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Why Obama should meet Till

Steve Kirsch of SCGI is like the Energizer Bunny — he never runs out of energy in trying to get something meaningful done on the carbon emission mitigation problem. Below is his open letter to the U.S. President’s energy and climate policy staffer. His aim: to get Chuck Till an invitation to the White House! […]

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Emissions Future IFR FaD Nuclear

Nuclear power and climate change – what now?

I’m currently on a 3-week trip to North America, and will be returning to Australia in mid-June. At the end of my travels I’ll be attending an energy futures conference in Waterloo, Canada (and will write more about that in an upcoming blog). But at present, I’m in Davis, California, and have been visiting Tom […]

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IFR FaD 9 – Summary of non-proliferation advantages of the Integral Fast Reactor

A fair amount of material has now accumulated on BNC regarding nuclear energy and the possible ‘proliferation’ implications of commercial nuclear power. Here is a list of the key posts: Response to an Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) critique (Barry Brook, George Stanford, Tom Blees) Carbon emissions and nuclear capable countries (Barry Brook) Nuclear safeguards and […]

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Advanced nuclear power systems to mitigate climate change (Part III)

This is a modified version of the full conference paper. This is the most up-to-date executive summary available, written for a general — albeit technically conversant — audience, of the Integral Fast Reactor. You can download the 16-page printable PDF version here. 91st American Meteorology Society Annual Meeting, Jan 23-27, 2011, Seattle, WA  Second Conference on Weather, […]

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An environmentally sound, energy-rich future (Part II)

Here is a blog-post version of the poster to accompany the AMS paper discussed in the previous post. You can download a printable, high rez (11 MB) version of the poster here, or a low rez (1 MB) version here. —————————