NUCLEAR ENERGY FACTS REPORT – APRIL 2010

This is the latest edition of the Nuclear Energy Facts Report.  The Facts Report itself contains only facts that manifest in the physical world; no opinions, conclusions, recommendations, or attempts at consensus-building.  But we have found it helpful to precede the Facts Report with some explanatory material on energy production, and conclude with some comments on the historical context.

As always, we welcome input from readers.  This is not intended to be public relations document for the general public, but an interactive reference document, for people who work in, or report on, the energy production field.

Ted Rockwell

http://tedrockwell.typepad.com/energy/

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LIVE Japan Earthquake Map - Amazing!

Here’s a fascinating bit of infographic which I’ve been watching for the past few days. The Japan Quake Map is a satellite view of Japan including a sub-oceanic view of its surrounding faultlines. The map is animated to give you a time-lapse view of exactly what the Japanese people are going through. It’s horrific—there have been, so far, 855 quakes since the 11th of March. If you turn on sticky dots, you can watch these build over time and plot them on the map.

This is a fantastic macro-view tool built by Paul Nichols of the University of Canterbury’s Digital Media Group, who also built one for the recent Christchurch quake (which is still happening, and up to 5782 quakes) in New Zealand.

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Waste In Space

Currently, a thick band of levitating space junk—composed primarily of broken satellite pieces and discarded rocket boosters—skirts the Earth. Two or three times a day, a satellite circling our planet narrowly misses a torrent of the orbital debris. This phenomenon has jeopardized not only current space travelers, but future missions as well.

A collaboration between GOOD and Column Five Media

Sources: NASA, Wall Street Journal, U.S. Space Surveillance Network,Space.com, Universe Today, National Geographic, ESA Debris Office