Kirk Sorensen describes the liquid thorium development at Flibe Energy economic impact, energy, molten salt, policy, science, technology, thorium Facebook Twitter linkedin google Reddit Kirk Sorensen (of Flibe Energy) offers "the industrial perspective" on how the upcoming "nuclear retirement retirement cliff" of today's plants, combined with large numbers of coal plants facing retirement, create opportunity for the Liquid-Fueled Thorium Reactor. Department of Energy's "Nuclear Energy Research and Development Roadmap" states "it is ultimately industry's decision which commercial technologies will be deployed. The federal role falls more squarely in the realm of R&D." Kirk notes that informal talks with NRC personnel, they have a great deal of optimism regarding regulation of LFTR thanks to MSR's inherent safety features. "The NRC is happy to look at anything, so long as you pay their billing rates... sometimes being different isn't all bad if you can help them achieve a higher level of safety." Flibe Energy is currently conducting a year-long feasibility study and that should be completed by the end of this year (2014). If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Author: brian wang on 9/05/2014 Facebook Twitter linkedin google Reddit Comments archive Newer Post Older Post Home Community Follow by Email

Kirk Sorensen describes the liquid thorium development at Flibe Energy

http://nextbigfuture.com/2014/09/kirk-sorensen-describes-liquid-thorium.html

TAP molten salt nuclear reactor design that'd generate 75 times more electricity per ton of uranium

TAP molten salt nuclear reactor design that'd generate 75 times more electricity per ton of uranium
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3120843/posts

Meeting Iran's nuclear fuel supply needs

http://thebulletin.org/meeting-irans-nuclear-fuel-supply-needs7224

French nuclear expert to lead ITER to construction phase

http://eandt.theiet.org/news/2015/mar/Bigot-ITER-CEO.cfm

The world is facing a growing threat of nuclear war

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The Nuclear Agreement is Doomed On Four (Plus One) Issues which Block the Negotiations With Iran

The Nuclear Agreement is Doomed

On Four (Plus One) Issues which Block the Negotiations With Iran

By Meir Stieglitz

the Israel-Neocon axis are on the verge of preventing an agreement and enshrining their status as masters of the universe.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41148.htm

Benjamin Netanyahu's Ideologically Dictated Worldview

By Lawrence Davidson

Prime Minister Netanyahu is the most publicly unpleasant Israeli leader since Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir, both of whom were unrepentant terrorists.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41144.htm

Netanyahu Choreographs a Humiliated Congress

Video

This video should go viral. It is from the Israeli media.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41151.htm

The Long History of Israel Gaming the 'Iranian Threat' By Gareth Porter

The Long History of Israel Gaming the 'Iranian Threat'

By Gareth Porter

Netanyahu bears personal responsibility for having created a conflict with Iran that had never existed before. But it is not the conflict that he has been alleging all these years.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41145.htm

Flashback Friday — A Presidential Visit

Flashback Friday — A Presidential Visit

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Here, President Carter visits the TMI-2 Control Room in April 1979, joined by Pennsylvania Governor Richard Thornburgh, and the NRC’s Harold Denton. Since this visit, what other sitting president visited a nuclear power plant and at which site?
 Photo courtesy of the Jimmy Carter Library

Nuclear Energy: America’s Low-Carbon Electricity Leader

Nuclear Energy: America’s Low-Carbon Electricity Leader

A diversity of electricity sources is needed both to ensure reliability of the U.S. electric grid and to meet federal and state environmental objectives. Nuclear energy—the only electricity option that includes 24/7, large-scale electricity production, industry-leading efficiency (90 percent capacity factor) and zero carbon emissions during the production of electricity—is an essential element of that mix.

http://www.nei.org/Master-Document-Folder/Backgrounders/Fact-Sheets/Nuclear-Energy-America-s-Low-Carbon-Electricity-Le

New Guidance on Low-Level Radwaste Will Save Industry ‘Millions’

http://www.nei.org/News-Media/News/News-Archives/New-Guidance-on-Low-Level-Radwaste-Will-Save-Indus

NRC Renews Operating License of Callaway Nuclear Plant

 NRC Renews Operating License of Callaway Nuclear Plant

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/news/2015/15-014.pdf

Nuclear Power Korea Hands UAE Nuclear Plant Export Agreement

Nuclear Power

Korea Hands UAE Nuclear Plant Export Agreement

- See more at: http://www.businesskorea.co.kr/article/9443/nuclear-power-korea-hands-uae-nuclear-plant-export-agreement#sthash.IQQuxgJr.dpuf

http://www.businesskorea.co.kr/article/9443/nuclear-power-korea-hands-uae-nuclear-plant-export-agreement

Home> U.S. Scientists Outline Research Wish List for Nuclear Energy

Scientists Outline Research Wish List for Nuclear Energy

Engineers and researchers from national laboratories and universities around the country said Thursday that the United States needs to develop a proving ground where the latest innovations in nuclear energy can be put to the test instead of losing designs to China and other countries.

Groups gathered at the University of New Mexico, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a few other sites around the country as part of an effort by the U.S. Department of Energy to narrow the list of critical research problems the nation needs to address when it comes to nuclear energy.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/scientists-outline-research-list-nuclear-energy-29426621

"Made in China" nuclear reactors a tough sell in global market

http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/03/06/china-nuclear-idINKBN0M20TM20150306

 

Nuclear Power Firms Feel Squeeze

Cost overruns, delays plague current projects, clouding development of future reactors

http://www.wsj.com/articles/nuclear-power-firms-feel-squeeze-1425591380

US EPR plans suspended

Areva Inc has asked the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to suspend work on the design certification of the US EPR until further notice, prompting Unistar Nuclear Energy to request the suspension of the review of its construction and operation licence (COL) application for Calvert Cliffs 3.

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS-US-EPR-plans-suspended-0603157.html

Five Groups Mount "Epic" Push To Enlist More Americans To Join Movement For A Fossil-Free, Nuclear-Free Clean Energy Future

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/five-groups-mount-epic-push-to-enlist-more-americans-to-join-movement-for-a-fossil-free-nuclear-free-clean-energy-future-300045348.html

Five Groups Mount "Epic" Push To Enlist More Americans To Join Movement For A Fossil-Free, Nuclear-Free Clean Energy FutureAs Fukushima Anniversary Nears, Interactive Video at www.MakeNuclearHistory.org Allows Visitors to Experience 3 Very Different Energy Futures, Get Involved in Groups' Pushes on Nuclear, Wind Power Initiatives.A week ahead of the fourth anniversary of the Fukushima reactor disaster, five leading organizations fighting for America's clean-energy future – Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, Public Citizen, and the Sierra Club – are unveiling an interactive online video, "Our Epic Future: Create It With Clean Energy."http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/five-groups-mount-epic-push-to-enlist-more-americans-to-join-movement-for-a-fossil-free-nuclear-free-clean-energy-future-300045348.html

Nuclear Notebook

http://thebulletin.org/nuclear-notebook-multimedia

Climate change: irreversible but not unstoppable

http://thebulletin.org/climate-change-irreversible-not-unstoppable8044

Energy secretary: Some Hanford waste might go down deep boreholes

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2015/02/25/3428598_energy-secretary-some-hanford.html?rh=1

Large-scale Solar Reaches Nearly 36 Gigawatts in 2014

Large-scale Solar Reaches Nearly 36 Gigawatts in 2014 by Renewable Energy World Editors | March 5, 2015 | Post Your Comment
	Global utility-scale PV added 14.2 GW in 2014 doubling 2013 totals and bringing total global generating capacity to 35.9 GW in 2014, according to figured released by Wiki-Solar. The 2014 additions equate to the entire installed ca... Full Articlehttp://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2015/03/large-scale-solar-reaches-nearly-36-gigawatts-in-2014?cmpid=WNL-Friday-March6-2015

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