Nancy Thorner of Lake Bluff has written a letter to the editor of the Daily Herald to tell them she would rather have a restarted Zion Nuclear Plant in her backyard than accept several proposed wind turbines that would produce just a tiny fraction of the power – if the wind blows from the right direction at the right velocity.
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Creamer Media Engineering News Online has recently published several articles about the PBMR and the project status. One article titled How PBMR’s Work provides good information about the history and design choices made during the lengthy refinement period since the late 1950s when Rudolf Schulten first developed the concept of enclosing nuclear fuel into graphite…
Annual Energy Outlook 2006 from the US Energy Information Agency is available at http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/index.html. I make a lot of use of the annual reports, but I recognize that the future projections are very iffy. The report authors understand their limitations as seers and caution report readers to evaluate the scenarios presented with a good understanding…
Reuters and Forbes are two of many news outlets that have reported recently that Venezuela has approached Argentina about the possibility of purchasing a nuclear power reactor. This proposal will certainly cause anxious reactions in the nuclear non-proliferation community and among certain members of the Bush administration. One of the statements that is sure to…
There is a fascinating game being played today that has nothing to do with American college football. The results of the contest will have far reaching, long term implications that will affect the lives and livelihoods of millions of people. Some of the effects have already begun. The Game pits the Russians, led by Vladimir…
I fully expect that by the time you read this, Reuters will have made a correction, but I was surprised this morning to find a link in my daily Google Alert on the terms “nuclear fuel recycle” labeled Aveva (emphasis added) considering reopening U.S. uranium mines. The lead for the article reassured me that there…
I have spent the past few hours sifting through conflicting news reports and commentary trying to find out if there is any reason at all to rethink my original prediction from Saturday, March 12 regarding the ultimate effect of damage to Japanese nuclear plants caused by an enormously powerful earthquake followed by a higher than…
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