Monday 30 April 2012

Episode Two - Radiation

On this months show we discuss the mysterious world of radiation and how the public perceive this ethereal entity. Along the way we discover girls have to play cricket in order to be cool, Vladimir Putin may want to audition for The Walking Dead and there be nuclear sheep in those hills! Our guest speakers are Joel Turner, Kate Tucker and Peter Gill.

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Monday 23 April 2012

Climate Change: What Are Our Chances?

By guest blogger, Aiden Peakman


Industrialised countries have decided that, in order to avoid the most severe impacts of climate change, warming of more than 2oC (above pre-industrialised levels) should be avoided. Any higher than this and the possibility of hitting tipping points becomes much higher. For example, large quantities of potent greenhouse gases locked in frozen soil could be released, which increases warming, which increases the amount released from the frozen soil and so on. Using a few simple numbers we can work out how likely it is that we will limit global warming to this level.


Friday 13 April 2012

PRISM for the UK's plutonium – Pros and Cons

By guest blogger, Matthew Gill


The UK has a lot of plutonium and recently decided to look at GE-Hitachi's PRISM reactor as an alternative disposal method to the more common MOX (mixed oxide) route. It's an important issue at the moment as the UK's large stockpile of civil plutonium goes against the ideology of a proliferation-resistant fuel cycle and is widely regarded as unacceptable.

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Sunday 1 April 2012

Nuclear Accidents in Context

By guest blogger, Joel Turner


Fukushima and Chernobyl have given nuclear power a bad rep. Fear of radiation, whilst completely understandable, has been blown out of proportion when compared to the risks associated with other industries and even renewable energy sources. This article aims to give some context.