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Cover               Restoring America's Oil Independence   (Introduction page.) Endless Cheap BioGasoline from Blends of U.S. Coal + Cellulosic Biomass.
Cellulosic Synthetic BioGasoline
                        Restoring America's Oil Independence
                        News
                        Conceptual Sketches
                        A Zero-Emissions Synthetic Oil Refinery making Net-Zero Emissions Transportation Fuel
                        CO2-Free Hydrogen from Water, Coal, or Natural Gas for Upgrading Oil (For wax hydrocracking to make diesel and jet fuel from F-T syncrude.)
                        Coal Mine-Mouth Waterless Zero-Emissions Synthetic Oil Refinery
Repowering Coal Burning Power Plants
                        Recycling Coal Power Plants
                        Replacing Coal Boilers With Thorium Boilers An economic alternative to retrofitting carbon capture and sequestration equipment.
The Thorium-Fueled Molten Salt Reactor
                        THE NATURALLY SAFE, THORIUM-FUELED, MOLTEN SALT REACTOR   Endless Heat is Necessary to Make Endless Oil.
                        The EBASCO Reactor and its Confinement Cell Assembly  The first final user design. A chance to make a completely modern nuclear reactor.
                        Barge Mounted Air Cooled Liquid Thorium Reactor Assembly
                        Underground Silo Air Cooled Liquid Thorium Reactor Assembly
                        Prototype Testing Barge    What would make a convenient "Flag of Convenience"?
                        Stirling Air Turbine Electricity Generator
Legal Supervision
                        International Atomic Energy Agency

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Guest Pages Energy Facts What everyone should know about energy. (by Bill Hannahan.)

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Peripheral Issues (The Scrapbook section)
                      Global Warming Is Not Going Away
                        How Environmentalists Are Making Global Warming Worse   2) Hormesis - Radiation's Healthy Surprise
                        More, Not Less, Energy is Needed to Halt Global Warming
                        Boilers Cause 2/3 of ALL Global Warming    Most large coal and natural gas boilers can be replaced with small nuclear boilers.
                        Thorium Electricity and Desalination for Developing Countries
                        Coal Powered Carbon Capture Technology instead of Small Modular Nuclear
                        Electricity is the key to solving climate challenge .pdf   Source: Energy and Environmental Economics, Inc
                        NOT YOUR GRANDFATHER'S REACTOR What would a mass-market nuclear basement hot water heater be like?
                        EMP makes "Smart Grids" a very stupid idea.   EMP
                        Old Links         RWScherer Power Plant       Coal BioGasoline
                        S.T.A.R.T PowerPoint Slides pdf slide show describing the web site.

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NSPE Position Statement

Nuclear Electric Power
Approved: July 2011

NSPE believes that the United States should lead the world in the advancement and use of nuclear power. Green, clean, renewable nuclear power systems will provide an important component in our efforts to reduce our nation's reliance on foreign oil imports and to reduce the releases of harmful pollutants. The United States—in which 104 commercial nuclear reactors provide 20% of the nation's electrical power—is the world's largest producer of nuclear electric power.

NSPE believes that licensed professional engineers should be required to have direct supervision over all engineering design, operations, and maintenance decisions at nuclear power plants. Though the nuclear energy industry has an excellent safety record, thanks in part to strict regulation, comprehensive safety planning, and rigorous training and qualification standards for employees, it is an inherently dangerous industry. An accident at a nuclear facility would cause serious harm to people, their livelihoods, and the environment. This potential for disaster necessitates an additional degree of protection for the public health and safety.

NSPE supports the prompt final formulation of a nuclear waste management plan to ensure public confidence in the ongoing development of our new commercial reactors. NSPE also supports the federal loan guarantees that are providing the impetus for licensing, constructing and operating the first wave of a renaissance of new nuclear electric power plants in the United States.

Finally, NSPE supports Department of Energy plans to design and construct a prototype of a spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant. Major fuel value remaining in spent fuel after the first reactor burn cycle must be recovered for use in new electric power

http://www.nspe.org/index.html
National Society of Professional Engineers
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