I came across an article on a web site named Londra Toplum Postasi by a woman named Fazile ZAHIR titled simply Nuclear Power. It is an interesting article that starts off with a rather unsettling description of a nuclear power plant response following an earthquake, but then makes it quite clear that the scenario is not realistic. Check it out!
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There is a depressing meme circulating around the Internet and in the commercial media that attempts to use BP’s incredibly costly accident on the Deepwater Horizon as a reason why we should avoid using nuclear energy. (See, for example, BP spill an argument against nuclear power.) The very idea of trying to use what is…
One of the studies that I find a need to quote from on a regular basis is the ExternE study of life cycle costs and emissions that shows just how much (or how little) external costs can be attributed to the production of a kilowatt-hour of electricity from a whole range of fuel supplies and…
Baltimore civic leaders may be able to stop worrying about losing the only remaining Fortune 500 company that has its headquarters in the city. According to a recent article in the Baltimore Sun titled Utility merger could include power-sharing deal for CEOs a merged FP&L and Constellation Energy would maintain two headquarters offices, one in…
I began my nuclear career as a submarine officer in the US Navy, so I have never really understood why a substantial body of people believe that all nuclear power plants have to be steady state behemoths producing at least several hundred megawatts of power. Ever since I got interested in taking some of my…
John Rowe, the man that Fortune Magazine once called “Mr. Nuke” in a May 15, 2006 article titled Meet Mr. Nuke and I have a few things in common. We were both given a copy of Richard Halliburton’s Book of Marvels, a two volume set of travel books that divided the world into two areas,…
According to AEDC adds nuke plant to agenda, by Karen Welch Smith of the Amarillo Globe News, the next small step in the long process of licensing and building a new nuclear power plant near Amarillo, Texas is to obtain a formal indication of support by the Amarillo Economic Development Corporation. The article also reports…
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