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...
Saturday, April 2, 2016

Energy: Don't Leave Home Without It

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Did we miss the "nuclear vehicle" boat because of our fears and the rules imposed on the nuclear industry? "What might have b...
Friday, April 1, 2016

SECURE and the IFR

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Other low-temperature reactors - used for warming entire communities - are not new to the world... just to U.S. citizens with our abysmal la...
Thursday, March 31, 2016

CANDU and SLOWPOKE

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While the United States - with its post-World War II enrichment technology and capacity - built power reactors using enriched uranium, the C...
Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Power Reactors

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In the United States, power reactors are entirely of the PWR (pressurized water reactor) or the BWR (boiling water reactor) types. In both c...
Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Mankind and Energy

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The history of mankind is, in large part, a history of the harnessing of energy sources. Prehistoric man had only his own muscle power to wr...
Monday, March 28, 2016

Under the Grandstand

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The first man-made chain reaction occurred under the grandstand of the University of Chicago football field on December 2, 1942, in what was...
Sunday, March 27, 2016

Enter the Atom

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Let's return for a short graduate course from Hormesis U. about "splitting the atom." We've already seen that U238 is an...
Saturday, March 26, 2016

Mankind and Energy

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The history of mankind is, in large part, a history of the harnessing of energy sources. Prehistoric man had only his own muscle power to wr...
Friday, March 25, 2016

What's Cookin' in Those Reactors

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The use of thorium in CANDU type reactors would give earthlings sufficient energy to provide for the next seven ice ages. - Edward Teller [F...
Thursday, March 24, 2016

Before You Spend $4,000 to Shorten Your Life

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The observed lung cancer rates of females in high residential radon areas in the former uranium mining areas in Southern Saxony are substant...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Don't Let the Data Get in the Way of a "Made Up" Mind

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What is the significance of this report? Professor Emeritus John Cameron of the University of Wisconsin Medical School puts it in perspectiv...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Remedial Acryonyms

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There are a couple abbreviations used in Table 13 and/or Figure 32 that may need reminders. SMR  stands for standardized mortality ratio  an...
Monday, March 21, 2016

And Now the Envelope, Please...

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When the data were analyzed and tabulated, there must have been a number of stunned Johns Hopkins Ph.D.s wondering what had happened. They s...
Sunday, March 20, 2016

Some Background for the Study

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A 1978 report raise the question of low-dose ionizing radiation risk to nuclear workers at the Portsmouth, New Hampshire, shipyard. [Identif...
Saturday, March 19, 2016

Something's Fishy in the Shipyard

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The nuclear worker groups had a lower death rate from all causes, leukemia, and LHC than the non-nuclear workers.  - Professor Emeritus Myro...
Friday, March 18, 2016

A Few Snippets

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Allow me to give you just a few snippets on other subjects related to both medicine and radiation: "Court-Brown and Doll (1958) using...
Thursday, March 17, 2016

We're Out of Copper, But How About a Zirconium Bracelet?

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Among the cruelest deceptions perpetrated upon people by other people are those having to do with phony medical aids, sham healing potions, ...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

It's Not Too Late to Radiate!

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We are all aware of the use of high-energy radiation to kill cancer cells within the body. The problem has always been in not wiping out mor...
Tuesday, March 15, 2016

That Temperamental Thyroid Gland

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Source for Figure 29 Cancer in Patients Treated for Hyperthyroidism : Dobyns, B.M., Sheline, G.E., Workman, J.B., Tompkins, E.A., McCon...