Showing posts with label plutonium. Show all posts
Showing posts with label plutonium. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Five-Page Penalty for Delay of Book

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Sorry to have spent so long on the subject of terrorism. It is far afield from hormesis and the positive applications of nuclear energy, but...
Tuesday, April 12, 2016

There Has Just Got To Be A Better Way

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Anyone who has the lightest familiarity with nuclear power knows that it is impossible to steal fuel from an operating reactor. Even assumin...
Monday, April 11, 2016

Where the Terrorists Have Already Won

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In 1978, Jimmy Carter reneged on the opening of a reprocessing plant that was nearing completion in Barnwell, South Carolina. This facility ...
Saturday, April 9, 2016

The Dirty Bomb's Dirty Little Secret

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Anyone who has the slightest familiarity with nuclear power knows that it is impossible to steal fuel from an operating reactor. Is there ...
Sunday, April 3, 2016

The Cornucopia of Nuclear Power

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You will remember from chapter 21 that we have two neutrons, on average, emitted whenever a U235 atom undergoes fission - or "splitting...
Wednesday, March 2, 2016

The Most Toxic Substance on Earth?

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One of the noisiest guns in the anti-nuclear arsenal has been the cultivated fear of plutonium. "The most toxic substance known to man,...
Friday, January 22, 2016

Waste 'n' Time

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Uh, oh. I'm afraid I've kind of painted myself into a corner here by minimizing the "problem" of nuclear wastes. If I give...