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Nuclear Options: Scenarios for a Nuke-Powered Future

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Nuclear Options: Scenarios for a Nuke-Powered Future


Phil and stephen discuss nuclear energy technologies.

Fission : The case for Thorium

Could China build the world’s smallest nuclear power plant and send it to the South China Sea?

 

Our Fusion future

Recent Department of Energy report.

Deuterium — can readily be extracted from seawater.


Helium 3

One of the main reasons helium-3 is sought as a fusion fuel is because there are no neutrons generated as a reaction product. The protons that do get generated have charge, and can therefore be safely contained using electromagnetic fields.

 

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