with the Finnish Government On Dec31th 2008 a group of three Nordic companies submitted a memo to the Finnish Ministry of Employment and Th... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/154263?rsstype=tag&tag=reactor Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:19:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/154264?rsstype=tag&tag=reactor By Charles BartonRod Adams covered the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's December 15 press release on small reactors yesterday, but the story requires more comment. First the press release used childish, highly unprofessional language. For example s... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/154264?rsstype=tag&tag=reactor Thu, 01 Jan 2009 10:56:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/154193?rsstype=tag&tag=reactor 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=reactor Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:18:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/154266?rsstype=tag&tag=reactor 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=reactor Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:30:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/153634?rsstype=tag&tag=reactor The Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer was the bad boy of 19th century German Philosophy. Schopenhauer attacked the sober, serious world views of the philosophic followers of Kant and Hegel and helped set the stage for the 20th century post-modern movem... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/153634?rsstype=tag&tag=reactor Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:38:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/153562?rsstype=tag&tag=reactor Every year, there are reminders of the anniversaries of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. Some of the reminders come from those who do not want to forget the technical lessons learned, some come from people who were directly affected, and some come fr... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/153562?rsstype=tag&tag=reactor Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:46:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/153635?rsstype=tag&tag=reactor I have added a link on Nuclear Green to Alexander deVolpi's knols on nuclear non-proliferation. Dr. DeVolpi's writings are required reading for anyone who who wants to claim expertise on nuclear proliferation. DeVolpi was a peer of the late J. Carson... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/153635?rsstype=tag&tag=reactor Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:23:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/153564?rsstype=tag&tag=reactor 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=reactor Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:35:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/r-squared-energy-blog/153865?rsstype=tag&tag=reactor The following guest post was written by Tom Standing, a semi-retired, part-time civil engineer for the City of San Francisco. In Part 1, Tom took a critical look at a 280 MW solar thermal plant in Arizona. Here in Part 2, Tom examines France's ambi... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/r-squared-energy-blog/153865?rsstype=tag&tag=reactor Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:01:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/152917?rsstype=tag&tag=reactor Eric Sprott, a Canadian investment funds manager has read the tea leaves. Sprott has stated: There are so many job cuts and output cutbacks it's shocking. That's not a recession, that's a depression. I look at the data points and they just scream... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/152917?rsstype=tag&tag=reactor Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:21:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/152822?rsstype=tag&tag=reactor 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=reactor Sat, 20 Dec 2008 04:52:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/152998?rsstype=tag&tag=reactor Investors Business Daily has an interesting editorial touting nuclear energy in terms of interest to their readers: the pocketbook. Until recently, there was no domestic capacity to manufacture the huge components needed to build nuclear reactor... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/152998?rsstype=tag&tag=reactor Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:53:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/153003?rsstype=tag&tag=reactor Matthew Wald, Energy reporter for The New York Times, has written the cover story for Scientific American's special edition, Earth 3.0. Wald's piece, Can Nuclear Power Compete? , went online Tuesday and is currently the most-read energy story on the... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/153003?rsstype=tag&tag=reactor Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:40:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/152919?rsstype=tag&tag=reactor 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=reactor Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:52:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/152824?rsstype=tag&tag=reactor China has announced the start of construction for 6 new nuclear reactors on a site in Yangjiang City, Guangdong province. Each plant will produce 1,000 MW of electrical power (1 GWe). The total cost for the 6 reactor project is expected to be $10.2 b... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/152824?rsstype=tag&tag=reactor Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:21:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/153007?rsstype=tag&tag=reactor 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=reactor Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:40:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/152086?rsstype=tag&tag=reactor 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=reactor Sat, 13 Dec 2008 05:35:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-break/152121?rsstype=tag&tag=reactor The Tennessee Valley Authority is the latest utility group to disclose revised estimates on the cost of building a new nuclear plant. The TVA says it now expects the cost of building a twin-reactor plant based on Westinghouse AP-1000 reactors could ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-break/152121?rsstype=tag&tag=reactor Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:36:30 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/152261?rsstype=tag&tag=reactor 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=reactor Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:28:00 -0500