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* '''2006-04-16''' [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/14/AR2006041401209.html Going Nuclear: A Green Makes the Case] ([http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/17/1939227 slashdot]) by [[Wikipedia:Patrick Moore (environmentalist)|Patrick Moore]], a founder of [[Wikipedia:Greenpeace|Greenpeace]] | * '''2006-04-16''' [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/14/AR2006041401209.html Going Nuclear: A Green Makes the Case] ([http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/17/1939227 slashdot]) by [[Wikipedia:Patrick Moore (environmentalist)|Patrick Moore]], a founder of [[Wikipedia:Greenpeace|Greenpeace]] | ||
* '''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]) | ||
| + | ==Fiction== | ||
| + | * ''[http://raddecision.blogspot.com/ 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) | ||
| + | * ''[[wikipedia:The China Syndrome|The China Syndrome]]'': 1979 movie that represents a large part of most people's knowledge of nuclear power ([[wikipedia:Chernobyl disaster|Chernobyl]] being much of the remainder) | ||
==Notes== | ==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. --[[User:Woozle|Woozle]] 19:24, 5 October 2006 (EDT) | 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. --[[User:Woozle|Woozle]] 19:24, 5 October 2006 (EDT) | ||
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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)