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* '''2006-02-23''' [http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-59/iss-2/p19.html Stronger Future for Nuclear Power] ([http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/23/0011252 slashdot])
 
* '''2006-02-23''' [http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-59/iss-2/p19.html Stronger Future for Nuclear Power] ([http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/23/0011252 slashdot])
 
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* '''2007-06-08''' [http://advancednano.blogspot.com/search/label/nuclear keyword:nuclear] (category of blog entries) by [http://www.blogger.com/profile/07541279438184352860 Brian Wang]
 
* '''2006-01-15''' [http://climateprotectioncampaign.typepad.com/cpc/2006/01/long_now_nuclea.html Long Now Nuclear/Climate Change Debate]: includes comments from James Aach & responses from blog author
 
* '''2006-01-15''' [http://climateprotectioncampaign.typepad.com/cpc/2006/01/long_now_nuclea.html Long Now Nuclear/Climate Change Debate]: includes comments from James Aach & responses from blog author
  

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Links

News

Blogging

Fiction

  • Rad Decision (free online read), a technically-accurate techno-thriller "written by an engineer with over twenty years of experience in the American nuclear industry." (Posted August, 2005)
  • The China Syndrome: 1979 movie that represents a large part of most people's knowledge of nuclear power (Chernobyl being much of the remainder)

Notes

Personally, I'd be very interested in seeing a new approach to nuclear power plant management using information-age tools, and the "many eyes make all bugs shallow" approach: webcams on every console, doorway, and access point; publicly-accessible telemetry data; a wiki and blogs maintained by plant workers; chat rooms for workers to let off steam (or mention their worries) during lunch breaks (with convenient computer terminals in the snack rooms); cooperative ownership of the plant, with residents within "fallout" range automatically given priority in voting; and so on. Only in this way can we be sure that safety issues will not be shoved under the carpet, as is apparently being done at Shearon-Harris, our friendly neighborhood nuclear plant here in North Carolina. More nuclear plants without these tools will be business as usual; a nuclear plant with these tools might have a chance to actually be a positive thing. --Woozle 19:24, 5 October 2006 (EDT)