User talk:David MacQuigg/Sandbox/ThorCon nuclear reactor

IAEA as a reliable source

The International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA is a regulatory agency under the United Nations. They maintain a database, the Advanced Reactors Information System (ARIS) that provides Members States with balanced, comprehensive and up-to-date information about advanced nuclear plant designs.
From Wikipedia editors:
Submission declined on 13 March 2022 by Mako001:
The IAEA source seems to be just a report that ThorCon themselves have written, so it doesn't make it any better.
Comment by Wickey, 24 April 2022:
The "IAEA filing" is as little reliable as all other info from ThorCon. Nothing acknowledgment or review by IAEA.
Additional comments from Wickey, 28 April 2022, seeming to imply an inappropriate relationship:
I don't know what IAEA does and does not. I observe that the "filing" is from ThorCon and I do not see a source that confirms that IAEA reviewed the ThorCon input in the document, and if, what were the results. Here is a docx of the June 2016 filing. It is written by Seong-Deuk JO and Robert Hargraves. The pdf is dated Feb 2017; the docx March 2017. They are exactly the same. According to this document, p. 17, Seong-Deuk JO is or was an IAEA employee for promoting nuclear energy. According to the same page, ARIS is responsible for presenting all reactor systems in a standard way, balanced and objective, using a standard template. Robert Hargraves, is mentioned as a team member of ThorCon here.

Responses:
"The IAEA review was originally drafted by me, according to the outline and rules that they laid down. IAEA people reviewed, edited, critiqued it repeatedly until it was published, by them." - Robert Hargraves, Founder of ThorCon, 11 March 2022. "There were dozens of interactions between IAEA editors and me. The tables of tech specs were required by IAEA and filled in by me and checked by others. There can be no more accurate source." -- Robert Hargraves, Founder of ThorCon, 15 March 2022.

"Before being loaded into ARIS, the Design Descriptions are reviewed by IAEA to identify technical items needing clarification, and edited to remove overly commercial statements and, if necessary, to improve clarity and English. Also, the IAEA edits the Design Descriptions to assure that safety levels, costs, projected construction times, projected availability factors, and commercialization dates are presented as "goals" or "claims" of the Design Organization - to be clear that IAEA has not reviewed or endorsed these claims. Each Design Description is loaded into ARIS following the Design Organization's clarification of technical questions and concurrence with IAEA's editing." -- Design Descriptions in ARIS copied 3 May 2022.