Monthly Archives: February 2012

Risk and reality: a tale of three bombs, two of them real

February 27, 2012
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What do dirty bombs have to do with health care? The same thing that links massive aerial bombing during wartime with modern building construction. The same thing that links chemical weapons attacks with clean drinkable water. Let me give a couple examples to illustrate what I mean. Example 1. Two blocks from my office...

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Failure to condemn wind may condemn Darlington B

February 13, 2012
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Unless sense prevails, by 2015 the Ontario power grid is going have around 8,000 nameplate MW of wind, solar and bioenergy, mostly wind, and 10,700 MW by 2018. Even today with just over 1,700 MW of wind the grid is unmanageable during periods of surplus baseload generation (SBG) without exporting large amounts of electricity...

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High quality job creation in Ontario: here’s how they’re solving the problem in the U.S.

February 10, 2012
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Yesterday the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced it will approve a construction and operating license for two Westinghouse AP1000 reactors at The Southern Company’s Vogtle generating plant. This will be the first new U.S. nuclear project in more than three decades. It will create around 25,000 direct and indirect jobs. A couple years ago,...

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Will Japan ever restart any of its nuclear reactors?

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