Nuclear power plant maintenance requires SCUBA divers in the rivers and oceans near the intake pipes and, as the image shows, in the reactor itself. And the men and women who work as employees and contractors for the plants and for Underwater Construction Corp, UCC do the job (more images). According to Katheryn Kranhold, here, [...]
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NBC Nightly News, June 28, 2011. Lisa Myers reports, Pete Stockton, former Department of Energy official, says “the public should be concerned but not alarmed as a wildfire inches closer to a nuclear weapons facility in Los Alamos, New Mexico.” New Mexico fire managers scrambled Tuesday to reinforce crews battling a third day against an [...]
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First in a series on the earthquake, tsunami, aftershocks and partial meltdown in Japan
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Strange and counter-intuitive as it may seem, burning coal produces more radioactive waste than nuclear fission. And it’s not regulated. Back in 1993, Alex Gabbard, of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, published “Coal Combustion: Nuclear Resource or Danger” in ORNL Review. Gabbard built on the work of J. P. McBride, R. E. Moore, J. P. [...]
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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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Architecting a Clean, Secure, Sustainable, Non-Carbon and Non-Nuclear Energy Future 100 Gigawatts offshore wind. $300 Billion. 100 GW land based wind. $200 Billion. 50 GW solar. $325 Billion. 250 GW Clean, renewable, sustainable Energy. $825 Billion. Save the World: Priceless
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The same messages can be communicated by signalling the letter "K" in Morse code via signal lamp. (While a proper signal lamp may be ideal, a flashlight, probably best employing red LEDs, will certainly fit the bill).
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