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Picking Balls
A bag contains four balls – two red, one white and one blue. Someone takes two balls from the bag and tells you that at […]
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‘Bigging Up’ Nuclear
The director of one of the companies I used to work for had a technique of getting contracts which is probably not that uncommon. He […]
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The Problem of Complex Systems
This post is a bit abstract, but I hope it will help people understand the problems involved with dealing with complex systems. The reason it […]
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The Problems Of Fail-safes and Redundancy
When discussing nuclear safety we are often told by the nuclear industry that they have ‘fail-safes’ , ‘built in redundancy’ etc that make their reactors […]
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Nuclear Power – Converting Mass Into Energy?
One of the things that most people know about nuclear power is that it about turning mass into energy – E= mc2. Although this is […]
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The ‘unscientific’ approach to Radiation Risk
This post was going to be about the ICRP’s (International Committee on Radiological Protection) risk model. However, Dr Chris Busby has recently written1 an article […]
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A is for Atom
Here is a link to a 1992 programme by Adam Curtis called ‘A is for Atom’ What I found interesting was the interviews with some […]
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Human Rights, Worker Rights and the EU
In my previous post I noted a few things about the Human Rights Act and the European Convention on Human Rights. In this post I […]
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David Cameron, Human Rights Act and Freedom Speech
In my last post I talked a bit about ‘humanitarian war’. In this post I want to make a few points about how this foreign […]
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Iraq / Syria – Humanitarian War?
“There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented … […]
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