Feynan is a turn-off on to pebbles, a jolting drive through dried-up river beds dotted with Bedouin tents.
I am bemused and delighted that a cream-coloured primrose growing up through the pebbles in our drive hasn't stopped flowering for over 18 months.
We discuss two possible applications: (a) a modular, zero burnup reactivity swing, reactor and (b) the pebble bed accelerator-driven transmutator.
Preliminary studies have been performed to design a device for nuclear waste transmutation and hydrogen generation based on a gas-cooled pebble bed accelerator driven system, TADSEA (Transmutation Advanced Device for Sustainable Energy Application).
As soon as Disrupt ended, Endeavor's International Selection Panel started in Pebble Beach and I drove down to check it out.
And, most remarkably, they did so despite an intense campaign of fear funded by the Pebble Partnership falsely charging that the initiative "will drive Lake and Pen families away to find work, force schools to close and drive up the cost of food and fuel as the local economy shrinks even more".
"When the air bags were pressed against them, they actually drove those pebbles into that dust," Dr. Golombek said.
A small cast inhabited a black set bristling with microphones, creating their own sound effects throughout – walking in trays of pebbles to conjure children running on a gravel drive, for example.
"I'm preoccupied with this question of when an individual becomes either a pebble in the stream of history or one who drives the turns of history," the 67-year-old Romanian-born, Israeli-raised director told me.
The quiet pebble beach is a 500-metre walk, and you can drive to the nearby coastal town of Limni, or hike in the mountains.
