A West Virginia Nuclear Power Project

A plea to include thorium in West Virginia's coal-to-nuclear transition...

To the People of West Virginia:

• You have depended on the coal industry for longer than anybody can remember.
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• And now the coal industry appears to be dying, with some saying it will not “rise from the ashes.”
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• But what if there is another industry that can revitalize our economy?
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• Nuclear to the rescue!
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• There are numerous working nuclear reactor designs from which West Virginia already stands to benefit.
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• However, there are also many Generation IV reactors with potentially longer-term value.
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• The following information is biased toward the past, present, and future of molten-salt and thorium-based reactors.
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• Intrigued? Please, pore over the following information. Go ahead! Pore! Pore until you can pore no more!
   

  • 1. The Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment  

• • 2. Time Warp: Molten Salt Reactor Experiment—Alvin Weinberg’s Magnum Opus  

• • 3. Documents Related to Liquid-Halide...Reactor Research and Development  

• • 4. The Thorium Problem  

• • 5. China Closing in on Thorium Nuclear Reactor  

• • 6. Nuclear Technology Abandoned Decades Ago…  

• • 7. Geochemical and Mineralogical Maps for Soils of the Conterminous United States: Thorium  

• • 8. Aluminum, Coal Ash, and Molten Salt Reactors  

• • 9. Molten Salt Reactors and Rare Earth Elements  

• • 10. True Energy Independence for the United States  

• • 11. High Strength Steels  

• • 12. Medical Isotopes  

• • 13. Mining Medical Isotopes from Nuclear "Waste"  

• • 14. Modeling Molybdeneum-99 Production in Molten Salt Reactors  

• • 15. Nuclear Waste Consumption  

• • 16. Economical Environmentalism  

• • 17. Nuclear Process Heat for Industry  

• • 18. Transitioning Coal Power Plants to Nuclear Power  

• • 19. Repurposing Coal Power Plant Sites with Low Carbon Nuclear 

• • 20. What Nuclear Can Do for West Virginia  
        
        

    21. Tour of Molten Salt Research Reactor (MSRR) Site at ACU's NEXT Lab 
        
        

    22. We Will NEVER Have Thorium Energy: Here Is Why...  

• Interested in batteries? Well then, pore s'more!
  
  

• • 23. Nuclear Energy Storage?  

• • 24. With Natrium, Nuclear Can Pair Perfectly with Energy Storage and Renewables  

• • 25. What Is a Nuclear Reactor with Thermal Energy Storage?  

• Interested in fusion energy? Well then, pore s'more... s'more!
  
  

• • 26. Fusion-Fission Thorium Hybrid  

• • 27. Fusion-Fission Hybrids Revisited  

• • 28. Fission-Fusion Hybrid Molten Salt Reactor: A Clean Energy Game Changer  

• • 29. Molten-Salt Fusion Reactors and Molten-Salt Fission Reactors  

• How 'bout some green ammonia?
  
  

• • 30. Hydrogen Energy Storage in Ammonia: Fantastic Future or Fossil Fuel Scam?  

• • 31. Hydrogen Bubble  

• • 32. Bridge to Pure 100% H2 Ammonia  

• • 33. The Future of Green Ammonia: Is Thorium the Answer?  

• It's high time for West Virginia to have pathways toward long-term economic well-being! West Virginia will be here long after we are dead, but so will the damage inflicted by an ongoing over-reliance upon the fossil fuel industry. The nuclear power industry will make plentiful use of the familiar skills that you've devoted to the coal-fired power industry, but with a much healthier return on investment.

Good News, Everyone!

S.870: Division B - ADVANCE Act of 2024!

• Bill Text - Congress.gov  

• Bipartisan E&C Leaders Applaud Passage of Historic Nuclear Energy Package  

• American Nuclear Society Applauds Passage of Bipartisan ADVANCE Act  

• Congress Passes ADVANCE Act, Bolstering US Global Leadership