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Category Archives: What they aren’t telling you about nuclear power
Why I support almost all measures to reduce CO2 emissions – in one graph
(Click here for a larger version of the image. Feel free to re-use as well.) Climate change is not the only environmental problem we’re facing, but it’s the most critical. Many people agree, but as we’ve tried to explain in … Continue reading
What does research say about the safety of nuclear power?
I’ve been answering almost exactly the same answer to multiple discussions where people make claims about the safety of nuclear power, so I think it’s time to create a single post with collected information, links, and explanations. This is intended to … Continue reading
“Environmental NGOs knew the truth about climate change”
Note: This text from 2043 has been delivered to me through a curious spacetime anomaly. Hopefully it only represents one possible future, not the future. Multiple self-styled “environmental” organizations issued stark warnings of the catastrophic risks of their energy plans more than … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, What they aren't telling you about nuclear power
Tagged climate change, Environment, Greenpeace, WWF
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Hey Greenpeace, could you find us Finns a warm place to live in?
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
The gamble gamblers won’t take
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
Graphic of the Week: How fast has low-carbon energy been built?
This data, and other evidence, make it puzzling how one of the most common refrains against using nuclear power to combat climate change is still that it is too slow. Surely, those people cannot be saying that renewables are by implication far too slow? Continue reading
Posted in Economy and the Environment, Energy, Infographics, Nuclear energy & weapons, What they aren't telling you about nuclear power
Tagged Belgium, Denmark, Energy, Finland, France, Germany, Graphic of the week, Infographics, Italy, Nuclear, Olkiluoto 3, Renewables, Solar, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UAE, What they aren't telling you about nuclear, Wind
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The unpublished notebooks of J. M. Korhonen 
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