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Fukushima status on Wednesday March 16 and what it means

Here’s my estimate of the situation. I’m no nuclear engineer but I know something… We use data from JAIF: And an annotated picture of a GE boiling water reactor from UCS: Now, using the above: At least half of the … Continue reading

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Fukushima, Japan, Information

Status of the reactors: JAIF, Japanese Atomic Industrial Forum: http://www.jaif.or.jp/english/ Radiation status in Japan: http://www.bousai.ne.jp/eng/speedi/pref.php?id=08 Radiation status in Finland: http://www.yle.fi/tekstitv/images/P867_02.gif Radiation units: Becquerel is counts per second (particles/photons) A 1 GW coal plant releases radioactive stuff in a year that produce … Continue reading

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Nuclear District Heating for Helsinki?

Nuclear plants operate at only a few hundred degrees Celsius, so they don’t have very high thermal efficiencies. Thus only a small part of the nuclear energy is changed into electricity and most is lost with the coolant fluid, about … Continue reading

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Factory Built Powerplants

Kirk had some thoughts when touring the Delta IV factory in Alabama.

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Kinds of Denialism

The Green Nuclear kind, be sure to read the comments in German. To summarize, in WWF:s climate score cards, France is scoring pretty badly. Everybody knows that France has about 80% nuclear power in electricity production, much more than the … Continue reading

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Kirk Sorensen's LFTR Talk at Google

Here.

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Coal is Bad

And there could have been much less of its use – but the alternatives of the past lay in half finished ruins. Kirk Sorensen explores them and their history concisely. Grand total: 85,000 tons of coal each day that TVA … Continue reading

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Serious Solutions, No Feelgood

Finland is enacting laws that lead to building some more wind power. Like some professionals in the Finnish wind power association, Suomen tuulivoimayhdistys, have told me, perhaps the most important thing about wind power is that you have to be … Continue reading

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Neat Nation's Realtime Electricity Monitor

At Fingrid. EDIT: same in English. Usage, Imports and Exports of Electricity in Finland at one moment in time

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Energy Mix

This is what many people should grasp what renewables and nuclear are about. The real electricity world operates with an energy mix. In many places there is open electricity trading, and if you introduce new sources to the marketplace, it … Continue reading

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