Southern Company and TerraPower Prep for Testing on Molten Salt Reactor
Source: Southern Company and TerraPower Prep for Testing on Molten Salt Reactor | Department of Energy
This reactor may be able to burn up spent fuel/waste from current fleet of light water reactors!
TerraPower is the thing Bill Gates is involved with that has been working on a traveling wave reactor; this is news to me that they’re working on a molten salt reactor now.
This week’s streaming recommendation column looks at an early bit of cult film whimsy from Peter Jackson’s pre-Lord of the Rings era.
Waymo’s taxi service won’t need many drivers but will need plenty of other workers.
Source: Self-driving cars will destroy a lot of jobs—they’ll also create a lot | Ars Technica
Three-thousand steel poles, ten new electrical power facilities, and enough conduit to span 51 miles of tracks are just part of what’s involved in Caltrain’s $2 billion electrification …
Source: Caltrain Electrification Charges Forward – Streetsblog San Francisco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FihyD1KbXCc
“I cannot hide my lack of sympathy to Czerny”
Technology has made it easier to identify and manage the optimal supply, but it also depends on which problem you’re trying to solve.
Source: What’s the Right Number of Taxis (or Uber or Lyft Cars) in a City? – The New York Times
Don’t just take it from us. Scores of publications from around the country are raising their voices.
Source: Opinion | A Free Press Needs You – The New York Times
For the past decade, the transit center that will replace San Francisco’s Transbay Terminal has been the subject of grand plans and political controversies, struggles to stay on schedule and squabbles over costs. Next weekend, all that changes. On Aug. 12, transbay bus service will begin at the $2.16 billion Transbay Transit Center, which stretches nearly three blocks between Beale and Second streets, just south of Mission Street. East Bay commuters entering the city by bus will travel traffic-free above downtown streets from the Bay Bridge into an elevated concourse. The new station should also attract Bay Area residents and visitors who never ride a bus. For them, the lure is a 5.
Source: San Francisco’s imposing transit center ready to roll at last – San Francisco Chronicle