You do sometimes certainly come across references to “ball pile” nuclear reactor designs, especially in older documents – that’s essentially another name for what we commonly call a pebble bed reactor. The basic idea of a pebble bed reactor has been around for many decades.

Of course, the pebbles or “balls” in a pebble bed reactor are around a few inches in diameter – not quite thirty-eight feet in diameter.

Glad to see someone else tear Bob Nichols apart. Bob Nichols is not a journalist, he is a hack for anti-nuclear/anti-depleted uranium crusaders, especially Leuren K Moret and Douglas Lind Rokke. The ones that need to also be exposed are the editor of this Art Voice rag in Buffalo and his alleged co-author. This article has been pretty badly torn apart by the professionals on RADSAFE, but it keeps getting regurgitated on the net. I have researched Doug Rokke to a considerable degree, Leuren Moret to some degree and there just is not much out there on Bob Nichols who moved to San Francisco since 2004. Before that, he was in Oklahoma and he claimed to be an expert on depleted uranium at McAlester Army Ammunition Plant because he worked there. I found that he worked there something less than 3 months several years ago and that there is DU stored at McAlester, but that it is not used to make anything there. To learn more about Rokke, go to the Files Section of DUStory – Message 77 has a guest user name and password and instructions to sign in with them and view the files on Rokke and Moret.

Roger
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