2h36m25s14f MSRE Researchers Dead - Dr. Stephen Boyd - No One to Talk To - TR2016a
Channel: Thorium Remix
Date: 2017-05-09

http://ThoriumRemix.com/ You look at the authors of the papers that I've listed, most of them are deceased. Grimes. Rainey. They're deceased. All their techincal skill is gone. 

Dr. Stephen Boyd:
And i'm reading ORNL documents fiendishly to try and go okay I think I know how they did that. But I don't know. I don't know. I don't know because I don't have anybody to talk to.

Kirk Sorensen:
We had a corpus of people in Oak Ridge who knew how to do this in the mid-1970s. They are literally dead and gone now. I've met a handful of them they're in their 80s. You know... they're not going to do this anymore.

Richard Engel:
Well Beecher's been dead for a long time now. 

Syd Ball:
How about Paul?

Richard Engel:
I have not had any contact with him so I don't know.

Kirk Sorensen:
You don't get taught this stuff in nuclear engineering school. You know I said one time in an online talk you can get a PhD in nuclear engineering and never learn about this stuff. I got an email a few weeks ago. Kirk, I just saw your talk. I wanted you to know I just graduated from Purdue with my PhD in Nuclear Engineering and I want to tell you're absolutely right. I have never heard of this stuff before. He goes on to say it's even worse than that, because I'm totally a student of nuclear history. 

He goes: I'm so geeked out on nuclear history and I've never heard of this. How did I not hear about it? 
He goes: It's great though. 
He goes: You're absolutely right this is top-notch stuff they did and we should be working on it right now. 

But it's absolutely possible for you to go through a normal curriculum and never learn about this.