Why Nuclear Power Has Been A Flop – The Gordian Knot of the 21st Century (original) (raw)
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Global warming hasn’t gone away
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A Well Intentioned Lie Led to an Auto-Genocidal Tragedy
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Double DSB Inventory (DDI) Models
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Cheap Electricity and Geodominance
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A dual APR1400 Islet off Texas
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Can we build a large conventional PWR in a shipyard?
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NRC says NRC is not accountable for reactor safety. Court agrees.
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Nuclear Power not only should be cheap, it was cheap. 3 cents/kWh cheap
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Nuclear Capital Costs 1965-1974
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The Introduction of Formal QA to Nuclear Power
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The AEC Bears Down on Quality Assurance
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Replacing MACCS2 with HYSPLIT as the NRC plume model
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Regulatory Radiophobia: The NRC at Fukushima
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Dunkelflauten Clusters: aka Winter
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Nuclear Reorganization Act Draft
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The Nuclear Reorganization Act
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Where Marty Weitzman Went Wrong
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Can we use alpha particle exposures to falsify LNT?
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LNT is not quite the “No Repair” Model
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The Biological Argument Against LNT
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Conflating No Detectable Harm with Zero Harm and the Second Elephant
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The Nuclear Reorganization Act (slides 6)
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A Double Knot and a Twin Blessing(slides 0)
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The Sigmoid No Threshold Model (slides 5)
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A Twin Blessing Rejected by Two Lies (slides 4)
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Fission: A Providential Gift (slides 3)
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Radiation Exposure Data (slides 2)
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Understanding Radiation Damage and Repair (slides 1)
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A Twin Blessing Rejected by Two Lies
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The Bomb Test Downwinders and the Radiation Compensation Exposure Act
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Chernobyl: the Perfect Experiment
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MIT and the Non-Existent I-129 Problem
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Expensive Nuclear Won’t Save Lives. Cheap Nuclear will; big time.
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The BEAR1 Report to the Public
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The Russians at Chernobyl and the Resuspension Fear
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Faustian Bargain or Near-Perfect Providential Gift
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Which is worse: uranium or lead?
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Recanting the Two Lies: the first steps
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Beyond the Better Pigs Argument
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The Auto-Genocidal Tragedy of US Nuclear Power
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The probability of exceeding the NRA insurance cap
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Can Congress Regulate Nuclear Directly?
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Judging a Book by its Cover, Part 2
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GRACE: Green Reliable Affordable Concentrated Electricity
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ALARA in action: the ABWR vents
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Even socialists know the NRC must go
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The Cost of Regulatory Uncertainty
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Circling the LNT Wagons: the INWORKS Study
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The Nuclear Shipyard Workers Study
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Annual radiation limits are biological nonsense and murderously inefficient
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Nuclear Safety is NOT our Overriding Priority
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Why Can’t the NRC be like the FAA?
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Radiation Harm Models don’t know Safe
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The NRC is not danagerous. It’s deadly.
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The Taipei Apartment Dweller Exposure
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Moving Nuclear from Proactive to Reactive regulation
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The Gordian Knot Group Manifesto
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Where are the Revolutionaries?
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SNT and EPA’s Maximum Individual Risk
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Probabilistic Risk Assessment
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Why is INPO a far better regulator than the NRC?
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The Political Feasibility of UCert
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Thinking Quantitatively about CO2 Uncertainty
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A Modest Proposal for Resolving our Differences on CO2
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The Two Lies that Killed Nuclear Power
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What if tanker crew deaths are intolerable?
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RERF experts claim their bomb survivor solid cancer mortality data is non-linear
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All models are wrong, but some are tragically misleading
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Will space travel force us to think dynamically about radiation harm?
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SNT and the Fukushima Personnel
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Low Capacity Factor CO2 Intensity
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The Three Mile Island 1 Restart
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President’s Speech on the Power Grid
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ALARA’s not so bad. What about Korea, China?
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The Establishment Knows the RERF Acute Response is Non-Linear
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Nuclear Magic. Where’s the throttle?
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The Linear No Threshold Theory (Slides)
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Yes, we could have another Chernobyl.
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The Importance of Dunkelflauten
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The Nuclear Waste Problem (Slides 7)
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You want nuclear waste. I’ll show you nuclear waste.
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A Zero Fossil Grid Makes Sense for Nobody
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Expensive Nuclear Power’s Dirty Secret
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600 year old spent nuclear fuel is just another poison
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Underwriter Certification of Nuclear Power, Part 2
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Underwriter Certification of Nuclear Power, Part 1
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LNT: the no repair theory of radiation harm
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Should-Cost Nuclear And Human Ignorance
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Underwriter Certification and the Banks
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A Desecrated Pledge: The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
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Expensive Nuclear Is Not Nearly Good Enough
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Only Autocracy Can Save Nuclear Power
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The University of Washington Cesium Release
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The LNT-Is-Not-Inconsistent-With-The-Data Argument
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Ted Rockwell’s Crusade To Kill The Golden Goose
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Can We Have Release Without Panic
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Electricity’s Fundamental Flaw
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Thinking Through Linear with Threshold
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No rational investor can play by these rules
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There are no solutions, only tradeoffs
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Minimize Radiation Exposure Without Regard To Economic And Social Costs
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A 50 Million Dollar Hairline Crack
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Nuclear’s Strange Politicization
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The Case for a Protopark at Hanford
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Prototypes should be tortured, not licensed.
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The Worst Health Hazard of All Is Being Poor
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Thinking Through Linear With Threshold
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Same Birthdays and Double Double Strand Breaks
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Anyone who focuses on total dose is an LNTer
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The Radium Dial Painters and SNT
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An Ugly Hypothesis shot down by a beautiful fact.
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How can NRC-style regulation be so expensive?
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Defending LNT and the Goldstandard
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The Price Anderson Suicide Pact
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Can we have a radioactive release without a panic?
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Why are we so good at repairing radiation damage?
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Rogue Bureaucracies Flaunt NRC/EPA Radiation Rules
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The University of Washington Cesium Release
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Nuclear Plants Need Buffer Zones
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The Rise and Fall of Yankee Rowe
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Nuclear energy, not a Faustian bargain, but a near-providential gift.
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What’s wrong with being cautious?
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Are the climate models running hot?
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Is Big Oil the reason nuclear power flopped?
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Underwriter regulation of nuclear power
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The Nuclear Revival that Never Was
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A Plan That Adds Up. An Engineer Looks at Global Warming, part 3.
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Low CO2 Electricity: The Options For Germany
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How Not to Handle a Radiation Release
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Expensive nuclear is no where good enough
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The Disposal of Radioactive Wastes from Fission Reactors
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What must we replace? An Engineer Looks at Global Warming, Part 2
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How much time do we have? An Engineer Looks at Global Warming, Part 1
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The Lessons of Three Mile Island
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Shipyard Production of Nuclear Power Plants
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Nuclear Power – Frequently Asked Questions
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