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Tag Archives: nuclear
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
Posted in Design, industry, Science Links, Thorium, Uncategorized
Tagged Containment, Exposed, Fuel, Fukushima, GE BWR, Japan, Mark 1, Meltdown, nuclear
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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
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
Factory Built Powerplants
Kirk had some thoughts when touring the Delta IV factory in Alabama.
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
Posted in Climate, Demotivation, idiocracy, industry, Journalism
Tagged co2, coal, France, Germany, nuclear, Scorecard, WWF
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Kirk Sorensen's LFTR Talk at Google
Here.
Posted in Climate, Energy, Global, industry, Motivation, Science Links, Thorium
Tagged Energy, google, lftr, nuclear, sorensen, Thorium
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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
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
Posted in Architecture, Climate, Energy, Global, idiocracy, industry
Tagged Climate, co2, Finland, nuclear, Pekkarinen, wind power
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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
Posted in Energy, industry, Thorium, Uncategorized
Tagged electricity, Finland, nuclear
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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
Posted in Climate, Energy, industry, Motivation
Tagged coal, energy mix, hydropower, natural gas, nuclear, solar, wind
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