Quick note – go and read Op-Ed: Nuclear Power is looking for a new identity and the associated comments. The blog is not supportive of atomic energy, but the comments sure are interesting.
Off to enjoy the warmth of the coming spring with another lengthy bike ride.
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As part of my preparations for a final post of 2010, I reviewed my 2010 Google Analytics results. For reasons that I cannot quite understand, a short post I published more than five years ago showed up as third on the hit list. Perhaps I just discovered a catchy title. Here is a updated version…
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After reading Nick Loris’s comment about nuclear waste, I decided to read some more of his observations. I don’t know about you, but I find it very useful when a site has an author link that leads to a page with an archive of other work by that same author. One of the recent blogs…
In my day job, I often get frustrated by people that avoid doing math. My particular area of interest there is network and server capacity questions – there are senior people that do not understand that putting something on a server somewhere does not make it instantly available to an organization with more than 600,000…
There was a useful article published in the Jun 10, 2007 issue of the St. Pete Times titled Who will staff the nuclear renaissance?. The subtitle of the story should be very encouraging to those hard working young people who have been studying nuclear technology during the past dozen or so years. Nuclear power’s unlikely…
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