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Future Storm Damage To The Grid May Carry Unacceptable Costs
Yesterday I pointed out the extent of tornado damage to the south east, and the effect of that damage on economic activities in effected communities. The absence of electricity effects search and rescue operations as well as recovery efforts. In...
Global Burden of Disease: Epidemiologists at Work
Cancer Cell #14Angela Canada Hopkins, American Contemporary, Artist's collection, undated.At the end of the century recently passed, the 20th century, huge strides were made by epidemiologists in understanding the distribution of disease and the...
The Molten Salt Reactor Family: Uranium Fuel
In an earlier post, I stated that there were many different possible Molten Salt Reactor designs. I pointed to nuclear fuel as one possible source of reactor design variations. There are two potential nuclear fuel cycles that can be used in Molten...
The Molten Salt Reactor Family: Fuel
I intend to offer a series of posts designed to explain the sometimes bewildering complexity of Molten Salt Reactor Technology. This first post explains two nuclear fuel breeding cycles.Rather than offering a single potential reactor design, the...
Did Graphite in the Chernobyl Reactor Burn?
In two previous posts, " Does Nuclear Grade Graphite Burn?," and "Did the Graphite in the Windscale Reactor Burn?" I reviewed a number of reports and other information sources on Nuclear Graphite Flamibility. Although I did not come to a firm...
Avoiding Nuclear Safety
The real question about nuclear safety is not "can nuclear accidents be avoided," but "do we want to do what ever is required to avoid nuclear accidents." As it turns out avoiding and mitigating nuclear accidents is not terribly expensive, nor does...
Is the UCS a friend to nuclear power?
One of my readers complained about my criticism of the Union of Concerned Scientists in a rather harshly worded comment. That comment did not end up being posted, not because I censored it, but because of a technical problem with posting it. I am...
Does Nuclear Grade Graphite Burn?
Does Nuclear Grade Graphite burn?The Union of Concerned Scientists's Ed Lyman never met a reactor he liked, despited his profession that he is not prejudiced against nuclear power in principle. Are Lymans concerns about nuclear safety sound? Or is...
Fukushima Dai-ichi: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Fukushima Dai-ichi crisis is like a horror movie, in which a very bad man, the very embodiment of evil goes on and on committing evil deeds. Nothing the victims and potential victims do to stop him is in the slightest effective. Yet despite the...
Nuclear Accidents and Public Perception Of Nuclear Safety
Nuclear safety is both about public perception, the viewpoint of the enemies of nuclear power, and about actual industrial design and practice. Relative to other industries the safety practices of the nuclear industry are very good. This...
5 Lessons from Fukushima Dai-ichi
Last Saturday, I began to form the opinion that one or more of the Dai-ichi reactor cores had experienced a partial melt down. I was by no means sure of this view because it assumed that the explosion had been a hydrogen explosion. My study of...
My Father's Last Report (Revised and Updated)
div>I originally wrote this post hours before my father's death in January 2009. It was followed in the Nuclear Green sequence of posts by a notice of my father's death and then by his obituary. Of all Nuclear Green posts,...
