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Atomic Show #267 – Dr. Lauren Jackson addresses radiophobia

…a part of our lives and world. FermiAged If one has the materials at hand, dirty bomb construction presents no serious technical obstacles. What works against such a device is that all the radioactive materials are initially present. To facilitate transportation and allow a wide set of deployment locations, it is highly desirable to make the device as compact as possible. However, a compact device necessarily concentrates the radioactive material…

Nucleating our carbon-managed future
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Nucleating our carbon-managed future

…igned implosion device, but it might do a very good impersonation of a big dirty bomb, which I think would be the end of the discussion. If someone could answer the question, or refute my aforementioned assumptions, in a manner that could be easily understood by the general public, I think that would also help. I notice that Ed Pheil is listed as one of Nucleation Capital’s advisors, so maybe Rod or Valerie could start by asking him. David B. Bens…

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Showing up and speaking up for Diablo Canyon and nuclear energy in California

…Department of Finance, demand reduction schemes are doomed to failure. The dirty reality is that PG&E (and the power generating entities that it purchases power from) will increase the combustion of natural gas within California to generate the huge amount of missing power. In addition, increased importation of out-of-state electric power from the burning of dirty coal beyond the ~18 TWh/year now used is likely. These actions will exacerbate globa…

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Nuclear Power after Fukushima: It is, still, the energy of the future

…and it) nuclear power plants are not necessarily needed to build a nuclear bomb. The first nuclear power plant here in the U.S. did not come online until 1957, and we had nuclear bombs long before that. Do yourself a favor and check the articles at www.depletedcranium.com. DV82XL Nuclear power plants in general make miserable breeders for weapon-grade Pu. In the past the U.S.S.R. and the U.K. deployed dual-use reactors, but these were found to be…

China Nuclear IPO discussion from WSJ

…if we can concoct some bullshit justification to rain a few thousand smart bombs and patriot missiles on thier sorry heathen sinful heads on thier home turf. I mean hey, thats what you guys do best, right? Kill ’em and let your loving Supreme Being sort ’em out? Egads, man. Meanwhile, them Godless heathens are embracing nuclear energy. How ’bout that, eh? How dare them trump your exceptionalism with an exceptional act of thier own. Better bomb ’em…

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Rick Perry might convert DOE into an ENERGY leader

…mix, and the public is about to get another heavy dose of NE leads to the bomb, the bomb leads to mushroom clouds, mushroom clouds lead to radiation exposure, and radiation exposure leads to death and mayhem. Trump and Perry may well have our kids cowering under their desks again, to the sound of their teacher screaming “DROP!” at the top of her lungs. Whats that gonna do for your mission of alleviating the public’s fear of the ultimate invisible…

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SMRs – Why Not Now? Then When?

…ted to their intended use and I am forever hearing of their potential for “dirty bomb” applications. (of course of people receiving high dose therapy to treat a variety of life threatening and quality of life issues the cancer rate later in life from these treatments, assuming it is related is suspected to be around 1/1000 or below.) At present there are about 2200 of these in the developing world with many more desperately needed ( http://www.iae…

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Power cheaper than coal – thorium AND uranium make it possible

…ll help people understand that absolutely, perfectly safe nuclear energy that costs too much to compete is actually a hazardous form of energy. It will be replaced in the market by something that is less safe and more dirty. I can testify from direct experience that infusing those thoughts into a nuclear workplace will not be easy or universally appreciated. It is, however, an activity worth pursuing with vigor and patience….

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The golden age of nuclear energy

…t as nice and I certainly do not have any interest in expanding the use of dirty, explosive, flammable fossil fuels whose financial benefits end up in obscenely wealthy and powerful pockets. This should be a golden age of nuclear energy. I will do everything I can to make it so. Rod Adams Publisher, Atomic Insights PS – If you happen to be in an airport or other place with a handy news stand, do me a favor and pick up a copy of the June 20, 2011 i…

The 25th Anniversary of Chernobyl Season is In Full Swing – It is a Good Time For Information to Counter Misinformation

…should not be used as an excuse for continuing to depend on explosive and dirty fossil fuels rather than moving towards clean, safe and abundant nuclear energy. Considering the importance of selling oil and natural gas to the west to the Soviet Union’s economy at the time of the accident, it is hard for me not to suspect that there was internal political pressure applied to take actions that would inflate the accident’s publicized consequences. T…

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Proud – but often frustrated – nuclear professional

…on average, and the climate system doesn’t care whether it’s coming from a dirty old coal plant or your brand new car, or whether the EPA says it’s OK, it just keeps on doing the physics. I don’t know how, or whether, this problem can be fixed, but I suspect the market won’t have much to do with it, and nor will biofuels. As a New Zealander, I appreciate what the USA did in the Pacific during World War 2, but note that it wasn’t till bombs were la…

Coal Plant Pollution – Sierra Club Endorses Jim Hansen Solutions With a Notable Exception; They Ignore Nuclear, He Does Not

…the mining and burning of coal. However, because of the enormous number of dirty coal-fired power plants in existence, the abundance of the fuel, and the fact that CCS technology could be used at biofuel-fired power plants to draw down atmospheric carbon dioxide, the technology deserves strong R&D support. Dr. Jim Hansen is a credible source of information and caution, but the Sierra Club needs to listen to him a little more carefully. Limiting en…

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