Friday, January 22, 2010

How Gary Powers Could Have Started an Atomic War

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From the State Archive of the Russian Federation: Документальные кадры судебного заседания в Колонном зале Дома Союзов по уголовному делу ам...
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Tuesday, January 05, 2010

World Nuclear News on SVBR

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World Nuclear News has a new piece about the SVBR, which I blogged about awhile ago: " Initiative for Small Fast Reactors ." The ...
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ScienceBlogs Death Spiral Watch

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I've been growing increasingly dismayed in recent months by the decreasing quality of ScienceBlogs. More and more it seems that Sb is le...
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Monday, December 28, 2009

Carrots

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The disappointing end of the talks in Copenhagen has predictably resulted in a slew of finger-pointing. Although Bill McKibben and others l...
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Sunday, December 20, 2009

Books on VVER and RBMK

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Since I arrived in Russia three months ago I have been accumulating books not merely about civil defense, but also about the Soviet civilian...
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Thursday, October 29, 2009

As Though the Future and the Climate Didn't Matter

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I've had some fun on this blog in the past critiquing Joe Romm's various " analyses " of nuclear power , but I basically...
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Friday, October 23, 2009

Atomic Technology in the Sixth Five-Year-Plan

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From Voennye znaniia , June 1956: "We Communists must place the greatest discovery of the 20th century--atomic energy--in full service ...
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Friday, October 16, 2009

Amory Lovins Admits He Doesn't Know the Carbon Intensity of "Micropower"

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From Amory Lovins' reply to Rod Adams' critique of this post on Grist: Mr. Adams’s claim about “an awful lot of diesel, coal, and n...
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Sunday, October 11, 2009

No, the Soviets Did NOT Build a "Doomsday Machine"

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From Wired : "The Perimeter system is very, very nice," he says. "We remove unique responsibility from high politicians and t...
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Thursday, October 01, 2009

The Energy Crisis in the Capitalist World, 1975

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I apologize for my recent lack of posts. I received a Fulbright-Hays grant and am currently in Moscow conducting dissertation research about...
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Wednesday, September 02, 2009

The RRW: Not So Dead After All

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From Newsweek : As a candidate, Barack Obama declared war on nukes, but now he's calling a tactical truce. To encourage tougher internat...
Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Scientists Release Radioactive Cockroaches Into Phoenix City Sewer

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From the "research committee wouldn't approve that nowadays" file: Approximately 6,500 American roaches, P. americana , were t...
Friday, August 21, 2009

That Doesn't Even Make Any Sense

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I've been eternally mystified by the insistence some arms control types have that restricting the domestic deployment of civilian nuclea...
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Friday, July 17, 2009

Thermodynamics Fail

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From Grist : There's an old book called How to Lie With Statistics of which I'm very fond. Here we have a good example of an anti-n...
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Monday, June 01, 2009

The SVBR: Russia Makes it Modular

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Recently there has been a flurry of attention in the English-language blogosphere about the Russians' prospective SVBR reactor series , ...
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Is Joe Romm a "Delayer-1000"?

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I'm rapidly losing patience with Joe Romm, whose self-righteous arrogance is, if anything, actually harming the cause of addressing glob...
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Jon Wellinghoff is Blind

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Via Joe Romm , some comments from the Obama Administration's pick for head of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Jon Wellinghoff:...
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Thursday, April 09, 2009

"Solar-Powered City of Tomorrow" Will Probably Be More Nuclear Than Solar

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From Time : An NFL lineman turned visionary developer today is unveiling startlingly ambitious plans for a solar-powered city of tomorrow in...
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