When I was asked earlier this week if I would be interested in hosting the Nuclear Blog Carnival, I was more than happy to Volunteer for the task. I didn't realize it at that moment, but the 126th Blog Carnival marks exactly 6 months (Friday the 13th, April 2012) since I finally started up the blog. The impetus for me to finally launch was to have a submission included in the 100th Carnival. I consider it an honor to have been asked to host.
Enough intro, here we go with the past week's best Nuclear Postings:
i1. UPDATE/ADDITIONAL Submissions
Brian Wang at Next Big Future brings some news regarding Chinese nuclear expansion, including that China is on track for 27(!!!) new plants being completed by 2015. I am sure witnessing the placing of a Reactor Dome in person would be quite a site to behold, and would easily trump seeing a crane move a Moisture Seperator Reheater (the "other" MSR besides Molten Salt Reactors).
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ii1. From Things Worse Than Nuclear Power
In light of the national debates and elections, our current post (as of today) is the second in a 3-part series focusing on federal interventions in energy market, including subsidies, loan guarantees, tax preferences, R&D, and even lobbying. Part 1, published the day of the first Presidential debate, called out issues which became headlines in the debate, including the loan guarantees to companies like Solyndra!
1. 2 entries from musician and pro-nuclear power advocate Rick Maltese's blog Deregulate the Atom.
Summary: This is a re-posting of Facebook discussion about the fossil fuel industry's interference with the progress of nuclear energy. Robert Steinhaus makes a long comment about The Energy Reorganization Act of 1974. Rod Adams comments back. It demonstrates how government policy shifts can have a crippling effect.
A Letter to the Newest Federal Liberal Candidate – Justin Trudeau
Summary: Another letter added to my growing collection of reaching out to people of
Summary: Another letter added to my growing collection of reaching out to people of
influence to spread the pro-nuclear word. In this case I appeal to their willingness
to educate themselves about nuclear.
2. From Leslie Corrice's The Hiroshima Syndrome, these 2 entries can be found on the same page:
http://www.hiroshimasyndrome.
October 10 Commentary...
"Antinuke Peter Bradford speaks with forked tongue"
In a Wall Street Journal debate on nuclear energy viability, Peter Bradford takes the
antinuclear side using time-worn rhetoric and making misleading statements, some of which are outright fabrications. Bradford's bombast literally demands this rational rebuttal.
(See Entreprenuclear post number 22 for additional Bradford debunking)
(See Entreprenuclear post number 22 for additional Bradford debunking)
October 12......
No “Melt-throughs” at Fukushima Daiichi?
Tepco has posted the results of the first water sample taken inside the unit #1 Primary Containment Vessel (PCV) at Fukushima Daiichi. We find results that come as more than a bit of a surprise. Given the differences with respect to the chemical make-up of the interior and exterior waters relative to the unit #1 PCV, and the fact that the highest radiation level inside the PCV is essentially parallel to the bottom head of the RPV (in today’s first update), I now believe it is possible that none of the reactors at Fukushima Daiichi experienced catastrophic RPV “melt-through”.
3. From Rod Adams' blog Atomic Insights
Theo Simon and George Monbiot – Rational discussion about nuclear energy development
During the past week or so, Rod Adams has been spending quite a bit of time following a discussion about nuclear energy between Theo Simon and George Monbiot. It is a deeply philosophical engagement between two literate and concerned people who view nuclear energy through different lenses and have, so far, reached different conclusions about its value and potential for growth.
Rod provides a third perspective and hopes that the development of smaller reactors may encourage additional deep thinking.
4. From the ANS Nuclear Cafe:
Howard Shaffer with a very interesting history of the founding of the anti-nuclear energy movement -- as told last week at UMass Amherst by two of the very persons who helped to found it, Anna Gyorgy and Lionel Delevingne.
http://ansnuclearcafe.org/
Margaret Harding is blogging from the American Nuclear Society-sponsored Indo–US Nuclear Safety Summit in Mumbai, India. Her notes on the discussions of regulatory issues, emergency risk assessment, international trade relations, economy, politics...
http://ansnuclearcafe.org/
http://ansnuclearcafe.org/
Check ANS Nuclear Cafe http://ansnuclearcafe.org/ for Harding's
continuing updates on news, and views, and traveler's tales, from the
Summit.
http://ansnuclearcafe.org/
Margaret Harding is blogging from the American Nuclear Society-sponsored Indo–US Nuclear Safety Summit in Mumbai, India. Her notes on the discussions of regulatory issues, emergency risk assessment, international trade relations, economy, politics...
http://ansnuclearcafe.org/
http://ansnuclearcafe.org/
Check ANS Nuclear Cafe http://ansnuclearcafe.org/ for Harding's
continuing updates on news, and views, and traveler's tales, from the
Summit.
5. From the Yes, Vermont Yankee blog
Meredith Angwin revisits her area of technical expertise: PWR steam generators. In "San Onofre Thoughts and Future. I told you so", Angwin quotes some of her earlier posts on the subject. She predicted the plant would be derated but start again. Plant opponents make endless negative predictions, and are all over the airwaves if even one of them comes true. Angwin decided to trumpet her positive prediction this time.
6. From Nuclear Diner:
7. From Will Davis's Atomic Power Review
Toshiba buys out Shaw
Although Will Davis is quite busy this week with a convention, he submits the press release from Toshiba on the put option Shaw has exercised on its Westinghouse stake (as well as links to other related stories) and invites readers to examine the very last line of the press release closely.
8. A posting from Jim Conca published by Forbes
9. William Tucker talks about the tragedy of Radiation Phobia at Nuclear Town Hall
10. Gail Marcus at Nuke Power Talk
At Nuke Power Talk, Gail Marcus discusses a recent article pointing out that the strong and positive link between the effectiveness of emergency response measures taken during the floods in Cedar Rapids in 2008 and the emergency response preparedness at the Duane Arnold nuclear power plant nearby. She also recalls a previous incident in which the emergency response preparations at another nuclear power plant proved to be very applicable and helpful for handling the emergency response for a chemical spill. While communities should not depend on their nuclear neighbors to for emergency situations, the reality is that the more specific and stringent requirements imposed for nuclear power plants are a powerful spur to assuring that the necessary plans for an emergency are developed and maintained.
And that concludes this week's Carnival entries. Now, I will reveal the latest Entreprenuclear logo (actually created by a friend for me, not by me).
(Disclaimer: My everyday attire does not consist of a Tie)
Excellent job! Welcome aboard. I really like the look of your blog and I see big things ahead for it.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the kind words, Will. I should soon have about 20-25 more free hours per week (some of which will be devoted to this blog), so posting frequency should increase.
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