The Site Today   [Note:  Paragraph 5, on observable impacts to the area outside the plant, and paragraph 8, on observations at the sit...

A Critical Combination I was pleased last week to have the opportunity to attend two events associated with the official rollout of a rec...

Survey Shows High Salary,  Low Unemployment It seems to me that nuclear engineering often doesn't even show up as a separate field ...

Architecture and the Manhattan Project  I recently visited an exhibit on the Manhattan Project at the Building Museum in Washington, DC ....

Scientist and Science Policy Advisor Burton Richter died on July 18.  He was a Nobel Prize winner who was active in both the world of ...

The End of an Era First, I must apologize for a long lapse in activity on this blog.  I have been busier than usual the past few months...

Not Always the Obvious Most conventional wisdom has looked at the rising use of solar and wind power and concluded that these are the pri...