23 - 29 July 2008 NEW NUCLEAR: Ameren submits COL application for Callaway 29 July 2008 Ameren has submitted an application to the US Nuclear Regulatory...
It would be nice if he called for an expansion of the nuclear power fleet, but what Obama actually gives is a grudging acceptance that nuclear power is a sort...
Two issues must be addressed, and four more will affect its future The future of the Indian Point nuclear power station has been rocking on waves of public...
The Wall Street Journal 7/28/08 – P. A7 Op-Ed: Virginia Is Sitting on the Energy Mother Lode By MAX SCHULZ Chatham, Va. - Amid the rolling hills and verdant...
Idaho Welcomes New Uranium Enrichment Plant IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, August 1, 2008 - The French company AREVA plans to build a $2 billion uranium enrichment plant...
The management of nuclear waste in this country is more of a political problem rather than a scientific one, IMO. But Yucca Mountain deposition is not the...
U.S. sub leaked radioactive water, possibly for months August 1, 2008 -- Updated 0049 GMT (0849 HKT) # Story Highlights # Leak was found on the USS Houston...
This is why we need to get away from the Linear No-Threshold model. Less than half of a microcurie? So why is this an international news item? The incident has...
Rod Adams, who blogs at Atomic Insights <http://atomicinsights.blogspot.com/> , hosted an online panel discussion on small reactors on his Atomic Podcast...
SPIEGEL ONLINE 07/14/2008 03:44 PM SPIEGEL INTERVIEW WITH KLAUS TÖPFER 'We Must Invent a Future without Nuclear Energy' Former UN Environment Program chief...
From: "Tim" <kemps89@...> ... My apologies. That was the point I was replying to in the thread, but you weren't the person who made it. Karl Johanson...
... As of 2005, nuclear energy accounted for about 6.3% of the world's energy (about 15% of the electricity). "Key World Energy Statistics 2007" (PDF)....
I may stop using fertilizer after reading EPA's concerns, http://www.epa.gov/rpdweb00/tenorm/fertilizer.html or at least stop smoking fertilized tobacco. :-)...
From: "impartial2k01" <impartial2k01@...> ... Less than half a microcurie is near perfection. Dumping 20 kilograms of coffee grounds from the ship's...
Those are some good factoids. Do you have sources/links for this information regarding coffee and geothermal plants? What is the radioactive isotope in coffee...
From: "schedule80" <schedule80@...> ... The point about geothermal plants was mentioned in "Health Physics Journal", May 1990. I don't have the page...
As a proponent of nuclear energy, I am somewhat hesitant to list the carbon-free aspect of nuclear power as a major selling point. It is true, nuclear reactors...
If the Earth is naturally warming to normal interglacial conditions where sea levels are normally about 10 meters higher than than they are today then why...
... They are rebutted at http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/07/once-more-unto-the-bray/ ... It has survived much open questioning by...
... If it's true, you should be able to defend it with a BOTE calculation. I think you got your Ci and mCi mixed up. Although you did say "up to" 5 Ci per day....
... Supplementary answer: try expressing the avoided carbon emission in terms of prevented natural gas government revenue. No-one you talk to doesn't like a...
Karl, et al, the issues of Iran (and all Gulf states) nuclear programs goes beyond all them being "sexist" and "dictatorships". Perhaps, Karl, we should ...
Generally, this is a very divisive issue and we should NOT try to polemicize it here. It will do no good. My view is that the non-carbon debate is too parts: ...
I'm more of an historian than a nuclear engineer. "Global warming" as popularly referenced is far more complicated than two questions. If I'm not mistaken,...
Friends, There is a report of a study (not from RERF) that considers the people remote from Hiroshima, 2.7 to 10 km from the epicenter with doses <5 mSv, ...
... It's reducing ocean pH at a rate that probably never happened before. (This is a distinct effect from the increase of impedance of infrared radiation up...
Nuclear plant hearing today State makes first step toward Constellation affiliate's third reactor at Calvert Cliffs By Tricia Bishop | Sun reporter August 4,...
Friends, I have received this paper. If you do not have access to a subscription, and want to review it, let me know. Regards, Jim ========== ... Re: Fallout...