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Human brain hard-wired for rural tranquillity

Science has now proven what many have suspected for years; living the quiet rural life is relaxing, good for thinking, peaceful, and more calm.  Writers and other intellectuals have often kept rural properties as their main residence or even as a backup, to be secluded with only their thoughts, and the countryside.  With the advent […]

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Thorium Research

Thorium-based nuclear power – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Thorium-based nuclear power is nuclear reactor-based electrical power generation fueled, ultimately, by the element thorium. According to proponents, a thorium fuel cycleoffers several potential advantages over a uranium fuel cycle—including much greater abundance on Earth, superior physical and nuclear fuel properties, and reduced nuclear waste production. However, it suffers from higher production and processing […]

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China Is Using US Research to Take the Lead on Thorium Reactor Development

A CAD render of an old Oak Ridge molten salt reactor design, via Flibe Energy In the fracking-dominated and carbon-obsessed United States, we often forget that carbon-neutral energy doesn’t have to simply be solar and wind. There’s also nuclear power, of which alternative, safe power cycles exist, ones that were first developed by American researchers. But […]

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