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Bookshelf

Engineering

Nuclear

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library.aspx World Nuclear Information Library
https://ourworldindata.org section on Energy and Environment
Waste
Natural radioactivity in the ocean is huge (see Fig. 4) but localized concentrations could cause a problem if radioactive nuclides are absorbed by plankton and caught up in the food chain.[1]

© Image: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Fig.4 Human sources are small compared to natural radioactivity in the ocean.[2]

Proliferation
https://www.nature.com/articles/492031a Ashley 2012, Thorium fuel has risks
ThorCon
https://thorconpower.com/ - Powering up our world, brochure
https://thorconpower.com/docs/docs_v130_isle20190315.pdf - construction of ThorCon Isle, 2018
https://thorconpower.com/docs/docs_safeguards_pub.pdf - best on proliferation issues
https://thorconpower.com/docs/ccc_shrt20180530.pdf - Control, Cool and Contain

Science

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_the_chemical_elements

Physics

Reading List

  1. ↑ https://e360.yale.edu/features/radioactivity_in_the_ocean_diluted_but_far_from_harmless
  2. ↑ https://www.whoi.edu/multimedia/source-of-radioactivity-in-the-ocean/
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