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Is Nuclear Green Progressive? 24 Aug 2013 | 08:59 pm
I have to credit Meredith Angwin for including Nuclear Green Revolution with other progressive pro nuclear bogs. My impression, at one point, a few years ago was that most pro nuclear bloggers were pr...
Distributive Generation and Nuclear Power 18 Aug 2013 | 07:07 pm
Amory Lovins popularized the idea of distributive electrical generation as a foil to the emerging nuclear power industry. Lovins argued that what was needed was not large nuclear generation facilitie...
My Father and the LFTR 10 Aug 2013 | 07:07 pm
A number of years ago I wrote several posts about my father's ORNL career, including his contributions to Molten Salt Reactor chemistry. My father, Dr. C.J. Barton, Sr., worked at ORNL from 1950 unti...
LFTRs by Baby Steps 9 Aug 2013 | 11:47 pm
Some of my readers may wonder why I do not mention the LFTR more often even though Nuclear Green Revolution is committed to the LFTR movement. The answer is, that I believe the development of the LFTR...
Pandora's Promise Revealed 21 Jul 2013 | 10:02 pm
Becky and I went to see "Pandora's Promise" on my birthday. One seldom has original ideas, so I will not take credit for many of the ideas that I have expressed on Nuclear Green Revolution that were r...
Kent Hawkins Comments on Nuclear Power 19 Jul 2013 | 09:41 pm
MasterResource, in general, and Kent Hawkins, in particular, have not given a great deal of attention to nuclear power in the past. MasterResource has its' origin in the fossil fuel industry and indee...
Kent Hawkins Offers Reasonable Doubt About Wind's Carbon Mitigation Effectiveness (updated repost) 19 Jul 2013 | 08:34 pm
Nuclear Green Revolution had its' origin in a debate which I had with GRIST'S David Roberts. Roberts argued that investments in nuclear power would be a mistake. When confronted with the need for post...
Repost: Molten Salt Graphite Free Core? 4 Jul 2013 | 06:22 pm
Introduction to this post: I have reposted this 2011 post because it is relevant to the project of two MIT graduate students who wish to build graphite free reactors. I finished this post shortly befo...
Crazy Nuclear Safety 23 Jun 2013 | 05:38 pm
Critics of nuclear power often denounce it as unsafe, yet they very seldom focus on answers to the question: "What can be done to make nuclear power safer." As it turns out, it is possible to make nu...
MIT Students Propose Fast Molten Salt Reactor 20 Jun 2013 | 06:14 pm
MIT Technology Review recently published an article about an ambitious MSR project being undertaken by two MIT PhD candidates. The project includes the development of a plutonium burning molten salt ...
