Category Archives: Nuclear energy & weapons

All things nuclear, but mostly nuclear power.

Minority report – for now? Finnish Green candidates call for nuclear power

Posted on March 6, 2017 by

This is my translation of a statement made by four Finnish Green party (Green League) candidates today, calling for the use of both nuclear power and renewables to combat climate change. It illustrates quite nicely how more and more thoughtful … Continue reading →

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Hey Greenpeace, could you find us Finns a warm place to live in?

Posted on February 22, 2017 by

A recent Greenpeace news release leads to an inescapable conclusion: that us Finns need to be evacuated immediately, because radiation hazards of living in Finland exceed those encountered in Fukushima evacuation zones. I therefore humbly ask Greenpeace to find a place … Continue reading →

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Atomic mail rockets, and how monocausal predictions are particularly dangerous

Posted on January 17, 2017 by

The new, shining age of information delivery was briefly at hand on June 8th, 1959. A Regulus cruise missile – designed for delivering a nuclear warhead to a Soviet city or port – landed neatly at the naval base at … Continue reading →

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100% renewables and 100% nuclear are both practically impossible

Posted on November 14, 2016 by

I’ve been following with interest how some nuclear power advocates are suggesting that building anything else than nuclear power is sidetracking us from the climate goals. These advocates claim that variable, non-dispatchable renewables will not be ultimately capable of delivering … Continue reading →

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A Response to Lawrence, Sovacool, and Stirling. (Reblogged)

Posted on October 12, 2016 by

In the following post, Nicholas Thompson performs a very good examination of the much-publicized study that sought to “prove” commitment to nuclear power slows down CO2 emission reductions. Well, turns out the paper suffers from a basic math error – … Continue reading →

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The gamble gamblers won’t take

Posted on December 4, 2015 by

Anti-nuclear activists say we should bet the fate of the planet on the assumption their energy scenarios are correct and everyone else is wrong. But when pressed in private, even they do not believe themselves. This is the realisation I … Continue reading →

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The Elon Musk approach to nuclear power costs

Posted on November 4, 2015 by

Recently, I read an interesting piece about the reasoning process used by the man behind Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk: first principles reasoning. In this mode of thinking, espoused by Aristotle among others, one begins from the “first principles” or … Continue reading →

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