Summer Begins!

I found this in my inbox:

And on the day that the sun did passeth its zenith the
Lord did again cast the dice, and one dice* did cometh
up three and the other was a two, and He saw that it
was good.

*Never say ‘die’!

With this attached:

Lesson for today: Sloooow dooownn..

This sunday I tried to run another experiment, it ended with a “POOF”. I was ramping up the temperature and was somewhere in the neighborhood of 850 degrees F when it happened. My reading of Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘Mother Night’ was rudely interrupted- so it goes.

Experiment 1

This an image of the product, or a small portion of very little product from my first full blown run. You can see the SiO2 core at the bottom of the image.

Miss Nevada endorses Yucca Mountain waste repository

This very short article does very little for Yucca Mountain getting opened I am afraid, when asked: What if people die? Her reply?

“We just have to take one for the team,” said contestant Wosik
Link

If anyone is wondering, I am pro-nuke and opening Yucca Mountain is a short term waste solution. A closed fuel cycle is a better solution IMHO.