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Category Archives: nuclear
“What About Chernobyl?” World’s Deadliest Energy Accidents in Perspective
Whenever nuclear power comes up in discussions online, more often than not someone declares that all anyone needs to know can be said with one word: Chernobyl. This name evokes a chilling reaction in most of us, and the idea … Continue reading
Radiation Exposures at a Glance
Inspired by a risk conference I attended, I decided to try my hand at visual demonstrations of toxicological safety limits and pesticide exposures. It struck me that the same kind of visualisation might work well for a demonstrating radiation dosages. I … Continue reading
Nuclear is a Crucial Piece of the Carbon-Free Puzzle
The findings of the recent MIT study bear repeating: to achieve a carbon-free grid, exclusion of nuclear would make the effort much, much more expensive. the team’s analysis shows that the exclusion of nuclear from low-carbon scenarios could cause the … Continue reading
Saving Lives Is Not Shameful – Let’s Break the Stigma on Supporting Nuclear Energy
I own a t-shirt that says “Ask me about nuclear energy.” On the back there’s an image of a cooling tower and the words: “Sustainable. Ecological. Independent.” I wore it to my daughter’s first day at our village music kindergarten … Continue reading
Posted in energy, environment, nuclear, parenting, psychology, renewables, society
Tagged children, Sweden
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Radiation and Cancer Risk – What Do We Know?
I recently visited Switzerland’s interim repository for nuclear waste, called ZWILAG, and wrote about the insights gained during that experience in Warming My Hands On Nuclear Waste. While in the heart of the place – the dry cask storage hall which houses … Continue reading
Warming My Hands on Nuclear Waste
I left my sleeping family at home and headed out without breakfast in the freezing cold to catch the 7 AM train, enthusiastic about the prospect of visiting a nuclear waste repository. I’ve written about nuclear waste at length, and … Continue reading
UNEP’s Narrow-minded Views on Innovation
World’s energy production needs all the innovation it can get, but UN-director Erik Solheim appears not to have gotten the memo. GUEST AUTHOR: This piece was written by journalist Øystein Heggdal, and it was originally published in the Norwegian newspaper Klassekampen on … Continue reading
At the Source: Where 13 % of Swiss Electricity is Created
A friendly nuclear engineer I met at the screening for the movie New Fire made the off-hand mention that he might be able to give a tour of his nuclear plant, Gösgen – an offer I held onto like a leech! … Continue reading
Off the Press: Nuclear Energy Is a Fast and Inexpensive Way to Improve the World
This piece was originally published in the Finnish newspaper Aamulehti on Friday 8th of November 2017. The article is based on an earlier English blog piece I wrote, which was quite a bit longer than the 4500 character limit at the paper, and … Continue reading
Nuclear Energy Is the Fastest and Lowest-Cost Clean Energy Solution
I’ve joked to my friends that if there is anything that proves how important I consider the clean energy topic to be, it’s me digging into electricity pricing. I have a natural aversion to economics – I’ve demoted that aversion … Continue reading
Posted in climate, energy, finance, nuclear, renewables, society
Tagged batteries, Finnish, IPCC
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