My old friend Jeremy Whitlock, who has been publishing the Candian Nuclear FAQ since April 1996, published a very amusing article titled “Refurbish thyself” with slightly disguised references to some prominent anti-nuclear leaders and their groups. Worth visiting, especially if you are a nuke that likes recognizing allusions are not necessarily obvious to outsiders.
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Over the past 15 or more years of trying to talk to people in the nuclear industry about smaller power systems, I have frequently confronted with the “economy of scale” argument. When I try to explain that there are also “diseconomies of scale” that can make very large items more costly than an equivalent capability…
The Pacific Northwest is an area of the country where the electrical power supply has some common attributes with the power supply system serving the Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Sweden, Norway). There is a large installed base of hydroelectric power, a small amount of nuclear power, and some variable fossil power. As is the case in…
If you want to feel revived and excited about the development of clean, reliable atomic energy, it is hard to beat a decision to attend an annual American Nuclear Society student conference. I just got back from the 2010 conference hosted by the University of Michigan chapter; it was an event that made me proud…
Sometimes there are discussions in the comments of previous posts that deserve to be elevated to the main pages since I know that not everyone is a fan of trying to follow long threads of conversation. I received a comment on an earlier post from reader Ian who asked: Can you summarize how you think…
Another low sleep night. Through a long and unrepeatable browsing path involving the Chris Perillo show and Dave Ryder’s excellent web site, I came across this picture link, which made me remember that I had something to say about transmission lines. The joy of blogging and streams of random thoughts. I recognize that electric power…