There was an interesting letter to the editor on July 15, 2006 in the Concord Monitor Online titled The wrong fix, TYSON SLOCUM, Washington, D.C. – Letter. It is a response to a previous letter that talked about the need for a diverse set of solutions, including nuclear power, to both global climate change and…
There are times when I wish I was a resident of the UK, just so that I could pay BBC’s annual license fee and watch some of the programming that is rarely available outside of the country. Apparently, there was an episode of Horizon titled Nuclear Nightmares that aired at 2100 BST, BBC Two, on…
During episode number 22, Shane and I begin with a rant about people like George Monbiot, the author of a recent article titled Sure, nuclear power is safer than in the past – but we still don’t need it. Our big beef is that he accepts a fossil fuel industry supported notion that it is…
I came across an article on a web site named Londra Toplum Postasi by a woman named Fazile ZAHIR titled simply Nuclear Power. It is an interesting article that starts off with a rather unsettling description of a nuclear power plant response following an earthquake, but then makes it quite clear that the scenario is…
A couple of days ago, the UK government completed its most recent energy review and issued a green paper titled “The Energy Challenge”. Alistair Darling, MP, wrote the preface for the paper and clearly stated the UK’s energy challenge: Energy is essential to just about every aspect of our life and to our continued economic…
On July 13, 2006, KansasCity.com published an AP wire story about a three day conference being held at the University of Kansas to discuss carbon sequestration. The conference is being attended mainly by researchers who are receiving their funding from the Department of Energy to talk about potential methods of capturing CO2 that is released…
On Atomic Show episode 21, I interviewed Mary Mycio, the author of Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl. The book is fascinating, and as expected, Mary has some unique views on the use of nuclear power and on the ability of nature to adapt to radioactivity. Please go and check out the interview! Podcast:…
Atomic Show number 21 is a special episode. I was honored by the opportunity to interview Mary Mycio, the author of Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl. Mary is a unique person with an interesting career path; she earned her undergraduate degree in biology, became a lawyer and then left the law to pursue…
Many of you are aware of the Potential Energy Blog that is a summer 2006 project of The Institute of Physics. I have been enjoying the work of the three main contributors to the effort and have added quite a few of my own comments to the entries. (I am sure that you are surprised…
As I perused the net for new material to talk about with you, I found a stark contrast of the type that makes for good article fodder. This week, the US State Department published an article by James Lake, associate laboratory director for nuclear programs at the Idaho National Laboratory, titled The Renaissance of Nuclear…
I hope some of you missed us last week. If not, we must be doing something that needs improvement. Just in case you noticed that we did not post a new show last week, we simply were not able to match up our schedules. I had a series of meetings about Adams Atomic Engines and…
There is an interesting discussion going on at Green Car Congress under the heading of Ports of LA and Long Beach Introduce Draft Comprehensive Clean Air Action Plan. The article summarizes some of the most important points in the San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan and lists some restrictions that will be placed…