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How Hot is Cold Fusion?
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How Hot is Cold Fusion?

ByValerie Gardner

…C50697E5274BA3847729C4B4849B70.ashx page 5. Example of NuScale module load-following to compensate for generation from the Horse Butte wind farm and daily demand variation: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Example-of-NuScale-module-load-following-to-compensate-for-generation-from-the-Horse_fig4_295114246 Soylent The reverse ask is why would you want to? The fuel cost is a rounding error and all the costs essentially remain unchanged; why then b…

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If you really care about carbon…

ByGuest Author

…nuclear power (see this discussion between Michael Moore and Robert Stone following a recent showing); a study co-authored by climate change scientist James Hansen showing the real environmental and safety benefits of nuclear power measured in lives saved for the past few decades; and a letter signed in November by four leading climate change scientists including Hansen, urging their colleagues to re-consider their historical opposition to nuclea…

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Smoking gun: AEC told President Kennedy why coal industry was opposed to nuclear energy

ByRod Adams

…use multiple designs of plants. LFTR’s are great for process heat and load following. Pebble beds are great for process heat and load follow well. Light water reactors are well know and very very safe and can produce enormous amounts of electricity. Using molten salt heat storage even Light Water Reactors can supply load following and process heat. The research reactors in many universities could be tapped for energy production as well as research…

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What are radiation protection standards protecting us from?

ByGuest Author

…cal shim for reactivity control and thus are more difficult to use in load following. The French have altered the PWR control systems to allow some measure of load following that evidently is fairly responsive (“grey” control rods). But, as others have noted, it is usually not economical to use nuclear plants in load following, since they produce the most and lowest (incremental) cost power. Better to load follow using other generating assets, if…

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Purposeful price pumping by constraining supply

ByRod Adams

…rgy conservation not only an option, but a necessity. People who have been following the energy discussion for many years will recognize that this philosophy has its gurus in people like Paul Ehrich and Amory Lovins who have produced several pithy quotes about the hazards of developing clean, abundant sources of power and making them readily available to average people. The energy conservation gurus like high energy prices because price serves as…

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Arnie Gundersen Caught on Video Lying About Risk of Radiation Released During Fukushima Event

ByRod Adams

…e of the cases I am referring to were leukemia or thyroid cancer. 2. “About 22,000 radiation-related cancers, half of them fatal, might eventually result from external exposure from NTS and global fallout, compared to the current lifetime cancer rate of 42 percent (corresponding to about 60 million of the 1952 population).” (Pg 56 from your link.) 22,000/60,000,000 = 0.0003, which is a small enough number that it can be safely ignored in a stateme…

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Value of low dose radiation research ignored by DOE Office of Science managers

ByRod Adams

…, a spokesperson from the U.S. EPA Office of Media Relations, provided the following comment dated Jan 12, 2017. EPA supports low dose radiation research as a way to better inform our regulatory activities. Though Dr. Weatherwas did not respond to email or return calls, Rick Borchelt, Director, Office for Communications and Public Affairs, DOE Office of Science, provided the following comment in response to a request to address the apparent disagr…

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Chernobyl Consequences – Myths and Fables Versus Science

ByRod Adams

…ally different from the scientific consensus. Possible reasons include the following: a. The introduction to the report states the reason that it is not an acceptable voice for science: It blatantly denies the legitimacy of the scientific method. “Some experts believe that any conclusions about radiation based disease require a correlation between an illness and the received dose of radioactivity. We believe this is an impossibility. … It is not n…

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Plutonium: Valuable Fuel or Costly Waste?

ByRod Adams

…gy), the Sierra Club, and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group made the following statement on December 20, 1996 in a letter to Hazel O’Leary, the soon to be former Secretary of Energy. “We urge in the strongest of terms, therefore, that your Record of Decision [on weapons material disposal] take the following form: [items one and two omitted] 3. Make clear that the United States regards plutonium as a dangerous liability, not as a valuable ene…

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Out of 110,645 Chernobyl clean up workers, 19 might have contracted radiation related leukemia

ByRod Adams

…hy I wrote this post. At about 10:00 am on November 8, a friend posted the following note on an email list populated by people who are interested in using social media tools and techniques to share accurate information about nuclear energy. I can’t find the report itself in downloadable form (a little bit of help?), but if this article is anywhere near accurate in its data reported, this could be some serious fuel for the no-safe-level crowd. http…

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Chernobyl Health Effects: Best Available Data

ByRod Adams

…received a lot of attention. The UNSCEAR report on Chernobyl now says the following about thyroid exposures: For the last two decades, attention has been focused on investigating the association between exposure caused by radionuclides released in the Chernobyl accident and late effects, in particular thyroid cancer in children. Doses to the thyroid received in the first few months after the accident were particularly high in those who were child…

Six countries in the Middle East and North Africa indicate nuclear power interest

ByRod Adams

…he announcements of nuclear interest through different lenses. Immediately following the reporting of the fact that the countries have talked to the IAEA, he inserts the following commentary: Mark Fitzpatrick, an expert on nuclear proliferation at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said that it was clear that the sudden drive for nuclear expertise was to provide the Arabs with a “security hedge”. “If Iran was not on the path to a n…

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