The GFunK Experience

What has actually happened so far at Fukushima Daiichi

2011-03-16T15:02:00.001Z

http://mitnse.com/2011/03/13/why-i-am-not-worried-about-japans-nuclear-reactors/

An in depth well written article up at the MIT Nuclear Science and Engineering departments website, explaining the construction of these particular nuclear reactors and what some experts think has happened at Fukushima Daiichi based on the facts that have been released so far.

Tragedy in Japan (should) make Nuclear power safer in the future

2011-03-15T17:25:00.000Z

Despite the tragedy that it is, the situation at Fukushima Daiichi in Japan will (or at least should) make future nuclear reactors safer -if not more expensive- and the designs of more modern reactors (remember those reactors were built over 40 years ago) already take what has happened there into account and their cooling systems don't require outside power.

If anything, this strengthens the case for new build (out of the reach of Tsunamis!), rather than life extension of the current reactors, as renewables are not sufficiently advanced and cannot adequately replace our power supply on their own [after the Saudis cut off our oil supply when we tell them not to occupy Bahrain!], and the older nuclear reactors clearly need replacing.

The Blog-Resurrection of Gary P Collins

2011-03-15T17:10:00.001Z

After more than 5 years of complete neglect, I have decided to revive this blog to give myself considerably more room to write things that nobody is going to read than the infuriatingly tiny 140 characters you get on Twitter.
I'll try to keep this the place for all my points of view and stuff about geeky things and goings on in the world/universe, so all the stuff to do with my superstar DJ/Producer/Promoter alias, Gazzinho, stays full of cool shizzle and clear of my real personality! So head over to http://gazzinho.blogspot.com / @gazzinho for the more interesting stuff!
I will of course keep you Tweeps (@GaryPCollins) and Facebookers updated when a new insightful or ignorant, rambling or ranting update gets posted.

1st post!

2005-11-02T16:24:00.000Z

This post could be the first of many... unless I can sort out gBlog. I'll either make all my posts on my website - http://www.garycollins.co.uk - or try and get my site's frontpage to import the blog stories from here.

Content to come. This is only a test.