Media And Progressives Turn On Bernie Over Nuclear Power

 

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NRC Blog Update: Dry Cask 101: Making Sure They’ll Hold Up

Dry Cask 101: Making Sure They’ll Hold Up

6 Comments Posted by Moderator on April 7, 2016

Steven Everard
Structural Engineer
Evaluating the structure of a spent fuel storage cask is a key part of our licensing process. In its application, the cask designer must provide an evaluation that shows the system will be strong and stable enough to resist loads that may be placed on it. NRC structural and materials engineers scrutinize this evaluation to make sure the design meets our regulatory requirements.
In an application, casks designers must provide evidence the cask system will:

• Maintain confinement of the spent nuclear fuel
• Maintain the fuel in a subcritical condition
• Provide radiation shielding
• Maintain the ability to retrieve or recover the fuel if necessary

In our structural review, we make sure the system can perform those functions even after experiencing a load, such as if the cask were dropped. We look at the structural design and analysis of the system under all credible loads for normal conditions—that is, planned operations and environmental conditions that can be expected to occur often during storage.
We also look at off-normal conditions, accidents and natural phenomenon events. “Off-normal” describes the maximum conditions that can be expected to from time-to-time, but not regularly. An example is the highest pushing or pulling force on a horizontal canister when it is being placed inside the storage overpack. Accident conditions and natural phenomenon include a dropped cask, earthquakes, tornadoes, flooding and any other credible accident or environmental condition that could affect the structural integrity of the system. These requirements are outlined in 10 CFR Part 72.
The structural review looks at whether the cask designer evaluated the proper loading conditions. It will also ensure the designer evaluated the system’s response to those loads accurately and completely. The reviewers must verify whether the resulting stresses in the material meet the acceptance criteria in the appropriate code.
As we explained in an earlier post, codes and standards are guidelines typically developed over many years of experience and through industry-wide and government agreement. Some of the more common codes an applicant may use come from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Concrete Institute, the American Institute of Steel Construction and the American Welding Society.
Not all loads are likely to occur at one time, but some might occur together. So we look at several different combinations of loads that can be expected at the same time. These include dead loads (which come just from the weight of the material), live loads, (which come from the movement of the system or people and things near it), and environmental loads (including snow, ice, wind, temperature and seismic). For example, the cask could experience a dead load, live load, snow load and wind load together. But it is not reasonable to expect the cask to be in a snow storm, a tornado and an earthquake at the same time.
These cases are analyzed to determine the stresses placed on the material used to construct the cask system. This analysis may be completed by either hand calculations or by a computer model. Typically, we only look at the maximum stresses in the different materials—since lesser stresses would not be as challenging to the system.
The maximum stresses from the analysis are compared to the allowable stresses from the appropriate code to determine a margin of safety. These design margins are typically large. This is because designs must be robust enough to withstand the accident scenarios. To be conservative, we and the designers overestimate loads and underestimate material strength. Doing this adds conservatisms and enhances our assurance that the design is adequate.

Front and Center: An update on arms control, national security and more

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Front and Center An update on arms control, national security, and more from The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation What's News: Center National Advisory Board member Frank von Hippel publishes in The Huffington Post There’s a little known nuclear arms race taking place in East Asia and the world must start paying attention. Read the op-ed by Frank von Hippel to learn more about the dangers of plutonium stockpiling.  Center cited by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation The Center’s reach goes beyond the United States. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Canada’s national public radio and television broadcaster, cited the Center’s factsheet on the number of global nuclear weapons. Check out the article on nuclear security. Read:  Senior Fellow John Isaacs pens op-ed on Pentagon nuclear spending With a $1 trillion plan to modernize and maintain the US nuclear weapons arsenal, the defense establishment has used creative tactics to market the campaign. Senior Fellow John Isaacs explains the varying Pentagon justifications for nuclear modernization. The costs and constraints of nuclear modernization The United States is planning to spend up to $1 trillion to overhaul its nuclear arsenal by rebuilding each leg of the nuclear triad and aspects of its accompanying infrastructure. The Center digestibly breaks down the numbers in its one-page factsheet. F-35 Joint Strike Fighter: expensive and plagued by challenges With a $1 trillion price tag and numerous operational and structural challenges, the F-35 is known as “the plane that ate the Pentagon.” The Center runs through the numbers and shortcomings in its latest factsheet. Donald Trump’s incoherent nuclear policy The current Republican presidential front-runner, Donald J. Trump, has made campaign headlines for his extraordinary – and wildly inconsistent – comments on nuclear weapons. Policy intern Jake Meixler details Mr. Trump’s statements and why nuclear policy can never be taken lightly.

"Chernobyl through the mist of decades"

"Chernobyl through the mist of decades"

http://ansnuclearcafe.org/2016/04/07/chernobyl-recalled-at-three-decades/

The fog of three decades has obscured the memory of the Chernobyl accident, and many incorrect sources written since have misled those in search of the facts.  Will Davis uses historic documents and accounts of those directly involved during and after the accident to clarify our perception of what really happened before, during and after. 

 

Will Davis

 http://ansnuclearcafe.org/2016/04/07/chernobyl-recalled-at-three-decades/

MIT Weekend Reads: Food Supply

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April 9, 2016 Weekend Reads: Food Supply

What we eat, how we grow it, and whether there will be enough of it—these are urgent questions in a world that will have 10 billion people by midcentury. This weekend we revisit MIT Technology Review stories on the promise and challenges of reinventing our food supply—not to mention making a more creative dinner.

Why We Will Need Genetically Modified Foods This 2013 feature made the case that GMOs will be important tools for adapting to climate change.

10 Breakthrough Technologies 2015: Supercharged Photosynthesis Researchers are making progress at getting crops to extract energy from sunlight far more efficiently so they need less water and fertilizer.

10 Breakthrough Technologies 2016: Precise Gene Editing in Plants A look at how the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR could make genetic modification of crops easier, faster, and more acceptable to regulators.

The Next Startup Craze: Food 2.0 From 2014: Silicon Valley investors and startups are trying to improve our food. Do they bring anything to the table?

Fun with Food Denmark’s Noma and the Nordic Food Lab show how playful new cooking methods and weird ingredients will supplant the industrial techniques that dominate modernist cuisine.

The Problem with Fake Meat It might be possible to create a burger that helps the environment and improves your health. But will it taste good enough to win over the masses?

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Energy Department Seeks Public Process for Nuclear Waste Storage

Energy Department Seeks Public Process for Nuclear Waste Storage

Kari Lydersen, Midwest Energy News: Half a century ago when the town of Zion, Illinois, agreed to site a nuclear power plant on its Lake Michigan shoreline, civic leaders felt they were helping to secure a clean energy source. They never intended to become a nuclear waste dump.

Read the Articlehttp://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35562-energy-department-seeks-public-process-for-nuclear-waste-storage

Corporate and Political Corruption: The Lessons Not Learned From the Deepwater Horizon Disaster

Corporate and Political Corruption: The Lessons Not Learned From the Deepwater Horizon Disaster

Farron Cousins, DeSmogBlog: Here's the story that the US Justice Department didn't want the public to know: Seventy-five percent of BP's court fine is tax-deductible, meaning that US taxpayers will foot most of the bill for the largest oil spill in history.

Read the Articlehttp://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/35553-corporate-and-political-corruption-the-lessons-not-learned-from-the-deepwater-horizon-disaster

Mr. Atomic Goes to New York for The Future of Energy, Part 1

Mr. Atomic Goes to New York for The Future of Energy, Part 1
http://www.theenergycollective.com/rodadams/2375676/mr-atomic-goes-to-new-york-for-the-future-of-energy-part-1?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The+Energy+Collective+%28all+posts%29

Georgia Power defends 'every dollar and every day' spent on reactors

http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060035284

S.C. can’t relent on SRS nuclear waste

http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20160408/PC1002/160409512/1022/sc-can-x2019-t-relent-on-srs-nuclear-waste

Entergy Response Avoids Punitive Action By NRC Over Falsified Records

Entergy Response Avoids Punitive Action By NRC Over Falsified Records

http://nuclearstreet.com/nuclear_power_industry_news/b/nuclear_power_news/archive/2016/04/08/entergy-response-avoids-punitive-action-by-nrc-over-falsified-records-040801#.VwgMVHCGhRk

Looking Forward to Nuclear Energy Insider’s SMR Conference

http://www.theenergycollective.com/rodadams/2375610/looking-forward-to-nuclear-energy-insiders-smr-conference-2

 

Why Small Modular Reactors Are Not The Next Big Thing

http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/Why-Small-Modular-Reactors-Are-Not-The-Next-Big-Thing.html

Nuclear Matters 3 Takeaways from the Future of Energy Summit

Michele -- We just got back from New York City, where Nuclear Matters hosted an event at Bloomberg’s Future of Energy Summit to discuss the value of our nuclear energy plants. Leadership Council member Carol Browner - the US' longest-serving EPA Administrator - was joined by the Nuclear Energy Institute’s Maria Korsnick, Former NRC Commissioner Jeffrey Merrifield and NuScale Power’s Jay Surina in presenting to the packed room. Here are our 3 top takeaways from the event:  Nuclear is the nation’s most reliable source of energy. In fact, as Korsnick shared, nuclear plants ran at an impressive 92% of their full capacity last year. We need nuclear plants as part of our broader climate strategy. Said Browner, “As we think about reducing carbon emissions, it doesn’t make sense to take the existing nuclear fleet off the table.”  Nuclear = sustainable energy and sustainable jobs. In fact, existing plants support 18,000 New York jobs and 475,000 jobs in all across the country. This was Nuclear Matters' second year at the summit, which convenes hundreds of experts in energy markets, industry, finance and policy from around the world. This year's speakers included Secretary of State John Kerry and the UN Secretary General's first Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change, Michael Bloomberg. For more information about nuclear’s benefits to New York - which receives almost 2/3 of it's carbon-free energy from nuclear plants - visit www.NuclearMatters.com/ValueOfNuclearNY. - The Nuclear Matters Team

Unable To Compete On Price, Nuclear Power On The Decline In The U.S.

http://www.npr.org/2016/04/07/473379564/unable-to-compete-on-price-nuclear-power-on-the-decline-in-the-u-s

Ask President Obama to act to wind down the doomsday clock Dear Michele T, On April 2 more than 200 excited guests, many of them students, gathered at MIT led by well known scientists, peace activists and political leaders, including Cambridge Mayor Denise Simmons and former Secretary of Defense William Perry.  Sponsored by Massachusetts Peace Action, the Future of Life foundation, Global Zero, the AFSC, and others, the "Reducing the Dangers of Nuclear War" conference was an encouraging step forward toward the kind of vigorous, informed, determined and unrelenting movement we will need to preserve life on the planet -- in the face of the inevitable nuclear holocaust which will consume it if the nuclear threat is not confronted and eliminated. Click here to sign a petition asking President Obama to act in the waning days of his presidency to move us back from the nuclear precipice. Numerous initiatives were unveiled at the conference.  Cambridge, MA, through the unanimous vote of its city council had become the first city to formally join the "Don't Bank on the Bomb" by acting to remove corporations involved in producing nuclear weapons from its pension's portfolio.  Also at the conference, activists circulated a petition to Pres. Obama, urging him to take the actions that he can as Commander-in-Chief to reduce the threat of nuclear war in the last eight months of his presidency.  Specifically, the petition urges the President to:   1.   Take U.S. missiles off hair-trigger alert. 2.   Commit the U.S. never to be the first to use nuclear weapons. 3.   Invite the other nuclear states to begin the negotiations committed to in the 1970 Non-Proliferation Treaty to negotiate with the other nuclear states to bring about the elimination of nuclear weapons worldwide. 4.   Stop the $1 trillion program of modernizing nuclear weapons, which makes us more vulnerable, not less, and shift those funds to education, housing, and infrastructure renewal, the actual things that make America stronger.   Click here to sign the petition to President Obama. The sad irony is that this "modernization" program will actually make us less safe. Because: a)   The Pentagon is seeking a "more usable" nuclear weapon. There are plans for the B61-12, with a more accurate guidance system, which enables the same lethal effects as today's a-bombs  with a smaller nuclear yield and less pollution, hence, "more usable". These modifications tend to blur the distinction between nuclear and conventional arms and make the new version more likely to be used than the old.  Once the threshhold to nuclear device is crossed, however, it is easy to forsee an escalation to the ultimate mutual destruction.  b)   The 450 planned ICBMs sitting in their known silos on hair-trigger alert would be certain to trigger similar moves by Russia and China. Machine and human error would have a much greater potential to endanger  all of human civilization and initiate the nuclear winter which could threaten humanity and hundreds of other species with extinction.   President Obama could reverse this sad turn by acting now to end the scourge of nuclear war .  Sign here to urge our President to act! For peace and a nuclear-weapons free world, Jonathan King Chair, Nuclear Disarmament Working Group

Hinkley Point: Design difficulties loom

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35989850

South Carolina seeks summary judgement in MOX suit

http://www.aikenstandard.com/article/20160407/AIK0101/160409582

Nuclear security agreement to enter into force

Nuclear security agreement to enter into force
A key security agreement, once described by IAEA director general Yukiya Amano as the single most important step to strengthen nuclear security, is set to become legally binding after Nicaragua became the 102nd state to adhere to the Amendment to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Materials.http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NP-Nuclear-security-agreement-to-enter-into-force-0804168.html

French nuclear engineers defend Hinkley Point reactor plan

Engineers in France write letter in Le Monde newspaper saying EDF’s £18bn plan should proceed

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/07/engineers-defend-hinkley-point-reactor-plan

Sanmen nuclear unit expected to be online this year

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2016-04/07/content_24333165.htm

Nonproliferation Expert Praises Security at US Nuclear Plants

• Luongo says U.S. nuclear industry is doing a lot on security
• Key outcome is closer cooperation among civil society, government and industry
• Gaps seen in international nuclear security regimes

http://www.nei.org/News-Media/News/News-Archives/Nonproliferation-Expert-Praises-Security-at-US-Nuc

Georgia Power defends Vogtle nuclear project costs as reasonable

Georgia Power defends Vogtle nuclear project costs as reasonable
https://www.snl.com/Interactivex/article.aspx?CdId=A-36005611-13875

Illinois' Nuclear Dilemma Embroils Famed Climate Scientist James Hansen

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2016/04/07/illinois-nuclear-dilemma/#6e192add51e5

Nuclear winter on a planetary scale: The biggest threat to mankind virtually no one is talking about

A war between India and Pakistan could produce human suffering the likes of which the world has never seen before

Dilip Hero, TomDispatch.com
http://www.salon.com/2016/04/08/nuclear_winter_on_a_planetary_scale_the_biggest_threat_to_mankind_virtually_no_one_is_talking_about_partner/

Greens lock in behind new push to ban nuclear weapons -

Greens lock in behind new push to ban nuclear weapons - See more at: http://foreignaffairs.co.nz/2016/04/08/greens-lock-in-behind-new-push-to-ban-nuclear-weapons/#sthash.NejzUGl8.dpuf

http://foreignaffairs.co.nz/2016/04/08/greens-lock-in-behind-new-push-to-ban-nuclear-weapons/

NRC Receives Event Notification Report on California Radiation Control Program

NRC Receives Event Notification Report on California Radiation Control Program
http://targetednews.com/pr_disp.php?pr_id=5486291

Swedish authorities say a ship used to transport nuclear waste has run aground at a decommissioned nuclear power plant in southern Sweden

http://www.tribtown.com/view/story/f9a1a5103de34074844f63e8a4961b1f/EU--Sweden-Nuclear

SA: Nuclear procurement not placed on hold

Nuclear procurement not placed on hold

http://www.insurancegateway.co.za/InvestmentProfessionals/PressRoom/ViewPress/Irn=12560&URL=Nuclear+procurement+not+placed+on+hold#.Vwfbp3CGhRk

 

Radiation from Cold War air crash site may have affected Dalton man - inquest

http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/dalton/Radiation-from-Cold-War-air-crash-site-may-have-affected-Dalton-man-inquest-7b36e567-4605-4edd-9f57-ea3c2b54e8b3-ds

NRC Receives Event Notification Report on Florida Bureau of Radiation Control

NRC Receives Event Notification Report on Florida Bureau of Radiation Control
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A timely end for Obama's Nuclear Security Summits?

A timely end for Obama's Nuclear Security Summits?

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Ex-EPA scientist publishes Wyoming fracking study that agency abandoned

Ex-EPA scientist publishes Wyoming fracking study that agency abandoned

Study stands by initial finding of contamination.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/04/ex-epa-scientist-publishes-wyoming-fracking-study-that-agency-abandoned/

UN And U.S. Sanctions Target North Korea: Impacts For Asia And Beyond

UN And U.S. Sanctions Target North Korea: Impacts For Asia And Beyond

By Nancy Fischer, Aaron R. Hutman, Moushami Joshi, Matthew Oresman, Jenny Sheng, Woon-Wah Siu | Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, Thursday, April 7, 2016 4:00 PM

The United Nations and United States recently took significant new steps to expand sanctions on North Korea. http://breakingenergy.com/2016/04/07/un-and-u-s-sanctions-target-north-korea-impacts-for-asia-and-beyond/?utm_campaign=Breaking+Energy+Daily+Digest&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=28214117&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--eDRkbjj83i_Sl5clz3rSimLulTcfFU9TNUA2h3jdo4TDXbsiUuPnfVNFa7rYp7bqVt4KLLzl_thGpt8lchzdmIt47jg&_hsmi=28214117

Kazakhstan – United States Special Commission On Energy Partnership

Kazakhstan – United States Special Commission On Energy Partnership

By U.S. Department of Energy, Thursday, April 7, 2016 5:00 PM

On April 6, 2016, the Kazakhstan – United States Energy Partnership Commission held a meeting at the Energy Ministry of the Republic of Kazakhstan, co-chaired by Energy Minister K.A. Bosumbayev and Secretary of Energy, Dr. Ernest Moniz. The Republic of Kazakhstan was represented at the session by officials from the Energy Ministry and the Foreign… Keep reading →http://breakingenergy.com/2016/04/07/kazakhstan-united-states-special-commission-on-energy-partnership/?utm_campaign=Breaking+Energy+Daily+Digest&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=28214117&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8OGGuN-yh9VJuHZt4Zi7fAyueCXpUOPVlZS0iV7EVCNB4Au3TQmbEFQxwN0taSoxWojUROrPJnNxHCpL8hgQRK95bnIQ&_hsmi=28214117

Amec Foster Wheeler, CNEC Sign Nuclear Reactor Deployment Agreement

http://www.power-eng.com/articles/2016/04/amec-foster-wheeler-cnec-sign-nuclear-reactor-deployment-agreement.html?cmpid=enl-poe-weekly-april-08-2016&cmpid=enl_PE_Weekly_2016-04-08&eid=288118515&bid=1363722

Gundersen: Nuclear Engineer: “Alarm bells” are going off over Fukushima plume coming to US West Coast

Nuclear Engineer: “Alarm bells” are going off over Fukushima plume coming to US West Coast

Nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen on Fukushima@5, Mar 7, 2016 (emphasis added): Massive amounts of radiation continue to enter Japan’s water and air, and the Pacific Ocean, daily… Due to its triple meltdowns and the unmitigable radioactive releases, Fukushima Daiichi will continue to bleed radiation into the Pacific Ocean for more than a century… There is no road map to follow with directions to stop the ongoing debacle…
Nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen on KPFA, Mar 30, 2016: [Univ. of California] Berkeley’s nuclear program has been in the forefront of the pro-nuclear propaganda for decades, and since Fukushima has been aggressively downplaying the significance of it. So, whatever comes out of Berkeley, I just attribute to a very pro-nuclear faculty… [Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is] measuring 1,000 miles offshore [of the US West Coast] and… picking up 10 becquerels per cubic meter [Bq/m3]. At my point, that’s when my alarm bells go off is 10 [Bq/m3]… That plume is still coming, the Pacific is a huge place and to think that a disaster on the opposite side of the world can be detected and begin to contaminate California, I think that the monumental shattering conclusion [is] radiation knows no borders… So this ‘dilution is the solution to pollution’ is what I think Berkeley believes in. What you can be sure of is that somebody’s going to die from the radiation that’s in the Pacific, but you just won’t know who it is – and they’re counting on that. The nuclear establishment is saying, ‘Well, we can smear that out in a broader epidemiological study.’
Nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen on CCTV, Apr 5, 2016: We’re looking at newspaper coverage from the last couple of weeks and it’s clear that the plant continues to hemorrhage.
Fairewinds Japan Speaking Tour Series No. 1, Feb 12, 2016:

• Nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen: [T]he Fukushima power plants… continues to bleed into the Pacific every day. But what no one is paying any attention to is that the entire mountain range that runs 100 miles up and down this coast is also contaminated. And as much radiation is pouring out… into the Pacific from the mountain range because it’s so contaminated, as from the Fukushima site… in fact, they’ve got an entire state pouring radiation into the Pacific. So what’s in the Pacific? Off of California, they’re finding radiation at what I would consider significant levels… in a cubic meter of ocean water, they’re finding 10 radioactive decays every second… So a cubic meter of water, if you’re in a dark room, would have 10 flashes of light every second, and that’s going to go on for 300 years. So we have contaminated the biggest source of water on the planet, and there’s no way to stop it.
• Maggie Gundersen, founder of Fairewinds: So are you saying that the contaminated water problem is hopeless? Is there nothing we can do to slow it down?
• Arnie Gundersen: It used to be that scientists believed dilution is the solution to pollution. But I think we’re finding with the biggest body of water on the planet, that you can’t dilute this stuff. And we’re going to begin to see this bio-accumulation, which is all the fish that are in the ocean are going to uptake the cesium and the strontium and become more and more and more radioactive…

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China still committed to nuclear reprocessing despite Asia stockpile fears

China still committed to nuclear reprocessing despite Asia stockpile fears

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nuclear-summit-china-reprocessing-idUSKCN0WX2KT

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nuclear-summit-china-reprocessing-idUSKCN0WX2KT 

EDF Energy completes 'dry fuel store' at Sizewell B

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/WR-EDF-Energy-completes-dry-fuel-store-at-Sizewell-B-05041601.html

Fukushima Update 4/7/16

Fukushima Update 4/7/16

Rejection of an antinuclear appeal to stop Sendai station operation becomes the dominant story… A Tokyo M.D says public education on radiation continues to be inadequate… Tepco’s “Ice Wall” is progressing “largely smoothly”… and more. http://www.hiroshimasyndrome.com/fukushima-accident-updates.html

United States nuclear forces, 2016

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00963402.2016.1145901

How safe is nuclear power? A statistical study suggests less than expected

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00963402.2016.1145910

A nuclear South Korea would be a mistake

http://thebulletin.org/nuclear-south-korea-would-be-mistake9301

"Command and Control," terrifying soon at a theater near you

http://thebulletin.org/command-and-control-terrifying-soon-theater-near-you9302

Texas and California Have Too Much Renewable Energy

Texas and California Have Too Much Renewable Energy

The rapid growth of wind and solar power in the states is wreaking havoc with energy prices.

by Richard Martin https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601221/texas-and-california-have-too-much-renewable-energy/#/set/id/601223/

Tech Slowdown Threatens the American Dream

Tech Slowdown Threatens the American Dream

Despite the allure of apps and social media, today’s digital technologies are doing little to generate the kind of prosperity that previous generations enjoyed, a prominent economist argues. But that doesn’t mean we should give up on innovation.

by David Rotman

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601199/tech-slowdown-threatens-the-american-dream/

China's Offensive in London Why Beijing Wants to Invest in the United Kingdom

China's Offensive in London

Why Beijing Wants to Invest in the United Kingdom

 https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2016-04-05/chinas-offensive-london?cid=nlc-twofa-20160407&sp_mid=51101726&sp_rid=bWljaGVsZXRrZWFybmV5QGdtYWlsLmNvbQS2&spMailingID=51101726&spUserID=NTA0ODY0NjAzNjcS1&spJobID=900905137&spReportId=OTAwOTA1MTM3S0

Editorial: WIPP is logical repository for plutonium – done right | Albuquerque Journal

Editorial: WIPP is logical repository for plutonium – done right | Albuquerque Journal

Underequipped and overwhelmed, Germany "as vulnerable as Brussels"

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/germany-isis-threat-police-nuclear-material-fears-migrants-refugee-europe/

The most dangerous place on earth: A nuclear Armageddon in the making in South Asia

The most dangerous place on earth: A nuclear Armageddon in the making in South Asia 
http://southasiamonitor.org/detail.php?type=n&nid=16271

Your View: Consider nuclear when eliminating carbon

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/opinion/20160407/your-view-consider-nuclear-when-eliminating-carbon?rssfeed=true

Nuclear Energy Institute has uploaded Southern Company's Tom Fanning on Future of Nuclear Energy Southern Company's Tom Fanning on Future of Nuclear Energy Nuclear Energy Institute On April 4, 2016, Tom Fanning, the Chairman, CEO and President of Southern Company, was interviewed by Bloomberg News on the future of energy in America and nuclear energy's role going forward.

https://www.youtube.com/user/NEINetwork?feature=em-uploademail