At least they are using neutrons at Oak Ridge which produces about thirty for each proton that goes through its billion volt accelerator into a jet of mercury.

Solar energy at the earths surface is about a kilowatt of heat and light per square meter limited to a few hours a day. Oak Ridge has had devices that have produced millions of watts per square meter.

The people there should devote their time to projects that produce small reactors that can be buried for ten years and still produce heat which can be used like artificial geothermal energy. Hyperion could use such support and should be testing an actual uranium hydride model right now as well as their alternate design. The IDAHO lab did many experiments but now things have to be perfect and approved by all the plumbers in the US before there can be chain reaction.

Every propane tank is a mega disaster waiting, but Chernobyl only killed far less than a hundred people even after waiting on thyroids for thirty years and Bhopal chemicals a few thousand or more in a few days.

Even the guy purposely poisoned with polonium 210 lasted for several days. Seconds is all you get with potassium cyanide. Methyl mercury gave the researcher with the tiny glove leak a few days. A single anthrax organism can kill a person.

Potassium atoms are exploding at a rate of four thousand a second in every 70 kg of you and even your great-great-grand mother in her crypt if she was a royal.

Oak Ridge should test reactors; but a failure to operate one at Oak Ridge or the associated one near Chicago for more than a few hours as ordered, delayed the production of plutonium at Washington for months because fission product poisoning by iodine was not discovered by an ordered long run of one of the first operating reactors that was not done. Many tens of thousands of Japanese died in fire bombings because the only effective bomb to convince the Emperor was delayed.

How many people must die prematurely before nuclear power reactors are allowed to quickly supply abundant, cheap and efficient energy. Many will not even know that they died hungry and cold because nuclear waste was not perfectly safe, according to a senators opinion, for a billion years in deep holes in Nevada. The same senator and many others who are against the deep holes spread uranium and radioactive potassium on their lawns which was bought from a garden store and are sprinkled with rain containing radioactive elements from coal fired power plants. No rock and no soil is free of uranium and radium which can leach into the water table. The US government lied to the power companies when it said that much money was needed for holes in Nevada for used fuel when it could have been reprocessed for much less money and the fission products buried in deep sea clay.

There is even an approved operating facility for the most active elements to be stored in New Mexico. But the politicians do not wish to inform the public that military used fuels can be stored in such facilities and they are deemed and court approved for any isotope.

What is being stored at nuclear reactor sites is not worthless but 96 or more percent of it can be used again. If used in heavy water reactors, it might supply all the uranium fuel needed for the next 20 to 50 years.

The truth is that extracted fission products could be sprayed evenly over the entire area of Nevada, or at least the remote unpopulated areas, and not cause an increase in the radioactivity of any area as measured by Geiger counters. The highly absorbable iodine is long since gone. ..HG..

Question is how MUCH H2 is produced by these LHC-II proteins. And how is it captured.

An interesting area to investigate. But we`d wonder how effective this system will be compared to the LENR work of the gentlemen in Bologna claiming a power gain of 31X:

http://newenergytimes.com/v2/news/2011/36/3624rf-piantelli.shtml

Casualties for any emissions from the nuclear industry are calculated according to the LNT model, Linear No Threshold, which means that there is assumed to be a level of risk associated with any emissions at all.
This is simply an assumption, and evidence in fact points to radiation at low levels providing some immunity to illness, which is not too surprising as we evolved to cope with background radiation which is in any case far, far greater than man-made emissions.
The coal industry however is not forced to work against an assumption of LNT, and freely distributes around the same amount of radioactive material from a single large plant as all the nuclear reactors in the US emit.
Given a level playing field the coal industry would not exist, and neither would very much of the renewables industry, which is utterly dependent on fossil fuel burn to cover up the fact that it cannot actually do the job.

danm,
The general public was correct to be cautious about nuclear energy, with it's association with risks for bombs etc.
However, that initial caution and the public's technological unsophistication and difficulty understanding risk analysis has been ruthlessly exploited by an unholy alliance of greens who are ideologically driven and the fossil fuel industry, who know that they are quite safe from obsolescence whilst renewables are the preferred alternative, as they are actually entirely incapable of replacing fossil fuels.
To that end the risks of nuclear power have been exaggerated by several orders of magnitude, whilst the ongoing environmental and health disaster which is the present energy system's risks are ignored.
We are supposed to wait until we are able to replace fossil fuels with pixie dust and ground up unicorns horns, and meanwhile are evermore committed to paying for financial scams in the shape of wind turbines and solar panels which are going to provide power, in so far as they manage it at all, at a multiple of the price that nuclear would cost.

Davemart:

Interesting comments. Agree on the alliance of some green and fossil interests in vilifying nuclear - which in breeder configurations is a "renewable." Clearly a new generation of reactors should and will be a part of the North American energy portfolio. France is a convincing example of how this works and works well. And the French are just as sensitive to environmental hazard as most N. Americans.

The wild card in the mix IMO is small business and residential CHP units. Initially running on NG, these units will provide distributed electric energy to residences and light business. The startup Bloom Box is a prime example of SOFC systems actively saving money by generating local electric energy.

The new Bank of America tower in NYC is another example. Their 4.6MW CHP system provides 65% of the electric demand, along with heat and hot water and cooling in summer. It is another player in the energy portfolio that will gain acceptance as people begin to grok the meaning of Energy Independence.

http://construction.com/CE/articles/0803edit-5.asp

Recent studies indicated that NG power plants pollute almost as much as large coal fired power plants. Shall Gas (SG) power plants, due to high unreported leaks, can pollute more than many coal fired power plants.

CHP using SG could pollute even more. It may not be be the solution unless leaks can be reduced up to 3000 times less than current level.

You have to consider the complete cycle including all methane gas leaks.