Marathon Fusion will add mercury-198 to the blanket in the fusion reactor. “”When a fast neutron hits a mercury-198 atom it absorbs it and releases two more neutrons in its place in an N-2N Reaction, producing mercury-197. Mercury-197 is an unstable isotope that undergoes Beta minus decay. Over roughly 64 hours one of its neutrons transforms
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Neil deGrasse Tyson gives a short video on atoms, nucleus, atomic energy, criticality and other atomic information. https://www.facebook.com/StarTalk/videos/715145448008834/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e Dr. Tyson asks are we capable of understanding the cosmos.
That’s over 80 million liters per day! You have to realize that these new nuclear power plants make 4 billion watts of heat and about 1.4 billion goes out as electric power. The remaining heat has to be dissipated as heat – so it goes into the water in the cooling tower. https://www.facebook.com/southernnuclear/videos/708110578766188/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
“”A ranking of the nation’s 104 commercial nuclear reactors is shown at the bottom of this article, listing the NRC estimate of risk of an earthquake causing core damage.”” What are the odds? The riskiest isn’t what you think. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna42103936
It was a fast breeder reactor. Tom Scott has an episode on YouTube about a nuclear power plant in Austria that was built but never started.
A quote from The Guardian article: “Sun turns nuclear energy from its core into the energy of sunlight,” the physicist Keith Barnham wrote in 2014. This means, the author Richard Seymour writes, “the question is whether, instead of building nuclear reactors on Earth, we can rely on the nuclear fusion reactor at the core of
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For the first time China’s carbon emissions are going down.
Sam Evans Electric Viking video tells us about the change China is making to solar and wind and away from coal and natural gas. Planned new coal power plants are being cancelled. CO2! Emissions and pollution are not rising, they are falling.
and replace them with solar and wind. A 1 min. short video from DW. Spain had some major power outages in the past few weeks and badmouthers are blaming them on wind & solar.
Quite complex. https://www.facebook.com/amazementshow/videos/1612762032713799/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
