This video should provide some food for thought for people who believe that wind energy is clean and safe.
Here is another video that details some of the mechanical and business risks associated with wind energy developments. This is not a spectacular failure, but one where a manufacturing or engineering problem has resulted in a lengthy shutdown and a failure to produce electricity.
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Is an aircraft crashing into a containment building a credible disaster scenario? Obviously, there would be a lot of damage…
Thanks for another one. This podcast was a bit different. I’m not sure if this was touched on during the…
@Chris Aoki asks if there is any news on IFR-style molten salt fuel reprocessing, which was to be on-site, in…
So another optimistic report. Great! Let me repeat my somewhat vague questions. How easy would it be to site one…
Rod and Valerie, Yes I agree! Rod, thanks much for a very encouraging and detailed report. I’m also interested in…
In case you are interested, here is the link to the talk that I gave at the Googleplex on April 16, 2007 – Fission is the New Fire.
Every once in a while, I skim through Google Analytics to learn a little more about the people who are visiting Atomic Insights. (My title is making the assumption that most visitors are actually reading the pages that they land on.) Here is the most recent global map. I’m not sure why the east coast…
Shane and I were unable to get together for a show last week, but stay tuned. We will be back this week with Show #44.
There will not be a new Atomic Show for the next couple of weeks. It is time for an unwired break from both my day job and my atomic avocation. We will have a lot of information to catch up on when I return. Talk to you next month.
NRC, Black and Veatch, Southern California Edison, and Argonne National Laboratory On February 29, 2008, I visited the American Nuclear Society Student Conference 2008 Career Fair and talked to a number of organizations that had booths set up to find out what kind of opportunities were available. I tried to get a reasonable selection of…
Shane and I decided to try to stick our American noses into Australia’s growing conversation about whether or not to enter into the nuclear power business as more than just a supplier of 25% of the world’s yellowcake uranium, the raw material that is refined and manufactured into fuel elements for nuclear power plants. We…
I’ve seen people actually suggest with a straight face that when the wind really picks up, having a wind turbine is like printing money. Needless to say, I begged to differ.