NNadir Blogger Extraordinair

NNadir stopped blogging on Daily Kos about a year ago. His Daily Koss blog should be regarded as something of a treasure. He occasionally drops in to Energy From Thorium to read and comment on a discussion, but that is not his forte. I have attempted to induce him to blog on Nuclear Green, but so far he does not seem interested. Yet in addition to his Daily Kos Blog, Nnadir kept a second blog on Democratic Underground.com and there continues the threads he followed on his Daily Kos blog.

Nnader is probably an acquired taste. Yet he has a great deal of value to say, more perhaps than any other pro-nuclear blogger. His reach is far as well, For example he discusses “Oh. Oh. 'Renewable' Energy Journal Publishes Data on the Carbon Cost of Um, 'Renewable' Energy.”

“The values in table 7 in grams of CO2 per kwh:
Coal: 975.3
Oil fired 742.1
Gas fired 607.6
Nuclear 24.2
Wind 9.7–123.7
Solar PV 53.4–250
Biomass 35–178
Solar thermal 13.6–202
Hydro 3.7–237
For so called "renewable" energy schemes, the range is derived from the fact that renewable energy does not produce the same amounts of CO2 everywhere but is dependent on location.”

We also find, "The Operational Lifetime of Wind Turbines in Denmark: Government Data."

No “nuclear blogger” has written more on nuclear fuel reprocessing and about fission products than Nnader. For those of you who debate nuclear waste issues, reading NNadir on reprocessing and fission products is a must. Naadir typically is more interested in the Uranium as opposed to the thorium fuel cycle. But he has written about thorium. Thus it is not surprising that he is more interested in the reprocessing of fuel from conventional Light Water Reactors, and the use of fast breeders, than he has been in Molten Salt Reactors and thorium breeding. Nnadir is firmly in the nuclear camp and is a supporter of conventional nuclear technology. In an essay on , The Status of Advanced Nuclear Fuel Cycles,

“One may cavil about nuclear energy, but it is well understood that all of the usual - and largely ideological - objections aside, nuclear energy has the lowest external cost of all forms of scalable, continuous energy. By "external cost," we mean costs to the environment and human health - precisely the costs that are not paid "at the pump" or "at the outlet." Believe it or not, the external cost of nuclear energy is not only lower than all fossil fuels (by a large margin) but it is also lower than many more popular - if economically and energetically insignificant - renewable energy strategies. In fact, nuclear energy is safer than both solar energy and biomass energy, albeit in the former case, by a trivial margin. Depending on the nature of back-up and availability (and to some extent geography), nuclear energy is slightly less safe than hydroelectricity and wind power. However wind power is not continuous and hydropower is pretty much tapped out.”

In this essay, NNadir tells us a truth so simple that it has often been overlooked, yet is very important,:

In fact, so called "nuclear waste" is remarkable only in the sense that no one has ever died from it.”

This is what I would call called cutting to the chase.

Nnadar has extensively covered Indian fast breeder technology:

The Light of Day: India's Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactor: Some Technical Comments. (Pt 1)

The Light of Day: India's Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactor: Some Technical Comments. (Pt 2)

The Light of Day: India's Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactor: Some Technical Comments. (Pt 3)

The Light of Day: India's Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactor: Some Technical Comments. (Pt 4)

The Light of Day: India's Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactor: Some Technical Comments. (Pt 5)

The Light of Day: India's Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactor: Some Technical Comments. (Pt. 6)

The Light of Day: India's Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactor: Some Technical Comments. (Pt. 7)

To that list add,
Continuous Plutonium Recycling In India: Improvements in Reprocessing Technology.

As you begin to see, NNadir covers his topics in very considerable depth. He is facinated by Plutonium.
See also the Plutonium Vector

Neptunium also gets attention: More On the Element Neptunium, a Constituent of So Called "Dangerous Nuclear Waste."
NNadir also pays a great deal of attention to Fission Products. He informs us that “Supply of Rhodium in Used Nuclear Fuel To Exceed World Supply From Ores by 2030.”

And reveals that “Indians Publish A Method To Recover High Purity Palladium From Used Nuclear Fuel.”

Cessium is best known as a radioactive nuclear weapons fallout danger as NNadir reveals in:
Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining, Even Mushroom Clouds: Cs-137 and Watching the Soil Die.

Cessium in discharged reactor fuel comes in for a lot of NNadir attention:
Profile of a "Dangerous Nuclear Waste," Cesium. Part 1.

Profile of "A Dangerous Nuclear Waste:" Cesium Part 2.

Profile of A "Dangerous Nuclear Waste:" Cesium, Part 3.

Profile of a "Dangerous Nuclear Waste:" Cesium, Part 4.

Profile of a "Dangerous Nuclear Waste," Cesium, Part 5.

Other fission byprodycts include Technetium,
Unalloyed Fear: Technetium, an Element of "Dangerous Nuclear Waste" (Pt.2)

Deliberately Eating "Dangerous Nuclear Waste:" Technetium, Part 3.

And Tritum:
Profile of Radioactive Substance Associated With Nuclear Power: Tritium.

Clearly then NNadir was and continues to be a valued member of the pro-nuclear community who has made an outstanding and enduring contribution to us with his blogs.