Question by Rep. Gary Palmer (AL-6) about U-233
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce met yesterday in a hearing entitled “American Energy Dominance: Dawn of the New Nuclear Era.” Several witnesses from the nuclear industry gave testimony and responded to questions. Representative Gary Palmer of the sixth Congression district of Alabama asked a question to Dr. John Wagner of Idaho National Laboratory…
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Interview with Adam Taggart, Thoughtful Money
0:00 – Introduction: AI, energy needs & nuclear’s comeback 3:05 – China’s molten salt thorium reactor: what they built and why it matters 5:29 – How China’s TMSR copies and extends the 1960s Oak Ridge experiment 6:53 – China’s alloy breakthrough & why they’re now in the lead 8:00 – Why should we care about…
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Plutonium treaty and uranium MOX
Russia Withdraws From Cold War Plutonium Deal With US Russia withdraws from 25-year-old weapons-grade plutonium agreement The Russians are exiting the Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement (PMDA) with the United States. To be honest, the treaty has been pretty dead for a long time now, largely since the United States abandoned their strategy to make…
Eighty years since Trinity
Eighty years ago today, in the deserts of New Mexico, the first nuclear weapon was detonated, very early in the morning. The weapon was nicknamed “the Gadget”. It was made of plutonium, an element that had not existed on Earth even a few years earlier. It was testing an utterly revolutionary technique called “implosion” that…