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112th Carnival of Nuclear Energy Bloggers – Back At Atomic Insights

ByRod Adams

…ly began publishing a blog titled Science and Technology. He submitted the following article, but somehow I missed it in my stack of emails: Radioactive food in my pantry? Yes, radioactive food!. Would you eat radioactive food? What would you do if you found out that there was some being sold in a neighborhood store or even already in your own pantry? Well get ready to act on that because I am going to point out foods in all of these categories, o…

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Is Levy County nuclear plant too expensive to compete with natural gas?

ByRod Adams

…actually interested in a fair comparison. Though people who have not been following nuclear issues closely might miss the bias indicator, long term participants in the battle for public understanding should see the problem in the following concluding quote: Diversity in any system is a good thing, “but there’s no point in overpaying for it,” said Bradford, who approved 21 nuclear plants while a federal regulator. The financial realities of nuclea…

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Chinese plan to dominate nuclear market worldwide

ByRod Adams

…technology. That triggered a response from me that forms the basis for the following thoughts. I’ve refined the rant a little; it still needs some additional work. There is a key point in your vignette about the Chinese business students that needs emphasis: plan to dominate the nuclear power market worldwide, just with present technology From a practical business point of view, nuclear advocates have been a major obstacle to any effort to make ne…

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Shaping public perceptions of radiation risk

ByRod Adams

…the New York Times. Several additional articles were published during the following weeks. The selection of pieces included a lengthy article that started at the top of the right hand column of the paper and continued with another 20-25 column inches on page 17. The June 13 edition also included a full text copy of the text of the Genetics Committee report that was specifically written for public consumption. That article filled nearly three page…

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The Left Needs to Reconsider its Automatic Position Against Nuclear Energy

ByGuest Author

…falsehoods, namely asking her for the sources of her wild fact-claims and following them up to see if they say what she claims they say. He found that they almost always say something very different, often the opposite, even when she cites her own past writings. Blindly following gurus certainly saves us time and effort, and sometimes may turn out to be correct, but it often leads to disastrous errors with catastrophic consequences. Unless we loo…

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ThorCon – Demonstrated Molten Salt Tech Packaged With Modern Construction Techniques

ByRod Adams

…ll be found very scary by the uninitiated. mjd You said: “Practically load following of nuclear plants today involves change in both temperatures and mass flow rates.” I always find the discussions about load following in a LWR amusing, as in they can’t do it. FWIW, virtually all navy PWRs and the B&W PWR were/are designed to load follow, with a constant T-ave and a constant RCS flow rate. These are not paper reactors, many have been built and are…

President Obama: We have emission free fuels available NOW.

ByRod Adams

…ver all electricity needed. Probably because they are less suited for load following. Even the closure of San Onofre NPP’s (SONGS) may be related to the load following problem that NPP’s have. They installed improved steam generators as replacements in both units. I assume, equipped with pipes that have thinner walls as that contributes to improved load following capabilities. Those thinner pipes went into vibration creating the leakage after a fe…

If French Nuclear Success Is Socialism – Call Me a Socialist

ByRod Adams

…e doing the participating and shouting their questions in a public meeting.Following the press conference I contacted Areva with an audio file of my question and the responses from Dr. Cooper and Mr. Thomas. I asked for a comment that I could publish. Katherine Berezowskyj, an Areva spokesperson, provided the following: The French model for nuclear energy has been successful though the use of standardized designs, a similar energy policy supported…

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Mark Cooper is wrong about SMRs and nuclear energy

ByRod Adams

…ing an incomplete and unapproved product. Cooper slants the truth with the following statement about Westinghouse’s decision on page 5 of his paper. The reason for the decision: Westinghouse could find no customers. Instead of pushing ahead to build SMRs, Westinghouse said it would focus on decommissioning of existing reactors. Though the announcement about the pull back from SMRs included the fact that Westinghouse was going to work on developing…

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Another Blogger For Nuclear Energy – Power for USA

ByRod Adams

…a vibrant nuclear construction industry. Donn concludes his blog with the following quote: “Anti-nuclear groups have done a great disservice to the United States.” That conclusion intrigued me, especially since I found the following quote from Donn in the comment thread on his “About” page: Donn November 12, 2013 2:55 pm We shouldn’t be trying to cut CO2 emissions, other than those that happen naturally with the shift to natural gas for power gen…

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What should “Radioactive Wolves” teach critical thinkers?

ByRod Adams

…ce responses in mitigating endogenous damage. – Human and Experim. Toxicol. 22: 290-306, 2003). Permit us to be more specific: On page 71, the Draft Report states: “The implication of these results (on gene expressions following challenges by different oxydizing agents) is that each agent that is toxic to S. cerevisiae produces its own unique spectrum of cellular damage, with some overlap. The relevance of these comparisons for this report lie in…

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Arnie Gundersen going international

ByRod Adams

…t Rod has tolerated your presence so long. To the rest of you, I offer the following: 1. that the very imaginary dangers that you attribute to nuclear power are VERY real for coal. Look at the following graph: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/03/the-triumph-of-coal-marketing.html The squares represent DEATHS. The COAL square is 4000 times bigger than the nuke one. You are inadvertently trying your BEST to force us to spend trillions of…

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