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A litte riddle... solve it and win pins.
This is not so much an April Fools joke as it is a little riddle. It connects to a current event... and to things that happened in the last century. And of course it has something to do with nuclear...
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George Monbiot: "...the anti-nuclear lobby has misled us all"
George Monbiot, environmentalist and journalist... and once a strong opponent to nuclear power has faced an "unpalatable truth": the anti-nuclear lobby lied to us....
View ArticleGerman economy minister: "To prevent paper cuts, we must cut off our arms"
Ok, now it is official: Germany has gone batshit crazy. Power firms should invest massively in coal and gas-fired power technology and renewable energy sources, Harry Voigtsberger, economy minister of...
View ArticleWhy I do not trust "We don't need nuclear" rethorics
Dear Mr./Ms. Anti-Nuclear Activist... for decades You have been telling me "It's easy to get off nuclear, if we just want to!". Well, alot more powerful people than You have made similar promises......
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Did the Japanese authorities lie about the Fukushima accident? Part 1.
A powerpoint presentation made by professor Majia Holmer Nadesan is getting some attention around the web, in the presentation she claims that the Japanese authorities, among others, lied and covered...
View ArticleSome good videos with Bill Gates
Bill Gates has fully realized the potential of nuclear and he has spoken often and a lot on the issue. Here are a few videos that are well worth watching. The Gate Notes: Nuclear Energy after Fukushima...
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Nuclear news
There has been three interesting news coming out of Russia recently. Russia speeds up nuclear investment, Fast moves for nuclear development in Siberia and Heavy metal reactor slated for 2017. Together...
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Why don't nuclear reactors go kaboom? A reactor kinetics primer part - 1
Nuclear reactors contain tons of fissile material and nuclear bombs contain only kilograms of fissile materials, so why does one of them explode with enough force to flatten a city but the other...
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Why don't nuclear reactors go kaboom? A reactor kinetics primer part - 3
We have discussed the time behavior of the neutron flux and reactivity feedbacks. Now it is time for the the thermal side of things. The point kinetics model describes how much energy is produced in...
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EROEI of energy sources
At Daily Kos there is a great blog post about the EROEI of different energy sources. I highly recommend everyone to go over there and read it. GETTING TO ZERO: Is renewable energy economically viable?...
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