Hurricane Matthew affected the continental US last week, the first since 2005. It was a category 5 hurricane that caused more than 1000 deaths, mostly in Haiti, and about 7 billion dollars damage as a preliminary estimate. As Matthew quickly moved toward Florida and the Carolinas, rigorous procedures to ensure safe operations of nuclear powerContinua a leggere “Comparing nuclear power plants and wind farms resilience to hurricanes”
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Megatons to megawatts
[how to produce electricity by getting rid of 20k nuclear warheads] This article was originally published in Italian on the 12th of March, 2014. Last weeks world news – a source of concern for the condition of Ukraine’s population – have brought back to the top the spectre of the nuclear weaponry race. In additionContinua a leggere “Megatons to megawatts”