Nick Touran
@whatisnuclear
Nuclear engineer / advanced reactor designer (Ph.D. P.E.) who runs http://whatisnuclear.com.
CRAZY STORY: In the 1960-70s, the Strategic Air Command used to fly B-52s on practice bombing runs over the Big Rock Point nuclear plant in Michigan, just 9 miles from my childhood home. The runs involved dropping an electronic beam right down the plant's 200 ft. emissions stack,…
Observation: the actions that get more investors to buy into your nuclear company are currently the opposite of those needed to develop an economical, operable, maintainable, and safe nuclear plant. Anyone have ideas about how to bring these back into alignment?
Big surprise here. Under scrutiny, fight. Under additional scrutiny, hide.
Good write-up of @valaratomics, including their hypersensitivity to skepticism and critique, like when I criticized their absurd claim that you could safely hold their spent fuel and the guy said I was the most arrogant person he had ever interacted with. Still waiting for those…
In 2008, they set up an interactive exhibit at the EBR-I museum based on old EBR-II control panels and fuel handling training videos. This film was used there to show people how to manage fuel at the EBR-II. Pretty cool! Thanks to the producer, Mike Hart, for sharing.
The Experimental Beryllium Oxide Reactor (EBOR), a Helium-cooled, BeO-moderated, UO₂-BeO fueled 20-100 MWe reactor prototype partially constructed in Idaho, but never finished. BeO has advantages over graphite for small cores but they were deemed not sufficient to justify the…
Amazing resource
We're thrilled today to be launching The Rickover Corpus with @charlesxjyang and @IndustrialStrat The Corpus is a free searchable archive of over 2,500 pages of never before seen speeches, memos, and testimony from Hyman Rickover digitized from the USNA rickovercorpus.org
Obituary for Robert Alvarez, a prominent anti-nuclear activist.
Robert Alvarez, a self-taught expert on nuclear power, nuclear weapons and the waste that both produce who worked for decades as an activist outside the government and, during the 1990s, as a high-ranking official within it, has died at 76. nyti.ms/3IzAu3E
Presenting the AP600, an advanced passive 600 MWe plant ... simplified for the 1990s and beyond
