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The Greeks have already crushed their economy. I think you got it right. Hopefully, The Greeks also have an underground economy. On the one hand, this is probably a reason why the other economy crushed but, on the other hand, that will probably help them in tough times. Strange. The initial problem...

Changing a transportation infrastructure is a long strategic move. I do not think you can actually demonstrate its economic viability prior to the move because so many interdependent parameters are affected. A typical system problem. The USA has invested in air travel so much and for such a long tim...

I like the concept, but I just don't think it's practical here in the US. The only reason I see why the USA have not developed a high speed train infrastructure is the federal nature of the country which makes it difficult to agree on such large interstate initiatives. Population density indeed is ...

So am I. Hydro need mountains and streams. You have them or not. In my life I have seen so many economic studies demonstrating everything and its opposite. I do not trust any unless I am given every detail of the calculation so I have a chance to guess what they chose to conceal and whose pawns they...

Wow! I couldn't imagine that.
"And I was in the 1st percent to join." shall I tell my grandchildren when I am old and IEC is a success. They will get bored for sure.

Sodium cooled reactors were build in UK, France, Russia, India, Japan and even Germany. Superphenix, a 1300 MWe protoype reactor was operated in southern France between 1986 and 1997, then stopped for political reasons. As a prototype it suffered from several minor incidents, but the fact that it wa...

No fusion involved here at the end of the day. It appears that the Times journalist has totally mistaken the sodium fast breeder which the CEA and AREVA actually plan to build for the fusion-fission hybrid reactor which is studied at the University of Texas at Austin. Science journalism is not what ...

The Times referred to research conducted at the University of Texas at Austin as similar to AREVA's project. The Science Daily recently published an article about UT's research project. Their fusion-fission reactor is based on a tok. Based on the the drawing, it is difficult to describe its shape as...

According to the Times, Areva is planning new reactors that make nuclear waste disappear . Anne Lauvergeon told The Times that the French group was developing a technology to burn up actinides [...]. The technology could be critical in winning greater global public support for nuclear energy and cut...

The US is the current 800 kilo grizzly bear, and 800 kilo grizzlies sit, and sh*t, wherever they d*mn well please. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41gA3MZ62eL._SL500_.jpg Then maybe Europe does not want to be mistaken for a second grizzly. :lol: BTW, bears are beautiful animals. I have seen m...

It might help to think of the mechanical analogy: consider the position x of a body of mass m attached to a spring of constant K and a viscous damper of coefficient B. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Mass-Spring-Damper.png/300px-Mass-Spring-Damper.png The force of the spring...

I still do not understand where the Th230 will come from, as blaisepascal already asked. It can be obtained from the alpha decay of U234 or Pu238.
You will find some from LWR spent fuel but this is going to take a lot of time.

A small steady investment with a low probability/extremely high payoff in return. This is exactly what Nassim Nicholas Taleb calls a "positive" black swan and what should be pursued. Modern economy showed a preference for small steady revenues with a low probability/extremely high risk, see Enron, s...

Bill Gates gave a talk at the TED Conference . His speech is based on avoiding CO2 emissions (which may be flawed or may be not) rather than finding a solution to fuel scarcity. More comments can be found on CNN Tech . Gates introduces the TWR which he sponsors through Terrapower. This nuclear fissi...

Back to the topic, see how the spirit of resistance can still find its way. I also strongly encourage the (unexpensive) reading of Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. This may give a hint as to how things have a chance to get better in Iran, however long it may take. Iranian officials mentioned a soft wa...