A few interesting things

I forgot to post for the last few weeks, so I'm going to make up for it by posting everything I meant to post.

First, an article from Scientific American that says that there is more radiation released from coal burning than from a running nuclear plant. I'm personally not surprised by that. Ideally no radiation should be released from a nuclear plant, whereas coal plants don't do much to stop emissions.

Here is the link to that.

Next, a Wired science article expanding on the potential use of Thorium as a new, better source of nuclear energy. It even mentions the molten salt reactor design, which I must say sounds awesome.

Another link.

Finally, on a slightly sillier note, I found the website to a 'long-term' luxury bomb shelter. It's kind of hilarious. I doubt any number of amenities and fancy rugs could reassure anyone if any situation arose where something like this would be necessary.

Last link.

Okay, that's enough stuff for now. I'll try to find something interesting for next week too.

Ben Roy