October 2015

        The nuclear industry in the U.S. has been stagnant as far as new power plants are concerned for decades. Only one license for a new nuclear power plant has been issued by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the last 35 years. On the other hand, there are almost fifty companies in the U.S. and Canada working on research and development of advanced nuclear power technologies.

Ambient office = 80 nanosieverts per hour

The insane plan to expand the world’s biggest nuclear plant. greenpeace.org

        After the Fukushima disaster in 2011, Germany decided to shut down all of its nuclear power plants by 2020. Eight out of sixteen nuclear power reactors have been shut down and eight reactors are still operating.

A new study says children living near the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns have been diagnosed with thyroid cancer at a rate 20 to 50 times that of children elsewhere, a difference the authors contend undermines the government's position that more cases have been discovered in the area only because of strin

        I grew up during the Cold War. The idea of mutually assured destruction was sort of reciprocal nuclear blackmail. Nuclear blackmail has been a favorite of movies, novels and TV shows for decades.