Nuclear Energy and Fossil Fuels; M. King Hubbert, 1956
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Category Archives: Nuclear Power
Woods Hole – benign Fukushima radiation plume reached U.S. West Coast, why isn’t EPA measuring for radiation?
Barely detectable levels of Cesium-134 have been detected in the Pacific Ocean within 100 miles of the U.S. West Coast. Despite the so-called radioactive plume having nearly reached the coast, we shouldn’t be afraid (yet) that the Pacific Ocean is being absolutely fried with nuclear radiation from Fukushima. The results…
Lockheed promises compact fusion reactor, cheap and safe enough to remake society according to the hype
Today Lockheed-Martin announced new Fusion Reactor technology which could shift humanity’s energy supply from the stone-age mentality to the modern energy paradigm. Some of my recent postings have drawn a distinction between the old energy paradigm, that I’ve called the stone age energy mindset (burning things to get light, heat…
NRC Chairman says Fukushima isn’t contaminating US waters
In some circles official denials of a theory are taken as proof the theory is true. On Tuesday, the 3rd anniversary of the Fukushima Daichi earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear power plant disaster, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Allison M. Macfarlane wrote on the NRC’s blog that because of “the Pacific’s…
Fukushima’s nuclear accident should teach us about nuclear power dangers, if only we’d pay attention
Supposedly nuclear power plants are extremely clean – and certainly they don’t directly produce a “carbon” footprint, in the way that fossil fuels do. However, a few years ago we had Stanford Univ Professor Mark Jacobsen speak at the Electric Auto Association (Silicon Valley Chapter) about a study he wrote…
Woods Hole detects only 1950’s A-bomb radiation, Fukushima plume yet to arrive
Search online for information on Pacific Ocean radiation from Fukushima, and the search results fill up with fear filled claims the Ocean is burning up from the radiation, and we’re all about to die. On Tuesday, initial results were announced by an effort organized by the Woods Hole Institute showing…
Radioactive water release from Fukushima may be inevitable
Officials in Japan are beginning to suggest the unthinkable at the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant: releasing stored radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. On Tuesday, the China Post reported that a Japanese government panel studying the problem of radioactive water at Fukushima have agreed to postpone the problem of…
Fukushima radioactive water decontamination delayed by hydrochloric acid leak
The trouble-prone water decontamination system at TEPCO’s crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant sprang a hydrochloric acid leak and had to be shut down on Sunday. The acid is used to neutralize alkaline water used in decontaminating the radioactive water that cools the damaged nuclear reactor piles. While only a tiny…
US EPA’s RadNet inadequately monitoring radiation risks, says physicians group
The continuing nuclear accident disaster at TEPCO’s Fukushima power plant has many people worried about radioactive contamination in the ocean and fish. The Physicians for Civil Defense noted on Tuesday there isn’t enough radiation monitoring equipment in the U.S. to properly measure what’s going on. And in the absence of…
TEPCO says not to worry over deadly radioactive water leak at Fukushima
Radioactive water leaks at TEPCO’s Fukushima nuclear power plant are not as bad as the press is reporting, said TEPCO on Sunday. Over the weekend TEPCO discovered a leak of radioactive water, at a lethal radiation level, from a storage tank, over which TEPCO says news reports blew the danger…
TEPCO detects toxic water leaking into ocean at Fukushima nuclear site
TEPCO reported on Sunday that highly toxic levels of radioactive tritium and cesium are leaking into the Pacific Ocean from the crippled Fukushima no. 1 power plant. Amid rising concerns about radiation leaks at the site, and a declaration of Emergency by Japans Nuclear Regulatory Agency, TEPCO drilled a new…
General Atomics launches ground-breaking small nuclear reactor design
General Atomics announced on Tuesday development of a small nuclear modular reactor that they claim is the most advanced high-performance reactor in the world. The company has submitted a proposal to the US Dept. of Energy to bring the reactor design to the market. Their design offers a use for…
Emergency declared as Fukushima nuclear plant leaks radioactive water into ocean
Japan’s Nuclear Regulatory Authority has said, on Monday, there is a new emergency at the Fukushima nuclear plant, thanks to a build-up of radioactive ground-water. Highly radioactive water has leaked into the ocean after an underground barrier was breached, the water is rising towards the surface, and is exceeding legal…
Extracting Uranium from oceans offers a mixed bag of possibilities
Oak Ridge National Labs (ORNL) yesterday announced a new technique for efficiently harvesting uranium from the ocean. This raises the possibility that Uranium supplies will be much deeper and longer lasting than previously thought. For the environmentally minded it raises a quandary, in that nuclear energy is one way of…
Nuked butterflies near Fukushima reactor demonstrate genetic abnormalities
The earthquake, tsunami and resulting nuclear catastrophe at the Fukushima Japan nuclear power plant resulted in large scale radiation releases. While Science Fiction predicted creatures such as Godzilla resulting from massive nuclear radiation releases into the ocean, actual scientists have found a disturbing change on a more modest scale in…
