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Did we plan for this?
There’s a lot of speculation out there about how much you can plan for accidents. And not just in the nuclear industry, but in every industry. The basic concept runs like this: “We’re going to do X, but X could … Continue reading
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Tagged fukushima diiachi, nuclear power plants, planning
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No Shutdown
By now you should have heard that there was no government shutdown due to lack of congress hammering out a budget for 2011. They managed to shake hands with each other at roughly 11 pm the night before the deadline. … Continue reading
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Tagged economs, government shutdown, spending cuts, stalled government
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Category 7! Oh No! We’re Doomed! Right?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Okay. Now let’s talk a little more rationally. The IAEA raised the event rating of the Fukushima accident to Level 7. The IAEA event scale goes from levels 1 to 7. The change in the event rating was not … Continue reading
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Tagged fukushim, japan nuclear, level 7, nuclear
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Update on the Japanese Situation
Likely Final Update for a While: At this point it has become difficult to sift reality from fantasy as the various media outlets have taken the information they want, parsed them together how they like, and then presented them as … Continue reading
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Tagged japan, japan earthquake, japan nuclear plant, nuclear plant
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Nuclear Plant Malfunction in Japan
If you didn’t already know, a rather massive earthquake struck Japan this morning. We’re already seeing the waves hit California, with some damage. However, one of the larger headlines has been about one of the nuclear plants that operates in the … Continue reading
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Tagged japan earthquake, japan nuclear plant, malfunction, nuclear, nuclear plant, plant
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Revolutions in the Middle East
Several countries in the middle east and northern Africa are undergoing social and political revolutions. There are a lot of things to say about these revolutions, but the most interesting by far to me has been our reaction as a … Continue reading
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Tagged having self ideas, ideas, middle east, middle east revolution, revolutions
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Big Day Tomorrow
The fallout from the President’s state of the union address, and more importantly the meeting of the Federal Reserve to determine their policy for the next year happens tomorrow. I think the Fed’s meeting will be more important because it … Continue reading
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Tagged consumer spending, federal, federal resever meeting, government bonds, mcdonalds raise price, meeting, reserve, state of the union address
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2 Big Things and a small thing…
…that’s waaaaaay more important. So I’ve kinda paired down my political commentating to about once week and thus my posts will likely be longer and cover multiple topics, but you’ll only have to hear me rant once a week now … Continue reading
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Tagged bonds, china, chinese president, chinese state dinner, debt, european, european bond debt, health care, house, House repeal health care, obama, policy, president, repeal, state dinner, vote
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Illinois and Conspiracy Theories
So Illinois’ lame duck state legislature passed two very interesting pieces of law before they left for good. The first was a rather large tax increase and the second was the abolishing of the death penalty in the state. Neither … Continue reading
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Tagged conspiracy, cut spending, illinios, shooting, socialist, tax increase, taxes
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America’s Energy Future Part 4
Sorry for the delay everyone. I hope you had a great New Years and welcome to 2011, only two more years of the Obama regime, at least hopefully. Anyways, back to the explanation of America’s Energy Future. If you don’t … Continue reading
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Tagged america energy future, coal, economy, loan, natural gas
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