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Tag Archives: nuclear
Nuclear waste disposal drilled deep into earth’s crust
Preface. One the greatest tragedies of the decline of oil will be all the nuclear waste left to harm future generations for up to a million years. We owe it to them to clean up our mess while we still … Continue reading
Even a small nuclear war could cause 1+ billion deaths
Preface. Carl Sagan first introduced the idea of a “nuclear winter”, which helped to end the cold war. The smoke from fires started by bombs would absorb so much sun the earth wold grow cold, dry, and dark, killing plants … Continue reading
Posted in Extinction, Nuclear
Tagged 1 billion deaths, nuclear, nuclear winter, ozone loss, war
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Nuclear powered airplanes, cars, and tanks
Preface. After all the research I’ve done on rebuildable, not renewable wind and solar, hydrogen, batteries, and other Green dreams of an endless future of growth based on them, I’ve come to see them as just as likely as nuclear … Continue reading
The U.S. May Soon Have the World’s Oldest Nuclear Power Plants
Preface. This is nuts. Sea level rise threatens many nuclear power plants and drought has shut plants down since they need cooling to operate. As nuclear reactor age, they require more intensive monitoring and preventive maintenance to operate safely. But … Continue reading
Posted in Nuclear Power
Tagged aging, nuclear, safety
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A nationwide blackout lasting 1 year could kill up to 90% Americans
Preface. What follows is the testimony of Dr. Pry at a 2015 U.S. House of Representatives session. I have cut, shortened, and rearranged the order of the 30 page original document. The electric grid is coming down one way or … Continue reading
Wind, solar, and natural gas are driving nuclear power out of business
Preface. I’m no fan of nuclear power because we may already be at peak uranium, there’s nowhere to store nuclear waste, and a spent nuclear pool fire could harm millions of people. But renewable wind and solar and natural gas … Continue reading
Decommissioning a nuclear reactor
Preface. Below are excerpts of articles about the costs and challenges of dismantling nuclear power plants. This is at the top of my “Energy Descent To Do List” given the consequences for future generations for up to a million years, … Continue reading
Posted in Nuclear, Nuclear Waste
Tagged decommission, nuclear
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New Yorker review of Eric Schlosser’s “Command and Control”
Preface. This book has been on my reading list for several years now, but I have to admit I am lazy, lazy – the 656 pages is twice the length of most books. And it would be hard to write … Continue reading
Book review of Vaclav Smil’s “Energy Transitions: History, Requirements, Prospects”
Preface. In my extract of the 178 pages in the book below, Smil explains why renewables can’t possibly replace fossil fuels, and appears to be exasperated that people believe this can be done when he writes “Common expectations of energy … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Energy, Energy, Vaclav Smil
Tagged biofuels, coal, energy, geothermal, hydropower, kinetic, LNG, muscle power, nuclear, solar, vaclav smil, wind
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission accused of putting millions of lives and trillions of dollars at risk
[ Edwin Lyman and his co-authors in Science magazine have accused the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) of putting millions of American lives at risk, due to “pressure from the nuclear utilities and a Congress sympathetic to the utilities’ complaints of … Continue reading
Posted in EMP Electromagnetic Pulse, Nuclear spent fuel fire
Tagged NRC, nuclear, nuclear regulation, nuclear safety, spent pool fire
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