Nuclear power

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Links

• Ignorance about Nuclear Power is Killing Us
• Coal Combustion: Nuclear Resource or Danger by Alex Gabbard, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

News

• 2006-04-16 Going Nuclear: A Green Makes the Case (slashdot) by Patrick Moore, a founder of Greenpeace
• 2006-02-23 Stronger Future for Nuclear Power (slashdot)

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)