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Critical Analysis of Mousseau Fukushima Presentation

March 22, 2014 By Guest Author

no. of birds vs. radiation field from Mousseau

Editor’s Note: On March 11, 2013, Dr. Timothy Mousseau gave a presentation at the Helen Caldicott sponsored symposium on the Medical and Ecological Consequences of Fukushima. This analysis by Dr. Patrick Walden, was posted as a TRIUMF wiki soon after that event and is republished here with his permission. Dr. Walden is a retired nuclear […]

Filed Under: Accidents, Antinuclear activist, Guest Columns

Open letter to antinuclear groups claiming to be “environmental”

February 10, 2014 By Guest Author

US GigaWatt Hours Delivered per Life Lost (2003-2012)

Dr. Alexander Cannara is an environmental activist who has been writing letters to antinuclear groups. He gave me permission to republish one of his missives here. The views expressed are his, but they deserve to reach a larger audience. By Dr. Alexander Cannara Date: 19 Sept. 2013 Subject: An open letter to groups I’ll no […]

Filed Under: Atomic Advocacy, Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy, Guest Columns

Alvin Weinberg’s liquid fuel reactors

February 6, 2014 By Guest Author

Figure 6. Senators John Kennedy and Al Gore Sr flank Alvin Weinberg on a visit to ORNL

A nuclear pioneer’s work on safer, cheaper, inexhaustible nuclear power is still inspiring nuclear environmentalists. by Robert Hargraves Physicist Alvin Weinberg worked on the Manhattan Project and later co-invented the pressurized water nuclear reactor. As Director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory he led development of liquid fuel reactors, including walk-away-safe liquid fluoride thorium reactors with […]

Filed Under: Atomic history, Atomic Pioneers, Atomic politics, Climate change, Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy, Guest Columns, Liquid Fuel Reactors, Nuclear Fuel Cycle

Westinghouse CEO: Decommissioning is part of the nuclear life cycle

February 5, 2014 By Guest Author

Editor’s note: This guest post is in response to Westinghouse’s Roderick shifts resources from SMR to AP1000. By Danny Roderick I enjoy your blog and overall you get it right so I wanted to provide a little comment about growing our Westinghouse decommissioning business. Our fundamental business is growth in new units and servicing/fueling the […]

Filed Under: Aging nuclear, decommissioning, Guest Columns, Politics of Nuclear Energy

CT Scans Save Lives

February 3, 2014 By Guest Author

By Scientists for Accurate Radiation Information (SARI) We are writing to express our concerns with a January 30, 2014 article by Rita F. Redberg and Rebecca Smith-Bindman. The article is alarmingly titled, “We Are Giving Ourselves Cancer”, and is accompanied by a frightening cartoon that appears to be a doctor holding an X-ray film, and […]

Filed Under: Guest Columns, Health Effects, Irradiation, LNT, Radiation

If you really care about carbon…

February 3, 2014 By Guest Author

GDP and Energy versus Shares of primary energy

By Paul Lorenzini Two recent reports ought to frame the conundrum for environmental activists who oppose nuclear power and offer guidance for all who are concerned about carbon. Renewables and efficiency are not enough The first was BP’s Energy Outlook 2035. It challenges the prevailing narrative that has been driving the thought of many environmentalists […]

Filed Under: Climate change, Guest Columns, New Nuclear, Paul Lorenzini

On Germany, coal and carbon

January 25, 2014 By Guest Author

Daily German Power Production Portions Jan 2013

By Paul Lorenzini Germany’s nuclear phase-out has an obvious and unavoidable consequence: they will burn more fossil fuels and emit more carbon. They may succeed in lowering carbon emissions using some artifact (comparisons to some historical year) but only a fool would contend that their carbon emissions will be not be higher than they otherwise […]

Filed Under: Climate change, Coal, Fossil fuel competition, Guest Columns, Paul Lorenzini

Everything’s Coming Up Trilliums

October 24, 2013 By Guest Author

by Jeremy Whitlock Ah, Nuclear Power, my old friend. Please do come in. Have a seat. Again you’ve been away too long. I feel silly coming here Doc. Now, now, hush. Sooner or later, everyone comes here. Tell me, how are things going? Well that’s just it Doc – on the face of it you […]

Filed Under: Alternative energy, Atomic politics, Editorials, Fossil fuel competition, Guest Columns, International nuclear

Open letter to Ralph Nader from Timothy Maloney – Atomic energy is much better than you think

October 20, 2013 By Guest Author

By Timothy Maloney, PhD Editor’s note: Timothy Maloney has written a number of text books about electrical circuits, electricity, and industrial electronics. The below is a copy of a letter that he wrote to Ralph Nader in response to an opinion piece published by CounterPunch under the headline Why Atomic Energy Stinks Worse Than You […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Alternative energy, Economics, Fossil fuel competition, Guest Columns, Health Effects, Liquid Fuel Reactors, New Nuclear, Thorium

Ted Rockwell shared knowledge to combat Fukushima fears

August 13, 2013 By Guest Author

By A. David Rossin Internationally recognized radiation engineer Ted Rockwell raised more than a few eyebrows when he maintained, in the aftermath of the Fukushima catastrophe in Japan, that the fear of radiation does more harm than the radiation itself. Responsible health experts know that outside the plant boundaries, radiation levels are detectable but low, […]

Filed Under: Accidents, Guest Columns, Health Effects, LNT, Radiation

Uranium Catalysts for the Reduction and/or Chemical Coupling of Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Monoxide, and Nitrogen

July 17, 2013 By Guest Author

This is a guest post from NNadir, the well-known nom de plume used by a chemical engineer who has professional reasons for obscuring his off-line identity. It is far more technical than most of the posts here, but I found it fascinating. I hope most readers agree that it is a welcome respite from the […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Climate change, Guest Columns

Lorenzini rebuts Sovacool’s defense of nuclear bird kill paper as weak

July 13, 2013 By Guest Author

By Paul Lorenzini Mr. Benjamin Sovacool claims my earlier article misrepresents his works and contains factual errors. Let me respond. He states: First, and most important: Paul has misstated the actual conclusion from my original study. It never advances the conclusion, as he claims, that “nuclear power causes more bird kills than wind.” Au contraire. […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Guest Columns, Paul Lorenzini, Wind energy

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