the intersection of emergency preparedness, public health and environmental policy
The latest news about Vermont Yankee - The leak of Cesium-137 is not a new leak. From VermontBiz.com (click here) or the Burlington Free Press (here). "In a statement issued yesterday, Vermont Yankee said that recent news reports have focused less on the tritium resolution and more on the other isotopes found in the soil [...]
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Suppose a terrorist or one sympathetic to their cause works at a solar power plant or a wind farm. The damage that he or she can do - knock out a wind turbine, a string of solar modules, even kill a few co-workers. This, while serious, is minimal. But suppose a terrorist or one sympathetic [...]
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The Vermont Senate voted 26 to 4 to close Vermont Yankee. While proponents of nuclear power claim that the plants can be run safely and economically, Entergy, the Louisiana company that operates the plant, is now known to be running Vermont Yankee AT A LOSS! Economics is not the issue. The Vermont Senate isn't interested [...]
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A team of scientists led by Jay Kesner at the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center and Michael Mauel at the Columbia University Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science announced the "first significant results" from the Levitated Dipole Experiment, LDX. (Click here for the MIT news release).
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This is not exactly "news." Nuclear power plant construction is synonymous with cost overruns.(This is a "systems problem." Anytime you have a 10 to 15 year project in the $Billion range you will find several reinforcing feedback mechanisms that increase the cost and few, if any, balancing feedback mechanisms that keep the costs at a [...]
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The Republican Road to Recovery, talks about clean energy alternatives, but focuses on coal, oil, oil shale, offshore drilling, and nuclear power.
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I ran for school board earlier this year on a solar energy platform. I'd like to thank the Manalapan Republicans and the Marlboro Republicans for holding this event.
I'd like to talk about Nuclear Power and Coal and then Solar and Wind.
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Back in May, Rebecca Smith reported in the Wall St. Journal( click here for Popular Logistics posting ) that Florida Power & Light wants to spend $12 to $18 Billion to build a 2.2 GW or 3.0 GW nuclear plant at the aptly named "Turkey Point" facility. At about the same time, Reuters reported that [...]
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Hummers: Illogical, Un-Economical, and Bad for The Environment. But They Sure Are Big!Spencer Reiss, writing inWired Magazine says "Nuclear Power is The Most Climate Friendly Insdustrial Scale Form of Energy ". Forgetting for a moment that nuclear power requires fuel, waste management, national security infrastructure, massive government subsidies, including artificial limits to liability, nuclear releases [...]
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Rebecca Smith reported in the Wall Street Journal that Florida Power and Light, FPL, is considering spending $12 to $18 Billion to construct two nuclear reactors at its appropriately named Turkey Point facility in southeast Florida.Florida Power says “two advanced-design nuclear plants at Turkey Point that would add between 2,200 and 3,000 megawatts. If built, [...]
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March 28, 2008 was the 28th Anniversary of the Meltdown at Three Mile Island, which makes March 29 the 28th Anniversary of the Day After Three Mile Island.Still, it's hard to say 'Happy Anniversary.' The last nuclear power plant to come on line in the United States, the Watts Bar plant in Tennessee, took 23 [...]
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