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Originally Posted by David Phillips
Wow!, that is some resource.  |
Thanks.
Actually I really should note, which I didn't in this topic (although I have elsewhere), that the WNA and UIC are both industry organisations with all the biases that implies. nuclearinfo.net is great precisely because it isn't an industry site and has no connections or funding from the industry, its just a bunch of Australian physicists who decided to check the issue out for themselves.
I'll actually take the opportunity to add a couple more links - another industry resource is the
Nuclear Energy Institute, and in particular I recommend the
Nuclear Notes Blog where some NEI members post frequent articles, discussion and rebuttals of anti-nuclear positions. These guys are very active in making the pro-nuclear case in the blogosphere, and while they are industry employees and make their livings on industry money you can really tell that they're also passionate about the technology.
On the unbiased (well - unpaid), non-industry side there's also
Freedom for Fission. This is a site very loosely associated with Phil Plait's excellent
Bad Astronomy site (which started with debunking the 'moon landings were faked' meme, and went on to become an excellent resource for those seeking to combat the pseudoscience and nonsense so prevalent in today's society). Essentially some guys from the Bad Astronomy forums decided to make a site to debunk the myths and distortions surrounding nuclear energy.
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Originally Posted by David Phillips
I am really glad that I found this forum. You may know that we have a Magnox Reactor on Anglesey at Wylfa which is due to be decommissioned in 2010.
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I love it here too - I'm a bit of a one-trick pony (unless someone brings up something space-related), but I really enjoy making the pro-nuclear case here because it isn't dismissed out of hand and there are a lot of people open-minded and intelligent enough to give the issue a fair hearing.
I didn't know about Wylfa - the time may come when I'm enough of a nuclear geek to know the vital statistics of every reactor in the UK, but I haven't attained that level yet.
I've only visited two so far but I'm sure that figure will be going up in due course.