New Nuclear News Roundup
The ups and down of the worlds nuclear technology continues to ride like a never ending wave. The latest is here.CHINA: Construction projects in China have moved forward with the dome of unit 1 of the...
View ArticleThe Metal Technetium.
Some years back, in 2007 - which in NNadir time is about 150 billion tons of dumped dangerous fossil fuel ago (or in more traditional units of time, about 5 years ago) - I wrote a diary in this space...
View ArticleClimate Tech: Thermal Barrier Coatings in High Temperature Turbines.
Recently I attended parts of a series of lectures hosted by the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment.The most recent lecture was by Dr. David Eaglesham (formerly) Chief Technology officer of...
View ArticleGermany - Emissions Up? Emissions Down?
Who the heck knows? There has been quite a bit of speculation here and elsewhere. I think I've found a reference that adds real value to the conversation. This diary is an extension of a comment found...
View ArticleNuclear Power Corporation of India to launch 16 new nuclear reactors
Just the facts and an abstract of the FT article on this:CHENNAI: The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) will launch 16 reactors at an outlay of Rs 2.3 trillion ($40 billion) during the...
View ArticleAfrican Nuclear Energy...and other items
The never ending development of nuclear energy appears to be, well, never ending. Seems this diaryist (dariest? What?) is right...the future of electrical generation appears to be quite the stew pot....
View ArticlePresident Lincoln, General McClellan, and the Cost of Nuclear Reactors.
I am reminded of a famous letter, dated October 13, 1862 that President Lincoln wrote General George B. McClellan, who had already been removed at the Commander in Chief of the Amry but was still...
View ArticleThe need to protect nuclear whistleblowers
Vis-a-vis the recent news that the San Onofre Nuclear Power Station (SONGS for short) is going to start up again with new steam generators, much attention has focused on these two reactors that provide...
View ArticleKorean Nuclear Arrests Over Bribes
The whole story, detailed in an amazingly honest fashion by World Nuclear News today details the procurement bribery scandal that rocked the Korea Hydro and Nuclear Powerworkforce be extended to...
View ArticleButterflies in Japan Exhibiting Abnormalities Due to Radiation
It used to be that insects were thought to be mostly unaffected by radiation. Butterflies in Japan, however, are proving that theory incorrect, as the article here by BBC news...
View ArticleIf we're going to complain about the answers to questions, then ...
I'm republishing this diary because I think that if we're going to complain about the answers we get to questions, we should be complaining about the answers we get to questions posed to the...
View ArticleClimate Change SOS: Where Was the Gas?
I live in remote northern NM. In communities like mine, climate change means extreme weather events. We all watched the unfolding of Katrina, and now know that an extreme weather event can be...
View ArticleBillionaire Dispatches from the Convention – Day 2
Felonius Ax of the Billionaires here, reporting from Tampa:The torrential rain is starting to let up a little, thanks to Hurricane Isaac heading to where hurricanes belong – the Louisiana coast, so I...
View ArticleHow Much Gasoline Could Hydrogenation of ONE Coal Plant's Waste Produce?
Some people are complaining about the scant attention being paid to climate change in the current election. I'm not among them, and it's not because I am unconcerned with the outcome of the dumping...
View ArticleRadiation probes indicate NO melt through at Fukushima Unit 1
[Rod Adams at atomicinsights.com recently published this piece that challenges the commonly held preception(s) about Fukushima. There are now 85 comments on his blog debating this all out. Go to...
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Before we run out of oil, maybe we should build more power plants.
I'm less than one fourth of the way into a book, The Long Emergency, by James Howard Kunstler.I've been reading these warnings for at least forty years, warnings about the dangers of overpopulation of...
View ArticleTom Farrell's nuclear fantasy
Tom Farrell doesn’t get it. Dominion Power, the utility of which he is CEO, has been all about building natural gas plants for the past couple of years, as it rushes to take advantage of cheap fracked...
View ArticleSmall Modular Reactors get funding
From the World Nuclear News, reprinted here with permission:A formal agreement with the US Department of Energy (DoE) means that Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) mPower can access the first $79 million...
View ArticleIAE report: World has stalled on clean energy
The world's governments are failing on almost every level to clean up their energy systems and must intervene to support nuclear power, said the IEA, noting that only renewables and electric vehicles...
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