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How The ‘Generic Design Assessment’ Has Failed
The Generic Design Assessment (GDA) is a process which was set up in order to examine the designs for new power stations and iron out […]
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Emergency Planning – lessons not learnt from Fukushima
As a consequence of the events in Fukushima, the plans for protecting communities around Sizewell power station in the event of an emergency are being […]
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25,000 Jobs
Almost without fail when the possibility of new nuclear power stations at Hinkley or Sizewell are mentioned it is stated that ‘they will create 25,000 […]
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Hitachi ABWR – One Of The Least Reliable In The World
It has been proposed that Hitachi Advanced Boiling Water Reactors (ABWR) be build at Wylfa in Anglesey and Oldbury in Gloucestershire. The UK Parliament has […]
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USA Nuclear Plants Shut Due To Flaws
It was announced recently that the troubled San Onofree nuclear plant in the US is to be shut permanently1. The plant has had a large […]
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Drink Driving And Radiation Risk
Although I have talked about this topic previously here is another attempt of explaining a big misconception about radiation risk by comparing it to drink-driving. […]
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Quadratic Equations
This is for Thomas and Emma and all those who loved mathematics at school. We want to solve a quadratic equation which can be written […]
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Latitude and Longitude Distance Formula
What I want to do is to expand the bounds of a Google Maps by a certain distance. This is because I want to include […]
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Converting Radians in Degrees Latitude and Longitude
The task of converting radians to degrees is reasonably trivial. However, latitudes and longitudes are usually expressed in the range -90 to 90 for longitude […]
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Backing Up A MySQL Database With PHP Using MySQLi
I needed to download a database as SQL and thought ‘why re-invent the wheel?’ However, I could not find any snippets that use MySQLi rather […]
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