Sherrell Green e recently retired from ORNL after 33 years employment. Sherrell was ORNL's Director for Nuclear Technology Programs fro...

A recent ORNL report, Fast Spectrum Molten Salt Reactor Options , offers some insight into the cost lowering potential of MSR nuclear techno...

Presiden't Obama's BLUEPRINT FOR A SECURE ENERGY FUTURE, released on March 30, includes mention of As part of a broad effort to sp...

I was in Oak Ridge to visit my father when Alvin Weinberg died. Immediately after Weinberg's death I looked at materials about him that...

Update: See this recent interview with David Le Blanc .

One of my favorite television shows has been Di Vinci's Inquest, a Canadian series from a few years ago. Di Vinci, a coroner has a lin...

I found two unpublished posts related to Thomas Pigford today in a search of my old posts. I thought these were to good to leave under raps...

I attended David LeBlanc's lecture at ORNL yesterday (May 18, 2010). Jess Gehin, our host, took the opportunity to do a set of show-and...

My historical research has been driven by a desire to understand the past. Not an abstract past, but events which I in some way witnessed. M...

David LeBlanc of the Physics department of Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada and the Ottawa Valley Research Associates, Ltd., is a highly...

A Primer on Nuclear Safety: 2.5 Defense in Depth The Pebble Bed Reactor Option During the late 1940's research began in Oak Ridge on saf...