Continuing discussion about "Nuclear Power for Everyone"
A couple of days ago, I mentioned an article on ArmsControlWonk.com titled Nuclear Power for Everyone!. The article is generating some interesting comments. It is worth a second visit.
A couple of days ago, I mentioned an article on ArmsControlWonk.com titled Nuclear Power for Everyone!. The article is generating some interesting comments. It is worth a second visit.
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My family and I just returned from a terrific coach tour of the UK and Ireland. I liked being a passenger; it gave me the opportunity to see a lot of the country. As people that know me might suspect, I paid a good deal of attention to the energy infrastructure that I could see…
On the June 10, 2008 episode of the Daily Source Code, Atomic Rod (that’s me) payed a visit to rant about the fact that we have been conditioned to consider nuclear waste as an unsolvable problem while we have also been conditioned to simply accept and deal with the deadly waste products that spew out…
Once again, the forces that are bound and determined to shut down the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant and remove its 620 MW of reliable (90% capacity factor) electricity from the competitive supply of electricity in New England have found another hook. The incredibly detailed analysis that is being conducted of the soil next to…
Several days ago, I blogged about an article in The Economist that profiled Amory Lovins and talked about his “frugal” vision for the world’s energy supply system. In the thread of comments attached to that post a reader named Gordon provided commentary indicating that he was a true believer in the “soft energy path” that…
A friend of mine recently wrote a letter to Catholic Online in response to an opinion piece masquerading as an article. The piece was titled Canadian Catholic News: Nuclear energy called ‘a deeply spiritual issue’. The piece was an extensive rehashing of disinformation that has been spread for many years by Helen Caldicott, a professional…
The agenda for Day 2 of the ANS Winter Meeting included a wide variety of technical breakout sessions with papers being presented on topics as varied as “Multigroup Formulation of the “Correction” Hybrid Mont Carlo/Deterministic Transport Method” to “Optimization of Fission Product Identification Using Compton Suppression and Gamma-Gamma Coincidence” to “Integral Test and Analysis for…