Small nuclear power plants can deliver the benefits of electrical power to the 2 billion people that currently do not have access to electricity. Shane and I were inspired by an article titled “Nuclear to the rescue” by Paul Driessen who also wrote “Eco-Imperialism: Green Power Black Death.”. I had posted a comment about the…
Time is a bit short this morning, but I wanted to point out an interesting situation in the UK. Apparently there is a large and growing gathering of protesters that want to force at least a temporary shutdown of a coal fired power plant that currently supplies about 7% of the UK’s annual electricity consumption….
This morning I was introduced to a site (American Daily) an author, (Paul Driessen) two organizations (MoveOff, LLC and Congress of Racial Equality – CORE) and a book (Eco- Imperialism – Green Power. Black Death.). The introduction came by way of a commentary titled Nuclear to the rescue. (Go read that inspiring opinion piece now…
I know that some people avoid long comment threads, so occasionally I elevate a good discussion from the comments section up to the main part of the blog. A reader who identifies himself as K made a comment on my 25 August post titled Looking at nuclear power as a heat source for Alberta oil…
Argentina has a long history of involvement with nuclear power. Siemens (Germany) built one of its operating reactors while AECL (Canada) built the other one. There is a third plant that has been under construction for more than 20 years, with little progress made during recent years. The announced plan includes upgrades to the existing…
Jim Wooten, a columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote a piece titled Nuclear power makes sense on all levels that was published on Friday, August 25, 2006. He gets it. In the article, Mr. Wooten quotes someone else who gets it. “There’s a reason there are 25 nuclear applications on the table today when there…
Vu Weekly describes itself as “Edmonton’s independent arts and entertainment weekly magazine”. A quickly look at the current issue reveals that it is a rather open minded and liberal publication that dislikes “corporate media”, has a special “Sex and Love Issue” planned (complete with a rather provocative Flash based column ad on all pages), and…
There is a good discussion on the Scientific American blog – SciAm Observations – titled The Nuclear Option. As you might expect, I had to put in my two bucks worth and ended up writing more than I intended. Here is the comment that I added to the discussion, just in case you do not…
Topics range from helium to coal and include high temperature gas reactors. Shane and I get our groove back and engage in a geeky discussion on topics ranging from helium to coal and somehow manage to include such topics as aviation safety, nuclear engineering career paths, computing the cost of common products like a liter…
Show number 26 of The Atomic Show has been posted. Shane and I engage in a geeky conversation with topics ranging from helium in Russian natural gas wells to cost competition with coal. Somehow we manage to include some information about deep sea diving, The Fountainhead, and the assumptions underlying the 2003 MIT study titled…
There are two important articles about nuclear power from diverse information sources that cry for a mashup. (For those readers who are not fully up to speed with Web lingo, you can learn about three different kinds of mashups from Wikipedia.) On August 16, 2006, Dale Klein, the recently appointed Chairman of the US Nuclear…
A Washington Post editorial titled That Eerie Green Glow published on August 17, 2006 provided the opinion that nuclear power is back on the table as a serious option, mainly as a result of increasing concern over the effects of global warming helped by some concerns about the viability of continued dependence on oil, coal…