Here is a old post about the NRC...
During reactor development and licensing, the NRC is pay as you go. No pay means no go. If there is no money forthcoming, nobody at the NRC will write anything down. Specifically, new nuclear license applicants are reluctant to get too specific too early with the NRC - as soon as discussions move past general questions, the NRC requires the project to be docketed. That starts the billing clock and puts the applicant on the hook for paying the government $259 for every regulator hour<http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/news/2010/10-105.html>- with no ability to control the number of hours expended. Unlike a commercial interaction, willingness and ability to pay for the government service does not necessarily result in any additional resources for a given project - the money that the NRC receives from its licensees and docketed applicants gets deposited into the US Treasury. The agency can only spend the money that has been appropriated through the normal budgeting process. If the NRC got deluged with new applicants and started billing those applicants today, the commission would not get an increase in its appropriated budget until at least 2014 and perhaps until 2015. Few new government employees or contractors could be added to improve services until the newly budgeted money actually arrived. This system is a gift of the Reagan Administration, which implemented it for the NRC during an era when there was little expectation of a large influx of new reactor applications and when David Stockman was tasked with devising creative user fees to replace the need for new taxes. The system has another weakness - the general lack of accounting standards and practices within the US Government. Investors and businessmen have a natural reluctance to pay for services that they are not sure they are getting. On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > Nuclear proliferation > > Since hot fusion power uses nuclear technology, its overlap with nuclear > weapons technology is substantial. > > A huge amount of tritium would be produced in fusion power plants. Tritium > is used in the trigger of hydrogen bombs and in most modern boosted fission > weapons but it can be also produced by nuclear fission. > The energetic neutrons from a fusion reactor could be used to breed weapon > usable plutonium or uranium for an atomic bomb (for example by > transmutation of U238 to Pu239, or Th232 to U233). > > It will take at least $10 billion dollars to get through the NRC > regulations and licensing. But before all that, the politicians will > scuttle the effort if it looks promising to minimize world nuclear > proliferation. > > Big fusion is not so much of a problem, only first world countries can > afford those types of ITER fusion reactors but very small hot fusion > reactors puts bomb capability into just about anybody's wheel house.. > > > LENR might use commonly unknown some science,(actually, we know what that > science is here on vortex) but that LENR based science may not need LENR > to deal with the NRC. > > The NRC only knows or ...worse wants to know ...only light water reactors. > > > On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Mark Gibbs <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Oxyntix just got a 1M UKP venture capital investment ... it looks like >> there are deep pockets that believe the company has got something. >> >> [m] >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> The reference patent states: >>> >>> "The development of fusion power has been an area of massive investment >>> of time and money for many years. This investment has been largely centred >>> on developing a large scale fusion reactor, at great cost. However, there >>> are other theories that predict much simpler and cheaper mechanisms for >>> creating fusion. Of interest here is the umbrella concept "inertial >>> confinement fusion", which uses mechanical forces (such as shock waves) to >>> concentrate and focus energy into very small areas." >>> >>> >>> This is not a LENR reaction, it is an attempt at "inertial confinement >>> fusion", a hot fusion technology. As such, I doubt that this >>> technology will be successful. >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Here is the list of all the patents that may form the intellectual >>>> basis of the referenced company. >>>> >>>> http://patents.justia.com/inventor/yiannis-ventikos >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]>wrote: >>>> >>>>> Here is the Patent application title: HIGH VELOCITY DROPLET IMPACTS >>>>> Inventors: Yiannis Ventikos (Oxford, GB) Nicholas Hawker (Oxford, GB) >>>>> Class name: Induced nuclear reactions: processes, systems, and elements >>>>> nuclear fusion including accelerating particles into a stationary or >>>>> static >>>>> target >>>>> >>>>> http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20120281797 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: Nigel Dyer >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Has anybody come across a company called Oxyntix, a spin off company >>>>> from Oxford University >>>>> >>>>> http://www.oxyntix.com/ >>>>> >>>>> The website is very sparten, but it does include a sentence with a >>>>> familiar ring to it: >>>>> >>>>> "A core technology we are promoting involves generation of extremely >>>>> high temperatures, pressures and densities originating from fully >>>>> controlled, optimised and scalable bubble collapse processes". One of >>>>> the few press releases also has a familiar ring: " This technology has >>>>> numerous potential applications, notably in nuclear fusion power >>>>> generation and ...." >>>>> >>>>> Nigel >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >
