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Nuclear Notes: A Very Brief History of Energy (opens the original)
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Until the 18th century, energy was what we now call “renewable.” The fuels for cooking, heating, making clay vessels and metalworking were dirty: animal dung, firewood, brush and grass. Mechanical energy for transportation, plowing, milling, pumping water, sawing lumber and metalworking, used flowing water, wind or human and animal muscle power. We may have a romantic view of that lifestyle, but it was not fun, clean or healthy. Famines were common. Draft animals were mean and dangerous, and def
Nuclear Notes: Illinois’ Nuclear Neighborhoods (opens the original)
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Fact: No town or county in the U.S. has ever been damaged by an accident at the local nuclear power plant. But how do the locals feel about them? Each plant employs between 500 and 900 full-time security guards, administrative staff, maintenance technicians, licensed operators, degreed engineers, and executives. Most are unionized. The jobs pay well, with good benefits and are immune to the economic cycle – and probably even to AI. Most nukes are licensed to operate for 60 years, and some for 80
Nuclear Notes: Nuclear Power Research in Illinois, Nuclear Beginnings (opens the original)
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The roughly 250 research reactors worldwide benefit all of us, but they are largely unknown to the public. On December 2, 1942, Nobel Prize winner Enrico Fermi’s Manhattan Project team at the University of Chicago produced the first man-made self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in what became known as Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1). Unfortunately, the debut of nuclear as a weapon has skewed public perception of civil nuclear technology for decades now. Right after the war, research in peaceful uses of
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