everything wrote:is this the HBO show? I have HBO Now for GoT only, but maybe will keep it for a little while
Nuclear power is so far the most efficient “cleanest” energy source ?
The ultimate goal of the Shanghai Institute: to build a molten-salt reactor that could replace the 1970s-era technology in today’s nuclear power plants and help wean China off the coal that fouls the air of Shanghai and Beijing, ushering in an era of cheap, abundant, zero-carbon energy.
we have to create something new, something strategic,” says Kun Chen, the molten-salt scientist who led my virtual tour in Shanghai. “You have to think big.”
Educated at the prestigious University of Science and Technology of China, in Hefei, Chen earned a PhD from Indiana University and worked for several years at Argonne National Laboratory (which, like Oak Ridge, is part of the U.S. Department of Energy). But he came back to China to build a world-changing reactor.
He heard about it in 2009, when he visited Shanghai to present a seminar at the Institute of Applied Physics. A scientist there told him about the thorium molten-salt reactor—a project not yet funded or announced. “Our team got most of the technical documents from the Web—they were posted by the Oak Ridge team,” recalls Xu Hongjie, the director of the molten-salt program, shaking his head in either admiration or amazement at the openness of the Americans.
“They posted everything there for free.”
Trick wrote:For me i didn’t reacted/though too much about the Chernobyl incident when it happened and neither afterward. Could be because I lived in the most southern part of Sweden that was supposed to be out from the risk zone.
But I did like to occasionally eat a “renklämma”(reindeer meat ”sandwich”wrap) a quick thought about nuclear contamination always came, but as quickly it came as quickly it vanished when the taste of delicious reindeer meat hit my palate.
Harrisburg on the other hand I remember seemed more worrisome, maybe because such a thing was not supposed to happen in the developed world ?
The Fukushima disaster a few years back I also didn’t reacted too much about despite living in “nearby” Dalian, the winds and streams supposedly went the other way, across the pacific.
Nuclear power is so far the most efficient “cleanest” energy source ? So if the world is going to be saved from pollution that cause the great climate changes we experience now, nuclear power is the thing ?
Trick wrote:So if the world is going to be saved from pollution that cause the great climate changes we experience now, nuclear power is the thing ?
Everything wrote:One of my friend's parents worked on special materials to contain nuclear waste. Another one worked on studying safety of nuclear "stuff". My dad worked in nuclear physics. My father in law did civil engineering of the power plants. I've never really talked with any of them about this, but will have to do so
Bao wrote:Everything wrote:One of my friend's parents worked on special materials to contain nuclear waste. Another one worked on studying safety of nuclear "stuff". My dad worked in nuclear physics. My father in law did civil engineering of the power plants. I've never really talked with any of them about this, but will have to do so
Would be interesting to hear more about it.
windwalker wrote:Nuclear power is so far the most efficient “cleanest” energy source ?
Agree.
It is the most cleanest and efficient source so far.
Unfortunately it seems like the newest reactors thorium won't be developed in the US not really politically vaible.The ultimate goal of the Shanghai Institute: to build a molten-salt reactor that could replace the 1970s-era technology in today’s nuclear power plants and help wean China off the coal that fouls the air of Shanghai and Beijing, ushering in an era of cheap, abundant, zero-carbon energy.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/6020 ... power/amp/we have to create something new, something strategic,” says Kun Chen, the molten-salt scientist who led my virtual tour in Shanghai. “You have to think big.”
Educated at the prestigious University of Science and Technology of China, in Hefei, Chen earned a PhD from Indiana University and worked for several years at Argonne National Laboratory (which, like Oak Ridge, is part of the U.S. Department of Energy). But he came back to China to build a world-changing reactor.
He heard about it in 2009, when he visited Shanghai to present a seminar at the Institute of Applied Physics. A scientist there told him about the thorium molten-salt reactor—a project not yet funded or announced. “Our team got most of the technical documents from the Web—they were posted by the Oak Ridge team,” recalls Xu Hongjie, the director of the molten-salt program, shaking his head in either admiration or amazement at the openness of the Americans.
“They posted everything there for free.”
Users browsing this forum: Bao and 27 guests