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Ontario’s CANDUs can be more flexible than natural gas and hydro

ByGuest Author

…appears France is building 2, and perhaps only 2 more…has very good load following capabilities. All of France’s nuclear plants need to be replaced over the next 30 years or so. Likely newer, even better load following ones will have to be built. Gen IV reactors of most varieties (and yes, the French are leaders in this area too) are quite good at load following and should follow load as well as a CCGT or even hydro. David Walters I have to apol…

Adam Curry Exposes Robert Alvarez’s Fukushima Spent Fuel Pool Fable on No Agenda

ByRod Adams

…available at http://www.unscear.org/unscear/en/chernobyl.html includes the following summary: The accident caused the deaths, within a few weeks, of 30 workers and radiation injuries to over a hundred others. In response, the authorities evacuated, in 1986, about 115,000 people from areas surrounding the reactor and subsequently relocated, after 1986, about 220,000 people from Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine. The accident caused seriou…

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Obtaining scientific cover for preordained policy decision

ByRod Adams

…remediation efforts, setting remediation standards, and determining costs, following radiation accidents or following a terrorist incident involving radioactive materials, as well as radiation exposure during space flights. (Paragraph marks added) The COV report praised the management of the program, its methods for awarding grants and the policy of having grant recipients meet once per year to present their findings to other researchers in the fi…

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Kirk Sorensen – Why didn’t molten salt thorium reactors succeed the first time?

ByRod Adams

…if it failed. Bill Young David, Technically, a LFTR could be used for load following if it were designed that way up front. Likewise, the navy has always used LWRs as load following on their nuclear vessels. A LFTR, like an LWR, is pretty much a fixed cost operation. The staffing, maintenance and security costs are pretty much independent of power level. If the cost of electricity is, say, 5¢ per kwh at full power, when you operate at an average o…

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Spent Fuel Pools Protect The Public. Don’t Believe Skeptics

ByRod Adams

…nd security of nuclear power plants, including spent fuel pools, were made following the terrorist events of September 11, 2001, and the Fukushima accident in 2011. Spent fuel pool safety was enhanced at U.S. reactors when licensees implemented new NRC requirements to develop strategies for spent fuel pool cooling following losses of large areas of the plant due to fires, explosions, or extreme natural events. The NRC will continue to cooperate wi…

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Pandora’s Promise disrupts assumptions about nuclear energy

ByRod Adams

…oidance of attempting to insert journalistic “balance”, but he offered the following statement indicating he understands the film’s primary message. The case for nuclear power as the solution to both the planet’s rapidly escalating energy needs and the climate change produced by fossil fuels and natural gas is aggressively, and somewhat convincingly, made by writer-director Robert Stone. The San Francisco Guardian included the following statement…

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Civil disobedience might be needed to overcome illogical EPA limits on radiation

ByRod Adams

…based on your years of designing grids and use waste and biomass for load following generation. So tell me then why the following Economist report is raising concerns: http://www.economist.com/news/business/21575771-environmental-lunacy-europe-fuel-future And this article is from a magazine that routinely bashes nuclear power. So in other words it appears you are okay with burning down all the world’s forests including those where rare woods and…

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Jacobson misuses LNT to purposefully exaggerate effects of Fukushima radiation

ByRod Adams

…ed doses. You can find several interesting articles and discussions at the following locations. Additional Reading UNSCEAR – planning a comprehensive assessment, with an interim report now scheduled to be released in September 2012. Preparing a scientific report to the General Assembly on ‘Exposures due to the nuclear accident following the Great East-Japan earthquake and tsunami’ BBC – Fukushima’s disease risk: A major fallout? Nature – Fukushima…

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ALARA causes and reinforces excessive fear of low dose radiation

ByRod Adams

…period, with the net result being reduced overall DNA damage and mutations following exposure to LDR.2 Also, there is plenty of evidence against the mutation model of cancer.2 Thus, since the two concepts underlying the LNT model are not valid, the model is not justifiable. Hence, the concept of ALARA, which is based on the LNT model, should not be used in medical imaging, considering that medical imaging involves LDR exposures only. Dr. McColloug…

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Mark Z. Jacobson is proud that his models disagree with IPCC (and almost everyone else)

ByRod Adams

…antially less credible than hand waving; they amount to something like the following: “I have no earthly idea what my ideas are going to cost and how they are going to be planned, scheduled and implemented, but trust me, I know this will be cheaper. All we need to do for comparison is to include all of the invisible gains society will receive when we stop burning fossil fuels and biomass.” Here are some additional specific issues from the above de…

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Why was DOE’s Low Dose Radiation Research program defunded in 2011?

ByRod Adams

…ponsible authority in such a situation, would you than also not choose for following the precautionary principle? Avoiding the risk that after xx years it may show that xxxx people are harmed because you set standards that allowed to much radiation. In NL following the precautionary principle regarding asbestos would have prevented at least 20,000 (terrible, as that cancer is lot of suffer) death. But the responsible authority was 20years careless…

Wind Generation Does Not Reduce Fossil Fuel Use and Emissions Enough To Make it Worth The Public Investment

ByRod Adams

…luded a footnote (8) that demonstrated a pretty significant slant with the following statement: “Electric demand already varies greatly according to the weather and major fluctuations in power use at factories, while electricity supply can drop by 1000 MW or more in a fraction of a second when a large coal or nuclear plant experiences a “forced outage” and goes offline unexpectedly, as they all do from time to time. In contrast, wind output change…

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