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“Nuclear energy produces no greenhouse gases, but it has many drawbacks. Now a radical new technology based on thorium promises what uranium never delivered: abundant, safe and clean energy - and a way to burn up old radioactive waste.”

08/25/06 • 02:10 PM • Consumption • Environmental • Science • 1 Comment

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Thanks for this post and pointer. I just finished reading a biography (published 1996) of Lise Meitner, the physicist involved with discovering fission. Except that she was in exile at the time (tho very much involved with the proceedings) while Otto Hahn was working on it. Deprived of credit and more. A dmonstration of the ravages of war in Nazi Germany (Meitner, Austrian, was Jewish) in the realm of the scientists from there. She didn’t want to work on bomb, but did do some work on nuclear reactors for Sweden. A good read.

Her research (w/ or w/o Hahn, I’ve forgotten already) led to the discovery of the protactinium mentioned in the article

Anyway.

My mind is filled (once again) with all that incomprehensible atomic stuff, which makes the article an easy—and exciting—read. The benefit of burning off plutonium is a thing of beauty.
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Posted by Susan Kitchens on 08/25/06 at 05:24 PM

 

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