tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460756946834840196.post8478771860602316933..comments2023-04-17T04:37:45.753-07:00Comments on Yottawatts From Thorium: America Needs Disruptive Thorium Nuclear Technology to Re-take the American Nuclear IndustryRobert Steinhaushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04629054450988038885noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460756946834840196.post-74987587438500341572010-09-22T09:37:56.875-07:002010-09-22T09:37:56.875-07:00Everybody knew that USA will have that problem bec...Everybody knew that USA will have that problem because it has been fighting for that and the only thing that they made with it is that another countries manage it in a best way without loose their time in insignificant things. <a href="http://www.xlpharmacy.com/viagra/buy.php" rel="nofollow">Buy Viagra</a> <a href="http://www.xlpharmacy.com/generic-viagra/" rel="nofollow">Generic Viagra</a>Viagra Onlinehttp://www.xlpharmacy.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460756946834840196.post-5681374112967610632010-09-22T09:34:12.417-07:002010-09-22T09:34:12.417-07:00niceniceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460756946834840196.post-35279988207665206362010-01-29T07:07:13.954-08:002010-01-29T07:07:13.954-08:00A couple of points:
1 - foreign ownership doesn...A couple of points:<br />1 - foreign ownership doesn't necessarily mean that the companies have no US presence. Look at Westinghouse Electric (the nuclear company)- it employs thousands of Americans here in the US, in Pittsburgh, Windsor CT, Chattanooga, Charlotte, Newington NH, and dozens of other locations. The fact that Toshiba owns the company doesn't mean all the work is being done in Japan.<br /><br />2 - the idea that small US startup companies are going to create a 'new' industry here seems pretty unlikely to me. The original LWR industry was created by the joint efforts of the government (congress & senate); the military (especially the Navy); private enterprise companies like (Westinghouse, Dupont, GE, etc); and construction companies like Bechtel, SWEC, and Ebasco. These are all big time operations that can afford the massive costs of experiments and development work. I am sceptical that small time operations can duplicate the success of the original industry. It's just not the same kind of effort as say, the guys at Apple or Microsoft who started out in their garages.gmax137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460756946834840196.post-27464092188955234372010-01-27T13:41:04.285-08:002010-01-27T13:41:04.285-08:00Hi Robert; nice article.
I don't really agree...Hi Robert; nice article.<br /><br />I don't really agree on one fundamental premise you appear to espouse - that independence from the skills of the rest of the world is a desirable goal in itself. However encouraging a skilled and capable economy is close enough that we can work around that ;-)<br /><br />I recognise that in order to provoke change it is often necessary to create dissatisfaction with the status quo. However the light-water reactors in current use are perfectly safe and the industrial re-tooling to produce more high-pressure reactor vessels is not prohibitive. That said, it is a major cost item and the molten-salt thorium reactor designs are very appealing for avoiding high pressure conditions at the reactor itself.<br /><br />The direct funding of the NRC, initially attractive, is replete with irony. It achieves two wholly negative results: it allows a grain of truthiness to the canard that the nuclear industry runs its own regulator, and stifles new entry to the market as you observe. The NRC does not even manage to achieve independent security of its funding through this mechanism, since Congress is still involved in setting its budget.<br /><br />(Incidentally, the phrase "reactor containment vessel", at least in this context, is both meaningless and confusing - and you appear to be using it in two different ways).Joffanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18025437863119781181noreply@blogger.com