Energy White Paper – an overconfident document
It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that Martin Ferguson personally drafted parts of the Federal Government’s new energy White Paper. It reads with the same subtext he manages to pack into just about every sentence – that you greenies have [...]
Foreign policy week: Uranium sales to India
It seems like this is foreign policy week – or, perhaps we’ll call it “fall into line with the USA” week.
Quick link: IEEE Spectrum’s account of the Fukushima accident
While comprehensive accounts have apparently appeared in the Japanese media, this IEEE Spectrum article is the best attempt I’ve seen to present an English-language timeline of initial events at Fukushima Dai-chi in the wake of the tsunami.
Quick link: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on Fukushima
The current issue of Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists features several articles on the Fukushima nuclear accident. Lots to digest if you’re interested in the issues; for instance, for what it’s worth I think the article by Edward Lyman overstates [...]
Coin-tossing and Chernobyl
Apparently there’s a bit of a rehash of the question of the death toll from Chernobyl going on at the moment. But, before getting to that, let’s talk about a very important subject: tossing coins. Repeatedly. More specifically, let’s talk [...]
Fukushima summary
I’ve been hesitant to post on what’s going on at the Fukushima nuclear plants. But, given the interest and the woefully uninformed reportage from the Australian online media (the Beeb and the NYT, to name two, have done a lot [...]
The horse-is-bolted uranium sales debate
It seems that we are going another round of the “sell uranium to India” discussion, with “Uranium Breath” Martin Ferguson pushing for the policy to currently prohibits sales to India to be changed. You can take your pick of op-eds [...]
Radical transparency and history
From the point of view of an outsider looking in, the results of Bradley Manning’s document dump have been more positive than not – not least in demonstrating that the state secrets emperor really does have few clothes. The pushback [...]
Nuclear power in Finland – an update
I haven’t really looked at developments in energy for a while. So it’s high time to look around to see what’s happening. While a number of nuclear power plants are being constructed in China, the direct relevance for Australia’s energy [...]
Save the people but cook the planet
As Fred Pearce in the New Scientist says environmental paradoxes don’t come much bigger. The world’s fleet of 100,000 ships produces two kinds of pollution. One the one hand they emit nearly a billion tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere [...]
The Nuclear Security Summit – a small step forward
While I still maintain the threat of terrorism gained attention out of all proportion to the actual threat it posed, the possibility of terrorists with nuclear weapons is the one terrorist threat that scares the crap out of me. So [...]
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