Thursday, January 28, 2010
A Milestone for controlled nuclear fusion
That's right. The good people at Lawrence Livermore have been successful at squeezing dummy fuel pellets to the shape, heat, and density needed to ignite a fusion reaction. Now they are taking a break to install the heavy concrete needed to shield out the neutrons fusion reactions will eventually produce. If all goes well they could be lighting them up by the end of the year.
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I'd be interested in your opinion of thorium reactors. I saw this mashup of 3 Google Tech talks and it seems too good to be true. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWUeBSoEnRk
I think I've seen at least one of those presentations. I love the LFTR concept. Molten salts are a very safe technology. When the guys in Idaho wanted to go home for the weekend they shut off the heater in the plug port and just walked away. The salt froze, the circulation stopped and the reactor shut down. When they came back on Monday they thawed out the plug and the reactor restarted. How cool is that?
Great post… Great info on bounce rates… I’ll have to write an entry about the same topic some day soon… Bounce rates can tell you alot…
I tend to look at the bounce rate and then look at the keywords that brought people to the site. Does the page answer the keyword question? If No then there is some work to do on that or a new more focused post.
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