The Misplaced Menace of Nuclear Power
The key to embracing nuclear power is to understand, minimize, and still accept the risks of nuclear accidents
Tagged: nuclear power
Thursday Throughput: The Trailing Edge of Omicron Edition
Does Omicron waning mean that COVID restrictions were wrong all the time and we damaged our country for nothing?
Thursday Throughput: The Boys Are All Right Fertility Edition
Activists will continue to milk the issue, but this new paper suggests we should hold off flogging this fertility panic for the time being.
Thursday Throughput: Nuclear Explosion Edition
So if you are standing next to a nuclear bomb, you will experience conditions similar to the core of the Sun. But…don’t worry. You won’t experience them for very long.
Thursday Throughput for June 20, 2019
I really hope to live long enough to discover that we aren’t completely alone, even if the neighbors are only one-celled organisms.
Thursday Throughput for 5/9/19
Even with three nuclear disasters, the number of casualties is tiny. And it is especially tiny when compared to the environmental and human cost associated with fossil fuels.
Some Underwhelming Reflections on “3/11”
Sunday was the one-year anniversary of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami that killed 20,000 people, and I feel I kind of owe it to myself and others to share my thoughts. I haven’t really...
