The above footage was taken during the annual protest carnival that happens during the first weekend in November when Germany accepts a shipment of nuclear waste back from the recycling plants in France. The waste is in the form of stable glass logs that will be stored in a stable salt formation near Gorleben, Germany….
Greenpeace recently issued a press release warning about a potential hazard associated with putting nuclear waste containers in a salt formation at Gorleben. The author of the press release and the gullible reporters who faithfully reported the concern without any questions or fact checking neglected a simple physical fact – there is a minimum temperature…
It has taken me a couple of days to get around to finish watching the talk that Dr. John Holdren, Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, gave to MIT students as the speaker for the 2010 David J. Rose Lectureship in Nuclear Technology. Dr. Holdren gave his talk, titled The Energy /…
Greenpeace has issued a press release claiming that the nuclear waste disposal site at Gorleben is a “powder keg” full of natural gas that could be ignited by nuclear waste storage containers whose surfaces could reach as high as 200 degrees Fahrenheit. The UPI has picked up the press release and published a story titled…
In the category of “you learn something new every day – if you pay attention” I have just spend a pleasant couple of hours geeking out on presentations full of graphs of plutonium exposures and depositions of other transuranic elements. The experience helped me to refresh my understanding of how careful studies performed during the…
This post will be one that evolves over time – especially if I can get some help from readers. My intention is to put together a representative series of quotes and links that show the rhythmic beat of the “cheap gas” mantra. I am not a believer – I think that the oil and gas…
Several times during the past few years, I have written about the Zion Nuclear Power Station. The station, located on the shores of Lake Michigan, about 30-40 miles from Chicago, hosts two 1100 MWe Westinghouse Pressurized Water Reactors. Commonwealth Edison shut it down for repairs the mid 1990s (Unit 2 on September 19, 1996 and…