To continue our discussion of some of the aspects of the (very complex) argument over nuclear power, I've picked just a couple of selected topics for followup this week. The written questions about these readings are posted to the portal page under Week 8.
Topic 1: Tritium Leaks at Vermont Yankee Power Plant
A Vermont Public Radio update from last week
A "Vermont Digger" blog posting/news release about Greenpeace criticisms of the Yankee plant
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Backgrounder on Tritium releases at power plants
Topic 2: Security of Nuclear Power Plants
A repost (see posts last week) of an opinion piece by retired CIA terrorism expert Charles Faddis
A rebuttal of this piece, written by the head of the Nuclear Energy Institute (an industry group)
Topic 3: The argument against reprocessing
I've pointed out that there are some experts out there who feel that "reprocessing" nuclear waste is a really bad idea. Here's an opinion piece that argues that point of view (it's a pdf document - if you have trouble reading it, email me and I'll send it to you):
Frank von Hippel opinion piece against reprocessing
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