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Pragmatism to the extreme. Aspiring pirate.
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Location: USA
Diaries published: 9 (1776 days since last diary on Tue Mar 13, 2012 at 05:36 PM PDT)
Comments posted: 3737 (1706 days since last comment on Tue May 22, 2012 at 08:10 PM PDT)
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Most Recommended Diary: China's Energy Future: Less Solar and Wind, More Nuclear and Hydro, 241 comments, 25 recommends
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While most of the energy-related news last week focused on the anniversary of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami — and the accident at Japan's Fukushima-1 nuclear plant that was a result of this ...
by bryfry
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on Tue Mar 13, 2012 at 05:36 PM PDT
with 25 Recommends
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This short diary is a quick update to some "breaking news" from earlier this week, ...
by bryfry
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on Tue Dec 20, 2011 at 09:45 PM PST
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This will be a quick throwaway diary to update some of the latest news in nuclear safety. Those who are prone to follow such things will recall that a magnitude 5.8 earthquake occurred on August 23 ...
by bryfry
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on Fri Nov 11, 2011 at 11:37 AM PST
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Some myths die hard because so many people mistakenly believe them. Other myths persist, not because they are well known, but because they are obstinately repeated by a handful of people who ...
by bryfry
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on Thu Aug 25, 2011 at 01:22 PM PDT
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We've all heard the claim: "commercial reactors only come in one size -- extra-large."
At a Washington press conference last week, an old name in nuclear technology hammered yet another nail in the ...
by bryfry
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on Mon Jun 15, 2009 at 06:47 PM PDT
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This started off as a reply to a recent comment in another diary, but it became so long, that I thought that it was better ...
by bryfry
41 comments
on Tue Aug 12, 2008 at 10:39 AM PDT
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- Political progressives should be very excited about the potential of Thorium fusion nuclear reactors for energy generation. Thorium is an abundantly-occurring radioactive element that is usable ...101 comments 28 Recs
- Recently I attended parts of a series of lectures hosted by the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. The most recent lecture was by Dr. David Eaglesham (formerly) Chief Technology ...59 comments 12 Recs
- [Guest Diary by Will Davis, produced here with permission of the ANS Nuclear Cafe ] By Will Davis In recent days, a number of articles have been printed that assert that a grave danger exists at ...323 comments 13 Recs
- Some years back, in 2007 - which in NNadir time is about 150 billion tons of dumped dangerous fossil fuel ago (or in more traditional units of time, about 5 years ago) - I wrote a diary in this ...19 comments 12 Recs
- is the title of this MUST-READ op ed by James Hansen in this morning's New York Times It comes from the 2nd paragraph. In the first, Hansen reminds us of the President's words that Canada will ...233 comments 283 Recs
- One of the most important chemical reactions industrially - for better or for worse - is the production of styrene , which is of course, the chemical precursor for the widely used plastic polystyrene.48 comments 19 Recs
- Split wood, not atoms. From the start of the genetic modification of a certain subset of hominid great apes about a few hundred thousand years ago - another word for "genetic modification" is ...25 comments 5 Recs
- That would be the threat to return people to the area. The PBS series Nature covered the state of wildlife in the exclusion zone in 2011. You may watch the entire episode here: Radioactive ...95 comments 16 Recs
- One cannot help but to appreciate one's first love, and my first scientific love was synthetic organic chemistry, which is a very beautiful science - one that generates a great sense of aestheticism ...24 comments 14 Recs
- A while back an anti-nuke wrote a classic comment in one of my diaries that since indoor air pollution killed "only" 2.0 million people per year - citing a link that I use repeatedly in my ...60 comments 5 Recs
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