The Christian Science Monitor has published an article by Mark Clayton titled If winter is bitter, brace for a natural-gas crunch. The article details some of the effects that might occur because of hurricane damage to natural gas pipelines and production facilities combined with the trend in the past ten years to focus nearly all new power plant investment on natural gas burning power plants to the exclusion of other fuel alternatives.
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Just a couple of days ago, I broke one of my normal blogging rules and published a press release in its entirety. It was a good one that contained important information about low dose radiation that is useful to Atomic Insights readers, so I figured it was not a matter of me just being lazy…
Ted Rockwell is a man who literally wrote the book on radiation shielding while he was serving as the Technical Director at Naval Reactors. He was in that position during the period when the Nautilus and the Shippingport reactors were built to use the heat generated by fission to produce useful power. Ted has been…
On November 2, 2006, I had the pleasure of chatting with Dr. Rodney Ewing, a professor in the Nuclear Engineering and Geological Sciences Departments at the University of Michigan. We had a wide ranging conversation starting with his research involving materials for packaging used nuclear materials. The impetus of my invitation to Dr. Ewing was…
The New York Times blog Green Inc. which is subtitled Energy, the Environment and the Bottom Line, published a post titled More Delays at Finnish Nuclear Plant that indicates a continuing confusion about the implications of the construction and contract dispute related delays at the Olkiluoto unit 3 European Pressurized Reactor project in Finland. Green…
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…
South Africa is ready to join the increasingly competitive commercial uranium enrichment industry. Like several other countries that are already in the uranium mining business, leaders in South Africa are considering expanding into more lucrative phases of the nuclear fuel supply chain including enrichment and fuel element fabrication. Note: If you want to learn more…
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