Mar. 10th, 2008

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Yet more warnings not to go there from people with some cred on the issue.  One retired physicist and astrodynamicist, one nuclear patent holding emeritus professor of nuclear chemistry at the University of Southern California and one consulting systems and safety engineer.  This is a fairly long article but I'll snippet the punch line from the conclusion.

The Future of Nuclear Power - Monthy Review - Feb 08
by Robert D. Furber, James C. Warf, and Sheldon C. Plotkin

"Regardless of how attractive it may seem or how hard the Bush administration promotes the interests of his nuclear power industry supporters, electricity from nuclear fission is still so hampered by the problem of high-level waste disposal, that any building of new plants would be a serious mistake. The analysis that two of the authors performed some years ago is still valid.* Recent technical advances are still grossly inadequate, and the future of nuclear power, as we know it, is very poor at best."
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Yet more warnings not to go there from people with some cred on the issue.  One retired physicist and astrodynamicist, one nuclear patent holding emeritus professor of nuclear chemistry at the University of Southern California and one consulting systems and safety engineer.  This is a fairly long article but I'll snippet the punch line from the conclusion.

The Future of Nuclear Power - Monthy Review - Feb 08
by Robert D. Furber, James C. Warf, and Sheldon C. Plotkin

"Regardless of how attractive it may seem or how hard the Bush administration promotes the interests of his nuclear power industry supporters, electricity from nuclear fission is still so hampered by the problem of high-level waste disposal, that any building of new plants would be a serious mistake. The analysis that two of the authors performed some years ago is still valid.* Recent technical advances are still grossly inadequate, and the future of nuclear power, as we know it, is very poor at best."
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I started wondering who did the Areva "Funkytown" advert and what software or techniques they used to to it.  Discovered a very interesting French design company, H5. Notes on Areva's ad development here. Wikipedia's entry on Areva notes that the ad was mad from "3,000 cel-shaded animation".

They used the same style as the Areva ad for this music video.  Röyksopp - Remind me.

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I started wondering who did the Areva "Funkytown" advert and what software or techniques they used to to it.  Discovered a very interesting French design company, H5. Notes on Areva's ad development here. Wikipedia's entry on Areva notes that the ad was mad from "3,000 cel-shaded animation".

They used the same style as the Areva ad for this music video.  Röyksopp - Remind me.

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