Tagged: thorium

TOSP Episode 16: January 9th 2012 - The Sciblogs Podcast

Aimee Whitcroft • Jan 09, 2012 •

• aimee whitcroft,
• Apis mellifera,
• Apocephalus borealis,
• colony collapse disorder,
• David Winter,
• Elf Eldridge,
• events,
• fish,
• George Dracoulis,
• guestwork,
• honeybee,
• invertebrates,
• just so science,
• laser,
• light,
• misc.ience,
• nosema,
• nuclear energy,
• open lab,
• optics,
• parasite,
• PhD,
• picoseconds,
• podcast,
• snails,
• split time lens,
• temporal cloak,
• The Atavism,
• The Official Sciblogs Podcast,
• thesis,
• thorium,
• TOSP,
• TWiV,
• uraniam,
• uranium-233,
• Vertebrates,
• zombie

Happy New Year! May 2012 be a wonderful year to you all. To start off the new year, aimee and Elf discuss last week’s announcement of the successful build of a temporal cloak, thorium’s potential as an alternative nuclear energy source and zombie bees! Also, we talk to fellow Sciblogger, … Read More

Is thorium energy's silver bullet? - Guest Work

Guest Author • Dec 19, 2011 •

• energy,
• thorium

By George Dracoulis, Professor, Department of Nuclear Physics at Australian National University. You have probably heard at least a little about thorium. There are certainly advocates out there who strongly believe it could help solve the world’s energy problems. The idea is that thorium-based nuclear energy (it is nuclear) would … Read More