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This talk page, a page of "crazy"?

Most, if not all, of the content on this talk page is largely supportive of edits I've made and interesting documents I've found. It is essentially a digital scrap-book of notes taken during research and though it may appear odd, if you've ever researched a topic you'll know that, such lines of enquiry, often have a tendency to branch out very rapidly. Boundarylayer (talk) 00:20, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

What makes something, or someone, likeable by the wider public?

I'll start with a bold statement: What artistic or marketting strategy connects Noel Gallagher with Shakespeare? A preposterous comparison you might say, but would you like to bet on that?

At the time of Shakespeare it was common to appreciate more the similarity with an admired classical work, and Shakespeare himself avoided "unnecessary invention".

Noel Gallagher is cut from the very same cloth, he is an honest artist when it comes to explaining where he gets his "inspiration". He openly acknowledges he writes songs that have concepts and structures "lifted" from previous work, mainly his favorite band, the Beatles, he has no trouble admitting this song writing approach and on the charge that this is just advanced plagarism, he unabashedly likes to shrug this off by saying, "you're just kicking yourself that you didn't think of doing it first".

This is not to say that Shakespeare and Noel Gallagher are not talented polishers or improvers of art. That is of course a skill in-of-itself that doesn't exactly grow on trees. However it is undeniable that both Shakespeare & Gallagher honed in on, or followed, what 1930s marketting guru, Raymond Loewy, called his primary insight into why people like the things they do. It essentially boils down to the marketing philosophy of "more advanced yet acceptable". "Loewy believed that consumers are torn between two opposing forces: neophilia, a curiosity about new things; and neophobia, a fear of anything too new. "As a result, they gravitate to products that are bold, but instantly comprehensible. Loewy called his grand theory “Most Advanced Yet Acceptable”—maya. He said to sell something surprising, make it familiar; and to sell something familiar, make it surprising."

Many have re-discovered this truth, several years ago, "Paul Hekkert, a professor of industrial design and psychology at Delft University of Technology, in the Netherlands, received a grant to develop a theory of aesthetics and taste. On the one hand, Hekkert told me, humans seek familiarity, because it makes them feel safe. On the other hand, people are charged by the thrill of a challenge, powered by a pioneer lust. This battle between familiarity and discovery affects us “on every level,” Hekkert says—not just our preferences for pictures and songs, but also our preferences for ideas and even people. “When we started [our research], we didn’t even know about Raymond Loewy’s theory,” Hekkert told me. “It was only later that somebody told us that our conclusions had already been reached by a famous industrial designer, and it was called maya."

Many questions about popularity and why certain technologies fail to achieve acceptance, likewise can be explained by using this kind of sieve-like classification scheme, pioneered by Loewy. Questions like: Why did the gamecube fail, why is there such opposition to GMOs, or even why isn't my favorite band popular with everyone? Could it be that not everyone has been exposed to the songs you grew up listening to, so what may be semi-familiar to you, is not semi-familar to them? Quite distinctly, but with the same framework of thinking, could it be that the gamecube was a failure for that computer games-console company, as they misapplied the philosophy of; "to sell something familiar make it surprising"? I think this is definitely one way to explain the failure, as the gamecube was as, the name suggests, shaped like a bulky platonic cube, so people instinctively put it in the social pariah category, as it required customers to get over the mental hurdle of the practical realities of how exactly were they going to make the unwieldy shaped cube, fit into the slot where their previous games console resided - the ubitquitous rectangular shelf. For you young-ins reading this, Wall mounted flat-screen TVs were not yet commonplace at the time, so TVs had to sit on big wooden cabinets, cabinets that frequently were designed to store rectangular cuboids, not literal cubes.]

Could this knowledge help us see how to fix the world?

Now all that about consumer products and why band A is liked more than band B, is pretty much on the light-side of applications of this MAYA/familiarity concept. Taking it to a more serious matters: why are so many tribes against vaccination and what can be done about increasing acceptance rates? I wonder, could it be useful to take the persuasion that Loewy/Hekkert discovered, this "MAYA" technique to these misunderstanding tribes? By telling the tribe that: a vaccine is nothing different than an advanced and more permanent version of the protective measure of a snake-handler injecting("ingesting") miniscule amounts of venom, so as to build up a resistant "shield" that would save his life when he inevitably gets bitten by a man-killing snake. I do really wonder, could this be an effective tactic to employ, that would save lives?

Similarly, could it be used to increase the acceptance and popularity of Genetically modified organism? As thru the MAYA lens, one begins to see why certain memes are effective at persuasing others. Such as - "man has been modifying organisms for generations, just look at the number of dog breeds, which trace their origins all the way back to the relatively homogenous looking wolf, GMOs are just a continuation of this human tradition, to manipulate organisms to better suit our society, now we're just making it a science and no longer do we have to wait around for generations of breeding to occur to see the traits we desire".

This is, all well and good, and a nice thing to keep in mind, if you like to play-it-safe and don't want to fall into the trap of becoming the dredded "social-outcast".

But if you want my take on it, I loathe similarity and the more "out-there" a new thing is, the better, because if you think about it, all the great things you see around you started off with people initially shaking their heads at it in disapproval, only for a small group of the smarter public-at-large to then stop, and to really see it thru and realize that in fact, it was a brilliant idea. It is only from really "out-there" things that a monumental revolution can spring, not merely the slow evolution of playing-it-safe that we see around us and we're all so jadedly bored by.

T.rue G.enius undeniably comes from these "out-there" people. Yet our culture has increasingly shunned them, in favor of wanting to live on the slow death that is the self-reflecting, slow-improvement street the Western world now sits with its collective fat-ass. Despite it being obvious that what we desperately need to solve the world's problems is precisely these kind of out-there solutions. This cancer of being cautious in what you allow yourself to imagine, should be firmly picked up and kicked out the door, ejected into the fire, as this lack of imagination is the very problem we see in the economy, in the glacial advancement of science, etc.

True Genius however is always strongly opposed by those with investments in the present system of culture, take the first person to invent fire, or take Einstein's general relativity for example. I don't know how familiar you are with the over-arching public and scientific reaction, but it would be an understatement to say that the latter was not widely accepted, and still has groups that refuse to entertain the possibility that; yes, the cosmos does appear to behave like a 4-dimensional fabric, in which gravitational waves propagate. So you should shudder to think what they did to the first person to reliably ignite a fire(though maybe they were scared to death of that wizard/witch, and made them their god...who knows, I've a hunch though that people didn't instantly accept it).

As Henry Ford, the man primarily responsible for revolutionizing travel into something that is now quick and cheap, famously put it, "don't give people what they want, if I had given people what they wanted, I never would've mass produced the car, I would've been out there trying to sell faster, shinier, horses".

Boundarylayer (talk) 07:20, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

References

Range of Livens Large Gallery Flame Projector

I have removed the range of Projector and the Spartacus ref. as I think we need more reliable sources. I hope it is OK with you. Perhaps we could restore our sensible specualtion after the DYK attempt. I have raised this on the talk page. Best wishes (Msrasnw (talk) 11:34, 20 April 2011 (UTC))

No problem, the reference is all we have to go on though, I continued this discussion with you on the talk page, unfortunately you never replied. Hope you're alright! Boundarylayer (talk) 02:31, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

November 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article Government of Ireland Act 1914, please cite a reliable source for your addition. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. See Wikipedia:Citing sources for how to cite sources, and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. ISTB351 (talk) 00:55, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

My reference is now provided, please see pg 168, Cork was a centre of considerable industrial capacity in the early 20th century, much as Belfast was Boundarylayer (talk) 01:44, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

References

Chlorane Bar attack

This attack never received much publicity, although it took place in Belfast's city centre and the victims (5 in all) were both Catholic and Protestant. As soon as I find sources I shall create the article. Martin Dillon describes the attack in detail in his book on the Shankill Butchers (they helped carry it out), but only one chapter is currently available on Google Books. Another attack which did receive a lot of publicity when it happened but has since been forgotten was the Benny's Bar bombing by the UDA in Sailortown, Belfast. It took place on Halloween night 1972. Two little girls in costume playing outside near a bonfire were killed in the blast.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 07:23, 28 November 2011 (UTC).

Copyright

You added some text to Firestorm, but did not add the source from which you got it. Most of it was copied from:

• American National Fire Protection Association (2005), Scawthorn, Charles; Eidinger, John M.; Schiff, Anshel J. (eds.), Fire Following Earthquake, Issue 26 of Monograph (American Society of Civil Engineers. Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering), American Society of Civil Engineers Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering (illustrated ed.), ASCE Publications, p. 68, ISBN 9780784407394

Please see Wikipedia:Copyright violations which is a legal requirement. I have modified the edit so that it is now a quote and not a breach of copyright.

On a slightly different note. I also cleaned up the citations that you gave. You might like to take a look at how I did it as it is always easier to follow edits to citations one has been involved in creating than just reading the help page Footnotes.

Finally I removed the sentence "This is regardless of what initially..." because I could not find mention of thermal heat from an atomic blast causing a firestorm in the cited material, and even if I had, there is a question of if it would be a WP:SYN to couple it to the quote. -- PBS (talk) 11:52, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Please see Talk:Firestorm/Archive 1#Minimum firestorm requirements -- PBS (talk) 17:11, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Firstly you did not clean up the reference section at all, you have cited Glasstone and Doland but the authors names are Glasstone and Dolan. Not 'Doland', where did you get that from? secondly, the 2005 book you mentioned(if it contains the same material) has copied Glasstone and Dolan's 1977 book.

I did cite were I sourced the material:

The effects of Nuclear Weapons, as can be found here--> http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/effects/eonw_7.pdf#zoom=100 look at pg 24 of the thermal effects chapter. Notice the author's name Dolan' and not 'Doland' as you suggested.

If the 2005 book copies Dolan's book then that's news to me, but don't go around claiming copyright nonsense when I clearly did cite the source, if you had been bothered to actually look at the edit history.

And as for the last point, yes I agree it would be better to go for something like a direct quote as it may cause confusion amongst readers(as evidenced by you), you even went to the extent of reverting what the source essentially says, so yes instead of my succinct Regardless of what initially causes the fires, including the thermal pulse from a Nuclear Weapon

We should go for the direct quote, that says the same thing - "7.61 The incendiary effects of a nuclear explosion do not present any especially characteristic features. In principle, the same overall result, as regards destruction by fire and blast, might be achieved by the use of conventional incendiary and high-explosive bombs. ..."

• Glasstone, Philip J.; Dolan, eds. (1977), ""Chapter VII — Thermal Radiation and Its Effects", The Effects of Nuclear Weapons (Third ed.), United States Department of Defense and the Energy Research and Development Administration, pp. 229, 200, § "Mass Fires" ¶ 7.58 {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)

Boundarylayer (talk) 21:44, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

Firestorm citation requested and supplied

With your recent addition to the article Firestorm. You added a citation:

• The Cold War Who won? pg 82 to 88 Chapter 18 http://www.scribd.com/doc/49221078/18-Fire-in-WW-II

As far as I can tell you are citing page 88 but, I could not work out from the link how to see what the :full citation is (publication date) author, isbn etc. Please could you add that information to the article. :-- PBS (talk) 15:33, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

I wish I could Philip, I tried searching for the book online with no hits or leads towards what the books ISBN number is, or author. All I know about the book is that it seems to be called The Cold war: Who won? and that Chapter 18 is on scribd and it was published on the 18 Dec 2010.

However all is not lost, The material within the book is well referenced, citing the firebombing reported in Horatio Bond’s famous book Fire in the Air War National Fire Protection Association,1946, p. 125 [Why didn’t Berlin suffer a mass fire?]

The table on pg 88 of Cold War: Who Won? was sourced from the same 1946 book by Horatio Bond Fire in the Air War pg 87 and 598. Fire in the Air War is for sale from amazon, and on my wish list, included is it's ASIN number. http://www.amazon.com/Fire-Air-War-Horatio-Bond/dp/B000I30O32 ASIN: B000I30O32

I'm also wondering Philip, do you consider Modern cities likely to Firestorm in a Nuclear Warfare scenario?

Personally, from what I've read, including Lynn Eden's 'Whole World on Fire', Mass fires would likely result but the vast majority of modern cities would not be expected to Firestorm, which is a whole different animal, sadly Eden appears to consider the two to be one and the same. An example being that she writes Nagasaki formed into a firestorm on pg 20 of her book, but supplies no reference for that, she really stands alone with that opinion, and if she considers the fire at Nagasaki to be a firestorm then the fires at Kassel in WWII/ the Bombing of Kassel in World War II and many other large mass fire conflagrations must then also be considered a firestorm under her definition.

The fact that Nagasaki didn't form a firestorm is well referenced. Quotation from THE ATOMIC BOMBINGS OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI by The Manhattan Engineer District, June 29, 1946.

The conflagration in Hiroshima caused high winds to spring up as air was drawn in toward the center of the burning area, creating a "fire storm". The wind velocity in the city had been less than 5 miles per hour before the bombing, but the fire-wind attained a velocity of 30-40 miles per hour. These great winds restricted the perimeter of the fire but greatly added to the damage of the conflagration within the perimeter and caused the deaths of many persons who might otherwise have escaped. In Nagasaki, very severe damage was caused by fires, but no extensive "fire storm" engulfed the city. In both cities, some of the fires close to X were no doubt started by the ignition of highly combustible material such as paper, straw, and dry cloth, upon the instantaneous radiation of heat from the nuclear explosion. The presence of large amounts of unburnt combustible materials near X, however, indicated that even though the heat of the blast was very intense, its duration was insufficient to raise the temperature of many materials to the kindling point except in cases where conditions were ideal. The majority of the fires were of secondary origin starting from the usual electrical short-circuits, broken gas lines, overturned stoves, open fires, charcoal braziers, lamps, etc., following collapse or serious damage from the direct blast. http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/atomic/hiroshim/hiro_med.html

Also in Exploratory analysis of Firestorms: pg 34 Nagasaki did not produce a fire storm. http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf&AD=AD0616638

Minor edits

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July 2012

Please do not attack other editors, as you did at Talk:Anti-nuclear movement with this edit. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you, -— Isarra (HG) ༆ 16:35, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

Sock?

Given your strongly pro-nuclear POV and many false accusations about others, I am prompted to ask: Are you a sock of User:Grundle2600? Johnfos (talk) 07:26, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

Never heard of that User before Johnfos, are they Irish too? furthermore I am insulted that you would suggest I am Pro-Nuclear, I cite everything I write and seek only to present the truth. Furthermore, where have I made 'false accusations about others'?

Listen, I understand you have been following me around on Wikipedia challenging many of my edits, including in relation to the Anti-nuclear movement and recently regarding Sovacool's Life cycle CO2 emission from Nuclear power ->

Nuclear Power

low-carbon power

Benjamin K. Sovacool

Climate change mitigation

You inserted 'Not in citation given' tages with respect to the 2012 Yale university reference I provided, so I sent you an explanation presenting that indeed both statements I made are in the citation, that 'nearly by a factor of three' is correct, as Sovacool cites 288 g CO2 per kWh, and the Yale Universty cites max of 110 g CO2 per kWh. However I have noticed you just completely removed the explanation I posted to you, on your talk page, on the 24th of August, may I ask, why did you do that?

Again, I request for you to remove those tags.

Finally, could you please desist in harassing me? It seems you have enough on your plate with your reincarnation research Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Canvassing regarding an issue with which you may have been involved.

Thanks.

August 2012

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy by adding commentary and your personal analysis into articles, you may be blocked from editing. --John (talk) 12:19, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

Hello John, I'm starting to notice a trend wereby the user Johnfos reports me to you simply because he disagrees with my referenced edits.

I have attempted to ask for outside help with this matter, requesting the user Rama to moderate- User_talk:Rama#Request_for_assistance_with_Anti-nuclear_movement

Please, take a look at the situation from our perspective for a moment, and you will see that my edits are well referenced, I understand from Johnfos's point of view they may appear distruptive as they do not follow his ideology, however I all I have tried to do is present the facts and level the bias in many of the articles here on wikipedia.

Hope you understand,

Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Boundarylayer (talk • contribs) 12:34, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

• Thanks for your reply. Nobody "reported" you in this instance; I noticed you making quite a few edits which seemed to contravene WP:NPOV. I strongly suggest enlisting the help of other editors in article talk before making potentially controversial edits in future. --John (talk) 18:44, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

Duly noted John, I'll do that more often, however I would like to make you aware that I am being harassed by the user Johnfos, they even attempted to erroneously report me as a sock, which is detailed below.

Boundarylayer (talk) 15:41, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

It appears I am your sockpuppet

It appears I am your sock puppet.

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Boundarylayer

PeterWesco (talk) 02:26, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Are they serious? how low will this anti-science zealot Johnfos go? Thankfully they realized we are seperate users, furthermore I object to the assertion that I'm anti environment. Just look at the edit history of Bromomethane, I recently added the alternatives sections.

MTM

Can you please move your agreement down to the move section:

Talk:Mountaintop_removal_mining#Requested_move — Preceding unsigned comment added by PeterWesco (talk • contribs) 16:29, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

Done, although like I explained earlier, I think that Coal MTM should be stopped as the available evidence suggests that the human impacts of the process are unacceptable.

Boundarylayer (talk) 15:04, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

Having noticed you removed my reply to you via your talk page a number of days ago, I've taken it upon myself to put my post here.

Like you I am becoming increasingly aware that wikipedia has become a soapbox for many environmental groups, who attempt to overblow the environmental impacts of many human endeavours, including Supersonic Transport. However in terms of Coal use, I tend to agree with the peer reviewed conclusions on the issue. Coal use kills more people and pollutes the environment far more than all other human enterprises combined. That is not to say that the article wasn't a POV piece pushed by the likes of the usual suspects, which clearly it was, and I commend your efforts in attempting to set it straight.

However although I am aware of Carbon capture and remediation technology, these have yet to be fielded on a large scale, and if they are fielded, I imagine that the price attached to them will make Coal uneconomical in comparison to other sources of energy.

So although I agree with your efforts in principle, that is, to present the facts and not the environmental weasal words, scare mongering and half truths popular amongst the likes of the the usual suspects. On the other hand, from what I've read, No matter which way you look at it Coal use is destroying a lot of ecosystems, and most importantly endangering human health, and for that reason I do not support it.

For example,

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110623090001.htm

'The researchers, led by Melissa Ahern, health economist and associate professor in WSU's College of Pharmacy, found 235 birth defects per 10,000 births where mountaintop mining is most common in four central Appalachian states. That's nearly twice the rate of 144 defects per 10,000 in non-mining areas.'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101006085228.htm

coal-fired power plants are the leading source of mercury air emissions globally

Best wishes,

Boundarylayer (talk) 12:01, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Sourcing

We cannot use YouTube and the like as sources. See WP:RS regarding policy on what can be used. --John (talk) 05:30, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

I see, are you referring to -

During a 2010 lecture at the Univserity of Missouri, which was broadcast by C-Span, Dr. Mueller has also argued that the threat from nuclear weapons, including that from terrorists, has been exceedingly overexaggerated, both in the popular media, and by officials.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lbbZ3oF-xA Book TV: John Mueller, "Atomic Obsession"

Because I can replace it with the following http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/AtomicO

I'll do that right now. Boundarylayer (talk) 05:38, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

That's a bit better. We do prefer secondary sources where possible. I have copy-edited your additions to conform with WP:NPOV. Good effort. --John (talk) 16:45, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks man, I'm lucky that it was available, just trying to make the encyclopedia more representative of the expert opinion on the matter, have a good one!

Boundarylayer (talk) 17:01, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

Your edits

This is a collaborative project and edits like the one you made here are not acceptable. Here is why. I had laboriously corrected errors you made in your previous edit and your edit highlighted restored these. These errors include, but are probably not limited to:

• We only capitalise proper nouns and the starts of sentences. Words like "nuclear", "coal", and "gas" are not therefore capitalised, unless of course they start a sentence.
• The possessive form of the pronoun "it" is "its", and not "it's". Misusing the apostrophe this way is ugly and shows ignorance of basic English usage. Restoring the error with a hostile edit summary shows you are not here to work collaboratively, and that is a shame.
• We endeavour to write in a neutral manner here. This necessitates avoiding many of the words and constructions you seem to use as a matter of habit. We are specifically not allowed to "balance" one point-of-view with an opposing one, which is something you seem to want to do. Instead it is better to rewrite entirely in a way which is neutral. This I have not seen you do, or even try to do.

I have tried to engage with you and to help you to understand our norms; by trashing my work you hve indicated that you do not value my efforts. This makes me sad. I will therefore take no further part in working with you; in the interests of openness though, I will tell you that I will continue to monitor your edits. The next time I see you editing tendentiously or combatively, I will inform another administrator and ask for a block to be placed on your editing privilege. I know it is a steep learning curve to understand how we work here, but even a new user like you has to show a willingness to learn. I suggest that if you wish to avoid some sort of negative consequences, you will wish to alter the whole way you are editing. The next step is entirely up to you. Best regards, --John (talk) 08:32, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

In defense of Boundarylayer it seems that the caps were inadvertently added because they were in links. The way links work, is that the first letter can be upper or lower case, only the rest of it is case sensitive, but it is important to be careful to see the affect on the paragraph by inserting caps where they do not belong. So I do think the above is a bit harshly worded. Delphi234 (talk) 22:11, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

John, my sincere apologies if you feel that I have destroyed your work, I thought we were working well together? Yesterday was some good team work I thought. Sadly, you don't feel the same way.

I'll look at the edit history of a few of the articles I editted yesterday and try to see what you mean and correct them.

Boundarylayer (talk) 18:58, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Having just got back from work, I have taken a look at the edit in question - here upon doing so, I recognized instantly what you were trying to say, but honestly you got the wrong end of the stick.

It's my fault entirely, you see, I work out of notepad and copy paste directly from it into wikipedia. The order of edits that have led up to the misunderstanding were:

I made my first edit(with all the incorrect capitalizations) then unbeknownst to me, you helpfully fixed my over-capitalization etc, but then I found a new piece of information to be added(the International Court of Justice section) and blissfully unaware of your helpful intermediate edit, I added it to my over capitalizated notepad version and proceeded to copy it directly into wikipedia again(completely nulling all your work). I didn't think anything of it at the time, but having now recognized you went to the bother of trying to help me out, and removed the over capitalizations, I completely understand your frustration.

And in regard to my reason for editing, or edit summary, the second time I wrote - Injected some facts, double standard noted and reduced the bias.

That wasn't aimed at you, but at the article itself, the double standard of the article before my 1st edit was in respect to plastering the massive insurance cost of insuring against Chernobyl class events onto the page, but neglecting to make readers aware that this isn't uncommon to Nuclear plants as the insurance cost necessary to similarly insure every hydroelectric plant against Banqiao dam class failures would also be astronomical. After my 2nd edit(were I was blissfully unaware of your helpful hand) I was describing the double standard of the page in respect to not mentioning the insurance cost from fossil fuel use and rising sea levels. Hence the 'reduced the bias' and the 'injected some facts'.

The edit summary wasn't aimed at you at all man, my sincerest apologies for how it looked, I can understand it from your shoes.

Honestly, my mistake, but you completely got the wrong end of the stick, it was one big misunderstanding.

hope we can put this behind use. Boundarylayer (talk) 01:13, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

Thank you, I appreciate the apology. I do think that you need to rein in your strong opinions as per WP:NPOV. Your editing has a hint of WP:GREATWRONGS about it and that is best avoided. --John (talk) 05:43, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

I understand what you're saying about WP:GREATWRONGS but upon reading it, it appears that it is only a problem when the edit goes unreferenced, as I take pride in citing everything I write, if my references aren't good enough, just let me know. In respect to our previous misunderstanding, I'm confident that we can put it behind us?Boundarylayer (talk) 14:12, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

Actually, it is much more complicated than that Boundrylayer. I can write an article about someone and have it be nothing be negative material, all true, all sourced, but it still wouldn't be neutral. You can do with with any politician, for example. Wikipedia requires articles are not biased for or against, but rather we simply publish facts of all relevant sides, presented neutrally. This means, written in a tone that someone would write it if they didn't care one way or another about nuclear power. If you have strong feelings about nuclear power, pro or con, that makes it much more difficult, and maybe impossible. I've been here 6 years and have worked on thousands of articles, but there are some areas I can't work because I know I can't be neutral enough: I have too many opinions about them. So, I avoid them, or at most, will drop ideas on the talk page of the article and allow others who are not emotionally invested to add the material. If your goal is simply to get the material into the article, that would be a problem as Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a general purpose website, and as such, there is a vetting and editorial process that requires neutrality. If you feel you can't be completely unbiased about a topic, sticking to the talk page is the way you keep out of trouble with POV edits. References are only part of the solution, balance is just as important. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 22:43, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the input Dennis, to be honest, I don't have strong feelings about nuclear power, I do however have strong feelings about the endemic level of misinformation spread about it. If you could take a look at the High-level radioactive waste management talk page for a moment, you can see that is exactly what I'm trying to fix, published only a few hours before your message to me I have requested a collabortive effort to rewrite the utterly backward lede.

It is this seeming blind eye given to all this misinformation on wikipedia that worries me, and as it goes utterly unchallenged, with no 'POV' tags even attached I have to shake my head in disbelief. It is the fact this material has been sitting here so long on an encyclopedia that so shocks me, and spurs me on to right these obvious WP:GREATWRONGS, if I come off as un-neutral when doing this, then I can see nothing else to blame but the editorial process and apparent 'vetting' you say is supposed to catch these unsupported claims.

Not to be contrarian, but you say you publish facts, yet in the example above - High-level radioactive waste management - Where are the referenced facts in the lede that support the opening paragraphs, namely that the isotopes mentioned are 'High-level'? There is not a single sentence in the references that support that claim, and as I bring up on the talk page (with references), the lede couldn't be much more wrong as all the isotopes mentioned are in fact classified as 'Low-Level'.

Boundarylayer (talk) 23:45, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

I'm not qualified to determine the balance in nuclear articles, I'm just an admin that looks to preserve the peace. From my own experience as an editor, let me offer you this. When I'm trying to add info to give an article balance, and it gets reversed due to bias (yes, it has happened to me, more than once) I take it to the talk page, in the spirit of WP:BRD. If you just keep reverting, you shoot yourself in the foot and people will think you are being a POV warrior. If you politely address the edits on the talk page, and do so in a calm manner, then you have the chance to inform or educate others as to why the addition is needed. What you will find is often they will have ideas, perhaps taking part of your addition, rewording it or putting it in a different place, which will solve the problem. Or maybe they have a good reason why it shouldn't be there and you learn something. In general, the calmest people seem the most rational, and are the most persuasive here, just like in the real world. This isn't the fastest way to build an encyclopedia or fix problems, but our goal isn't speed, it is accuracy, and sometimes that means discussing, teaching each other, compromising. It should be done in a collegiate manner, which means a little deliberation and discussion if there is any controversy in the edits. Wikipedia isn't perfect, but WP:BRD is the most effective way to fix articles. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 12:55, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

You're absolutely right, I've just been exacerbated by the sheer level of misinformation being pushed out there. I've dutifully taken your advice on board and hope you have taken note that I haven't attempted to edit the High-level radioactive waste management page at all, my only input has been on the talk page.

Boundarylayer (talk) 17:41, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Mojo-chan

I saw your comments on Mojo-chan editing. What you saw is consistent with what I've seen on a different article. In another series of edits, on a completely different topic, he/she heavily changed material, without being knowledgeable about it. He/she even came up with rationale about some of the comments, that turned out to be unscientific at best. I think he/she means well, but his attempts are misguided. He/she thinks he knows, but in reality doesn't know about the subject.--Gciriani (talk) 14:56, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

Agreed, they appear to not even have a high school level of scientific knowledge. Could I ask, what other topics have they disgraced?

Honestly, I was beginning to lose hope in wikipedia, your message has lifted my spirits by reminding me, I am not alone.

Boundarylayer (talk) 15:21, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

It was Electrical muscle stimulation. You can see that in the talk page there was quite a heated discussion beteween him/her and me, at one time. Eventually more knowledgeable editor started contributing. So do not be discouraged, and persist :-) --Gciriani (talk) 15:27, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

lucky that, I know some people who are working on applying EMS to prevent muscle and bone loss from occurring in astronauts in free fall/'low gravity', its getting funding from the European space agency.

http://newsletter.enterprise-ireland.com/1dizr14imgu16wqwz8efc7?a=6&p=20093535&t=19885095

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/item/24575-astronauts-stay-fit-in-spac

update this year - http://www.ucd.ie/ucdtoday/2012/04APR/01-A-stimulating-experience-at-zero-gravity/index.html

The technique was also looked at by the Armstrong Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory -

AIAA PAPER 90-3135

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19910014388_1991014388.pdf

S ee page 46 to 47. EMS was studied to create more life like training flight simulators.

the paper discussed above is here, but is closed access.

http://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.1990-3135

The US air force in 2008 also looked at EMS to increase blood pressure(and therefore prevent black outs) in pilots who run the risk of passing out under combat maneuvers/G-LOC environments.

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a535870.pdf

This would be worthy of addition, no?

Boundarylayer (talk) 17:20, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

Gerald Holtom

I reverted your edit saying that the CND symbol was previously used by the 3rd Panzer Division of the Bundeswehr.The source you give does not refer to the Bundeswehr but to the Wehrmacht. If you trace back the claim that the CND symbol was used by the Wehrmacht, you will find that it comes from Theodor Hartmann's Wehrmacht Divisional Signs (London: Almark Publishing Co., 1970). Hartmann includes a drawing of what he says is a sign of the 3rd Panzer Division but no photo and no source. Hartmann is unknown apart from this book. For all these reasons he is an unreliable source. All other sources depend on Hartmann.

There is a photo showing the vehicle marking on the right, posted on Axis History Forum. The poster says it belonged to the 3rd Panzer Division; another poster says it was the 4th Panzer Division. Either way, it is easy to see how in 1970 it might have reminded Hartmann of the CND symbol and how he might have altered it for his book, either intentionally or unintentionally. Marshall46 (talk) 20:49, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

This is original research. Marshall46 (talk) 13:07, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

That may be your POV, but it really isn't OR.

have a look at any one of these references.

http://www.granddistraction.com/the-peace-symbol/

&

http://www.crossroad.to/Books/symbols1.html#peace

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http://www.vikingrune.com/2009/07/norse-runic-third-reich-symbols/

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Runic insignia of the Schutzstaffel

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Beside the 'IN' here on a Panzer 3 nazi tank model-

http://www.panzerworld.net/pictures/00166.jpg

Therefore, contrary to your POV, it isn't original research at all.

The symbol does indeed have an ancient and diverse history, I honestly find it bewildering why you are trying to censor this information. Please revert your censoring.

Thanks.

Boundarylayer (talk) 17:05, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

The symbol does indeed have ancient uses attached to it, with many references to that fact, from Viking runes to represent death*, to Nazis to the present CND use. You may argue that the Viking runes are not the CND symbol due to the fact they lack the circle. Granted, that's spliting hairs, but I can partly understand that. However it does appear that the symbol, with the circle included, was also used by the Nazis.

• see the Death rune here - Algiz and read the 'German Mysticism' section.

& again see here- Runic insignia of the Schutzstaffel

See here - http://www.symbols.com/encyclopedia/24/247.html

& for the circle included, see here- From the University of milwaukee.

http://web.archive.org/web/19991104132643/http://www.csd.uwm.edu/~jpipes/heer4p.html

&

4th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)

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http://www.feldgrau.com/PzDiv.php?ID=4

Presently the Campaign for nuclear disarmament article makes no mention to the fact that the CND resembles that of the Death Rune of the Vikings, nor does it make any mention to the fact the CND symbol is exactly the same as the 4th Panzer Division. This is a very strange omission.

This is no conspiracy, just a mere coincidence. it's not an 'exceptional claim' at all Marshall.

Boundarylayer (talk) 13:02, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

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What legal threats are you referring to John? Could you please point out where I made these alledged legal threats?Boundarylayer (talk) 07:01, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

Decline reason:

I'm declining because you are sockpuppeting elsewhere, see the link below. Normally, that would get you 2 to 4 weeks for for socking first time offense with me at the switch, so if someone does decide to unblock you, they might keep that in mind. It is unfortunate that you didn't just ask your question here and stay off your soapbox, and it would have been very easy and quick to unblock you for the original issue, with no more than a single acknowledgement. Instead, you have jumped out of the frying pan, and into the fire. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 16:14, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

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Calling an edit libel is considered a legal threat on Wikipedia, as it is an attempt to stifle or bully the editorial process with legal menace. — Coren ^(talk) 13:51, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

The solution is even more trivial than the "legal menace"; just say "oops, I didn't know that rule and won't do it again, and I certainly intend no legal action." --jpgordon^{::==( o )} 15:28, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

I've received a message from an obvious DUCK Boundarylayerlives on my userpage if an admin wants to tag that. Where did the blocking admin seek to clarify the issue before blocking as mentioned at WP:NLT to make certain it was an actual legal threat? Considering Johns very strong criticism of Boundarylayers editing [1] etc, the block should never have been made by him. He is clearly involved. IRWolfie- (talk) 08:42, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

I am obviously Boundarylayer and wouldn't use this account if I was able to reply without it.

I was a bit bewildered at the initial ban and so I had to look through my edits to see where I had made the legal threats, having found what I think is the offending section. I think it a bit extreme but would obviously re-word False and libel to simply false and misleading if given the opportunity to do so.

As jpgordon mentioned I didn't know the rule against using the word libel, and I didn't intend, nor do I intend, any legal action.

Thanks jpgordon!

I think this was one big misunderstanding, but if Dennis Brown Unblocked me in a few weeks for making legal threats that'd be cool, I suppose I should be happy enough with that, as long as it isn't indefinite?

Boundarylayerlives (talk) 09:35, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

A few of the admins here are probably in the US, so you might have to wait a few hours for a reply. IRWolfie- (talk) 13:42, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

• BoundaryLayer, Note Dennis Brown's reply: Stop using other accounts like Boundarylayerlives and wait a week [2]. Using other accounts is considered ban evasion. Even though Boundarylayer is blocked, you can still use it on this page to talk. IRWolfie- (talk) 13:59, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

I see, I wasn't aware that I could still edit my talk page with my original username while it was blocked, thanks for the heads up!

I'll wait a week no problem.

See you both on the 5th of November?

Boundarylayer (talk) 02:13, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Great, IRWolfie- (talk) 10:10, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

Sockpuppetry case

Your name has been mentioned in connection with a sockpuppetry case. Please refer to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Boundarylayer for evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with the guide to responding to cases before editing the evidence page. Pelarmian (talk) 15:34, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

• I've blocked the latest puppet. I understand that you don't understand the policies here, and trying to cut you a little slack, but you can only edit using the original account (as was pointed out above) and only here. Lets let this set a bit and I will be happy to review the case in week. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 13:47, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

I see, I wasn't aware that I could still edit my talk page with my original username while it was blocked.

I'll wait a week no problem.

See you on the 5th of November.

Boundarylayer (talk) 02:06, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

I don't think Boundarylayer's original infraction was serious, and he does appear genuinely not to understand Wikipedia policies, but before his block is lifted I think he ought to acknowledge his mistakes. Pelarmian (talk) 14:55, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

He already did. IRWolfie- (talk) 10:11, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

Unblocking

I'm unblocking you because it's obvious you understand now that calling good-faith edits libellous can make other editors believe you intend on suing them for libel, the blocking admin has become inactive, you understand that Wikipedia does not allow the use of sockpuppets, and the block is (was) currently set to never expire. Good luck editing, and my talk page is available if you have questions! Reaper Eternal (talk) 16:41, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Thank you, I'll remove the word libel from the edit that caused all this now. As I've said, I would have removed the word previously if I had known there was such a strong rule against. Water under the bridge and all that, regardless, thank you for your time and help!

Boundarylayer (talk) 04:47, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

Accusation of slander

You seem to be unaware that slander is actionable in law, and therefore to accuse somebody of slander, as you do on my talk page, is to make a legal threat. You have been blocked for this before and I suggest that in future you consider more carefully what you write. Pelarmian (talk) 10:34, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

I'm not making legal threats. The word slanderous has been changed to malicious. Thanks for the heads up, this time!

Boundarylayer (talk) 13:49, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Allow me...

...to offer you a tip. You seem to bump up against the "no legal threats" issue a lot. Any language that is designed to "chill" the conversation, ie: make people feel like there is a legal consideration so they should not talk or edit, that is going to be considered a legal threat. You will do better to focus on the merits of edits, on the policy issues, and less on your interpretation of what is slander/libel/illegal. If you find yourself wanting to comment on the legal status of an edit or comment, in any way, don't. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 22:54, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

No worries man! though to make everything clear, I have only used the words 'libel' and 'slanderous' in their defined non-lawsuit capacity. I've never attempted to chill the conversation with legal speak, or commented on the legal status of an edit.

I've been using the synonyms 'insulting' and 'malicious' now that I know it is taboo to use 'libel' and 'slander', in an attempt to lay to rest the idea that I've been issuing legal threats or trying to chill people with legal speak.

Boundarylayer (talk) 01:23, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

RfC Talk:Nuclear_power#Chapter_on_reserves

Hi B, thx for your collaboration.

Cf. your "By the why your google document is not available to be viewed, I was prompted with a message to request approval." I fell asleep right before I could press the public to all button :) It's open now. Thx for pointing it to me. So you can delete the remark now. Another line that gets deleted is always welcome I assume. Lots of your lines that need to be taken up in the article ... good luck ! :) --SvenAERTS (talk) 11:22, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

cf. Nuclear_power and Mojo

Hi B, just got an email from this wikibot that notifies me when something/somebody wrote something on my talk page. All these possibilities still amaze me. But coming to the point. I just clicked on the versions button of the page on nuclear power. It's been edited a lot since my edits. Otherwhise try to catch me on skype:svenaerts and let's use it's share screen functionality. That will make things go a lot faster. I've noticed your clashes with this Mojo person.--SvenAERTS (talk) 19:34, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

just received a message notifying me of your edit in my user page regarding skype. I'm still learning how developing a discussion works using these talk buttons. Shit now that topic below this one is not showing, just this topic is showing when editing/typing this paragraph. It referred to a request to solve a conflict. Don't know how the wikipedia bot detected and signalled it to you. Isn't that the way to go forward? --SvenAERTS (talk) 17:15, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

And regarding Mojo, if that's true wat you're writing, well the only thing is if you have references to the claims in what you're writing ... then it's ok. This is a "boring" encyclopedia. Just gathering facts and explanations based on facts will do too I guess. You can count upon me if you need a judge. PS I'm a judge at the Environmental Court of Brussels :) --SvenAERTS (talk) 17:15, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

Really? Great, how's Ireland doing? :) or do I want that answer considering we are over 80% dependent on fossil fuel imports. I digress, could you judge this for me- I initially added the following Berkeley paper. http://pb-ahtr.nuc.berkeley.edu/papers/05-001-A_Material_input.pdf that compares 1990 Wind and 1970 Nuclear plants on a steel and concrete usage basis, per unit of energy delivered. This was ridiculed as irrelevent, however Wind power(including modern/ next generation 2030 turbines) will still use more concrete and steel than Nuclear power. The reference below USGS augments and supports the argument of the earlier 1990 Wind turbine & nuclear plant Berkeley study.

According to the United States Geological Survey modern wind turbine towers - contain large quantities of steel and concrete, with current and next generation, that is Circa -2030- wind turbines not appreciably changing this fact, with 139.9 metric tons of steel and Iron required per MW(of nameplate) wind power installed in 2011 turbines, and 123 metric tons of steel and Iron in next generation, 2030 turbines.

• http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2011/5036/sir2011-5036.pdf Wind Energy in the United States and Materials Required for the Land-Based Wind Turbine Industry From 2010 Through 2030. Page 11 and table on pg 12.

With this 120+ metric tons of steel and Iron per MW being nameplate 2030 wind turbines, and therefore not actual power generation, one must apply the correcting calculation for the low capacity factor of the power source being used, as was corrected for in the prior University of California Berkeley study that cites 460 metric tons/MWe(ave) of steel being required for a 1990 Wind system when corrected for capacity factor.

Use the formula on the page below(as the Berkeley professor used) and you arrive at almost the same figures for even the 2030 wind turbines. If you'd like to double check for your own piece of mind. I did not include that corrected value in the article for the very reason as that would be considered Original research.

• http://pb-ahtr.nuc.berkeley.edu/papers/05-001-A_Material_input.pdf see page 5, note the capacity factor correction value which is absent from the USGS materials required for wind turbine data. Therefore 1990 wind turbines steel per MW usage cannot be perfectly compared with 2030 wind turbines steel per MW usage until Winds capacity factor is corrected for. Which is ~30%

Nevertheless even without correcting for capacity factor, in comparison the quantity of steel for nuclear is 40 metric tons (MT) per MWe(ave) being required for a 1970’s vintage nuclear power plant, and this is to say nothing of modern Generation III reactor and future Generation IV reactor designs which are following a trend of using less concrete and steel than older generation reactors.

This wind agency further backs up the USGS data. A wind turbine with a tower of 50-120 meters in height requires 100-200 metric tons of steel, with the hub and nacelle requiring 7-20 metric tons of Iron, and the drivetrain 15-25 metric tons of steel

• http://www.awea.org/issues/supply_chain/upload/supplier-handbook.pdf page 17 to 27.

Boundarylayer (talk) 07:07, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

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Kilns

I only know about pottery kilns, nothing about glass or smelting. You might be able to do glass work in a pottery kiln, which usually fires to 1300 deg. C., but I don't know about smelting. There's no need to get a new kiln. You can probably find one on ebay. Pelarmian (talk) 13:33, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

I'll check out ebay so. Have you done much pottery glazing? I was looking for an electrical or forced air wood heated kiln/furnace but all the electrical kilns I've encountered appear to all max out at 1287 C, I'll really need ~1700 C at the minimum.

I have up to now just being making do with rigged up David Gingery charcoal furnaces for metal casting and copper smelting. However I wish to transistion up and out to Iron, & Platinum smelting and glass and pottery work. Have you worked with Kaolinite/Mullite crucibles before? As they sound like a nice cheap alternative to Silicon carbide and other expensive refractories.

For example most of what is on email are the following kilns that are limited to ~1287 C. http://www.paragonweb.com/

These don't even have a maximume tolerated temperature listing- http://aimkiln.com/aimcrucible1411c.htm and these aren't suitable, and gas fired. http://www.wesman.com/products/combustion-systems/wesman-burners.html

Boundarylayer (talk) 16:49, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

Glazes rarely go above 1300 - very exceptionally some porcelains are glazed nearer to 1400. At 1700 clay melts. 19:08, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

I hear you man, I've watched many a Seger cone slump over and end up as a pool! But I don't need that temp for the clay glazing, I need it for smelting! :-D That is why I would like if there were an electrical temperature controlled resistance heated - all in one triple use kiln/furnance available. I've got Seger cones and a hand held pyrometer but it's quite a balancing act with those.

Boundarylayer (talk) 19:37, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

Discussion on CND article

It's a good idea to keep one discussion in one place. Please put your comments in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Talk page on not on my Talk page. And please sign your contributions. Pelarmian (talk) 09:26, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Judge at the Environmental Court of Brussels, is it enjoyable work?

Yes, because you get very quickly an overview of what's going on in the region/city. You meet for sure all the rich and powerful and their projects that all get either objections from the neighbors, either they want some derogation, either they want to ditch a fine from the environmental police in my case. And it runs like a little fire one has been appointed and all of a sudden people that despised you have to change their attitudes. Finally, one can also explain things in ones own words and mine are known to be in very plain language and e.g. lastly I've been able to transfer a lot of my technical knowledge on gsm's and radiation. Here in Brussels we have recently imposed a max of 1,5 V/m per gsm operator and since there's 4 operating in Brussels, the max total is 3 V/m. With that I think we've got the most stringent legislation in Europe and possibly in the world. This results in potential spots with no cover, which leads to unrest with the mobile phone operators as they have a legal obligation to cover the whole territory. The operators find them between a rock and a hard place: a population that wants service and nimby. I suggested an opening in that nobody obliged complaining users that can't use their mobile phone to buy mobile phones without an external antenna. Remarkable how there was no knowledge on the relation of antenna's and gain. That's nice to see one can help both technically and legally. I think it will be picked up: smart judge there, he even understands the technical side. What is frustrating is how the legal texts are published and that the legal dpt's from the universities don't enter into an endeavor to make things more readable, searchable, understandable with schemes and all. I think it possible to make it into flow-charts. Wikipedia and collaborative working is unknown apparently in these ivory towers. The pay is however small compared to what I'm used, so as soon as there's another large project ... they'll miss me. --SvenAERTS (talk) 18:09, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

cf your What got you interested in nuclear power?

I did my thesis at the VITO-SCK•CEN - Study Centre for Nuclear Energy. I got the privilege to meet some of the retired / independent consultants of the first hour of nuclear technology. At these days they lived days of euphoria, really believing they were working on giving a great gift to humanity: unlimited near to free of charge energy. Many annex research projects were part of one and the same big research, e.g. what to do with all that energy ... heating of greenhouses e.g. etc. Really "green" people... until the nuclear missile part came in, one couldn't be sure if what was said was the truth of part of a spionage-counter-spionage plan. Many of the nowaday greens should remember this. It's not fair demonizing a priori someone or a group. I'm all in favor of clear speech and collaboration in getting facts on the table and use scientific facts and debate to get closer to the best solutions.--SvenAERTS (talk) 23:05, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

In regards to the demonizing of nuclear energy because of its potential use to make nuclear weapons. I find that those who often demonize nuclear energy are simply not aware that nuclear technology in the form of research reactors produce the majority of the worlds medical isotopes, isotopes that save millions of lives each year, every year. Radiopharmaceuticals for example are produced in research reactors. Similarly, weapons grade material is produced in production reactors and not in power reactors which are the reactor design that dominate the worlds electricity supply, so it is rather misleading to suggest nuclear weapon proliferation will increase if civil nuclear power reactor numbers increase, just as it would be misleading to suggest radiopharmaceutical costs would diminish and life saving medicines would be more available if power reactor numbers increased.

Furthermore, nuclear peace is a real and quantitative effect of nuclear weapons, there is no stronger explanation for why we have entered into this time period of long peace and such comparatively low levels of war deaths. Beginning with the introduction of nuclear weapons, a downward trend in war deaths has occurred since 1945, a trend that was on the increase from 1500 until 1945. It is for this reason that many contend that we should give the nuclear bomb the Nobel peace prize.http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1929553,00.html

http://jcr.sagepub.com/content/53/2/258.short journal of conflict resolution. Do nuclear weapons produce stability? It found they do.

http://belfercenter.hks.harvard.edu/files/uploads/Rauchhaus_Evaluating_the_Nuclear_Peace.pdf The full paper above, published by the author.

Steven Pinker wrote a considerable amount on the reduction of war deaths since 1945, here is a video of a lecture he presented, start at the 20 minute mark to get to the point, although he argues it was a multitude of factors that have reduced the number of war deaths, his graphs of deaths from 1500 to 1945 give you a sense of the long peace we are in right now. - http://talkminer.com/viewtalk.jsp?videoid=_gGf7fXM3jQ&q=#.UQ2lm2d9UYQ

Boundarylayer (talk) 02:54, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

There should be a simple enough compromise between developed and developing nations over CO2 emissions, something fair and rational such as - once your nations quality of life reaches X value, you have to start adhering to the 6000+ dollars of GDP per ton of CO2 legal requirement. Presently the EU for example(where pretty much everyone has a high quality of life) would cut its CO2 emissions by more than half if every country in the EU followed the Swiss and French electricity models of using high amounts of Hydro power(when available) and nuclear power in an economical low-carbon power manner, the technology is ready to go today. There is no point waiting around listening to all the greenwashing from the Wind and Solar industries while meanwhile Germany is all talk about cutting CO2 but really is building more coal burning power plants.

Rich nations must lead by example, Germany, by building more fossil fuel plants, has made a complete mockery of the kyoto protocol. To a point that if I were from India or China I would tell you where to shove your tax too. You can't blame them, so I don't blame developing countries, I blame developed countries who have the financial flexibility to drastically cut CO2 emissions, but choose instead to increase them

biofuels

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=24434&#.URTV_GdhpZw It is a crime against humanity to convert agricultural productive soil into soil which produces food stuff that will be burned into biofuel.”

Mr. Ziegler argued that biofuels will only lead to further hunger in a world where an estimated 854 million people – 1 out of 6 – already suffer from the scourge; 100,000 people die from hunger or its immediate consequences every day; and every five seconds, a child dies from hunger.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7065061.stm Boundarylayer (talk) 10:45, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Renewable energy edits, and watch renewable energy in Germany march 26th 2013

According to the OECD factbook 2011-2012, worldwide, Iceland(85.6%) and Brazil(45.8%) exploit the greatest proportion of renewable energy to supply their total energy requirements(including electricity and other energy needs) with the world average percentage at 13.1%. Other countries in the OECD with a high total energy supply from renewable sources are - New Zealand(38.6%), Norway(37.3%), Sweden(32.7%),Austria(26%) Portugal(24%), Finland(24.9%), Chile(22.7%), Switzerland(18.8%), Denmark(18.8%), Canada(16.5%) and Estonia(14.4%).

Worldwide, other non-OECD nations with a higher percentage of renewable energy representing their total energy needs, than in comparison to the average from OECD countries(7.6%), are - Brazil(45.8%), Indonesia(34.4%), India(26.1%) and China(11.9%).

For all OECD countries taken as a whole, the contribution of renewables to total energy supply increased from 4.8% in 1971 to 7.6% in 2010,* In general the contribution of renewables to the energy supply in non-OECD countries is higher than in OECD countries. With the world average percentage of total energy supplied from renewable energy at 13.1%(including OECD countries and non-OECD countries) in 2010. http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/deliver/fulltext/3011041ec051.pdf OECD Factbook 2011-2012: Economic, Environmental and Social Statistics. PDF indicator.

• that is a tiny increase.

Nuclear power proposed as renewable energy

The United Nations classifies a particular subset of presently operating nuclear fission technologies as renewable. Reactors that produce more fissile fuel than they consume - breeder reactors and, eventually, nuclear fusion, are classified within the same category as conventional renewable energy sources, such as solar and falling water.

Information on nuclear power should be in this article. It should include the fact most reactors aren't sustainable beyond a few hundred years right now, but fast reactors are.

Presently only 1 major reactor technology operating can be consider sustainable, essentially forever, the BN-600, but Phénix also demonstrated a greater than one breeding ratio and operated for ~30 years.

Therefore Nuclear power can be sustainable, as sustainable as Geothermal energy.

Geothermal energy is classified as a conventional renewable energy source here, however it consumes radioactive decay heat in the ground, with the geothermal electricity page confirming that all geothermal power plants have reduced their output after their peak. Therefore it is illogical for it to be classified as renewable whereas man made breeder reactor nuclear power is classified as non renewable(by some sources). Indeed that is one of the many reasons why pages such as Nuclear power proposed as renewable energy exists. As Stanford Professor Navid Chowdhury pointed out - The IRENA (International Renewable Energy Agency), decision that it will not support nuclear energy programs because its a long, complicated process, it produces waste and is relatively risky, proves that their decision has nothing to do with having a sustainable supply of fuel. http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2012/ph241/chowdhury2/

Both the Phénix reactor of the 1970s and the presently operating BN-600 are successful breeder reactors. Nuclear power has been demonstrated to be sustainable, and there is enough U-238 to run in breeder reactors for hundreds of thousands of years according to the OECD (references on the Nuclear power page). So nuclear power is just as 'renewable' as geothermal energy which as that article points out, also runs on nuclear processes - nuclear decay and is technically also 'finite' on astronomical timescales so to is breeder reactor technology.

Renewable fuels , taken from the talk page of renewable energy.

The problem is 'synthetic fuel' is too broad a term, as it predominately means the manufacturing of liquid fuels from coal and fossil gas. As renewable fuels should mean that they are carbon neutral fuels, this completely excludes classifying geothermal power plant produced synthetic fuel as renewable fuel*.

Now of course, the basic chemistry behind making synthetic fuel(e.g the Sabatier reaction) is indifferent to where the carbon and hydrogen building blocks of the fuel come from, the synthetic liquid fuel producing Fischer-Tropsch process can be piped up to any hydrogen and carbon dioxide source to run on. Such as piped up to a landfill gas/'biogas' plant and the synthetic fuel produced would naturally be classified as a renewable fuel source. Another renewable source of synthetic fuel can be found when the chemical process is piped up to many other sources of carbon and hydrogen, such as sea water which contains both carbon dioxide and hydrogen, and just like the biogas to synthetic fuel route, it too needs to be coupled with a power source to provides the heat and electricity to do the chemistry magic to manufacture renewable synthetic fuels. Clearly therefore, only these two scenarios should be regarded as cases of 'renewable fuel'.

This difference should be clearly explained to readers, otherwise unscrupulous fossil fuel(e.g coal) to liquid, and non-renewable CO2 to liquid advocates will start pulling the wool over peoples eyes. For example the CO2 produced by the geothermal plant at Carbon Recycling International comes from CO2 that is not renewable*, and it results in a net increase in the CO2 in the biosphere*, it is CO2 that, (like a less extreme case of coal to liquid,) would otherwise be sent up an exhaust chimney. Sure, this is therefore CO2 that gets recycled before eventually finding its way into the atmosphere, but it is by no means 'renewable' as it results in a net increase in the CO2 inventory of the biosphere. So Renewable_energy#Carbon_neutral_and_negative_fuels should be changed to reflect this fact.

Only synthetic fuels produced with carbon sourced from the carbon dioxide inventory already in the biosphere should be classified as renewable synthetic fuel, that includes Carbon from wood, landfill gas, and Carbon extracted from sea water, all of which are truly renewable CO2 sources. For example, Dimethyl ether is presently being produced from wood byproducts derived from paper manufacture, and the US navy are preparing to start manufacturing synthetic fuel derived from sea water via the Fischer-Tropsch Process by using their ubiquitous heat source on their supercarriers - nuclear reactors.

• CO2 from geothermal power plants, a paper presented for the international geothermal conference. - www.jardhitafelag.is/media/PDF/S12Paper103.pdf Note Figure 2 that clearly displays CO2 emissions from geothermal zones increase once a power plant begins to exploit the zone. Therefore classifying any synthetic fuel produced by geothermal plants as 'renewable synthetic fuel' is clearly incorrect as it is a net polluter of CO2.

Personally, we should strive to get away from carbonaceous fuels altogether, that is, including a move away from biomass for human health and environmental reasons e.g particulate matter inhalation, and instead for economic reasons, wherever feasible we should move towards electric cars,(reluctantly hybrids) and a reliance on more electric trains(e.g the TGV) and for heating homes - district heating and heat pumps are systems already in operation, and therefore already environmentally friendly and economical. The use of biomass, and renewable synthetic fuel should be only for supplying people and devices in remote areas, such as heating isolated homes and fueling aircraft respectively.

nuclear waste

In the US the goal to increase the percentage of U.S. solid waste that is recycled from 52 percent in 2008 to 62 percent by 2012 was achieved. The US's nuclear plants also had a goal to reduce by 25 percent the amount of low-level radioactive waste (Class B and C) they generated by 2012, compared to the 2002 through 2006 average of 1,552 cubic feet. In 2011, the US power plant fleet exceeded both of these goals.

http://www.duke-energy.com/environment/reports/environmental-health-and-safety-metrics.asp - a power generation company

903 cubic feet of nuclear waste in 2011 is equal to ~25,000 liters, which is the volume of an Olympic sized swimming pool, divided by 100. http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2005/JeffreyGilbert.shtml

breeding and the Integral Fast Reactor

Technical options for the advanced liquid metal reactor. By United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment. Worth a read. available online.

breeding and the Integral Fast Reactor

http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Nuclear_chemistry

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-04/uranium-rebound-seen-as-japan-considers-nuclear-energy-markets.html

Technical options for the advanced liquid metal reactor. the - IFR By United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment. available online.

http://books.google.ie/books?id=Lr0sPxjBD2MC&pg=PA17&lpg=PA17&dq=breeding+ratio+of+generation+III+0.6&source=bl&ots=7TZbugNMw1&sig=hJCQiehlHXztK-Dvs-m9vlb9rZ4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=S_IUUZPYHsPMhAeSmoHYCQ&ved=0CF4Q6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=breeding%20ratio%20of%20generation%20III%200.6&f=false

page 15.

http://goneri.nuc.berkeley.edu/tokyo/2008-12-11_Peterson.pdf liquid salt advanced high temp reactor design.

http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/1997/fs163-97/FS-163-97.html Radioactive Elements in Coal and Fly Ash: Abundance, Forms, and Environmental Significance

http://www.gemarsh.com/wp-content/uploads/SciAm-Dec05.pdf http://www.nationalcenter.org/NuclearFastReactorsSA1205.pdf Fast neutron reactor refs.http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf98.html

Any fast reactors with low enrichment fuel running on lead coolant?

Future of the industry- http://www.neimagazine.com/story.asp?storyCode=2059252

http://e360.yale.edu/feature/are_fast-breeder_reactors_a_nuclear_power_panacea/2557/

Nuclear Energy Encyclopedia: Science, Technology, and Applications, Volume 1 stats on fast reacors. http://books.google.ie/books?id=rVe9y4JKecsC&pg=PA193&lpg=PA193&dq=breeding+ratio+of+lwr&source=bl&ots=hsxRz-qDHs&sig=Ay7CxZyZ8HbG3w6hJoJr7UTBZqY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GPcUUfSrHouKhQeXkoGYCw&ved=0CGAQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=breeding%20ratio%20of%20lwr&f=false typical pwr brreding ration 0.72.

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/nucene/fasbre.html#c4 Such a fbr reactor can produce about 20% more fuel than it consumes by the breeding reaction. Enough excess fuel is produced over about 20 years to fuel another such reactor. Optimum breeding allows about 75% of the energy of the natural uranium to be used compared to 1% in the standard light water reactor .

http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-34/text/colmain.html For comparison, according to NCRP Reports No. 92 and No. 95, population exposure from operation of 1000-MWe nuclear and coal-fired power plants amounts to 490 person-rem/year for coal plants and 4.8 person-rem/year for nuclear plants. Thus, the population effective dose equivalent from coal plants is 100 times that from nuclear plants.

Dirty bomb or radiological dispersal devices would not be fatal.

Since a dirty bomb is unlikely to cause many deaths, many do not consider this to be a weapon of mass destruction. Its purpose would presumably be to create psychological, not physical, harm through ignorance, mass panic, and terror.

http://www.ornl.gov/info/reports/1986/3445605662565.pdf properties of spent fuel. http://www.fepc.or.jp/english/library/power_line/detail/06/

http://www.cns-snc.ca/publications Donald R. Wiles, The Chemistry of Nuclear Fuel Waste Disposal, Polytechnic International Press, 2002 In The Chemistry of Nuclear Fuel Waste Disposal

http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Next_Generation_Nuclear_Plant h2 production. http://httr.jaea.go.jp/eng/index.html high temp reactor http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/HTTR http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATd6MbiPtCI Hydrogen fuel production -https://aiche.confex.com/aiche/2005/preliminaryprogram/session_1591.htm JET FUEL on carriers nuclear - http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/U.S.-Navy-Investigates-Making-Jet-Fuel-from-Seawater.html http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/18/1180151/-Seawater-electricity-jet-fuel http://bravenewclimate.com/2013/01/16/zero-emission-synfuel-from-seawater/#more-6020

Nuclear Tanker Producing Liquid Fuels From Air and Water: Applicable Technology for Land-Based Future Production of Commercial Liquid Fuel - http://canes.mit.edu/node/196

http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Omega_West_Reactor_%28OWR%29 look at that cherenkov! Spacecraft parts - http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Reaction_wheel

LNT and cosmic silence low background chamber for testing mice 2012 WIPP. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1140%2Fepjp%2Fi2012-12037-7

All of the fission products produced by thorium molten salt Reactors will decay to benign levels of the radioactive natural background within 350 years. The majority (83%) of fission products of Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors decay to the benign levels of the radioactive natural background in 10 years. All of the remaining 17% of fission products decay to natural background levels in 350 years[Le Brun, C., “Impact of the MSBR concept technology on long-lived radio-toxicity and proliferation resistance”, Technical Meeting on Fissile Material Management Strategies for Sustainable Nuclear Energy, Vienna 2005 .]- probably IAEA symposium

THORIUM proliferation. https://www.fas.org/blogs/sciencewonk/2012/08/back-to-thorium-the-thorium-cycle-and-non-proliferation/

http://www.princeton.edu/sgs/publications/sgs/pdf/9_1kang.pdf U-233 bred from common thorium ore mostly Th-232 is more hazardous to personnel than reactor bred Pu-239 from U-238. Therefore thermal neutron thorium reactors are more proliferation resistant than U-238 based breeders. The U-233 generated is contaminated with U-232 page 10

U-232 can also be produced by two successive single neutron captures starting with naturally-occurring Th-230. Thorium-230 is a decay product of U-234, which is in turn a decay product ofU-238, is in secular equilibrium at a concentration of about 17 ppm in natural uranium. Minimizing U-232 production therefore requires naturally thorium that is minimally contaminated with Th-230 from intermixed or nearby natural uranium. In the calculations described below, we have assumed zero Th-230 contamination and have tested the sensitivity of the results to a contamination level of 1 ppm. page 14 and see page 11 for thorium 230 to U-232 decay path

Recently, there has also been a revival of interest in thorium in the U.S. and Western Europe because it can be used to increase the achievable burnups in light-water-reactors operating on a once-through fuel cycle and also reduce the quantity of weapons-usable transuranic elements in radioactive waste.14 Five successive neutron captures are required before Np-237 is produced from Th-232 whereas a single neutron capture on U-238 produces Pu- 239 (see Figure 6).15 Proposals have therefore been brought forward for lightwater- reactor designs in which thorium largely replaces U-238.

For LWRs with feasible target replacement schedules (on the order of ten times the frequency for maximum driver-fuel burnup) the concentration of U- 232 will be above 100 ppm. At such contamination levels, remote production operations would be required to produce fuel or weapons on a large scale without incurring large occupational doses. However, it could still be feasible for a highly motivated group to make a few nuclear weapons with this material without remote processing facilities. The U-232 contamination level in U-233 would reach about 2000 ppm in thorium LMFBR core fuel in equilibrium recycle. pg 20-21

On the one hand, gamma radiation from U-232 makes the U-233 from high burnup U-233-thorium fuel cycles more of a radiation hazard than plutonium. On the other hand, because of its low rate of spontaneous-neutron emission, U-233 can, unlike plutonium, be used in simple “gun-type” fission-weapon designs without significant danger of the yield being reduced by premature initiation of the fission chain reaction. page 23 In the case of the molten-salt U-233 breeder reactor, it was proposed to have continual chemical processing of a stream of liquid fuel. Such an arrangement also offers a way to completely bypass the U-232 contamination problem because 27-day half-life Pa- 233 could be separated out before it decays into U-233. [29] The designers of the molten-salt breeder reactor planned to do this so as not to lose Pa-233 to neutron capture before it decays into fissile U-233. In any case, no fuel cycle involving the separation and recycle of U-233 would approach the proliferation resistance of unreprocessed spent fuel from which the radiation dose rate is on the order of one thousand rem per hour at one meter for decades after discharge.

ORIGEN2 (ORIGEN 2.1: “Isotope Generation and Depletion Code Matrix Exponential Method,” [Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Radiation Safety Information Computational Center, August 1996]). MCNP is a monte carlo nuclear power code that follows each neutron emitting until it hits a nucleus.

6. International Atomic Energy Agency, “The Physical Protection of Nuclear Material and Nuclear Facilities,” INFCIRC/225/Rev.4 (http://www.iaea.org/worldatom/program/ protection/index.html). Vomiting would begin within a few hours and a short-term dose of ionizing radiation could be lethal at a whole-body dose of 200 rems. Lethality within 10 days would be virtually certain above 1000 rems (The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, 3rd edition, Samuel Glasstone and Philip J. Dolan, eds [US Departments of Defense and Energy, 1977], Table 12.108).

24. Examples of average neutron-flux levels in the different reactors (in units of 1014 neutrons cm-2 sec-1 ) are: CANDU: 2.35, PWR: 3.25, and LMFBR core ((Th,U)O2): 40.1 and radial blanket (ThO2): 5.1. (A.G. Croff and M.A. Bjerke, “Once-Through CANDU Reactor Models for the ORIGEN2 Computer Code”

25. The U-232 and U-233 concentrations include respectively the U-232 precursor, Pa- 232 (1.3 day half-life), and the U-233 precursor, Pa-233 (27 day half-life). Adding 1 ppm Th-230 to pure Th-232 increases the U-232/U-233 ratios compared to those without Th-230 by 0.04%, 3.5%, 3.3%, and 0.00% respectively, for thorium mixed with HWR natural-uranium fuel, a thorium target in a HWR core, thorium mixed with LEU fuel in a PWR, and thorium in the radial blanket of an LMFBR. In the case of the thorium target and blanket elements, we have assumed residence times in the reactor equal to those of the driver fuels.

31. A Study on the Direct Use of Spent PWR Fuel in CANDU Reactors: Fuel Management and Safety Analysis,” (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, KAERI/RR- 1345/93, 1994). DUPIC

http://library.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/getfile?00796025.pdf safeguards with the use of DUPIC.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:ubMg0-uvR9wJ:www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R41032.pdf+&hl=en&gl=ie&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESiCp_w-GFgRWydo_YwTX09OipGV8UuCEd_CfjgJluqQBGvHysGpylsvVpcvPE1Oky7V7wNjYwq9kwHZKuTgsu5-OBwvaHEVcdeGlT7GrKTUvwvWJe-8xHxicPWPo1HWS5maEy8L&sig=AHIEtbRVUiOMyJ4nZM5fch5jrM90lV_mJg Price of the korean reactors in UAE and their own costs for their opr-1000 and APR-1400 - U.S. and South Korean Cooperation in the World Nuclear.

http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Non-Proliferation_of_Nuclear_Weapons non-proliferation signaturies almost every country. so no prolif concerns.

Best reactors and power plants currently operating

Beznau Nuclear Power Plant - Connected to a district heating system which supplies hot water to industries and households. It also contains the oldest operating nuclear power plant in the world, built in 1969. It's defense in depth- 'notstand' system is above and beyond what the safety regulation requires, but the plant operators built it anyway.

Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant - survived the largest earthquake and tsunami humanity has ever experienced, safely shutting down without incident. 'notstand' systems are therefore unnecessary for reactors designed in the 70-80s.

CANDU's for being able to burn up LWR 'nuclear waste'/spent nuclear fuel and being able to run on natural uranium rather than enriched uranium. A major non-proliferation goal, as no enrichment facilities are needed. Although the 'waste' burning capability really is what makes it worthy of addition.

BN-600 Russian Fast breeder reactor. Breeds more fuel than it consumes and its diminutive descendant the BN-350 provided a desalination system producing fresh water.

Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station - 3 reactors, the only reactors not near a large body of water, instead the installation's cooling is provided by evaporating water from a sewage treatment plant.

Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant In February 2009, Calvert Cliffs set a world record for pressurized water reactors (PWRs) by operating for almost two years, 692 days, non-stop. In addition, Unit 2's capacity factor in 2008 was a world-record high of 101.37 percent.

HTTR Japanese High temperature test reactor that reached criticality in 1999, it is helium cooled and its outlet temperature loop reaches 850 C and is thus being used to produce Hydrogen via the Sulfur-iodine cycle.

Closed reactors that have served as test beds to future proposed designs.

Experimental Breeder Reactor I - Dec 20th 1951: 1.4 MWth first electricity-generating nuclear power plant when it produced sufficient electricity to illuminate four 200-watt light bulbs, it also proved the Breeder concept.

Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant -(not at all one of the best, but one of the first) June 26th 1954, 5MWe, forerunner to the poorly designed RBMK, the first 'civil' nuclear reactor to supply electricity to a power grid.

Calder Hall -(not at all one of the best, but one of the first) 27th August 1956, 50MWe x 4 Magnox reactors, the first nuclear power station to deliver power in commercial quantities.

Fort St. Vrain Generating Station The design of which serves as the basis for the DOE's Next Generation Nuclear Plant(NGNP), a High temperature gas reactor, with the GT-MHR aka the EM-2 and finally the 'Antares reactor' chosen by the DOE, being its direct successor- to be built for the NGNP by ~2020. Antares - http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN-Areva_modular_reactor_selected_for_NGNP_development-1502124.html

Aircraft Reactor Experiment - Pioneered molten salt cooling, was BeO moderated. Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment - Serves the basis for the LFTR thorium reactor to be built by 2030 in the US and the Chinese racing ahead with building a LFTR by no later than 2025 due to their higher dedication to the technology.

Experimental Breeder Reactor II - serves as the basis for the Integral Fast Reactor and the descendant S-PRISM

What are the best reactors designs currently being built and under consideration?

Criteria: http://www.skirsch.com/politics/ifr/DOEnuclearstudy.pdf

The Integral Fast Reactor, termed the Na metal pyro in the paper is number 1 over all, this is probably going to be built soon with the S-PRISM being its closest descendant. I'm also partial to the LFTR which I don't see as being all that competitive unless it has a high temperature output in the form of a Very high temperature reactor. In terms of the current crop of reactors, the AP1000 and Korean standardized designs( OPR-1000 and APR-1400) are probably thy most economical of designs being built as of 2013. The APR-1400 almost finished in Shin Kori S.Korea derives part of its heritage from the System 80+. This IAEA document outlines its RCS and other safety critical parts & this congressional document from pg 5 onwards, also deals with S.Korea's ambitious NPP build goals(similar to France's in the 1980s) S. Korea also has expressed a desire to reprocess, but the USA has denied them that right due to proliferation concerns pg 10+. READ In the congressional document above it describes how the The APR1400 was sold to the United Arab Emirates for $5 Billion per reactor in a 4 reactor deal. This works out as $3,571/MW, whereas in S.Korea it is reported the price per reactor is $3.15 Billion. With the cost difference between the two countries primarily due to the the lack of indigenous experience with nuclear engineering and construction in the UAE, in comparison to the mature experience in S.Korea.

Economics- issues with the under construction EPR is that it has so many active safety features(4 redundant systems) it is no wonder it is having cost over runs. To be fair though it is only beginning to be rolled out, and its economies may improve with mass production. The passive safe AP1000 and the many S.Korean designs being built in the United Arab Emirates have much better economics. The above paper concluded the Next gen CANDU design had the best economics in $/kWe.

Of note, is that the EPR will use 17% less uranium than current operating LWR's in a quantity per unit of electricity delivered, kg/kWe metric. page 126 - 3 Rs of Nuclear Power: Reading, Recycling, and Reprocessing Making a Better ...
By Jan Forsythe

Moreover. http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf116_processheat.html The economics of NPPs will be substantially increased once Nuclear Process Heat for Industry becomes more mainstream**, fresh water producing desalination nuclear power plants(such as the already operating BN-600, and especially hydrogen production via the economical high temperature electrolysis process and the even more economical high temperature thermochemical(sulfur-iodine cycle). H2 production is needed in ammonia synthesis, hydrogenation of crude oils, and (attractive from an energy independence and climate change point of view) - synthetic fuel synthesis-(which will probably be fielded by the US carrier fleet first).

Reactor output temperatures need to be a minimum of 750C with 900 C being the most economical, rivaling natural gas produced Hydrogen according to the sources in the world-nuclear page.

• • http://www.ngnpalliance.org/

As for existing plants, the Light Water Reactor Sustainability Program is making existing reactors in the USA more economical than initially suggested on a $/kWe metric. Capital and operating costs per unit energy, which can be reduced by enabling power uprates and lifetime extension for existing NPPs and by increasing the rated powers and lifetimes of new Generation III+ NPPs; http://energy.gov/articles/modeling-and-simulation-nuclear-reactors-hub

This is important as all the ~5000$/kWe figures you see thrown around for new NPPs are assuming a 40-60 year life span. When really the new crop of reactors will have a ~80 year life span. As older Gen II reactors in the USA are being extended to a 60 year life span as we speak, it is not a stretch to suggest that new Gen III reactors will live for 80 years.

Safety, - Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant showed that 1980 reactor tech is pretty much safe enough even under assault by nature's most destructive earthquakes, mag 9. However small modular reactors due to there small reactor size are much easier to cool passively and much less prone to accidents in a LOCA due to the radius of the core being smaller, and therefore more coolant likely to be in contact with it. http://www.idrc.info/userfiles/image/presentations2008/Burgherr_Peter_Comparative_Risk_Assessment_of_Severe_Accidents_in_the_Energy_Sector.pdf Paul scherrer institute Nuclear power is already the safest form of power- page 16, & 17 - note curiously that the graph that includes latent deaths of nuclear does likewise not include Coal, Oil, gas or hydro latent deaths.- if it did have a graph of all latent, and a combine acute and latents deaths/GWe graph nuclear power would be shown in an even more favorable light.

Waste- The closest to construction mass waste burning/spent fuel burning design is the Gas turbine modular helium reactor (now known as the Energy Multiplier Module) with the S-PRISM probably a close second, many other designs will achieve this too, called closing the nuclear fuel cycle. The advanced CANDU reactors already do an ok job of waste burning. There will always be fission products that need storing, but the technology is available to store these and in some cases trans-mutate these into lesser hazards. The real waste concern isn't the radioactivity of the waste, but the unnecessarily high volume wastage of 95% of the initial fuel. After reducing the volume with this, the waste concerns lie with the transuranics Pu-239 etc., which could possibly be a target for nefarious persons after the Cs-137 in the spent fuel has decayed away (~300-600 years) etc. Some geological disposal of wastes (e.g Cs-137) will not only be economical but responsible. Efforts should be made to trans-mutate waste as much as possible, such as Tc-99. As for I-129 it's not even proper dangerous in my book, half life of millions of years, low energy beta particle emitted etc.

Sustainability - long term (centuries plus) waste burners(getting energy out of the ~97% of the uranium not burnt in once through Gen II LWRs. Breeders fast and thermal, and once through LWR thorium reactors.

Proliferation resistance(in situ reprocessing or preferably, eliminating reprocessing altogether). The Proliferation risk really lies largely in waste disposal and off site reprocessing plants, and not in hypothetical Hollywood scenarios were terrorists must seize control of a reactor for the required days-months timescales to extract enough Pu-239 or U-233, and then successfully fly off with weapons usable material. They would fail within hours, as their element of surprise would be totally lost. So no, proliferation concerns are over hyped. What is not over hyped is the need to burn the present spent fuel/waste down to eliminate the transuranics(potentially weapons usable), after that the waste issue is over-hyped too as the volumes of waste is manageable. Moreover the gas industry inject their NORM waste [(naturally occurring radioactive material) brought up from the ground during gas extraction] right back into the ground and no one(rightly) bats an eye.

http://books.google.ie/books?id=VemjbZfvry8C&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq=ipsr+reactor&source=bl&ots=V1PFSRsu1R&sig=CgG_HefLR9mWJqTjHtCLKjUIMoE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=C5gvUdSXA5GThgft44DQAw&ved=0CEEQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=ipsr%20reactor&f=false International Seminar on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies 43rd Session By R. Ragaini

Page 114 onwards discusses safety and waste burning designs, including their historic lineage.

http://books.google.ie/books?id=LZ7zBwWLyLEC&pg=PA121&lpg=PA121&dq=ipsr+reactor&source=bl&ots=RjrcdZBH5t&sig=CFdyY4mBX774oMKN2D-Z2OAiZKk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=C5gvUdSXA5GThgft44DQAw&ved=0CD4Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=ipsr%20reactor&f=false 3 Rs of Nuclear Power: Reading, Recycling, and Reprocessing Making a Better ... By Jan Forsythe 120ish onwards.

As for the acronyms in the original paper above. the IPSR/ Integral primary system reactor is NOT the IFR. the IRSR is pretty much an integral PWR, which is a cost and safety design improvement in the IRIS International Reactor Innovative and Secure, and the B&W mPower babcock and wilcox small modular reactor recently approved in Tennessee as a competitor to gas fired power stations*, all of these designs have the whole cooling loop inside the pressure vessel, and not in a separate building.- Although personally I can see any issues with the turbine being much more maintenance intensive to fix than they currently are, as issues with turbines would necessitate opening the entire pressure vessel itself to fix a turbine issue- lets hope they have low maintenance turbines as standard.

As for the PMR(prismatic modular reactor) I believe this most closely related to the DoE's Next Generation Nuclear Plant which upon searching leads me back to two reactors the GT-MHR(which has prismatic elements) but more likely it is reference to the DoE's chosen 2012 NGNP the prismatic steam-cycle high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (SC-HTGR). http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN-Areva_modular_reactor_selected_for_NGNP_development-1502124.html.

As for PBR pebble bed reactors, favorably reviewed in the first above link, in the world nuclear news link - Capital costs for a plant with an installed capacity of 2400-3000 MWt would be some 30% less using 625 MWt prismatic reactor modules than with 250 MWt pebble bed modules.

• http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/21/business/tva-and-babcock-wilcox-in-nuclear-reactor-deal.html?_r=0

As a side note, worth a read - Behavior of nuclear fuel during a reactor accident

Climate change mitigation

insert these see also's everywhere. -

See also: Life-cycle greenhouse-gas emissions of energy sources

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/288/5469/1177 A Nuclear Solution to Climate Change? http://shadow.eas.gatech.edu/~kcobb/energy/Readings/nuclear_solution_climate.pdf

   William C. Sailor*,
   David Bodansky,
   Chaim Braun,
   Steve Fetter,
   Bob van der Zwaan

W. C. Sailor, D. Bodansky, C. Braun, S. Fetter, B. van der Zwaan, Science 288 , 1177 (2000).

As of 2011, the share of renewables in electricity generation is around 19%, with 16% of global electricity being produced by hydro power and 3% from new renewables.

Much of the global economical hydro power potential was, as of 2012, already exploited, This is including the 27 nation European Union, were most of the favorable hydro power sites have already been exploited, and due to environmental concerns, it is unlikely that the EU-27 could see more expansion.</ref>http://setis.ec.europa.eu/newsroom-items-folder/hydropower-generation Much of the activity in this sector in Europe will focus on the refurbishment of an overall ageing hydro power park, while a modest exploitation of unused potential, mainly in Austria, Romania, the Iberian Peninsula and France can be expected.Table 4.2 gives the estimated values of hydropower generation in GWhand in terms of the share in the gross electricity generation for theEU Member States for 2010 and indicates the expected evolution for 2020and 2030 [European Commission, 2009]. Hydropower generation in theEU-27 was 323 TWh in 2010, accounting for 9.8 % of gross electricity generation and around 60 % of electricity generation from renewables.The economic potential is estimated to be around 470 TWh/y. Annual generation is expected to increase modestly up to 341 TWh/y in 2020 andup to 358 TWh/y in 2030. Nevertheless, in terms of the share in thegross electricity generation, and due to increasing electricity demand,a share decrease to 9.2 % in 2020 and further down to 8.8 % in 2030 is expected. This estimation is based on the fact that the most favourable sites are already being exploited across the EU-27, while due to environmental restrictions, it’s unlikely that Europe could see much more expansion.

New hydro projects have continued to cause the displacement of populations, for example on the scale of the 1.3 to 1.5 million people were displaced to make way for the Three Gorges Dam.

In 2009, climate scientist Mark Z. Jacobson and colleagues published a plan to power 100% of the world's energy with wind, hydroelectric, and solar power by the year 2030, in the plan they suggested that the plan depends more on politics and social acceptance rather than on cost or other technical issues. The authors estimate the cost of the system, over twenty years, might be on the order of USD 100 trillion(not including transmission wire costs), with wind farms occupying 1 percent of the earth's land, and the non-rooftop photovoltaics and concentrated solar power plants occupying about 0.33 percent of the earth's land.

In 2013, author and environmental scientist Vaclav Smil has also expressed skepticism of the proposals to depend primarily on wind and solar generated energy, and in his analysis he has instead determined that only with the use of all low carbon power sources might there be a realistic ability to mitigate climate change. In his analysis of the Wind and Solar dominated world energy plan he identified intermittent supply, relatively low efficiency, the cost and complexity of conversion and growing community opposition to the industrialized footprint of solar installations and Wind farms as all the negative factors preventing the plan from being considered probable.

Presently some countries, with favorable geography, geology and weather well suited to an economical exploitation of renewable energy sources, get most of their electricity from renewables, including from geothermal energy in Iceland (100 percent), and Hydroelectric power in Brazil (85 percent), Austria (62 percent), New Zealand (65 percent), and Sweden (54 percent). With Sweden's energy and climate policies being determined to be the second most sustainable in the world, in a 2011 report by the World Energy Council, entitled Policies for the future: 2011 Assessment of country energy and climate policies, which ranked country performance according to an energy sustainability index. The best performing nations were Switzerland, Sweden and France.

Renewable power generators are spread across many countries, with wind power providing a significant share of electricity in some regional areas: for example, 14 percent in the U.S. state of Iowa, 40 percent in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, and 25 to 30 percent in Denmark.

Increased use of biofuels (such as ethanol fuel and biodiesel that can be used in today's diesel and gasoline engines) could also reduce emissions if produced environmentally efficiently, especially in conjunction with regular hybrids and plug-in hybrids. For electric vehicles, the reduction of carbon emissions will improve further if the way the required electricity is generated is from low-carbon power.

France, which produces approximately 80% of its electricity from nuclear power has been called "a success story" that has put the nation "ahead of the world" in providing cheap, CO₂-'free' energy.

In terms of large industrialized nations, mainland France has the lowest carbon dioxide production per unit of GDP in the world. (include references I have below)

As all electricity generating thermal power plants produce 'waste heat', including nuclear power plants, NPP's also have the potential to use this waste energy to supply steam and hot water to industries and households, and therefore offset the use of carbonaceous fuels which otherwise, are usually burnt to heat water. Electricity generating nuclear power plants have, as of 2013, routinely supplied industrial and residential buildings with hot water, via heat exchangers, in what is termed a district heating system, although due to the fact that electricity is also being generated at the power plants, it is more accurately termed a nuclear Combined Heat and Power(CHP) system.

Presently in Switzerland, about 2,400 users (20,000 persons) in general housing, apartment houses, factories, and farms utilize the electricity and district heating generated by the Beznau Nuclear Power Plant. In the steam supply to factories using the Swiss Gösgen Nuclear Power Plant, the saving of 15,000 tons/year of fossil fuel oil has been realized with the power plant supplying steam to local industries, including one paper factory. Both of these Swiss district heating projects started based on experiences in the oil crisis in the 1970's. A plan for utilizing a Nuclear CHP Cogeneration system in Finland, in place of the currently operating fossil fuel system, was estimated to have the potential to reduce the country of Finland’s annual carbon dioxide emissions by approximately 6%, or by up to 4 million tonnes of carbon dioxide. Heat was recycled and used in CHP systems in six nuclear power stations in five countries during 2003: Switzerland (Beznau and Gösgen), Bulgaria (Kozloduy VVERs), Lithuania(Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant), Slovak republic (Bohunice VVER-440s), and Hungary (Paks Nuclear Power Plant).

Nuclear power plants can also use the waste heat, generated in the process of making electricity, to Desalinate water. Although presently shut down, the BN-350 fast reactor on the Caspian sea produced 120,000 m³ fresh water/day from sea water over a period of twenty years, 1973 to 1993. Interest in nuclear desalination is driven by the expanding global demand for fresh water and by concern about GHG emissions and pollutions from fossil fuels.

electric cars recharged by low carbon power plants

Due to France's low greenhouse gas emitting nuclear power dominated electricity grid, the total carbon dioxide emissions from a plug-in electric car recharged by the French electricity grid is approximately 12g per kilometer travelled. This compares more favorably than the emissions emitted from one of the most successful hybrid cars, the Toyota Prius, which produces carbon dioxide emissions at the higher rate of 105g per kilometer travelled.

What would a nuclear phase out look like

This graph illustrates the potential rise in CO₂ emissions if base-load electricity currently produced in the U.S. by nuclear power were replaced by coal or natural gas as current reactors go offline after their 60 year licenses expire, as part of the Light Water Reactor Sustainability Program.Note: graph assumes all 104 American nuclear power plants receive license extensions out to 60 years. When a country declares they are abandoning Nuclear power, such as Germany in 2011, it historically demonstrates a dash for more Coal and gas power plants.

Numerous studies and assessments (e.g., by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), International Atomic Energy Agency, and International Energy Agency have stated that as part of the portfolio of low-carbon energy technologies, nuclear power will continue to play a role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

According to the United States government, without nuclear power plants the United States would release nearly 700 million metric tons more carbon dioxide annually, with greenhouse gas emissions becoming 28 percent greater in the electricity industry. That's approximately the same amount of carbon dioxide now produced annually by all of the automobiles in the United States.

This graph illustrates nuclear power is the USA's largest contributor of non-greenhouse-gas-emitting electric power generation, comprising nearly three-quarters of the non-emitting sources.

During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama stated, "Nuclear power represents more than 70% of our noncarbon generated electricity. It is unlikely that we can meet our aggressive climate goals if we eliminate nuclear power as an option."

Synthetic fuel from nuclear power, and renewable synthetic fuel.

Whoever added this in good faith does not appear to be aware that just because you use the carbon in coal stack CO2 emissions twice doesn't mean you really help the environment much at all. Synthetic fuels only make sense from a climate point of view if you get the CO2 from seawater or (less efficiently) the air, in every other respect however that the editor was right on the money, I have resurrected what they wrote in this regard, all if it makes economical, sustainable and climatic sense. This is what they wrote.-

The carbonic acid in seawater is in chemical equilibrium with atmospheric carbon dioxide. The United States Navy has done extensive work studying and scaling up the extraction of carbon from seawater. Work at the Palo Alto Research Center has improved substantially on the Navy processes, resulting in carbon extraction from seawater for about $50 per ton. Carbon capture from ambient air is very much more costly, at between $600 and $1000 per ton. At present that is considered an impractical cost for fuel synthesis or carbon sequestration.

Commercial fuel synthesis companies suggest they can produce fuel for less than petroleum fuels when oil costs more than $55 per barrel. The US Navy estimates that shipboard production of jet fuel from nuclear power would cost about $6 per gallon. While that was about twice the petroleum fuel cost in 2010, it is expected to be much less than the market price in less than five years if recent trends continue. Moreover, since the delivery of fuel to a carrier battle group costs about $8 per gallon, shipboard production is already much less expensive. The Navy's estimate that 100 megawatts can produce 41,000 gallons of fuel per day indicates that terrestrial production from nuclear power would cost less than $1 per gallon.

Check that last ref, as it's slow to load.

Also discuss the sulfur-iodine cycle, there is a fair bit on world nuclear's site IIRC. However you'll need stronger refs than those guys provide.

Renewable energy- 'synthetic fuel' is too broad a term as it predominately means the manufacturing of liquid fuels from coal and fossil gas. As renewable fuels are also carbon neutral fuels, this completely excludes classifying geothermal power plant produced synthetic fuel as renewable fuel*. Now of course, the basic chemistry behind making synthetic fuel(e.g the Sabatier reaction) is indifferent to where the carbon and hydrogen building blocks of the fuel come from, the synthetic liquid fuel producing Fischer-Tropsch process can be piped up to any hydrogen and carbon dioxide source to run on. Such as piped up to a landfill gas/'biogas' plant and the synthetic fuel produced would naturally be classified as a renewable fuel source. Another renewable source of synthetic fuel can be found when the chemical process is piped up to many other sources of carbon and hydrogen, such as sea water which contains both carbon dioxide and hydrogen, and just like the biogas to synthetic fuel route, it too needs to be coupled with a power source to provides the heat and electricity to do the chemistry magic to manufacture renewable synthetic fuels. Clearly therefore, only these two scenarios should be regarded as cases of 'renewable fuel'.

This difference should be clearly explained to readers, otherwise unscrupulous fossil fuel(e.g coal) to liquid, and non-renewable CO2 to liquid advocates will start pulling the wool over peoples eyes. For example the CO2 produced by the geothermal plant at Carbon Recycling International comes from CO2 that is not renewable*, and it results in a net increase in the CO2 in the biosphere*, it is CO2 that, (like a less extreme case of coal to liquid,) would otherwise be sent up an exhaust chimney. Sure, this is therefore CO2 that gets recycled before eventually finding its way into the atmosphere, but it is by no means 'renewable' as it results in a net increase in the CO2 inventory of the biosphere. So Renewable_energy#Carbon_neutral_and_negative_fuels should be changed to reflect this fact.

Only synthetic fuels produced with carbon sourced from the inventory already in the biosphere should be classified as renewable synthetic fuel, that includes Carbon from wood, landfill gas, and Carbon extracted from sea water, all of which are truly renewable CO2 sources. For example, Dimethyl ether is presently being produced from wood byproducts derived from paper manufacture, and the US navy are preparing to start manufacturing synthetic fuel derived from sea water via the Fischer-Tropsch Process by using their ubiquitous heat source on their supercarriers - nuclear reactors.

• CO2 from geothermal power plants, a paper presented for the international geothermal conference. - www.jardhitafelag.is/media/PDF/S12Paper103.pdf Note Figure 2 that clearly displays CO2 emissions from geothermal zones increase once a power plant begins to exploit the zone. Therefore classifying any synthetic fuel produced by geothermal plants as 'renewable synthetic fuel' is clearly incorrect as it is a net polluter of CO2.

Personally, we should strive to get away from carbonaceous fuels altogether, that is, including a move away from biomass for human health and environmental reasons e.g particulate matter inhalation, and instead for economic reasons, wherever feasible we should move towards electric cars,(reluctantly hybrids) and a reliance on more electric trains(e.g the TGV) and for heating homes - district heating and heat pumps are systems already in operation, and therefore already environmentally friendly and economical. The use of biomass, and renewable synthetic fuel should be only for supplying people and devices in remote areas, such as heating isolated homes and fueling aircraft respectively.

Boundarylayer (talk) 01:50, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Wind power or Nuclear power?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc7rRPrA7rg&feature=youtu.be

Fusion

LOCA accident on future fusion reactors, negligible release, include Co-60 and W-187 isotopes that dominate. ARIES-ST safety design and analysis. http://aries.ucsd.edu/LIB/REPORT/ARIES-ST/FINAL/ast-6-safety.pdf

http://www.afs.enea.it/dipacel/Eudora%20Backup/copied%20from%20Mac%2015-7-2008/Spool%20Folder/481002814/ukaea-fus-539.pdf dose rates of 2-20 mSv/h, typical of plasma facing components after intermediate storage for up to 100 years. page 8. Consideration of strategies, industry experience, processes and time scales for the recycling of fusion irradiated material.

http://dspace.cc.tut.fi/dpub/handle/123456789/20930 page 22. Development of Remote Handling Pipe Jointing Tools for ITER

Fusion-Fission hybrid

http://www.utexas.edu/news/2009/01/27/nuclear_hybrid/ Fusion-Fission hybrid.

Radiation LNT Linear no-threshold crumbling.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2013/01/20/fear-of-radiation-its-all-in-the-noise/

Integrated Molecular Analysis Indicates Undetectable Change in DNA Damage in Mice after Continuous Irradiation at ~ 400-fold Natural Background Radiation - 5 week chronic low dose study. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3440074/pdf/ehp.1104294.pdf

http://www.science20.com/news_articles/radiation_effects_did_nobel_prize_winner_hermann_muller_lie-82835 Muller lied.

Sievert data to add to list

http://theenergycollective.com/willem-post/53939/radiation-exposure

Nuclear insurance

The Price-Anderson Act, the world's first comprehensive nuclear liability law, has been central to addressing the question of liability for nuclear accidents since 1957. It is renewed every ten years or so, with strong bipartisan support, and requires individual operators to be responsible for two layers of insurance cover: #The first layer is where each nuclear site is required to purchase US$ 300 million coverage from private insurers. #The second layer, if required, is jointly provided by all US reactor operators: this layer is funded through retrospective payments of up to US$ 96 million per reactor, collected in annual instalments of US$ 15 million and adjusted for inflation. Combined, the total provision comes to over US$ 10 billion paid for by the utilities (the United States Department of Energy provides US$ 9.5 billion for its own nuclear activities). Beyond this coverage, and irrespective of fault, the United States Congress, as insurer of last resort, must decide how compensation is provided in the event claims exceed the covered US$ 10 billion. In 2005, the Act was renewed again by the US Congress as part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

Include the fact that the hydroelectric sector is likewise insured by the government as a last resort, in case of a major accident.

Reactor-grade plutonium

Design and construction of nuclear explosives based on normal reactor-grade plutonium is difficult and unreliable, but was demonstrated in 1962 from plutonium from Magnox reactors.

Much popular concern about possible weapons proliferation arises from considering the fissile materials themselves. For instance, in relation to the plutonium contained in spent fuel discharged each year from the world's commercial nuclear power reactors, it is correctly but misleadingly asserted that "only a few kilograms of plutonium are required to make a bomb". Furthermore, no nation is without enough indigenous uranium to construct a few weapons (however, that uranium would have to be enriched).

Plutonium is a substance of varying properties depending on its source. It consists of several different isotopes, including Pu-238, Pu-239, Pu-240, and Pu-241. All of these are plutonium but not all are fissile – only Pu-239 and Pu-241 can undergo fission in a normal reactor. Plutonium-239 by itself is an excellent nuclear fuel. It has also been used extensively for nuclear weapons because it has a relatively low spontaneous fission rate and a low critical mass. Consequently plutonium-239, with only a few percent of the other isotopes present, is often called "weapons-grade" plutonium. This was used in the Nagasaki bomb in 1945 and in many other nuclear weapons.

On the other hand, "reactor-grade" plutonium as routinely produced in all commercial nuclear power reactors, and which may be separated by reprocessing the spent fuel from them, is not the same thing at all. It contains a large proportion – up to 40% – of the heavier plutonium isotopes, especially Pu-240, due to it having remained in the reactor for a relatively long time. This is not a particular problem for re-use of the plutonium in mixed oxide (MOX) fuel for reactors, but it seriously affects the suitability of the material for nuclear weapons. Due to spontaneous fission of Pu-240, only a very low level of it is tolerable in material for making weapons. Design and construction of nuclear explosives based on normal (i.e. routinely discharged) reactor-grade plutonium would be difficult and unreliable, and has not so far been done. A nuclear device has been made however from low-burned plutonium from a Magnox nuclear reactor. It was tested in 1962. Its composition was never officially released but was evidently around 90% of fissile Pu-239. This method of production was very expensive, unreliable and easily detectable (fuel has to stay in the reactor for relatively short period (few weeks) as opposed to normal use (few years)), and with a relatively small yield. All these factors contributed to the fact that apart from the test device used in 1962 no new ones were created.

Weapons usable definition change, after the magnox sourced plutonium test of 1962, Now weapons usable plutonium has to have a purity of more than ~80% Pu-239. http://permanent.access.gpo.gov/websites/osti.gov/www.osti.gov/html/osti/opennet/document/press/pc29.html

Transparent publications and health studies

All nuclear operators are obliged to measure radiation on and around their sites as well as reporting all particles and radiation they emit. This has to be attested by an independent audit office. This practice is more or less the same in all countries that are members of IAEA. In a case where there is a significant release, i.e. above prescribed limits defined by NCRP and obligatory for all IAEA members, this has to be reported to IAEA and be given INES mark 5 or higher, which is very rare. INES events in last 6 months can be reviewed here. All equipment is regularly checked. In addition all operators are obliged to release full lists of measurements into the public domain. An individual living near a nuclear plant will on average get from it around 1% of the natural radiation levels. That is well within safety limits.

In Britain, detailed studies carried out by the Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment (COMARE) in 2003 found no evidence of raised childhood cancer around nuclear power plants. They did find an excess of leukaemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) near other nuclear installations including AWE Burghfield, UKAEA Dounreay and BNFL's Sellafield plant although COMARE said that a link with nuclear material is unlikely. COMARE's opinion is that "the excesses around Sellafield and Dounreay are unlikely to be due to chance, although there is not at present a convincing explanation for them".

Transparent design safety, correspond with the designers and make a comment

You can for example send a communication to Westinghouse and the countries assessing its reactor design, for information and to make a comment on the reactor. https://www.ukap1000application.com/ap1000_documentation.aspx

Nuclear industry worker health. No increase in cancer, in fact, a depression in cancer rates was found.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15624306 Analysis of the mortality experience amongst U.S. nuclear power industry workers after chronic low-dose exposure to ionizing radiation.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/04/11/nuclear_power.html

A first-of-its-kind study of more than 53,000 nuclear power workers in the United States has found that employees in the commercial nuclear industry are less likely than the general population to die from cancer or non-cancer diseases due, in large measure, to the so-called "healthy worker effect."

The study by Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health tracked workers from 15 nuclear utilities in the United States for periods of up to 18 years between 1979 and 1997. Mortality rates of these workers showed that they were 60 percent lower than cause-specific U.S. mortality rates for a population similar in terms of gender, age and calendar year. In order to work in the nuclear industry, workers have to be healthy and are usually required to have annual medical check-ups.

The most important results of this study were findings with respect to radiation-related leukemia and radiation-related other cancers. According to the records, which were maintained by the facilities themselves and by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Department of Energy, positive, although non-statistically-significant, associations with radiation were seen for mortality from some forms of leukemia and other cancers as a whole. The magnitude of these associations is very similar to those from other radiation studies on which current radiation safety standards are based, indicating that the standards are appropriate.

The researchers did report, however, a strong positive and statistically significant association between radiation dose and death from arteriosclerotic heart disease, including coronary heart disease.

Geoffrey Howe, professor of epidemiology at the Mailman School and principal investigator of the study, noted, "While associations with heart disease have been reported by some other occupational studies, the magnitude of the present association is not consistent with them, and, therefore, needs cautious interpretation and merits further attention."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18319298 The non-cancer mortality experience of male workers at British Nuclear Fuels plc, 1946-2005.

Both find no cancer(even a depressed incidence of it). However both found a slight increase in heart disease. I wonder if they controlled for exercise or BMI. As these workers probably don't have to do much physical activity when on the job and therefore that might explain the higher heart disease incidence. Either way no cancer increase, and that's the main thing.

Energy independence

Oil producing countries, such as Saudi Arabia and Iran, have pursued Nuclear Power as a cost effective way of maximizing limited sell-able natural resources over time.

In some nations there may be no viable alternatives. In the words of the French, "We have no coal, we have no oil, we have no gas, we have no choice." France has no Uranium either though, and thus has to import it from Canada and Niger which has amongst the lowest HdI in the world. Critics of a phase-out everywhere argue that nuclear power stations could not be compensated for and predict an energy crisis or argue that only coal could possibly compensate for nuclear power and CO₂ emissions will increase tremendously or an increase in energy imports either of nuclear power or of natural oil. Nuclear power has been relatively unaffected by embargoes, as uranium is mined in reliable countries such as Australia and Canada unlike, for example, some large natural gas suppliers, which include states of the former Soviet Union.

Negative Externality costs of energy sources

In march(early to mid) 2013, on the externality page and talk page, I researched the history of the concept and wrote the following that another editor decided did not deserve to be in the lede, and so they pushed it down the article. Respectively, Henry Sidgwick and Arthur C. Pigou are credited with first articulating, and in the latter case, formalizing, the concept of externality/spillover. The same editor that moved this material, is pushing their particular definition of the concept, when there are actually two schools of thought on the definition of this economic concept. One from each major school of economics. The other editor has removed material from the economist, and duke university, dubiously for not meeting reliability standards. They prefer a reference from 1962 to be the only 'reliable' definition of the word externality which I find to be pretty odd to be relying on a definition from decades ago. In one of the modern schools of economic thought, an externality is a cost or benefit which results from an activity or transaction and which affects an otherwise uninvolved party who did not choose to incur that cost or benefit.

According to the other major school of economic thought, Neoclassical economics, the term is defined subtly differently - an externality, or transaction spillover, is a cost or benefit that is not transmitted through prices. The Economist notes, in that it is incurred by a party who was not involved as either a buyer or seller of the goods or services causing the cost or benefit.

Here's the best definition. - http://www.auburn.edu/~johnspm/gloss/externality http://hspm.sph.sc.edu/courses/ECON/Externality/index.html An external benefit is a benefit that someone gains because of someone else's action, outside of any market transaction between them. Immunizations give external benefits. When you get a vaccine for a certain disease, you make it less likely that you will contract the disease. That is the internal benefit. What you also do is make is less likely that other people will get the disease, because they probably will not catch it from you. That is the external benefit Secondly they also do not regard education to be a positive externality, which they wrote on the article's talk page. Moreover they are also removing the following OECD referenced statement that co-generation of medical radio-isotopes at a nuclear power reactor(not a dedicated research reactor) is an example of a positive externality.

Some nuclear power and research reactor 'waste' byproducts are of high value and used in many radiopharmaceuticals, this is classified as a positive externality of nuclear power. Fission products such as Yttrium-90 and Technetium 99m have a wide and valuable use in Oncology and diagnostic medicine. For example at Clinton Nuclear Generating Station, Cobalt-60 is produced, with plans to expand into producing Molybdenum-99 which is required for Technetium 99m.

Nuclear power has one of the lowest external costs, i.e. cost to the environment and people. These are not factored into price but are paid by society and will only partly be included by the Kyoto protocol. Across the 27 nation European Union for example nuclear external costs are ~ 0.25 euro cents per kWh. That is a bit more than for wind which is rated at ~ 0.15 euro cents per kWh, but considerably less than for coal which is at ~ 4 to 7 euro cents per kWh, oil which is ~ 3 to 5 euro cents per kWh, gas which is 1 to 2 euro cents per kWh and biomass which is at ~ 1 euro cents per kWh. With importantly, these figures for carbonaceous fuels reported by the ExternE project, not including the cost to the environment and people from there contribution to global warming.

The quoted cost of many renewable generation sources would be increased if it included the provision of necessary back-up power sources to cover periods when wind, sun, waves, etc. are weak and not producing power. It has been calculated that wind power, one of the major hopes for anti-nuclear advocates, costs three times as much as the average electricity generation cost in Germany.

(The following was removed because it is a paper that seemingly never went for peer review publication) However it seems rational to me - There is evidence that crime in a neighborhood increases after the opening of a liquor store. Liquor stores may draw an undesirable class of citizens into the neighborhood to shop and hang out. They may also cause more people in the area to drink; such people may then proceed to commit acts in the neighborhood that they would not normally do, or else these drunk people may become easy targets for the crimes of others. Even if the crimes start out small, they may eventually become much worse if not effectively addressed (broken windows theory). Liquor stores are more likely to be open late into the night than other stores, and may result in increased noise levels which harm property values in the community.

Your writing above is replete with error and misrepresentation. Where is it written that there are two schools of economic thought? Where is it written that the Buchanan paper is the only WP:RS on externality? I am truly delighted that you cherish your original research and personal opinions but please do not insert them in WP articles unless they happen to coincide with appropriate WP source material. I've asked you to review various WP policies. If you decide to do so, it could save you much pointless effort broadcasting extraneous material here and elsewhere on this site. Please study up on WP policies. SPECIFICO talk 20:14, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

SPECIFICO I see you are dodging the Externality talk page, and instead prefer to devolve into ad Hominem attacks here on my talk page. I'll assume good faith, in case you didn't see them -

Where in WP:RS does it say that open-courseware supplied, for example, by Samuel L. Baker, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, University of South Carolina is inadmissible? He's number 5 on the list of open courseware. - http://oedb.org/library/features/top-100-open-courseware-projects#econ

Medical care in general is obviously a positive externality. - He states - An external benefit is a benefit that someone gains because of someone else's action, outside of any market transaction between them. Immunizations give external benefits. When you get a vaccine for a certain disease, you make it less likely that you will contract the disease. That is the internal benefit. What you also do is make is less likely that other people will get the disease, because they probably will not catch it from you. That is the external benefit. http://hspm.sph.sc.edu/courses/ECON/Externality/index.html

As for the definition of the word - Externalities have been defined by marketers as the uncalculated costs and/or benefits of exchange, where uncalculated refers to costs and benefits that have not been accurately included in the exchange valuation (Mundt 1993). http://jmk.sagepub.com/content/16/1/73.abstract Journal of Macromarketing Spring 1996 vol. 16 no. 1 73-88

This is far more in line with Pigou's terminology. - http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/725216?uid=3738232&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21102039738887 The Problem of Externality Carl J. Dahlman Journal of Law and Economics Vol. 22, No. 1 (Apr., 1979), pp. 141-162

Another source supporting medical care as a positive externality - Externalities arising from health care provision: Health services are normally assumed to be merit goods providing a private benefit for people who consume them and additional external benefits for society as a whole. http://www.tutor2u.net/economics/revision-notes/as-marketfailure-health-care.html QED radiopharmaceuticals are a positive externality.

Boundarylayer (talk) 03:43, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Please do not attack other editors. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. I discuss article content on the article talk page and address comments to you concerning your behavior on your talk page. Because I believe that your interactions are not civil and responsive, I will no longer be responding to you here. I may continue to edit articles in which you also participate, and I expect you to learn and adhere to WP site standards and norms. SPECIFICO talk 03:55, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

But, the fact of the matter is, you haven't responded on the externality talk page. I am also now very curious how you have concluded I have attacked you? If anything declaring as you do that - I believe that your interactions are not civil and responsive is a personal attack.

Boundarylayer (talk) 04:39, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

References

Positive nuclear power externality costs

The definition of externality is as follows. An externality is a cost or benefit which results from an activity or transaction and which affects an otherwise uninvolved party who did not choose to incur that cost or benefit.

Some nuclear power and research reactor 'waste' byproducts are of high value and used in many radiopharmaceuticals, this is classified as a positive externality of nuclear power. Fission products such as Yttrium-90 and Technetium 99m have a wide and valuable use in Oncology and diagnostic medicine. For example at Clinton Nuclear Generating Station, Cobalt-60 is produced, with plans to expand into producing Molybdenum-99 which is required for Technetium 99m.

Those who buy electricity(a transaction), from Clinton Nuclear Geenerating Station are positively affecting an otherwise uninvolved party( medical patients), who did not choose to incur that cost of supporting a nuclear power plant.

Also see my lede edits in externality, and take the next editors advice on fixing the citation

References

Limits of government support for renewable energy investments

Research conducted by the World Pensions Council (WPC) suggests that the failure of Solyndra in August 2011 should be viewed within the broader context of unsustainable government spending on sustainable energy, and that the Solyndra bankruptcy was a harbinger of the collapse of the German solar cell industry in the first quarter of 2012- both events being "stark reminders of the risks that go with disproportionate levels of leveraging and the reliance on unsustainable government subsidies and unreasonable fiscal incentives to 'stimulate' demand. In many ways, real estate and solar energy assets were de facto owned by 'unnatural owners' such as banks, and, when the banks collapsed, by Western governments unable or unwilling to provide fresh capital" in a context of fiscal austerity and tighter credit limits.

Particulate matter emissions by energy source

See the table below the main image on this page. Note that winds emissions were reported as 5-35mg/kWh Particulate matter milligram/kWh, higher than hydro, nuclear, and even possibly worse than fossil gas/ 'natural gas' too. This is in line with the initial source that got me interested in this - Particulates range from 10.3 to 32.3 mg/kWh http://www.wind-energy-the-facts.org/en/environment/chapter-1-environmental-benefits/lca-in-wind-energy.html Boundarylayer (talk) 09:30, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Wind industry lobbying and government subsidies compared to all energy sources

Wind power, fossil fuels and all energy sources are subsidized by many governments. For example a 2009 study by the Environmental Law Institute assessed the size and structure of U.S. energy subsidies over the 2002–2008 period. The study estimated that subsidies to fossil-fuel based sources amounted to approximately $72 billion over this period and subsidies to renewable fuel sources totalled $29 billion. In the United States, the federal government has paid US$74 billion for energy subsidies to support R&D for nuclear power ($50 billion) and fossil fuels ($24 billion) from 1973 to 2003. During this same time frame, renewable energy technologies and energy efficiency received a total of US$26 billion. However these subsidy costs previously presented were displayed in absolute terms, in relative terms, presented in terms of value for money, subsidy dollars spent per million units of energy produced, by energy source, the subsidy costs are as follows - fossil fuels 64 cents, hydropower 82 cents, nuclear $3.14, wind $56.29 and solar $775.64 of subsidies per unit of energy delivered.

It has been suggested that a subsidy shift would help to level the playing field and support growing energy sectors, namely solar power, wind power, and biofuels. History shows that no energy sector was developed without subsidies.

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA) (2011) energy subsidies artificially lower the price of energy paid by consumers, raise the price received by producers or lower the cost of production. "Fossil fuels subsidies costs generally outweigh the benefits. Subsidies to renewables and other low-carbon power energy technologies can bring long-term economic and environmental benefits". In November 2011, an IEA report entitled Deploying Renewables 2011 said "subsidies in green energy technologies that were not yet competitive are justified in order to give an incentive to investing into technologies with clear environmental and energy security benefits". The IEA's report disagreed with claims that renewable energy technologies are only viable through costly subsidies and not able to produce energy reliably to meet demand.

In the US, according to the Investigative Reporting Workshop, the wind power industry has recently increased its lobbying efforts considerably, spending about $5 million in 2009, after years of relative obscurity in Washington. Similarly, according to the Investigative Reporting Workshop, the US nuclear industry has also increased its lobbying efforts, spending $80.2 million in 2008, in comparison to just over $30 million in 1999.

It has also been noted by the Coloradoan newspaper that, in consideration, due to wind power generating a relatively small quantity of the total electricity generated in the USA, the amount of money the US wind power industry is spending on lobbying is considerably high. Moreover, again according to the Investigative Reporting Workshop, like most energy industries, it is tough to know where the US wind industry is getting its lobbying dollars from, with overseas, specifically German, companies funding the majority of the US lobbying.

Moreover, in contrast to the Investigative Reporting Workshop statistics on energy industry lobbying, the Environment & Energy Publishing's statistics from 2009 suggest that the US wind industry spent the second highest amount on lobbying in the USA, second after only the Petroleum industry, spending $808,997 in comparison to $2.2 million by the petroleum industry. The Environment & Energy Publishing group have also noted that the wind industry, along with the petroleum and the solar industry, declare lobbying costs in such a manner that specifically excludes grass-roots activity, leaves out advertising spending and does not include money spent on lobbying at a state or local level.

Following the 2011 Japanese nuclear accidents, Germany's federal government is working on a new plan for increasing energy efficiency and renewable energy commercialization, with a particular focus on offshore wind farms. Under the plan large wind turbines will be erected far away from the coastlines, where the wind blows more consistently than it does on land, and where the enormous turbines won't bother the inhabitants. The plan aims to decrease Germany's dependence on energy derived from coal and nuclear power plants.

Commenting on the EU's 2020 renewable energy target, economist Professor Dieter Helm is critical of how the costs of wind power are cited by lobbyists. Helm also says that the problem of intermittent supply will probably lead to another dash for gas or dash for coal in Europe, possibly with a negative impact on energy security. A House of Lords Select committee report (2008) on renewable energy in the UK reported a "concern over the prospective role of wind generated and other intermittent sources of electricity in the UK, in the absence of a break-through in electricity storage technology or the integration of the UK grid with that of continental Europe".

--- include at a later date, stronger references on subsidies received per unit of energy generated by energy source.

People have a right to know how the low carbon power sources they are supporting with subsidies compare. That is, what exactly is the value for money people are receiving. This is an encyclopedia after all, and should not be a promotional advertisement for any particular energy sector. A 2010 study by Global Subsidies Initiative compared global relative subsidies of different energy sources. Results show that fossil fuels receive 0.8 US cents per kWh of energy they produce (although it should be noted that the estimate of fossil fuel subsidies applies only to consumer subsidies and only within non-OECD countries), nuclear energy receives 1.7 cents / kWh, renewable energy (excluding hydroelectricity) receives 5.0 cents / kWh and biofuels receive 5.1 cents / kWh in subsidies.http://www.iisd.org/gsi/sites/default/files/relative_energy_subsidies.pdf

http://www.eia.gov/analysis/requests/subsidy/ The EIA have also catalogued the massive amount of subsidies going to wind despite it producing a tiny amount of energy. See table ES3, ES4 & ES5.

This second and third source now completely corroborates the Wall Street Journal's figures, and the order of the energy sources are exactly the same in all the sources, so despite your hotly expressed opinions against the WSJ as a source, (the units in the WSJ figures were expressed in cents/MWh and not kWh in case you were wondering). Wind is getting a disproportionate amount of subsidies for the energy it generates in comparison to other low carbon power sources - Hydro and Nuclear.

When it comes to fossil fuels though, you should naturally add a section on the environmental and health costs of using each energy source, such as natural fossil gas and natural fossil coal particulate matter linked deaths and CO2 damages. Including externality costs of each energy sources, for sure is important, as these costs could also be considered something tax payers do pay for(an indirect subsidy). In comparison you should include the fact that the externality costs of Hydro, wind and nuclear power(in order of increasing externality costs) are all tiny in comparison to fossil fuels externality costs. Check out the ExternE project on each energy sources externality costs for exact figures, as they have calculated the the medical and social costs of dealing with millions of diseases and deaths yearly world-wide caused by energy sources that you brought up. They have assigned a cents/kWh figure to each energy source. Here's the EU document, look at page 35 to 37 for the cents/kWh externality cost of each energy source. http://www.externe.info/externe_2006/expoltec.pdf Yes that's right Coal and Gas cause 4-6 cent/kWh of damage(externality), and that is excluding the damage done by global warming from these sources.

References

Nuclear power's immunity from cost inflation of fuel, NPP's Achilles heel is capital cost and not fuel or waste costs.

For a typical 1,000 MWe BWR or PWR, the approximate cost of fuel for one reload (replacing one third of the core) is about $40 million, based on an 18-month refueling cycle. The average fuel cost at a nuclear power plant in 2011 was 0.68 cents / kWh.

Because nuclear plants refuel every 18-24 months, they are not subject to fuel price volatility like natural gas and oil power plants.http://www.nei.org/resourcesandstats/nuclear_statistics/costs

rational law, the source of a rational based society

http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Natural_law

My edits on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

Other pages that need attention: Timeline of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Radiation effects from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster casualties, Accident rating of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. & the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

Comparison of radiation levels for different nuclear events.

In May 2012, TEPCO reported that at least 900 PBq had been released "into the atmosphere in March last year [2011]" putting the radiation release from all the reactors taken together as equivalent to a "sixth"(17%) that of Chernobyl.

The severity of the nuclear accident is provisionally rated 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES). This scale runs from 0, indicating an abnormal situation with no safety consequences, to 7, indicating an accident causing widespread contamination with serious health and environmental effects. Prior to Fukushima, the Chernobyl disaster was the only level 7 accident on record, while the Three Mile Island accident was a level 5 accident.

The 2012 analysis of the amount of intermediate and long lived radioactivity released from all the Fukushima Daiichi reactors taken together, is about 10-20% of that released from the Chernobyl disaster, when comparing the two disasters together. The total release from the entire Fukushima disaster, in terms of Cesium-137(which along with strontium-90 are the two primary substances preventing Chernobyl being inhabited,) is ~1.5×10^16 becquerels (Bq) of Cesium-137 released, in contrast the amount released from Chernobyl, was ~8.5x10^16 Bq of Cesium-137. which is an activity produced by 24 kilograms of Cesium-137.

Another notable difference between the two accidents is that, unlike Chernobyl, all the Japanese reactors were situated within concrete containment vessels, which contributed to the Japanese accident releasing vastly less strontium-90, americium-241 and plutonium, which were amongst the radioisotopes released at Chernobyl.

In terms of the most biologically hazardous short lived radioisotope iodine-131, 5x10^17 Bq of Iodine 131 were released from the Fukushima disaster. In comparison to the release at Chernobyl ~17.6x10^17 Bq of iodine-131 was released. As this substances decays away to become a stable nuclei rapidly, due to its short half life of 8.02 days. There is only a short time available for human exposure to occur, after ten half lifes - 80.2 days for Iodine-131 - 99.9% of it has decayed to a stable state.http://www.terrapub.co.jp/journals/GJ/pdf/4604/46040327.pdf

Main article: Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster casualties

Main article: Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster casualties

There were no casualties caused by radiation exposure, approximately 25,000 died due to the earthquake and tsunami. Predicted future cancer deaths due to accumulated radiation exposures in the population living near Fukushima are predicted to be extremely low to none.

In 2013, two years after the incident, the World Health Organization indicated that the residents of the area who were evacuated were exposed to so little radiation that radiation induced health impacts are likely to be below detectable levels. The health risks in the WHO assessment attributable to the Fukushima radiation release were calculated by largely applying the conservative Linear no-threshold model of radiation exposure, a model that assumes even the smallest amount of radiation exposure will cause a negative health effect.

The WHO calculations using this model determined that the most at risk group, infants, who were in the most affected area, would experience an absolute increase in the risk of cancer(of all types) during their lifetime, of approximately 1% due to the accident. With the lifetime risk increase for thyroid cancer, due to the accident, for a female infant, in the most affected radiation location, being estimated to be one half of one percent[0.5%]. Cancer risks for the unborn child are considered to be similar to those in 1 year old infants.

The estimated risk of cancer to people who were children and adults during the Fukushima accident, in the most affected area, was determined to be lower again when compared to the most at risk group - infants. A thyroid ultrasound screening programme is currently[2013] ongoing in the entire Fukushima prefecture, this screening programme is, due to the screening effect, likely to lead to an increase in the incidence of thyroid disease due to early detection of non-symptomatic disease cases. About one third of people[33.3%] in industrialized nations are presently diagnosed with cancer during their lifetimes, radiation exposure can increase ones cancer risk, with the cancers that arise being indistinguishable from cancers resulting from other causes.

No increase is expected in the incidence of congenital or developmental abnormalities, including cognitive impairment attributable to within the womb radiation exposure. As no radiation induced inherited effects/heritable effects, nor teratogenic effects, have ever been definitely demonstrated in humans, with studies on the health of children conceived by cancer survivors who received radiotherapy, and the children of the Hibakusha, not finding a definitive increase in inherited disease or congenital abnormalities. No increase in these effects are therefore expected in or around the Fukushima power plants.

References

My edits on Hibakusha and Teratology

The survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, who are known as the Hibakusha, were (and still are) victims of severe discrimination due to public ignorance about the consequences of radiation sickness, with much of the public believing it to be hereditary or even contagious. This is despite the fact that no statistically demonstrable increase of birth defects/congenital malformations was found among the later conceived children born to survivors of the nuclear weapons used at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or found in the later conceived children of cancer survivors who had previously received radiotherapy. The surviving women of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that could conceive, who were exposed to substantial amounts of radiation, went on and had children with no higher incidence of abnormalities/birth defects than the rate which is observed in the Japanese average.

Children in utero who were gestating in the wombs of mothers at the extremely close range of under 1 km from the hypocenter of Hiroshima- and survived! Were conceived with a higher prevalence of Microcephaly being observed. But there was only about 30 or so of these children born in the entire population of gestating children in the city, so it's not really important for the Hibakusha article.

Request for assistance from Earlysunn

I want to develloppe on Nuclear Energy and the real cost of Nuclear including subventions since the 1950 ? any clues do yu know a specialist to work with me on this article, are you , and do you have time.

--Earlysunn (talk) 15:27, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Apologies, I do not know any specialists, Ireland being a veritable backwater in this respect due primarily to our 'ban' on nuclear fission. However, if you expanded upon what exactly you are looking for then that could help us narrow down what type of specialist your needs would best be filled by. From the tone of your writing I'm led to assume that you are approaching this question from a position of already having your mind made up on the cost? Are you also wishing to know the real cost of Coal,Gas,Wind,Solar etc. too?

If you're interested in subsides, then this might be a good place to start -

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903285704576559103573673300.html

Boundarylayer (talk) 16:41, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Effects of nuclear explosions on human health

See talk page. Save these. http://nikealaska.org/nuke/fallout.html

http://www.falloutradiation.com/johnwayne7

http://www3.nd.edu/~nsl/Lectures/phys205/pdf/Nuclear_Warfare_9.pdf

www.tacda.org/docs/TACDA_Academy_CDBasics_6Radiation.pdf

http://www.srp-uk.org/resources/rules-of-thumb-a-practical-hints

Chelyabinsk meteor References

Having spent several hours fixing the formatting for the references in the Russian Meteor article just a few days ago, I was surprised to have to go do it again quite so soon.

When the same reference is used multiple times, it can be referred to by name rather than the whole entry repeated - it is then listed just once in the references with a link back to each individual usage. Additionally, the cite template provides a consistent way to present and format references. Please take some time to look at the syntax for it. It really does make the job easier. -- 212.139.104.161 (talk) 09:37, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks man, I must take a look at that cite template one of these days, although I'm always paranoid I will unintentionally put a cite in the wrong place and confuse readers, as it appears to be a common enough mistake using the cite template that it even was brought up on the Chelyabinsk meteor page. Either way, keep up the good work in the article, and thank you for including my edits in the lede and moving up info that I wrote further down the article in the lede, and thank you especially in regards to the injuries section.

Specifically including the Brazilian Tunguska, Duck and cover injuries and the 90 kt yield of the air burst.

As we discussed on the talk page, I'm still finding that,(basing calculations off data from the historical record of HANE) that it would only take a nuclear weapon of yield ~ 30-60 kt to do the same broken window damage over the same area of land that was observed(and that's before we correct for how the blast wave wouldn't have been spherical in the case of the Chelyabinsk meteor but conical and in the direction of travel, as was observed in the updated calculations of the yield of the Tunguska event). As honestly, they would have had at least 1 example of an injury with retinal burns had the yield been 90 kt for the superbolide explosion. But hey, I won't argue with NASA, as at least they're making steps in the right direction by bringing the yield down from 500 kt to 90 kt and trying to communicate the difference in energy and power. The TNT equivalent unit should only be used for explosive events and not describing kinetic energy as that's just dumb.

For example, why in the hell would you describe a forest fire* in units of explosive yield? weapons are not about total energy release, weapons are about power. So using a power unit to describe energy output is down right junk science.

• Black_Saturday_bushfires#Overall_statistics

Boundarylayer (talk) 07:01, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

My understanding is that 500 kt (or 440 kt) was released along the 200 km track (I think I used those exact words at some point, long since re-edited multiple times I expect), 90 kt of which was in the main explosion, we now learn.

The cite template is really easy. It frees you from thinking about how the reference will look, you just fill in the | url= | title= | first1= | last1= | date= | work= | agency= | publisher= | accessdate= | parameters as necessary, and it does the rest for you. The parameters can be stated in any order. The bare minimum is url= and title= but most of the others are usually easily found on the page. Use agency= when the story comes from AP or Reuters, etc, rather than from a named author.

Reusing a reference is really easy, you just restate the reference, name, like ref name="Reuters-123456" / you want to use again, with a closing slash. The name can be anything. Some people use the surname, others the publisher, and some combine that with a unique number, perhaps the story date or the story ID. The idea is to keep it consistent; for example the IDs for the various Russia Today stories are RT-291, RT-283, etc. The edit window also has a way to check for some basic errors (click cite, then error check). -- 212.139.104.161 (talk) 13:16, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

Tunguska - what are the most convincing height and yield calculations?

According to a critical analysis by V.V. Svettsov in 2007, Ben-Menahan(1975)* based their yield estimate of Tunguska(~12.5 Mt), on the Soviet nuclear test shot #123 - of yield 12.5 Mt, at an air burst height of 3.6 km, over Novaya Zemlya - that produced a similar earthquake magnitude and 'acoustogravitional' pressure ~0.3 mbar as Tunguska is said to have. See the passing mention to Soviet #123 air drop here.

& the table in Stettsov's paper itself - http://link.springer.com/article/10.1134%2FS1069351307070075 Izvestiya, Physics of the Solid Earth July 2007, Volume 43, Issue 7, pp 583-591 Estimates of the energy of surface waves from atmospheric explosions and the source parameters of the Tunguska event. V. V. Svettsov The table in the paper has, ground pressure, earthquake intensity, altitude, and yield data on test shot #123, and on higher yield air bursts, such as tsar bomba/ test #130. This paper, along with the nuclear weapons archive and the Johnston archive all corroborates the height and yield of test shot #123. http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/Sovatmtest.html http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/

As does page 37-38 here http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/khalturin_NZ_1-42%20.pdf A Review of Nuclear Testing by the Soviet Union at Novaya Zemlya, 1955--1990.

However despite the discrepancies brought up by Svettsov, a number of sources seem to frequently reiterate Ben-Menahan's(1975) altitude estimates. With the estimated height at which the Tunguska explosion occurred oft being repeated as approximately 7.5-8.5 km, e.g 8 km, by many authoritative sources and attributed to Ben-Menahan(1975) - http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1995Metic..30..634R Title: No iridium anomaly after the 1908 Tunguska impact: Evidence from a Greenland ice core
Authors: Rasmussen, K. L., Clausen, H. B., & Kallemeyn, G. W.
Journal: Meteoritics, Vol. 30, Issue 6, p.634 & http://www.gps.caltech.edu/uploads/File/People/kanamori/HKhsew88.pdf Importance of historical seismograms for geophysical research. Kanamori 1988, page 26. - Ben-Menahem 1975 analyzed a few seisomgraphs of the 1908 Siberian explosion and concluded that the explosion consists of of an air explosion at a height of 8.5 km. & http://www.icr.org/research/index/researchp_sa_r05/ The height at which the explosion occurred was estimated to be approximately 7.5 km...(Ben-Menahem 1975)

• Ben-Menahan(1975) Source parameters of the siberian explosion of jun 30 1908 form analysis and syntheis of seismic signals at four stations Phys. Earth Planet. Int., 11, 1-35

Celestial impacts & Diamond dave j

http://archive.org/details/OperationHARDTACK_HighAltitudeTests1958 View from 14 minutes onwards to see the ground pressure measured from all the Operation Hardtack HANE tests. Hardtack Teak(3.8Mt) & shot Orange(3.8Mt). Shot Teak at a slant range of 252,000 feet (almost directly overhead) produced a ground pressure of 0.1 PSI. Orange at approximately a 45 degree angle from the ground station, with a slant range (hypotenuse value) of 196,000 feet, produced a ground pressure of 0.18 PSI.

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Hey man, I noticed you edited the Chelyabinsk meteor article and talk page too. Good job, however, something that I think you may have also been frustrated by is, (if you're anything like me), the method in which the energy and power emitted from these events is reported, is done so in a bit of a misleading manner, and subject to a lot of confusion.

To clarify it, I think everyone would prefer something more clear cut and informative such as - The object had a kinetic energy before encountering the earth's atmosphere of X(in this case it is reported as ~ 1.8 peta Joules or much higher than this by others*)(E=1/2mv^2).

The object emitted Y amount of radiant energy at peak brightness( perhaps 0.4 peta Joules)- determined by satellite radiometers/bhangmeters, The object produced a blast wave which would have been equivalent to placing a nuclear explosive device of Z yield(now expressed in units of kiloton) at the same altitude of the objects peak brightness/explosion(in this case ~23.3 km).

• The Velocity was reported as 16 - 17.4 km/s before impacting the atmosphere by some sources in march- http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.1796 Yet JPL have stated the velocity was higher at 18.6 km/s at peak brightness- so one assumes even faster still before impact with the earths atmosphere.http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/fireball_130301.html as the requirements in mass and velocity of the object, to arrive at the suggested 1.8 peta joules of kinetic energy during peak brightness, are found when one uses 11,000 tons for the mass, as JPL does, and a velocity of 18.6 km/s at peak brightness. If this mass and velocity figures are realistic then the energy before atmospheric impact would naturally be a bit higher than 1.8 peta joules, as the object probably bled off a bit of velocity before peak brightness.

As for comparisons to nuclear explosions and units of explosive yield -kiloton, are not at all meaningful when expressing kinetic energy, as you don't express the kinetic energy of your car in terms of kilotons, and for good reason, so neither should objects impacting the earth be expressed like this. So unless the air burst created by the object is comparable to a nuclear explosion of Z yield at the same height - which can be derived from scaling laws from High Altitude Nuclear Explosion testing. Only then is it now valid to compare the two events in units of kiloton.

Of course we, unfortunately, do not know the mass and velocity of the object before impacting the atmosphere. So naturally JPL had to work backwards basing their estimate on the total kinetic energy of the object from the satellite radiometers/bhangmeter data on fireball radiance.

Moreover I also noticed you were a Triner alumni, we should meet up someday in the D.Hall or something.

Fusion

Do you have a source for fusion power being viable commercially, let alone sustainable? Josh Joaquin (talk) 04:01, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

You mean right now? see - PACER power which has a lot of references that it is commercially viable(although politically a hot potato and therefore unlikely to be tested). As for steady state sources. Well apart from the worldwide international effort to build the first steady state fusion reactor - ITER, a project that has more nation state collaborators than any other construction project in the history of mankind, because everyone and their cat knows it will be commercially viable and sustainable. Well then no I don't :-D

Moreover, are you honestly trying to argue the most common source of visible energy in the entire universe -Fusion, is not sustainable for billions of years? The very processes that power our star and every other star in the entire universe... is not sustainable?

Am I in the twilight zone?

Boundarylayer (talk) 04:24, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

We don't file "wind power" under "solar" for the same reason we don't file "solar" under "fusion." Please do not beat around the bush. Are there any reliable sources which say Project PACER or any other fusion sources are commercially viable or sustainable for terrestrial power production or not? As for ITER, didn't that recently get pushed back from estimated for 2030 to 2050 by its proponents? Josh Joaquin (talk) 05:02, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

No, see you don't file wind and solar under nuclear fusion because you don't like admitting to yourself that this is where the energy comes from. Simple as that. Secondly, ITER didn't get pushed back you are mistaken, here's a thought why don't you read about it? Although money is tight, ITER is secured and we could have fusion power in 5 years if people actually funded it properly and stopped hitting there heads against the wall trying to get luddite amish technology to break the laws of nature and be as sustainable as nuclear fusion. For example, humanity spends more on dog grooming bills each year than fusion research. Isn't it a grand world we live in!

I am not a fan of repeating myself, or trolls, so for the last time, all the references are in PACER, if you don't think the Department of Energy or LANL or Harvard are reliable sources than there really is no hope for you, as you've already made your mind up. I forgot, with you people it's - they are the establishment so they must be lying if they calculate something and say positive things about stuff I don't like...Imma go see what crack pots like greenpeace say Yet if the DOE etc. say something positive about one of your favorite energy sources then it's - oh goody even the government says it...so it must be true! Hypocrisy at it's most basic.

http://www.osti.gov/bridge/purl.cover.jsp?purl=/6718615-nHBbSQ/6718615.pdf

How about Harvard, are they part of your mental conspiracy too? hahaha

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1976iece.conf.1118H

Boundarylayer (talk) 05:36, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

Ugh, forget I asked. Josh Joaquin (talk) 06:12, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

No thank you? I gave you the references you were looking for, people these days, I never.

Boundarylayer (talk) 07:10, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

(ITER)Magnetic confinement Fusion Plasma facing material/wall radioactivity

Some of my work on the Sievert page included all the information about the dose rate from the plasma facing wall after 100 and 300 years. =

90 MGy/a 10 kGy/h: Highest predicted immediate activation of Plasma facing material in possible future fusion reactors, no shielding, close proximity.

Due to tritiums short half life of ~12 years and non-penetrating beta particle emissions this absorbed dose rate would 1. not present a biological hazard unless the wall was inhaled or ingested and 2. be a dose rate that would drop rapidly with time, far faster than that observed from the spent fuel of fission power plants, due to a lack of long lived fission products being generated in the thin Plasma facing material. The thin fusion facing wall would produce a dose rate of 2-20 mSv/hr after 100 years of storage, and the dose rate would continue to diminish to equivalent to the dose from background radiation after 300 years.

This latter 300 years statement was removed as 'unsourced' by other editors, in early march 2013, but I've since got it reinserted in mid march. With the following reference. -

After 100 years of decay, typical levels would be 2-20 mSv/h. After approximately 300 years of decay the fusion waste would produce the same dose rate as exposure to coal ash, with the volume of fusion waste naturally being orders of magnitude less than from coal ash.

Nuclear Winter

No problem with the edits. It seems fine. I got that image from a Freedom of Information document posted on the CIA website. http://www.foia.cia.gov/docs/DOC_0000284025/DOC_0000284025.pdf I believe it was from a presentation some Soviet scientists gave at a conference in the 1980's. That link seems to be dead. Try this one: http://www.foia.cia.gov/search-results?search_api_views_fulltext=nuclear+winter&field_collection= Enjoy! Oaktree b (talk) 03:35, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks man, I'll be sure to give it a read.

Boundarylayer (talk) 18:11, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

http://www.secretsdeclassified.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/450806-F-7892W-008.jpg allegedly the height of the pyrocumulus cloud at Hiroshima town, smoke appears to be in the stratosphere here. No other info given, nor what plane took this picture, or the height of the plane.

Assuming all cities are built like Hiroshima, and all would firestorm, which in the real world, they would not, instead just lots of conventional fires would spring up, akin to what was observed at Nagasaki.-

http://www.epa.gov/ozone/science/myths/aerosol.html Pinatuba in 1991 reduced global temp by ~0.5 kelvin, for 1-2 years. . A standard way to quantify the longevity of a substance in the atmosphere is its "lifetime" -- the time that it takes for an initial amount to be cut by about two-thirds. More precisely, for an initial amount of 1000 tons injected into the stratosphere, about 368 tons would be left after one lifetime. Each subequent lifetime would reduce the remaining amount by about 63%. As the graph shows, the amount of aerosols in the stratosphere dropped at about the same rate as would a substance with a lifetime of about 11 months. Three years after the eruption, nearly all of the Mt. Pinatubo aerosols were gone.

Indo-Pakistan War gaming scenario - http://www.nrdc.org/nuclear/southasia.asp Most Indians (99 percent of the population) and Pakistanis (93 percent of the population) would survive the second scenario. Their respective military forces would be still be intact to continue and even escalate the conflict.

2016 update on the "KGB" likely exaggeration on their involvement. I'm coming to a more, "don't throw the baby out with the bathwater" position on Tretyakov's claims. As Golitsyn did report to the KGB orchestrated agency the Committee for Peace, Against the Nuclear Threat. So I'm beginning to see why the KGB/Tretyakov may have slightly overemphasizing their role and why they thought it acceptable to take all the credit for the promotion of nuclear winter.

Boundarylayer (talk) 05:20, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

I archived the above picture in 2013, the only such time-stamp grabbed from this "secretsdeclassified.af.mil website, thus corroborating my above suspicion and insight began as far back as the year 2013, insight that it is not, as falsely labelled, a photo of the "hiroshima strike", but that it is a picture of the city-fire-smoke cloud. I was clearly first, to make this connection, not Coster-Mullen. https://web.archive.org/web/20130220085824/http://www.secretsdeclassified.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/450806-F-7892W-008.jpg

Boundarylayer (talk) 05:33, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

How fast did France de-carbonize their electric grid, without even trying hard

https://theenergycollective.com/charlesbarton/49358/jacobson-beyond-cherry-picking This guy rips into Jacobson. I find it bizarre as he does, why Jacobson, would include the greenhouse gas emissions from a nuclear war. Although not mentioned in his analysis, from how I see it, if one is concerned solely about CO2 climate change and uncaring towards humanity, then killing billions of people and annihilating modern civilization would be one sure path to 'save the climate'. The annual CO2 emission rate we currently experience, would be slashed to a tiny fraction of what it is now if a global nuclear war were to occur - As I can't imagine all too many SUV's being driven all that often after a nuclear war, for example, maybe Jacobson does? Therefore Jacobson's view is predicated on a fantasy scenario and did not even follow through with his fantasy scenario to the 'favorable'(from a climate only perspective) conclusion. In sum, he appears to be demonstrating a severe amount of ideologue driven suggestions, which I wouldn't mind all that much if the suggestions had an actual basis in reality. - Which they do not.

The French decision to convert its electrical system too nuclear power was made in 1973. The whole project was completed by 1992 19 years after the decision was made. The French example is appropriate here because France was able to convert 3/4ths of its electrical industry to nuclear power very quickly. One group of 34 900 MW French reactors was completed between 1977 and 1988. A second group of 20 1300 MW reactors was completed between 1985 and 1992. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/readings/french.html

EPR's around the world

Taishan 1 is on schedule and Taishan 2 is ahead, according to Lauvergeon.

Progress at Taishan is being kept six months behind Flamanville deliberately in order to benefits from experience, the head of France’s nuclear safety watchdog Andre-Claude Lacoste said last week. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-24/china-builds-french-designed-nuclear-reactor-for-40-less-areva-ceo-says.html

British electric grid, in real time interactive

http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/~dcurtis/NETA.html

Nuclear terrorism

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10736700208436896 Illicit nuclear trafficking in the NIS: What's new? What's true? - Check with Library later. http://www.tmmm.tsk.tr/publications/datr4/01PeterZimmerman.pdf John Mueller, Christoph Wirz, Emmanuel Egger both of the Swiss government’s Spiez Laboratory & Robin Frost of Simon Fraser University, vs Zimmerman, Jeffrey Lewis and Matthew Bunn.

The take away message is that they have never stolen much of anything and Mueller is right about the Alarmism. - even the highest amount temporarily stolen in this paper is ~5 kg of 20% enriched Uranium, i.e not even HEU grade. - Sure, safe guards are and should be in place, and we shouldn't be complacent, but the chances some idiot terror group succeeding is probably close to 1 in a million, although Mueller may have picked this number arbitrarily, it is probably close to that, as all other 'odds' published in this paper are unrealistic - as they suggest a terror group should have succeeded by now.

The plans for a reprocessing plant from ORNL are online somewhere apparently, that might be intriguing to get and read.

Gun-type. See Smyth report(adjunct to Los Alamos primer) Henry DeWolf Smyth, Atomic Energy for Military Purposes: The official report on the development of the atomic bomb under the auspices of the United States Government, 1940 - 1945. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1945. Various editions and publishers are to be found. For onlinetext see: http://www.atomicarchive.com/Docs/SmythReport/index.shtml

From the above 2nd doc, the IAEA classify a 'significant quantity' theft to be 25 kg and 5 kg of HEU and Plutonium respectively. http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Booklets/Safeguards/pia3810.html

There's never been a theft anywhere near this quantity of HEU or plutonium.

Nuclear propulsion. Becoming an Interstellar civilization by Oort cloud 'island hopping'.

http://www.osti.gov/scitech/servlets/purl/5956313 Comet Riders--Nuclear nomads to the stars . International Aeronautical Federation Congress (IAEFC), Montreal (Canada), 7-11 Oct 1991. sourced from OSTI site.

Naval nuclear propulsion, necessary to cut CO2 emissions and the best option for large ships

https://www.bimco.org/en/News/2009/12/~/media/News/2009/General/Ship_Fuel_efficiency_in_a_historical_perspective_BB1_2009.ashx

http://www.dnv.com/binaries/position%20paper%20from%20dnv%20pathways%20to%20low%20carbon%20shipping_tcm4-535306.pdf Pathway to low carbon shipping by the Norwegian based Det Norske Veritas, nuclear necessary to reduce emissions, biofuel and LNG alone won't reduce shipping emissions.

http://www.imo.org/blast/blastDataHelper.asp?data_id=27012&filename=ExecutiveSummary-CMP5_1.pdf

http://www.unece.org/trans/main/wp5/wp5_conf_2012_june.html http://unctad.org/en/Docs/dtltlb20091_en.pdf

http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/files/news_pub_eo.pdf Exxonmobil's projections for energy and petroleum usage by 2040.

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL33153.pdf Chinese navy expansion and implications for US policy, good read.

Nuclear desalination and combined heat and power

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110512082949.htm

Why desalination is needed - fresh water shortages - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110804141757.htm http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijnd International journal on nuclear desalination, access via college.

http://users.ictp.it/~pub_off/lectures/lns020/Majumdar/Majumdar_2.pdf

http://www-pub.iaea.org/mtcd/publications/pdf/te_1444_web.pdf Optimization of the coupling of nuclear reactors and desalination systems

Examples -

http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/hybrid-desalination-plant-at-kalpakkam/article4167670.ece

http://web.archive.org/web/20071010101517/http://www.dae.gov.in/ni/nijul03/title.pdf multi-stage flash and osmosis dedalination at an India power plant.

Combined heat and power, Nuclear district heating

Most of this is done in Eastern European nations and nordic nations. However it is also done in Switzerland. http://sciencelinks.jp/j-east/article/200607/000020060706A0175205.php Nuclear District Heating: The Swiss Experience In present Switzerland, about 2,400 users (20,000 persons) in general housing, apartment houses, factories, and farms utilize the regional heat and cooling system of the Beznau Nuclear power plant. In the steam supply to factories using the Gosgen nuclear power plant, the saving of fuel oil for 15,000 tons/year has been realized. These projects started based on experiences in the oil crisis in the 1970's.

Beznau makes available 80 MW of heat to industry and homes over a 130 km network http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Country-Profiles/Countries-O-S/Switzerland/#.UWW4S5OF2uI

http://www.cospp.com/articles/print/volume-11/issue-3/features/carbon-free-nuclear.html dustrict heating industry estimates on the amount of CO2 saved in Finland by the building of a nuclear power plant coupled with their district heating system.

http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Magazines/Bulletin/Bull392/39205082125.pdf Biggest user of nuclear CHP is Bruce power in the production of heavy water for its power plant. The benefits to the environment of distric heating in general, as a sound idea, even excluding nuclear. -http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/chp_report.pdf

Future interaction analysis with VHTR's including hydrogen production http://www.inl.gov/technicalpublications/Documents/4374050.pdf

CO2 http://www.waset.org/journals/waset/v42/v42-238.pdf

More research to do - CHP appears to be paired best with industrial users who require heat, however for residential users, particularly for rural residents Thermal energy storage would probably be safer and more economical. Something like transporting a salt melted at the power plant to households and filling their super insulated storage tank with this salt, with the household only tapping into and using the thermal energy when needed. Other mediums include innocuous Zeolite- http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/130523-zeolite-thermal-storage-retains-heat-indefinitely-absorbs-four-times-more-heat-than-water Once the material is depleted in energy, you send it back to the power plant and they recharge it full of their surplus thermal energy for you.

Projected growth of energy demands in the US and the world

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/87/8734cover.html?featured=1 At the heart of the matter is a projected 21% increase in demand for electricity in the U.S. between now and 2030, Singer says, drawing on forecasts from the Energy Information Administration. The need for new power plants that can run nearly around the clock (unlike wind- or solar-based generators) and do not emit greenhouse gases or air pollutants (as coal- and gas-fired plants do) is driving utility companies to tap nuclear energy to meet some of our growing power demands.

Nuclear power plants and health hazards

http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/40/5/1247.abstract Childhood cancer and nuclear power plants in Switzerland: a census-based cohort study
There was no evidence of a dose–response relationship with distance (P > 0.30). Results were similar for residence at diagnosis and at birth, and when adjusted for potential confounders. Results from sensitivity analyses were consistent with main results.
Conclusions This nationwide cohort study found little evidence of an association between residence near NPPs and the risk of leukaemia or any childhood cancer.

August 6th-9th 1945, and 1946 Bikini

http://archive.org/details/SpecialD1946 Special delivery 1946. Doc shows some radio controlled drone photographic planes and their operators at Bikini atoll and surrounding islands. It also shows preparations for operation crossroads and decontamination efforts. The pictures taken by these drone planes are in the archive's 'pictorial book operation crossroads.' Other than these scenes its mostly fluff. Worth viewing for these scenes though.

http://archive.org/details/TaleofTw1946 Tale of two cities. Pretty good doc, includes the 25,000 dead Japanese soldiers in the Hiroshima garrison and the story of the Jesuit priest who also rushed to a window and got glass lacerations. But as he was 3 km away or so from the epicenter, these injuries were not severe for him - however there is no telling how many were closer than he, who did the same thing as he but therefore surely died from faster imploding ballistic glass injuries.

http://archive.org/search.php?query=Operation%20Crossroads Operation crossroads search on archive, loads of quality docs and vids.

Externality

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I have done all that, I started a conversation with another user - User talk:Volunteer Marek on their talk page on the first revert by them.

I was also the one who started the discussion on the talk page of the Externality article.

You seemingly did not check this out before coming here.

Boundarylayer (talk) 19:35, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Please do not impugn my actions or motives. Starting a discussion is not what is required. Reaching consensus is what must happen before reinserting the deleted material. You have not completed the process. I will again delete your edit and warn you not to reinsert it again prior to consensus for your view on talk. Please review the relevant policies, previously cited. SPECIFICO talk 20:39, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing, as you did at Externality. Your edits have been reverted or removed.

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Do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive until the dispute is resolved through consensus. Continuing to edit disruptively may result in your being blocked from editing. I have undone your reinsetion of the lede text, the edit of which was explained in the summary for that edit. I have opened a thread on the article talk page. Please express your concerns and propose alternatives for discussion there, and please review WP:BRD WP:RS WP:NOR and WP:EW Thank you. SPECIFICO talk 15:05, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

First read the RS. Second, repeat step 1

In reply to your rhetorical question (please stop asking rhetorical questions) in this edit summary the first RS (from IPCC) says "could play an increasing role". Somewhere along the line the "increasing" part got dropped. But I post here about editor behavior. Your edit summary indicates you made that change based on your own knowledge. Whether you're right, or wrong, editing on the basis of what you know instead of what the RS says is what we call impermissible WP:OR. In this case, you lucked out because the RSs arguably say what you wrote. My point is that framing your statements in terms of what the RS says is a good habit to cultivate. Cheers NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 23:08, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Edit warring warning

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BTW....

Climate change mitigation and all other climate change articles, loosely defined, are under a special set of rules from the arbitration committe. See WP:ARBCC. I seem to have forgotten that myself, so I'm going to stop editing Climate change mitigation for awhile, though I may come back and look at it more later. I'd encourage you to do the same. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 00:14, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

List of straight shooting editors(work in progress)

User:Enescot

Editwarring vs "machine gun editing" vs "cluster-bombing"

FYI, when I first started in the climate pages I was what I call a machine gun editor, and now I see you exhibiting a similar pattern. I don't really know how that pattern is to be viewed in terms of BRD and our policy/guideline against edit warring, so I asked a generic question. I have no idea how rapidly anyone will pay attention or respond. Anyway, I just wanted to call it to your attention, and since we both think Enescot is a "straight shooting" editor, I'm going to ping him too. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 14:47, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

Request a time out

I would like to formally ask you to chill out at Climate change mitigation. The earth is unlikely to open up and swallow the nuclear energy industry if you don't get all your desired changes rammed through in 24 hours. Most recently, when you make main-text changes but provide and edit summary saying you merely added a few "see also" links, that kind of strikes me as deceit. Consensus here at wikipedia is based on trust. Sneaking in main text changes under a false flag might be construed as GAMING THE SYSTEM. You've made a shitload of changes. Time to stop, and let other editors review your work over a period of a few days. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 00:54, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

I request that you check the edit. There was no 'sneaking' as you suggest, merely stating an uncontroversial fact. If the edit summary max character length was longer, I would have detailed info on the additional edits that I preformed, and I hope you bear in mind that I specifically did not tag the edit as minor for the very reason that I also included the following. -

Much of the global economical hydro power potential was, as of 2012, already exploited, new hydro is likely to require displacement of populations, for example on the scale of the 1.5 million people were displaced to make way for the Three Gorges Dam.

Here's the edit you allege was 'gaming the system'

If this is the only issue you have with that edit, then I will now specifically explain in the edit summary that I'm including this material.

Secondly, the ground is opening up and swallowing too many people due to premature death every day, as the vast majority of humanity is obliviously practicing the burning of carbonaceous fuels at an alarming rate, which due to particulate matter emissions is killing about 1 million people each year, every year, according to the World Health Organization. With ~13,000 dying each year in the USA from coal's particulate matter emissions alone, again - each year, every year. With this latter statistic according to Health scientists at Harvard. So quite frankly I do not appreciate your condescension or patronizing tone, or for that matter, the suggestion that I'm editing for the benefit of the nuclear energy industry. Furthermore, because of the ongoing death toll, it is reasonable and rational to regard anyone that delays the adoption of truly low carbon power sources as equivalent to being an accessory to murder. With those pushing for un-economical sources of low carbon power similarly also being accessories to murder as this (1) delays the replacement of [carbonaceous]] fuels, and therefore keeps the million murders happening each year, and (2) Many uneconomical low carbon power sources are intermittent power sources and therefore only displace gas, and simply cannot displace base load coal use, coal which is arguably the worst offender of particulate matter and climate change, that is, they are incapable of replacing the single largest source of death.

So I cannot fathom why you would possibly think I would just sit back and watch other editors blanket censor all the relevant information that I have painstakingly included for the benefit of readers, something that you can see has already begun, - Here. In that edit, exactly why was the fact that mainland France, with the lowest CO2 emissions per unit of GDP of industrialized nations, in the entire world, removed from an article specifically about none other than climate change mitigation? It's really unbelievable how POV censor prone so many editors here are(this not being directed at you). Moreover, why were the words low carbon power removed by the other editor, and replaced with the incorrect in context, and weasel word - (renewable energy) in the edit? The list really goes on, and on.

It is really incredulous, and I just cannot get over, how anyone can sit there and think it right to remove information on which large industrialized nation produces the least amount of CO2 per unit of GDP in the world from none other than the climate change mitigation article? The bureaucratic claims that this was done for WP:SYNTH WP:WEASEL cited to opinion, not WP:RS reasons is absolutely preposterous and truly laughable as the editor who removed the material has no WP:RS to explain why they took it upon themselves to blanket censor the material. They just name dropped a load of wikipedia policies, as if they are relevant, to make the censoring appear authoritative.

By all means go to the internal link I included in the edit, and fact check the data, and also read the attached source document from the International Energy Agency. France(including overseas colonies) emits a value of 0.16 kilogrammes of CO2 per unit of GDP, and the lowest value comes from Switzerland and Sweden with a value of ~0.11 and 0.12 of CO2 per unit of GDP respectively. Incidentally, all these countries use a lot of nuclear power, ~40-80% of the electricity generated comes from NPPs, the exact percentage value, obviously depending on the country. With the latter two countries being very mountainous(thus they exploit a lot of hydro power, which accounts for ~50% of their electricity with the other ~50% being provided by nuclear power), for example see Electricity sector in Switzerland. But crucially, as noted in the newspaper article I also linked to, mainland France(excluding colonies) has the lowest CO2 emissions per unit of GDP in the world. Also of note is that neither of the latter two countries are large industrialized nations, only France is in the G8, and you do know that in absolute terms large industrialized nations are generally the primary sources of CO2 right? - China, the USA, Germany, India etc. - See Page 93 for the data set. - http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/name,32870,en.html & the newspaper - https://www.businessandfinance.ie/index.jsp?p=164&n=397&a=1565

Now I've got to organize a St. Patricks day marching band in a couple of hours, and I will be away from the console for a time, so in a way, you get your request, but rest assured, I will return.

Boundarylayer (talk) 11:02, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

That appears to be what is known wikispeak as a WP:WALLOFTEXT and is not likely to win you an easy relationship with other editors. If you disagree with an edit, you are expected to calmly try to discuss (as in bold-revert-discuss on the article talk page, and after giving that a good shot, you are expected to civilly proceed to the lowest levels of the dispute resolution process. Instead, you appear to be waging battle, something specifically forbidden in our general policies and emphasized again in the arbitration decision on climate change (WP:ARBCC). NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 15:12, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Boundarylayer, I happened to see this thread because I came to this page to warn you against tendentious editing on Externality. Your comment above and the attitude that it appears to express are not consistent with WP community norms. If you denigrate those norms and policies, you eventually will be blocked from editing here. Please also review WP:OWN WP:LISTEN and WP:BATTLE. For the time being, other editors are taking the time to help you become familiar with WP policies and to channel your efforts appropriately. I urge you to do so promptly before that effort is exhausted and other remedies are needed. SPECIFICO talk 15:20, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

BTW, I don't see how WP:WEASEL or WP:SYNTH apply either. If you want to work collaboratively, Boundary, then the thing to do is to calmly start a thread at Talk:Climate change mitigation, supply the DIFF to Specifico's reversion and edit history, and politely ask him/her to explain. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 20:37, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

See the talk page of the article on the weekend so.

Boundarylayer (talk) 06:29, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Sovacool

You really need to start to check the papers that you critize and not just act on Gut-reflection. The 2013 "2009 update" paper by Sovacool is actually referencing the 2010 paper that you harp on about - it is the 2nd reference in Sovacools paper. This addresses both your claim that it is "really a 2009 paper" (it cannot be - since one of the papers it references is a 2010 paper), as well as the claim that Sovacool ignores the critiques. You are not doing well here. --Kim D. Petersen (talk) 11:39, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

First things first, state what this is in reference to please, it is a bit impolite otherwise, it is in respect to the edit and talk page history of Environmental impact of wind power, is it not?

Right, for the 3rd time Kim, can you tell me what the 1st reference is, in his updated paper? and would you like to describe the context in which the 2nd reference is given? Does the 2009 update actually deal with the meat of what the peer reviewed, actual ecologists and biologists, stated in their 2010 criticism of Sovacool's 2009 paper? No it does not, the 2009 update does not deal with the numerical critiques at all. The only reason why Sovacool referenced the criticism as reference #2 is because he finally recognized that Bats are not an avian species, which is just one of the many dubious errors by Sovacool, and therefore one of the many critiques brought up by the 2010 paper that rebuked Sovacool's 2009 paper and bird death figures.

My claim that it really is a 2009 paper is correct, even Sovacool himself acknowledges this at the end of the paper it states- -This paper was initially published in [1 2009] Moreover, The title of the very table in his 2009 update, now used in the wiki article, is - Comparative assessment of avian mortality for fossil fuel, nuclear, and wind power plants in the United States, 2009.

So yes, it is primarily a 2009 paper, and yes he does pretty much ignore all the critiques. There are a lot of them -

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030142150900620X or full access - http://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/11581 Bats are not birds and other problems with Sovacool's analysis on animal fatalities due to electricity generation. Journal of Energy policy 2010, vol. 38, issue 4, pages 2067-2069.

Boundarylayer (talk) 13:53, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

"For the 3rd time"? You haven't even asked me once. But i can certainly give you the first reference within the paper, since you ask so nicely... in fact i'll give you the first two citations in the paper:

• [1] B.K. Sovacool Contextualizing avian mortality: a preliminary appraisal of bird and bat fatalities from wind, fossil-fuel, and nuclear electricity Energy Policy, 37 (6) (June, 2009), pp. 241–2248
• [2] C. Willis et al. Bats are not birds and other problems with Sovacool’s (2009) analysis of animal fatalities due to electricity generation Energy Policy, 38 (4) (2010) (April), 2067–2069

Notice the second one - which is an article published in Energy Policy in 2010 ... and it is in fact the paper that you claim refutes this paper!

Finally when you quote the last part of Sovacool's paper.. you are only partially quoting. But let me quote directly from the papers last part - and underline the part that you do not seem to want to acknowledge:

This paper was initially published in [1], and presented at one of the “Energy Policy and Strategy” Sessions of the Eleventh World Renewable Energy Congress and Exhibition at the Armed Forces Officers Club and Hotel, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, September 25–30, 2010. This version of the article has updated some data to 2009, and it has also incorporated some of the excellent suggestions made by conference participants.

So as we can see, not only is the critique from the "Bats are not birds" paper is addressed, it also updates data, as well as incorporate several additions proposed at a conference in 2010. Thus we can conclude with certainty:

This is not the 2009 paper.

Thank you. --Kim D. Petersen (talk) 16:24, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

The only critique addressed is that Sovacool accepted his earlier error that bats are not birds - despite his earlier suggestions that they were. That is all. His bird death rate figures and methodology is exactly the same from his 2009 paper. Again, I ask you, can you actually access the paper from the Journal Energy policy and Renewable energy? If you can, just look at both of his papers side by side and you will see that the numerical data is all exactly the same.

The title of the very table in his 2009 update paper, now used in the wiki article, is - Comparative assessment of avian mortality for fossil fuel, nuclear, and wind power plants in the United States, 2009.

This is the bird and bat death rate from wind turbines according to 7 ecologists and biologists. It should be in the article, and their criticism of Sovacool should also be in the article. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030142150900620X or full access - http://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/11581

Moreover Sovacool even acknowledges in his 2009 update that his wind turbine figures are outliers. - Next, the author(Sovacool) assessed the real world operating performance of six wind projects, each varying according to windiness, size, and location in the United States. Though his numbers may not be the most accurate or accepted given varying searcher efficiency and carcass removal rates[2] - So he even acknowledges his figures really are indeed to be held with a grain of salt, it is quite curious how this article never mentioned that it was pushing figures on bird death rates from wind turbines that are not even regarded as the most accurate or accepted by the author himself.

Thought I would repost the below here (from another talk page). I'll also be raising some questions about Boundary layer's consistent misrepresentation of my research. BL, I'm weighing in here, again, because, again, you don't seem to be aware of the facts. First, the Willis et al. response had a number of serious methodological errors, which were published side-by-side their article. So my study was in no way discredited, and, if anything, Willis et al. made some serious mistakes. See here http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2009.08.052,, and keep in mind that this response was published in a peer-reviewed journal. Second of all, the 2009 update was accepted for publication in 2008 but not published until 3 years later, such is the nature of the long peer-review process. So it's not that I didn't take into account Willis et al, I did so (see below), just not in this piece. Third, to see new analysis that incorporates some of the criticisms of Willis et al., though not all of them (since their own arguments were flawed), see these pieces, also peer-reviewed: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tej.2011.09.019, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2012.11.004, and http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1943815X.2012.746993. Next time, be responsible enough to check your facts before you start making baseless assertions. As for the methods that may not be accepted, this is because there is no common technique for carcass removal within the community of biologists investigating avian mortality. I wasn't saying that I was choosing to ignore an accepted method. I was saying there is no accepted method. You might know this if you read the article cited above, responding to Willis et al.Bksovacool (talk) 23:19, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Boundarylayer (talk) 06:18, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Please do not assume ownership of articles. If you aren't willing to allow your contributions to be edited extensively or be redistributed by others, please do not submit them. Thank you.

Please review WP:CANVAS and WP:3O

SPECIFICO talk 14:04, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

I haven't the faintest notion what you are talking about SPECIFICO?

Boundarylayer (talk) 15:50, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

I asked you to review WP:CANVAS and WP:3O. I'll now add WP:OWN and WP:HEAR. Ignore this advice at your own peril. SPECIFICO talk 19:53, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Yes I reviewed both, but I'm still not clear why you have asked me to read them. Who is doing the WP:CANVAS? Why are you alleging WP:OWN?

Boundarylayer (talk)

Decline Third party invite (formerly titled "Taking your advice")

Per your request I am replying here on your talk page. The original post you put on my talk page read as follows

Hey man, trying to take your advice, and seen as you're involved with the ecology aspects of energy production, I thought you might be a good person to ask, if you're willing, for a third party opinion on an edit that continues being entirely reverted by KimDabelsteinPetersen (talk · contribs), which is then being followed by odd taunts on my talk page. Speaking of talk pages, could you reply to me there, thanks man.

Here is the edit history of the article page. Personally I believe they are attempting to drag me into a 3RR edit war with them, or something similar. I don't think they understand that if 7 ecologists and biologists publish a peer reviewed paper in 2010 discrediting 1 persons 2009 wind turbine 'avian' death rate(deaths/GWh) per unit of energy generated findings(Sovacool's) and then that same 1 person(Sovacool) later publishes a paper titled 2009 update with the same exact bird death rate, without dealing with the meat of the criticism leveled at him, then the earlier criticism by the 7 scientists still stands. With the 7 ecologists and biologists own bird death rate findings also, obviously, still being needed to make the article more balanced.

Here's the peer reviewed criticism of Sovacool's suggestions.-

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030142150900620X or free full access here - http://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/11581 Bats are not birds and other problems with Sovacool's analysis on animal fatalities due to electricity generation. Journal of Energy policy 2010, vol. 38, issue 4, pages 2067-2069.

Would appreciate if you could help explain to them that this material is needed to inject scientific balance.

[[User:Boundarylayer|Boundarylayer]] ([[User talk:Boundarylayer|talk]]) 13:18, 25 March 2013 (UTC)}}

My reply is

• Sometimes when you complain about people on wiki it is required to notify them; in my opinion it is always good practice. Did you notify the editors you are refering to?
• It is unclear which piece of my advice you're referring to, but one piece of advice I gave was to avoid waging WP:BATTLE;
• There is a whopping big difference between the dispute resolution process known as 'third opinion' and trying to recruit an editor (e.g., myself) whom you believe will be favorable to your perspective. The latter is a WP:BATTLEGROUND technique we call WP:CANVASSING. I decline to be canvassed to do battle, and despite my attempt to WP:AGF because I am familiar with your edit history and commentary history I took your post to be a battle recruitment;
• Even if it had not been a battle recruitment, I also have to decline because I am an "involved editor" with respect to climate articles, which this is.

In sum, (A) I decline and (B) my strongest bit of advice for you is to voluntarily sign up for a WP:MENTOR NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 16:10, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

PS When I have the time to write it up, I plan to request an uninvolved admin formally notify you about the WP:ARBCC decision, and then formally log the notice. I have previously told you about the the WP:ARBCC decision and will assume in good faith that you have already read it (prior to canvassing me) and having read it, you already know what being formally notified by an uninvolved admin will mean in terms of discretionary sanctions. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 16:23, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Note to NAEG - the conflict mentioned above is on a renewable energy article issue, and is not part of ARBCC. --Kim D. Petersen (talk) 16:27, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

I disagree most strenuously so we'll have to let the admins make that call.NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 16:36, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

The advice you gave, that I was alluding to, was the advice tobold-revert-discuss. I honestly did try reading WP:ARBCC, but I was left utterly uninformed what it is all about. All I took away from reading it is that WP:ARBCC is some administrative deal concerning editing climate change articles, with many bans to users being issued and a lot of fighting going on. I was looking to find, what it was actually about, and why there have been so many bans issued, but to no avail. I did not see a list of rules on the page one must not break.

As for the allegation that I was canvassing you, I'm aghast, If I really wanted to canvas someone, I would not have picked you. To dispel that idea, ask yourself, why would I even assume you would be favorable to my perspective? I mean, come on man, I can't remember you ever saying a single solitary favorable thing to me, or ever siding with me before, so why would I try and canvas you...of all people? If you must know, the reasons why I thought you would be a good person to get a 'third opinion' from, is that you appear pretty active here and that you are a user unlikely to take sides. That is all.

Thankfully Kim also commented here about how the debate between us is over the number of bird and bat deaths caused by wind power, and it is not at all got to do with climate change or even pollution. However, if you don't want to fill the role for whatever reason( don't have a clue about what an "involved editor" is), could you perhaps suggest another 'third opinion' user to fill the role?

I'm also curious, had the debate between Kim and I been about something related to climate change, what would that have resulted in? Is there some rule against asking you to serve as a 'third opinion' in climate change articles?

Boundarylayer (talk) 05:37, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Notice your word-choice, "I can't remember you ever .... siding with me...."; Through NPOV I might arrive at the same opinion as other editors, but since I try not to do WP:BATTLE I do not "side" with them. As for ARBCC, if you didn't find the list of principles that the committee voted on then obviously you didn't read the entire thing. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 10:31, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Which is exactly the reason why I asked you to give your 2 cents, because you don't seem like you would have taken sides in the debate. As for WP:ARBCC, yes, I did not read the entire thing.

Boundarylayer (talk)

NOTICE: FAKE ARTICLE CONTENT GUIDELINE

Boundary, several of your threads above appear to be unrelated to the consensus process of collaborative editing; rather they appear to be (at best) intended for longterm personal archival, or (at WP:POV worst) designed to make your preferred version of text available and maybe even mirrored to other sites. I don't really know your intent, rather I am saying reasonable minds could see those threads as troubling under the WP:FAKEARTICLE content guideline. An example is

the thread titled "My edits on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster"

Please review your talk page and clean it up to remove private content to your own blog or something. Make better use of article talk pages and the WP:BRD process to work with other editors, and let the content that results from consensus be reported solely in the article, instead of creating your own parallel everything-nuclear encylopedia here, be it for archival, soapboxing, or whatever else you might be intending. Thanks NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 16:45, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

I'm not finished editing any of the headings, they are works in progress, some rougher drafts than others, you will find I add to them habitually. I have added the- userspace draft heading above, but I'm wondering if I have to add this tag to every single heading above? I'm also curious, do you know of anyone doing mirroring to other sites of my lowly rough drafts?

Boundarylayer (talk) 18:23, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

Some of these supposed "lowly rough drafts" turned out to be from a 2006 version of a main space article. I googled some of the text, and whaddya know? An old 2006 user space draft appeared at another editor's page....an ed for whom you left a talk page message one could perceive as WP:CANVASSING. That editor quickly deleted the 2006 copy from his user space per WP:UP#COPIES, and I have deleted the redundant 2006 text from your collection of "lowly rough drafts" per WP:UP#COPIES. If you want to revert Nuclear power phase-out to a version from 2006, then talk about that proposal at the article talk page. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 11:17, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Hey? You vandalized my talk page. Please desist from this conduct. You do not seem to understand that the article is titled Livens Large Gallery Flame Projector and not the livengs, which is but one of the number of cases of vandalism you instigated on my talk page. Moreover, please present your case that all the material you changed is WP:UP#COPIES and there is WP:CANVASSING going on. As I have repeatedly told you, these are works in progress, rough draft editions to presently displayed articles and so on. I am not going to move them into the talk pages of their respective articles until I'm happy they are no longer userspace draft versions.

Boundarylayer (talk) 20:10, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

If these are for your own use, why not move them to a sandbox page in your user space? SPECIFICO talk 21:21, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

(1)Also in reply to real issue, where you said, "please present your case that all the material you changed is WP:UP#COPIES", that's pretty simple. First off, the text I removed relate to nuclear power and has nothing to do with your bizarre red-herring about the flame projector. Second, the text I removed under under WP:UP#COPIES is verbatim, or very close to verbatim, from versions of the article titled "Nuclear power phase-out" from early May 2006 like this one for example. There have been over 250 edits to that article since then.

(2)Specifico has a good idea but since a few days ago you added a ton of personal commentary and WP:OR to one of the sections in question, your own blog or harddrive are better places to move this stuff to. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 21:25, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

I am not familiar with the details of the policies that relate to these issues, but if any editor feels that Boundarylayer has not adequately responded to the stated concerns, I suggest having the matter adjudicated at the Administrators Noticeboard. It would be very unfortunate to have a researcher confuse this text with a WP article as a result of a web search. SPECIFICO talk 21:32, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

There was a charge of WP:CANVASSING, so again I inquire, please display the case.

Secondly, the material is not from 2006, it was the state of the Nuclear power phase-out article from only about 6 months ago in 2012, and the section was then wiped clear of this material by 2 editors. Now, all I've done is rescue this specific section for use in another article that I have in mind, is that a crime? I also added a considerable amount to that section here in my talk page, which you also bizarrely removed, and which is plainly not WP:UP#COPIES and therefore not very close either, it is me doing a very rough draft, not at all fit for an article, yet. Here, the material you are talking about is from the state of the Nuclear power phase-out page about 6 months ago, in 2012.here, under the proliferation heading.

Thirdly the text you removed NewsandEventsGuy, in the very link you provided states on line 9, you altered the name livens to the incorrect livengs, in a bewildering act of odd WP:Vandalism, this is just the first of a number of which vandalism cases in your edit of my talk page, not a red herrings but - Vandalism.

SPECIFICO they're not for my own use per se, but very very rough drafts for the addition of sections to certain articles, but, acknowledging the concern you bring up I attached the userspace draft tag here on my talk page to belay the unlikely chances of a scenario were someone unwittingly thinks a talk page is an actual wikipedia article. But by all means, if you still have concerns, put them to the Administrator noticeboard if you think it likely.

Boundarylayer (talk) 01:44, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

The meat of this matter is your failure to engage Johnfos (talk · contribs) in meaningful WP:BRD at the article talk page. Please delete the bloggish entries related to your dispute with him and instead start discussing at the article talk page. I have left him a similar note. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 02:54, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

You've completely misconstrued my intentions, I do not wish to edit Nuclear power phase-out with that material, moreover it is a rough draft, as I've just said, I have an entirely separate article in mind. I thought I made this pretty clear, as I just explained to you 3 hours ago - all I've done is rescue this specific section for use in another article that I have in mind. By the way, another separate issue is the last time I asked Johnfos a question on his talk page - about how his return from a forced voluntary retirement for repeated Wikipedia:Copyright violations, he just deleted my query without answering the very short and simple question about the how, and why, he is back.

Boundarylayer (talk) 03:14, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

I didn't know about Johnfos' troubles with copyright vios. Thanks for telling me. So you say the material is for a different article.... ok, how about moving it to your sandbox as Specifico suggested? That's what sandboxes are for, after all. If you have a reason to decline moving this material - which I think looks rather blog-gish in its current form - to your sandbox what is your reason? NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 03:39, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

My main motivation for not moving it, is keeping it all on the talk page reminds me to come back to it later, to tidy it up. So how about I just attach more userspace draft tags? Though I'm still wondering about the WP:CANVASSING charge you made against me, can I at least see what you were talking about?

Boundarylayer (talk) 03:55, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

You could add your sandbox to your watchlist; You could add a reminder to look at your sandbox from time to time at the bottom of your talk page; you could tell your browser to open an additional tab for your sandbox; you could write a note on your daytimer or paper calendar that you want to finish up that editing and move it to mainspace. Talk pages are not blogs and should not look like blogs. I'm not persuaded your unwillingness to do time management in some other way is a reason to let the search engines log your bloggish commentary. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 04:14, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Just a casual reaction to this thread, Boundarylayer. You're being coy and unresponsive and you should seriously consider whether you will be happy with the outcome of an ANI in this matter. Please review the policies and move your ruminations to the sandbox. SPECIFICO talk 03:59, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Well, I haven't disclosed any alleged canvassing DIFFS, have I? But I suppose I could if Boundary starts a separate thread, since this one is about his talk page BLOG NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 04:14, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

How am I being unresponsive and coy? I've proposed a solution to your concerns with userpage draft tags and moved some of the very very rough drafts to the sandbox. So how can my talk page, now in this present form, be considered a blog? Where's the blog offending bits? This is all draft material. SPECIFICO You know I did review some policies, including WP:WIKIHOUNDING, you did only recently say you would be following me here on my talk page, and since then I've found it quite intriguing how you show up every time NewsAndEventsGuy arrives here. Yes correct NewsAndEventsGuy, you haven't disclosed any alleged canvassing DIFFS, that is why I am curious to see what you are referring to. Seen as you brought it up here, why not present it here in this thread?

Boundarylayer (talk) 05:30, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

I guess you forgot to look up "coy" and to check how the watchlist feature works and why you appeared on mine. Meanwhile, do not misrepresent what I said. It's too easy to check, and it might undermine your credibility here, to your detriment. SPECIFICO talk 13:52, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Are you now trying to tell me coy is a policy? Moreover I am not being coy, I am simply curious about the allegations you two are making, show me the evidence of canvassing, show me the evidence of 'blogs' and show me the evidence of being 'coy'. Secondly WP:WIKIHOUNDING, does include watchlisting.

Boundarylayer (talk)

You can repeat yourself as many times as you please but your statements will continue to be incorrect, over and over and over. SPECIFICO talk 20:01, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for your high class argument.

Boundarylayer (talk) 22:05, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

I don't find Specifico's additions to this thread especially helpful, either. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 19:47, 7 April 2013 (UTC

That's odd, News. As a result of my "additions to this thread" Boundarylayer fixed the search engine eligible content on his talk page. He didn't say that I was unhelpful, so your remark strikes me as gratuitous and off-topic. Please consider reverting your remark. SPECIFICO talk 20:11, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Without comment on anything you've said other than the request to self revert, I decline. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 21:25, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

SPECIFICO you give yourself credit for something that you did not cause, you succeeded in nothing but demonstrating more WP:WIKIHOUNDING and slowing down my discussion with News.Boundarylayer (talk) 07:21, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Just to be clear, I'm not asking Specifico to hit the road, just to work harder to focus on issues and use WP:DR effectively.NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 10:30, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

OK so now we've had a few days to ponder, and we've both been actively editing. Instead of moving material I find troubling off of this page, you have been adding to it. And so we disagree whether you have inappropriate material here. I will eventually take the next step in the DR process to try to make progress on this impasse, but in the meantime, to prevent outside search engines from indexing your page, please add the template {{noindex}} to the top of your talkpage, and also your sandbox since I was wrong about sandboxes being invisible to search engines by default. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 20:28, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! That was a very fast response. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 20:53, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

I had looked for a no-bots/ no-robots script to prevent search engines from indexing this page earlier but to no avail, you really should have told me about the no index tag earlier man, it would have prevented this whole issue.

Boundarylayer (talk) 08:58, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

(A) I told you as soon as I learned about it myself (via an edit at talk:nuclear_powera help page... oops, sorry the same day learned how to make talk pages show refs via reflist-close template at talk:nuclear_power)

(B) It would not have prevented the whole issue because wiki users can still come to your page. As I said, we disagree whether there is inappropriate content here. I plan to bring some additional eyes via the DR process, and part of the DR process is telling you about any of the DR levers I pull when I pull them. I plan to let it rest awhile. I'm still hoping you will move personal notes on draft text and subject commentary to a non-indexed sub article in the meantime. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 10:17, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

Basis of my 2nd remark about canvassing

In response to a comment I made about troubling behavior which I called "canvassing", Boundarylayer (talk · contribs) has asked me to elaborate. I was referring to your selective drumming-up of support for your January edits to Life-cycle greenhouse-gas emissions of energy sources, where you only pinged the editor from one side of a 3-month old debate and you did not ping the eds he was arguing with. The debate centered on the "Sovocal Study", which you have harshly criticized. The debate took place on the article talk page and Andrewa (talk · contribs) was the only editor who (like you, elsewhere) was critizing the study. In Jan 2013 you contacted AndrewA with what looks to me like canvassing, and here is how I support that assertion....

15:11, 20 January 2013 Almost three months after that debate ended, you added some unrelated text to the article which Nigelj (talk · contribs) politely reverted.

05:05, 23 January 2013 You replied to the reversion with altered text

05:20, 23 January 2013 You sought support for your new text from the AndrewA, only editor in that October 2012 debate who happened to agree with your views.

When you ask only the eds with whom you agree to come to an article to look at your edits, that's canvassing.

I will (or have already) left FYI's to this thread to the eds named above, just as FYI and courtesy.

NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 20:04, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Wow more trumped up nonsense, like falsely sugg0esting I was in a slow motion edit war with Johnfos (talk · contribs), you know, I am still awaiting an apology for this false accusation. I also find it interesting how earlier above you made the claim that this was from 2006, you wrote- An old 2006 user space draft appeared at another editor's page....an ed for whom you left a talk page message one could perceive as WP:CANVASSING. What happened to 2006? Did the 2006 stuff not work out for you?

Anyways, this is just another pretty large and conspiratorial stretch, your own 'evidence' doesn't even support the odd conclusion you've arrived at, with edits being separated by 3 days, and the edits being concerned with wholly different issues. Here my edit on 23 January 2013 to AndrewA I wasn't canvassing, I even plainly expressed my intent, with asking - 'Let me know what you think'. You will also notice I didn't ask them to come on over to the article to support my Jan 23rd edit of the page, which by the way, is an edit that has gone completely unchallenged, so I ask you, why would I even need to preform canvassing, or get support to defend an edit that has gone completely unchallenged? Really this is total nonsense friend, you fail on the important factor of suggesting I had a motive to canvass. Which I clearly did not have a need to do then, nor do I even have a need to do now.

Moreover, you seem to also be synthesizing edits, or just to not grasp that the edit on Jan 23rd was in a completely different section to that of my, and Nigelj (talk · contribs)'s, edit 3 days earlier. Now if I had reinserted my edit made on the 20th, in the Sovacool section, without attributing it to a source(as Nigelj asked me to do on Jan 20th before putting the material back in) and then I proceeded to ask someone to defend me on the Jan 20th edit, then yes that would be canvassing. However as I did no such thing, and you know it, and I was only asking what another editor thought of an entirely separate and uncontroversial edit, its simply not canvassing. So as I had anticipated, it appears you have stooped to synthesizing edits to stretch them to breaking point, failed on the basic 'motive' aspect, and all in an effort to do what, fit your own particular point of view?

Lastly, after I added the Yale University meta-analysis, I also added the IPCC's 2011 paper to the top of the article, both being curiously absent before I begun editing the article, both are now in the article and thankfully the article is more balanced than it was before, which was an article that pushed one single 2008 paper, that focused on nuclear power, published by none other than a known anti-nuclear lawyer. The article is better now - Life-cycle greenhouse-gas emissions of energy sources, and if I'm not mistaken pushing this single study by Sovacool was contrary to the policy of WP:BALANCE was it not? So you should be thanking me for putting the time in at making the article better, though it still has a ways to go, and not wasting my time with your exceedingly unlikely, and conspiratorial, notions.

Boundarylayer (talk) 07:09, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

How should others judge my comment when they see about 10 ways you try to change the issue - you pinged only the ed from one side of a debate, the guy who took a position you have taken elsewhere? NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 10:38, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Again you're flat out wrong, I notified, as a courtesy, more than 1 person of my edit, I notified those who were no longer active on the page but had expressed opinions on the talk page, with Nigel not needing pinging because he was active. Moreover, Nigel hasn't even tried to challenge my edit, so again, tell me what exactly would be my motive for canvassing? Why would I even need to canvass?

I count this now as at least 3 accusations made by you that have fallen flat on their face (1)You tried to link wind power with the WP:ARBCC committee, even after Kim told you wind power isn't covered under your ABRCC bureaucracy, but that didn't stop you from trumping up some nonsense back in March and saying- I disagree most strenuously so we'll have to let the admins make that call How did that go for you? (2) You claimed I was in a slow-mo edit war, again nonsense and something you haven't even apologised for this, (3) More nonsense about canvassing from 2006, now this canvassing allegation. Maybe you should read WP:HOUNDING too?

Boundarylayer (talk) 10:58, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

(A) I believe the things I said so if you want to demand an apology you'll have to seek it at ANI.

(B) In reply to where you said

"I notified, as a courtesy, more than 1 person of my edit, I notified those who were no longer active on the page but had expressed opinions on the talk page"

Trust is an essential component of our collaboration here. Please list the diffs where you told any other editor about the same thing you told Andrewa in the diff I provided above, because when I studied your contribs I must have overlooked them. On that list of diffs I overlooked, are the other eds from the October debate with Andrewa on the list? NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 11:18, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Yes trust is an important component, but why trust someone, it has to be earned does it not? Now of course I wouldn't trust you as far as I could throw you, simply because you continue to make things up and dress them up as a controversy while also presenting them as facts as part of your recent obsession and scheme to dirty my name. How about you actually do some real simple investigative work and go here to the debate you brought up and read what user AzureAnt wrote. Now contrary to your recent yarn about me only contacting 1 person, did you bother to look at the separate user AzureAnts talk page? No you did not, you just ASSUMED I went canvassing, and you just came in here with your shoddy investigative work accusing me of only contacting 1 user that agreed with me, when in fact I contacted 2 and AzureAnt didn't agree with me over Sovacool. What's this, a note by me to AzureAnt giving them a courtesy notification. At 05:13 Jan 23rd 2013. [Here] Even BEFORE I even contacted the other user AndrewA, contrary to your trumped up nonsense claim

So if I see you on this talk page again making crap up, or going round slandering me to other users, I'm going to simply delete your nonsense and ignore you. You are nothing but wasting my time.Boundarylayer (talk) 12:24, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

:::::::Non-responsive. To try to show you told other eds you posted two diffs; (A) the Oct 2012 debate I already linked and (B) a diff to your OWN talk page in which YOU posted a new section with an unsigned note, apparently to yourself, since there is no evidence AzureAnt has ever been here! NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 14:04, 8 April 2013 (UTC) new comment to follow NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 15:04, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

(A) I apologize for overlooking your post to AzureAnt but

(B) You still left out Talkingwalker (talk · contribs), who was also in the Oct debate;

(C) The lesson to be learned from this is that on user talk pages, it is preferred to post DIFFS which call attention to a discussion on the ARTICLE OR PROJECT TALK PAGE. This is straight out of the talk page guidelines. User talk pages are NOT the proper venue to discuss specific text and specific ideas for article improvement because other eds with diverse views must also be included if consensus is to work. If you would just participate more in article talk pages, and on user talk pages just post DIFFS to call attention to your threads on article talk pages, your experience here will go smoother because you avoid anyone asking "why is B just talking about these details with a (select?) few eds instead of on the article or project talk page, so ALL interested eds will know about the discussion?

(D) History repeats itself until lessons are learned. Please re-read paragraph C.

NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 15:17, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Yes history does repeat itself, as this is just more unsubstantiated nonsense, if you actually looked at the talk page history of the article that you are suggesting I post more in, http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Talk:Life-cycle_greenhouse-gas_emissions_of_energy_sources you would find it is absolutely chock full of me posting in it, I'd estimate ~70% of the text in the talk page is all me- I'm asking for feedback, seeing what others think, recommending what the article should look like, and so on. How about you go read it, and while your there notice how I didn't see eye to eye with AzureAnt in 2012, yet I gave him the heads up to my change of the article in 2013, now I know I didn't even have to do this, but I did it out of courtesy. So don't worry this case of WP:Hounding by you has thought me not to bother being this courteous, and that the administrators here are absolutely biased and will very blatantly hound the daylights out of those that try and get in the way of their anti-scientific agenda, you know I never would have even bothered to start working on the energy portal or the nuclear section of wikipedia if you lot hadn't made pretty much all the articles so full of all the usual anti-nuclear disinformation. I would have happily dedicated myself to editing rocketry articles like my recent edits on the F-1 rocket engine. You guys are just reaping what you sowed. By the way, apology accepted, so will you please stop hounding me, and cease making up all these baseless allegations?

15:58, 8 April 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Boundarylayer (talk • contribs)

Note I admitted my mistake about your post on AzureAnts' talk page. Does your last comment mean you are (A) going to stop posting draft text and discussing specific suggestions for article improvements on individual editors' talk pages and (B) instead keep those discussions on the project or article talk page and just call attention to them via diffs posted to usertalk pages ? If you can also promise to put all your specific text and specific improvement discussion on the related project or article talk page, I think we can wrap this up. As you consider your response please note I am only asking you to follow the talk page guidelines. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 17:50, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Editing your own talk page comments months after the fact

Please don't edit your own comments months after you left them, as you did here. See WP:REDACT NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 05:12, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Its not editing when you just add more questions, and seen as no one ever replied WP:REDACT doesn't appear to apply at all.

Boundarylayer (talk) 05:22, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

But you are prolific in your subject area. With four months between your changes, how can you tell if others read version 1 and decided not to reply, but don't even realize version 1 was changed four months later? For "just adding questions" please just add a new comment below the original. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 12:03, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

how to make a new section on talk page

Don't do this because your new section will appear falsely labeled on the watchlists of other editors. Instead, click the "new section" tab in the upper right. Thanks NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 06:34, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Use of user page

Hi, In this edit I believe you're making an inappropriate use of your user page. If it is for improving an article, please indicate which one, move to your sandbox, and complete your work before it becomes deletable as a WP:STALEDRAFT. If it is not for improving an article, please move it to your own blog because otherwise I'll likely ask for its deletion as a WP:FAKEARTICLE via the WP:MFD process. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 18:04, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

It's sandbox stuff, of which I'll get around too, by the way, I don't have a blog.

However it does not qualify for WP:FAKEARTICLE as its not indexed by search engine bots.

Boundarylayer (talk) 18:39, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

BLP noticeboard

An issue in which you may have been involved is being discussed here, and your input is welcome. Thank you. Johnfos (talk) 00:13, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Careless and biased remarks from Boundarylayer

In the interest of being constructive, I thought I would tone this down. I am a senior academic, writing because it appears that User: Boundarylayer has consistently misrepresented me and my research. He has misquoted my affiliations, shown only one side of key data from my studies, and excluded research questioning his views. Of particular concern has been his insertion of derogatory material at Benjamin K. Sovacool and Talk:Nuclear safety. Bksovacool (talk) 03:58, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

• Ad hominem edits, attacks, and dialogue have no place in WP. The Administrator Noticeboard discussion is the right forum to address the behavior. If consensus does not progress, or if the behavior escalates in the meantime, there are processes to provide parity and relief. placing on both talk pagesEBY (talk) 22:49, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Lead of climate change mitigation

Hi. I notice that you've revised the lead of climate change mitigation (29 May). I was wondering if we could discuss this revision at Talk:climate change mitigation#Definition. Thanks. Enescot (talk) 13:30, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

Your August 2012 edit of Supersonic Transport article

Your description of the edit is: "Added a referenced article stating essentially stating that the opposition to SST based on Ozone damage was overblown. http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1995-10-08/news/1995281022_1_ozone-sulfur-exhaust-particles."

The first sentence of the referenced article: "After directly sampling the high-altitude exhaust from a Concorde supersonic jet for the first time, a research team has warned that a new fleet of such planes could pose more danger to the Earth's protective ozone layer than previously believed." The point of the article seems to be exactly the opposite of what you state.

I revised your edit to more accurately reflect what David Fahey said about his own research in the article.

After looking at it again I am thinking perhaps the entire paragraph should simply be deleted, or at least moved to another section, since the section you put it in is about the history of SST, and you have inserted something that happened in 1995 between paragraphs about what happened in the 1970's.

However, since this is my first edit, and I'm not very familiar with how this process works, I am going to leave it as is for now.

Ayarbrough (talk) 22:21, 7 October 2013 (UTC)Ayarbrough

IP sigs when I couldn't remember my pass/too lazy to sign in

It was an experience seeing how IPs are treated again. The anon creators of the vast majority of this project. I've moved house since I had the following IP addresses so I'm not too concerned with the gestapo tracking me down. 92.251.207.177, 178.167.254.79, 178.167.235.146, 86.46.184.167, 86.44.239.203, 86.45.204.211, 86.44.234.63, 86.45.192.251, 86.41.239.213, 86.45.205.13, 86.46.191.135, 86.46.163.12, 185.51.75.188, 31.200.172.50, 178.167.208.192.86.45.207.6

• 92.251.207.177 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
• 178.167.154.99 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
• 86.46.186.19 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
• 92.251.136.96 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
• 109.125.17.197 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
• 86.44.234.63 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
• 92.251.216.191 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
• 92.251.136.96 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
• 109.125.19.96 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
• 185.51.72.3 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
• 92.251.136.96 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
• 83.71.30.133 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
• 178.167.254.79 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
• 178.167.254.22 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
• 185.51.72.3 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
• 86.40.91.237 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
• 86.41.146.36 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
• 178.167.154.76 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
• 178.167.152.146 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
• 185.51.74.16 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) - paris journal.
• 31.200.172.50 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
• 109.125.17.194 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
• 178.167.196.163 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) - consistent life ethic,
• 129.13.72.198 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
• 178.167.254.173 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
• 178.167.152.146 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
• 31.200.157.49 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
• 178.167.161.209 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

About Talk:Saturn_V#Saturn V LEO lift capabilities

Basically, we will need to collect all the reliable sources, that: 1) have estimations of Saturn V LEO lift/payload capabilities, 2) have actual data about Saturn V LEO lift/payload capabilities, 3) figure out which one is what (the is definitely a difference in interpretations, what is a "payload" and what a "lift capability"); 4) figure out how to take into account different altitudes and inclinations of LEOs (or just omit that factor).
Then we will need to aggregate all that info and express in a reasonably small amount of text. In other words, it seems to be huge a amount of work that has to be done. At the moment I'm just collecting those sources and then will present some list with data and types of info (actual/predicted/estimated/calculated and so on)... --Alogrin (talk) 05:40, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

IP Addresses / not logging in.

Just FYI - I suppressed those, just for your privacy! If it happens again and you want them gone, just let me know - Alison ^❤ 19:20, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

Thank you Alison, I do need to correspond with you on this issue in the coming days.

Boundarylayer (talk) 05:17, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

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Operation Plowshare Strauss quote

− Regarding your concerns back in Aug, 2015 on the changes I had made to the Operation Plowshares page,

− Yes, makes sense. Where have you searched for it so far? The book I referenced starts the sentence with "As Strauss noted in February...". The preceding paragraph references the commission's "semiannual report to Congress in January 1958". Other mentions of Strauss making statements in Feb 1958 or hearings being held are on p 447, and 474 it seems. p.474's quotation: Senate Subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Relations, Hearings on Control and Reduction of Armaments, Feb. 28-April 17, 1958, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1958) pp.1336-64. I can't find that available online. Unless you can find it, looks like someone would need to go to the Library of Congress and pull up a physical copy of that to confirm the quote. Until then, what's the proper way to add this primary reference as the suspected reference? — Preceding unsigned comment added by BenHochstedler (talk • contribs) 19:02, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

Chernobyl and its various fallouts

Just a brief note, in appreciation of your excellent additions to the article, and your grasp of the implications (most of which hadn't occurred to me, and probably many others). Kudos. Haploidavey (talk) 16:45, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

Nuclear winter

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Blocked?

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

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Request reason:

There is a claim that "From your contributions, [advertising or promoting] seems to be your only purpose." Though what exactly I'm supposed to be selling is not explained? I do not know which admin has looked at my contributions but I think it pretty clear that I'm not editting articles to get people to buy anything. From where I'm sitting, I'm merely raising the quality of nuclear, chemistry and climate related articles up a higher standard. However right now, I can't help but wonder if this has something to do with User:Pelarmian who has a history of attempting to get me banned, over non-issues when I point out their errors, most recently here. This seems a possibility as they did just send me a private email apparently, as seen above on my talk page. Would I be wrong? Boundarylayer (talk) 19:19, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Decline reason:

Procedural decline; you are not blocked and haven't been for more than four years. If unable to edit, please follow the instructions that appear when you attempt to do so. It's possible you are being hit by an 'autoblock', a block on another account set up to prevent block-evasion. Yamla (talk) 20:50, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

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What other account? I can supply a screen capture that unequivocally shows that I received a "block" for spamming. Boundarylayer (talk) 20:58, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

I have never tried to get you blocked. The link you post here says nothing about blocking, nor did my private email to you, which I would be happy to post publicly if necessary to demonstrate the point. Please check your facts more carefully. Pelarmian (talk) 21:11, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

I thought I clearly explained this initially, but the link I posted here was as I detail above - to show that I pointed out a major error of yours recently. I did not post that link to show how replying to you in a talk page discussion in 2012 resulted in a block, as you're now here suggesting. So indeed, "Please check your facts more carefully".

If I had wanted earlier to link to something else, I would have, like the 2012 block for supposed "legal threats", that farcically dragged on even after everything had been cleared up. With you then taking to claiming yet another unsubstantiated thing, thankfully however another user stepped in and pointed out, you were again in error and everything was resolved. ((Which actually reminds me, why did I stop editing on the CND/peace symbol talk page? I must remind myself to edit the CND/peace symbol articles to include the expert opinion on their origins. As if memory serves me, I did uncover some reliable references from experts in semiotics that elaborated on the symbol and explain in neutral terms, why some extremist groups link it to WWII events etc as both have their origins in Nordic runes.))

In any case, while you may say you were personally uninvolved in the 2012 block, with the admin "John" acting entirely independently to blow that use of vernacular speech out of proportion, it still stands that a block was levelled at me with the nonsensical notion that I made a legal threat to you. So was it really such a stretch to bring you up when I received yet another nonsensical notice? Secondly I do find it humourous how quickly you arrived here, did you receive some auto-notice? As I didn't actually link to your name above, while this link "User:Pelarmian" notifies you, the above link is not a direct to your page, as this one is. So I have to ask, is my talk page on your "watchlist"?

Thirdly, how did you get my email address, is it on my page somewhere? and why are you sending me emails that I can't open?

Boundarylayer (talk) 21:57, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

On the left hand column of your user page: "Email this user". Pelarmian (talk) 22:12, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

I had suspected it was somewhere like that, I just didn't know it was buried under the "tools" section and on my "user page", thanks. I haven't gone onto my user-page in years, good to know that's where it lives. Now can you answer the other questions I have, such as how were you notified about this so quickly and why are you emailing me? I can't open your mail by the way.

And I still have not received an explanation why I was issued with this new block, a block that interrupted an edit of mine.Yamla states that I haven't been blocked since 2012, yet leaves open the possibility it was an auto-block. Either way I'm left with more questions than answers.

Boundarylayer (talk) 22:28, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Just curious, what happened to give you the impression that you had been blocked? Your block log shows you haven't been blocked in over four years. Perhaps there was a technical problem that gave you the impression you were blocked? Shock Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 19:43, 10 December 2016 (UTC) PS: Oh, and wondering about your user name, since I'm a boundary layer kind of guy myself. Shock Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 20:02, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

I received a block message, which I took a screen capture of(if you're interested) and after this block message, I was prevented from editing for about an hour. Shock Brigade Harvester Boris how do you specifically have an educational affinity for Boundary Layers? Are you into aerodynamics or climate I'm guessing? I'm a chemist personally.

Boundarylayer (talk) 16:29, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

Yamla. Would my hour long ban, of which there is apparently no record of on your end, have anything to do with the following Special:log entry I just serendipitously spied - 03:12, 13 November 2016 Boundarylayer (talk | contribs) marked revision 745252495 of page Stable Salt Reactor patrolled Can I ask why was I marked as "patrolled" for this article that I've never edited?

Boundarylayer (talk) 06:12, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

No, it has nothing to do with that. --Yamla (talk) 11:36, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

December 2016

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. You appear to be repeatedly reverting or undoing other editors' contributions at Fairey Rotodyne. Although this may seem necessary to protect your preferred version of a page, on Wikipedia this is known as "edit warring" and is usually seen as obstructing the normal editing process, as it often creates animosity between editors. Instead of reverting, please discuss the situation with the editor(s) involved and try to reach a consensus on the talk page.

If editors continue to revert to their preferred version they are likely to lose editing privileges. This isn't done to punish an editor, but to prevent the disruption caused by edit warring. In particular, editors should be aware of the three-revert rule, which says that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Edit warring on Wikipedia is not acceptable in any amount, and violating the three-revert rule is very likely to lead to a loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Andy Dingley (talk) 11:41, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

Superstitious-mania. There is no laughable edit-war, despite the attempt to begin this "edit-war" labeling after a single solitary revert. So honestly, what have you guys been smoking?

It is notable that the Rotodyne did not have the longest rotor diameter at the time. As an encyclopedia it is important to describe historical machines with reference to the worldly state of affairs at the time. I took this issue to the talk page before the 3 revert rule was passed, so again, I ask, what have you guys been smoking?

Boundarylayer (talk) 16:26, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

Notice of noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. prokaryotes (talk) 12:46, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

Reverted you

I just reverted your post on Talk:Alan_Robock. You cannot speculate on the real life identity of editors, this violates WP:OUTING. Please don't repost that again.  Ҝ Ø Ƽ Ħ  19:56, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

You are in error. As the admins pointed out. One can indeed raise Conflict of Interest concerns and it does not "Violate OUTING" wiki-rules. Other editors have pointed this out to you on the admin-noticeboard.

Boundarylayer (talk) 16:00, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Raising a COI concern and speculating on the real life identity of an ID are two different things. You attempeted to out an editor, that's not allowed anywhere on Wikipedia. Yes, one sysop re-instated me edit, another one reinstated it.

By the way, you just tried to re-instate your edit that outed the IP editor again, and I have once again removed it. Please study WP:OUTING and WP:COI as you don't know the difference between outing and pointing out COI.  Ҝ Ø Ƽ Ħ  12:46, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

Mentioned on AN

Feel free to comment on it here .  Ҝ Ø Ƽ Ħ  13:45, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

COI, yikes

Just read through the stuff you have written at Talk:Alan Robock and I just want to say "yikes". I don't think we have interacted before, but I work a lot on COI issues around WP, and have thought a lot about it. The result of that thinking is captured in this too-long thing on my user page, which I encourage you to read.

I appreciate your desire to protect the integrity of Wikipedia but:

• a) what everybody in WP cares about the most, is content. There is nothing (much) wrong with the content of the article now, and the IP has not done much at all to the article. So your long writings about this make no sense, really.
• b) no one is ever to confirm or deny the RW identity of any IP or named account in WP, unless the user discloses that themselves. OUTING is indeed strictly enforced.
• c) it is difficult to judge if an editor has an external relationship that creates a COI (which is what we really are about here in WP, and is distinct from identity) unless they disclose that themselves. Even on this level you need to be careful with claims about what is true and what isn't, and to avoid jumping to conclusions.

and most importantly,

• d) the way you are doing this is wrong, and damaging to the larger effort to address COI across WP. Getting all excited and sucking up other editors' time, when there is no serious content or even behavioral disruption, just puts a stink around dealing with COI at all, and puts you in danger of getting a TBAN on COI generally, for causing disruption yourself. I am sorry to say that, but you appear to be driving over a cliff here.

The right thing to do if you are concerned, is post a simple, neutral message at WP:COIN asking more folks to watch the article.

There are so many articles in WP where we need more people watching out for advocacy editing and dealing with it respectfully, dispassionately, and cluefully - so many articles with badly skewed content - and your passion about COI would be much more productively channeled if you improved content that has been skewed, and used COIN to get help dealing with editors who have an WP:APPARENTCOI.

Above all, please be very careful to avoid stating as a fact that anyone has a COI unless they have declared a connection themselves. Happy to discuss, but I hope this makes sense. Jytdog (talk) 03:25, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

Jytdog, thank you for your reply. However I wish to re-iterate that I don't really care about the IP editor, who seems to be very likely Alan Robock himself. As after all, I did just post 1 sentence about this editor way back in January and then proceeded to forget all about it.

In contrast, the issue you see on the talk page now, that is, what you refer to as my "long writing", is therefore not really about the IP editor but it is moreso an expression for my passion at resisting the manner in which registered editors have attempted to make this COI issue disappear completely. A process that was started by a devout fan of Robock's. I think if you look at the edit history of the article you'd see this.

For example, why didn't anyone before you suggest making an WP:COIN entry about these IP editors who are very likely Robock? Instead I have been the subject of a barrage of claims, and attempts to get me banned. When had someone had just said - ok we'll make a WP:COIN entry on these IP editors and keep a look-out. In response, I would've said - that's all I was suggesting, and I would've left it at that. Instead I have had a fan-of-robocks try to suggest that I was "OUTING" them, then this fan tried to get me banned, and from the start no one, literally no one, suggested anything level-headed as you have just done.

So it is really this, that I care about now. A fan of this Alan Robock person, trying every trick and deception they could think of, to make this COI issue disappear, with me along with it.

Do you, feel me, now?

Boundarylayer (talk) 20:21, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

I can't explain why no one suggested COIN before I did. (How could I answer that question?) The reason people are upset with you is that you 1) claimed multiple times that the IPs are the subject of the article and 2) demanded this be confirmed and 3) demanded that some action (?) be taken based on that; and 4) got angry and starting writing longs rants when you got no traction. I already explained that 1) is not valid, 2) is something no one will do; 3) there is really nothing to do except watch the article and make sure it stays neutral and 4) well, this is really the problem now.

Again, this is not some huge thing like Wiki-PR editing of Wikipedia or Orangemoody editing of Wikipedia where hundreds of articles are being skewed. The article is basically fine (thanks for keeping an eye on it) and if there is COI editing going on it is pretty minor (not adding wildly promotional language or removing important negative stuff)

I do not feel you. I will re-iterate that you are harming the overall effort to manage COI by making so much drama over so little, and you are heading directly into a TBAN for COI matters, which harms only you and will waste yet more of the community's time enacting it. Please step back and look at this in the broader context. Jytdog (talk) 20:50, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

Jytdog. your numerical points are blatant mischaracterized caricatures. As for (1)&(2): I initially did not claim that the IPs are definitely the subject of the article, again to reiterate as you are clearly mistaken, I initially posed it as a question in January on the talk page. In the form of: "Is this IP, the subject of the article?". You can go check that out if you need to. Secondly, I also didn't "demand" this to be confirmed, or get angry that no action was being taken against the IP users - I mean, really where are you even getting these particularly funny ideas from?

In truth, I left the article at that in January. It wasn't until here in May, over 3 months later, when I was notified that my COI heads-up got deleted and soon after this, ban proceedings were started by an open-fan of robocks, did I return to this COI issue to ensure that this open fan-girl of Robocks wasn't going to make this COI issue disappear. No one suggested making a WP:COIN entry until you arrived here.

Do you feel me now?

Boundarylayer (talk) 21:17, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

As I said, I am not responding further. Jytdog (talk) 22:33, 26 May 2017 (UTC) (correcting per below Jytdog (talk) 23:15, 26 May 2017 (UTC))

You actually never said that.

Boundarylayer (talk) 22:58, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

Oh, you are right, my apologies. I fixed that above. I was going to say that the time before last, but then removed it to out of slim hope that you might stop arguing and hear what I (and everybody else) has been trying to communicate to you. In any case, I am indeed not responding further. Jytdog (talk) 23:15, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

In my opinion someone else edited that page, anyway, but i want to stress, since this has not been mentioned anywhere, there are older people out there, and input given should begin on a IP's talk page, not article space, imho - and should voice a friendly tone. Just my two cents, and i have to note i am surprised by Jytdog's input here, positively noted. Wish you all a great weekend. prokaryotes (talk) 21:15, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

Broken formatting

just fyi, i tried to figure out what broke the formatting on your talk page. As far as I can tell it broke in this diff back on March 1, 2013. I can't see where the markup is wrong, but the page before that was fine.

You also might want to consider adding the {{reflist-talk}} template at the bottom of each section where you used ref tags, to clear up the ref-mess below. If you like. :) Jytdog (talk) 03:59, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

Uma medalha para você!

	A medalha de defensor
	Against Anti Nuclear Vandalism Daniel de França (talk) 16:01, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

Well that was unexpected, who are you Daniel de França? and which edits in particular are you referring to? I haven't been on the very troublesome articles in a while, as those places are full of opinionated nonsense written by those with an axe to grind. Technically grounded concerns about nuclear matters is one thing, that everyone should speak about, but the vast majority of the crap here on wiki is quite literally lifted from pamplets written by politically motivated groups, and those with a financial interest. It's tragic but I suppose, when fire was invented, it had its hysterical nawsayers too. All we can do is provide well referenced information and let readers come to their own conclusions.

Boundarylayer (talk) 21:01, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

Articles I've contributed to

All the material presently in the latter portions of the article peaceful nuclear explosions(PNE), was initially written by me a few years ago for the nuclear weapon/explosive page. This material however was moved to the PNE page by user:johnfos, who seemingly disagrees with peaceful-uses being popularized, so he sent it to the PNE page, a comparative ghost-town that gets essentially no traffic.

Whilst I'm not going to challenge this, I will say that it is pretty undeniable that we will see peaceful uses of nuclear explosives again, really we're almost guaranteed to see them employed by humankind in the future. Completely unlike nuclear warfare, were there is no guarantee that humanity will have to start one of those.

In any case, some of the more enabling uses of peaceful high-energy-density-devices, include the following concepts, that I more recently penned and developed, now with added pictures - which as we all know are worth a thousand words.

In 2015, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk popularized an approach in which the cold planet Mars, could be terraformed by utilizing the detonation of high-fusion-yielding thermonuclear devices over the mostly dry-ice containing carbon dioxide-icecaps on the planet. Musk's specific suggested plan would not be very feasible within the limitations of the energy of historically manufactured ~megaton range nuclear devices, therefore requiring major advancements in nuclear devices for it to be considered feasible. In part due to this issue, the physicist who is considered to have initially put forward the concept, instead suggests to use nuclear reactors in the typical land based district heating manner to make isolated tropical biomes on the martian surface.

Comet "Sliding Springs" made a close approach to the planet Mars in October 2014.

Alternatively, as nuclear detonations are presently somewhat energy limited in terms of demonstrated achievable yield, the use of an off-the-shelf nuclear explosive device could be employed to "nudge" a Martian-grazing comet towards the poles of the planet and upon impact would be a much more efficient scheme to deliver the required energy, water vapor, greenhouse gases and other biologically significant volatiles that could begin to quickly terraform Mars, one such missed opportunity for this occurred in October 2014, when a "1 in a million years" comet designated as C/2013 A1, also known as comet "sliding spring", grazed the martian atmosphere.

Mutagenesis ‎

Please note that Muller's experiments do not support your assertion. Muller's argument is in fact different, that the effect is linear, i.e. there is no safe dosage (i.e. it will cause mutation even at low dosage). You cannot state something that Muller did not argue for or supported in his research, whatever what your opinion on his view of linear response is. Hzh (talk) 18:14, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Firstly, what Muller's experiments showed and what he later came to advocate are NOT the same thing. You seem to want to fudge his experimental work to suggest something that it doesnt. Why are you doing that? Secondly, Please note that you're talking out your ass, Muller did not observe mutagenesis at low dose rates Hzh, he didn't even do any experiments at low dose rates you eejit! It was only his political-minded motivated reasoning that lay behind his later advocating to enforce the notion of a no-threshold dose, yet there was and still is a total lack of empirical evidence to support him, so why did he do this? He did this for political reasons. Namely trying to fearmonger people against nuclear war. A nobel lie you might argue sure, but a lie nonetheless that has had profound reprecussions. For example, being the root cause behind discrimination against such people as the Hibakusha. To name just one group who daily have to deal with the consequences of Muller's bullshit.

In any case, Muller was a shill, he was acutely aware of his colleagues work that proved him wrong, but he suppressed it, and in 2011 the accurate charge has been made that he actively misled millions of people, for the gain of his own political agenda based on nothing more than the same "reasoning" that gave humanity homeopathy - superstition. But don't take my word for it.

Perhaps you could do some reading, before coming in here like a fan-girl? I don't know, maybe you could start with this peer reviewed work? Or is that too much to ask of you? There is a threshold dose for mutagenesis, deal with it.

What you wrote is not in the sources you gave. It is not for me to claim things, I only wrote what is in the paper. What you claim however are unsourced assertions. Show me where Calabrese claims that the experiments Muller conducted were massive doses or lethal doses (if they are lethal, it means that they would kill the subject under investigation)? You appear to have misunderstood what Calabrese meant, he was comparing to background radiation. Please note also Wikipedia guidelines on WP:CIVILITY. Hzh (talk) 21:07, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Also note that the wording is neutral. We don't take side in scientific argument. If we want to write about whether something is dose-dependent or not, then write it in the appropriate place. That is not the place to argue about it. The word "massive" is imprecise and misleading (and a POV in this case), when Calabrese said it is thousand of times greater, it is in comparison to background radiation. You get X-rays thousands of times greater than background radiation is some X-ray procedures performed on patients in hospitals. When two different scientists described dosage is greatly different terms, it is not for us to take side. You edits appear to be pushing a single person's POV rather than the scientific consensus. Hzh (talk) 22:22, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Having read you other edits, it is clear now that you are misrepresenting the issue, claiming that Hermann suppressed evidence when the source actually said he encouraged the publication, and made statements and accusations completely unsupported by sources. POV edits are against Wikipedia guidelines. Hzh (talk) 23:57, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Are you trying to make me laugh? I mean way to break out the Gish Galloping Hzh, and so soon too? So look I am not going to do you homework for you, but I will be nice enough to copy-and-paste you out the first lines from a reference I asked you to read, but like the fan-girl that you apparently are, you've instead moved to get all defensive about your Dear "Hermann". When the reality is, you're flailing your arms to run from the now well documented fact that, your dear "Hermann" Muller suppressed evidence, the peer-reviewed sources actually dug up that he engaged in it willingly. So at this point I have to ask, are you blind, or is there some other reason why you are engaging in blatant Soviet-era disinformation?

But to be Civil. Here it is again, in case you're actually blind and missed the introduction, the 1st time round.This paper extends several recent publications indicating that Hermann J. Muller: (1) Made deceptive statements during his Noble Prize Lecture on December 12, 1946, and (2) that such actions of Muller were masked by a series of decisions by Muller’s long-time colleague and esteemed radiation geneticist Curt Stern, affecting key publications in the mutation literature. Such actions further enhanced acceptance of the linearity dose-response model while preventing Muller’s deceptions from being discovered. This paper provides documentation that Muller reinforced such practices within the scientific literature in the early 1950s, by supporting scientifically questionable actions of Stern

So it is crystal clear Hzh, it's really you, the accuser, who is "misrepresenting the issue". Gee what a surprise that turned out to be. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00204-013-1105-6/fulltext.html

I'm afraid all it does show is that you either misread or misrepresented the source, given the source clearly said it was the action of Stern. Nowhere does it says that Muller suppressed data (if fact the opposite, given that he encouraged Stern to publish the data). The deception referred to is the Nobel lecture he gave which ignore that data, not suppression. It does seem that you are unaware of Wikipedia policy on a number of issues, such as presenting a neutral point of view, having correct sources for statements, not making defamatory statement on individual, no original research, avoid bias, having third party source, avoid relying on a single source/person, etc. I encourage you to read the relevant policies and guidelines. Hzh (talk) 09:17, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

You really must be trying out to be a comedian or something? As you literally must be joking. Your own point of view is that Muller didn't suppress anything...is that so Hzh?

When really, what is this but your own WP:OR? As you are not providing any reliable sources to the contrary, "third party references" or otherwise, it is a pretty inescapable conclusion at this point that all this is clearly just your own POV, oh how your dear "Hermann" didn't suppress anything. When all the references literally state to the contrary. If you so passionately beleive this as a "truther", then why don't you write a peer-reviewed article arguing to the contrary? As right now, the evidence that Muller suppressed experimental results is overwhelming. Here are some of your desired "third party references"..that is, if peer-reviewed papers aren't good enough for charlatans like you. -->

"The two successfully suppressed last-minute evidence from the fruit fly experiment conducted in Stern's lab by postdoctoral researcher Ernst Caspari, and the rest is history," Calabrese says

"He also offers further evidence to support his earlier assertions that two geneticists deliberately suppressed evidence to prevent the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) from considering an alternative, threshold model, for which there was experimental support."

So "Hermann didn't suppress"...yeah really? Look, at this stage. I think I should just go & contact the admins about your WP:HOUNDING and your general Soviet disinformation compaign due to what seems to be some kind of disturbed love affair over how protective you are of your dear "Hermann".

Boundarylayer (talk) 16:16, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

I don't make claim or support Muller, I merely request that you give reliable sources for your statement. It is clear that you have written statements not supported by the sources you gave, as I have pointed out and there are also a much greater number of accusations you'd made, for example medical quackery, the political motivation of his Noble prize, etc. The sources you gave is simply reporting what Calabrese supposedly said, but given that Calabrese didn't actually made the accusation himself in the sources you gave, you would have to say how reliably they reported it. You need independent reliable source that examine the evidence and come to the same conclusion, and which is representative the opinion of scientific community to have to make the same accusations of suppression of evidence and engaging in medical quackery (which is quite a big claim). I would again point you to WP:CIVILITY that personal attack is frowned upon. Hzh (talk) 17:02, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

References

August 2017

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Hermann Joseph Muller, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Your edits are unsourced and are also POV edits, both of which are against Wikipedia guidelines Hzh (talk) 00:14, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

Please do not remove material that you simply don't agree with, yet there are mountains of scientific and historical references that support the well-known material.

Your dear "Hermann" as you called him earlier, is discussed by this biologist. Please read it, and take note of the name of the website, that's what Hermann was, a pseudo-scientist.

http://www.pseudo-sciences.org/spip.php?article2312

I'm not removing material simply because I disagreed with them, I remove them for a number of reason - they are unsourced, they are defamatory, they are original research, they are pushing a POV, all of which you could be warned. You should take it as you have been warned on all those issues. Please read WP:MEDRS (e.g. on consensus, use of independent sources, avoid original research, due weight and bias, etc.). In fact you appear to be misrepresenting any source you gave, for example here Linear no-threshold model, nowhere does the source you gave says that "research on the mutation rate of 1 million lab mice resulted in the inescapable conclusion that mutation rate is dependent on dose rate, that is, how fast the radiation is delivered, not total absorbed dose." Hzh (talk) 09:25, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy by adding commentary and your personal analysis into articles, as you did at Hermann Joseph Muller, you may be blocked from editing. Hzh (talk) 11:35, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you add unsourced material to Wikipedia, as you did at Linear no-threshold model. Please stop adding content not in source, what you wrote is false information and not what the source claims. Hzh (talk) 11:42, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

reversion Of Fukashima black out

you reverted my revision without reading the talk page or making a comment on the talk page. You leave undocumented text in the article, and the reason it is undocumented is that it cannnot be doccumented, and that is because it is false in its immplications. Bad job. If you are proud of lowering the accuracy of wikipedia, comngratulations. ( Martin | talk • contribs 17:15, 4 September 2017 (UTC))

Your lack of command of basic sentence structure, leaves even me, confused as to what you are trying to say...and that's saying something! Moreover it is spelt Fukushima, not "fukashima".

With respect to your obsession with the technical phrase station blackout and how that is re-directing to the article "power failure", and from there, you inferring some vast-conspiracy that this is blaming the power grid...sigh. Can you perhaps take a second away from smoking reefer and look at the jumps of sheer conspiratorial fervor you are doing to arrive at this notion?

Thanks.

As the station lost power, it had a power failure end of story. Nothing to do with the power grid. Agreed?

I would revert your edit again if you try to change it, as the sentence you are attempting to re-instate, is well, total garble-ation.

Boundarylayer (talk) 18:38, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

October 2017 warning

This is your only warning; if you make personal attacks on others again, as you did at Talk:Death of Savita Halappanavar, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Comment on content, not on other contributors or people. Deacon Vorbis (talk) 00:29, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

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What RSMED is not

Please read both RSMED and the top of FT/N and then re-read the post you keep edit-warring onto FT/N. Your every concern expressed has no bearing on [[WP:FRINGE|fringe theories}}, which is used on this project to describe an idea that departs significantly from the prevailing views or mainstream views in its particular field. Statements like, "...this individual's death from sepsis, was somehow related to Irish laws on abortion." and "When to suggest or even insinuate that an abortion was fundamental to her death..." and "However as can be expected from every example of a person's death being raised to poster-child status..." your objections have nothing to do with that definition of a fringe theory. You never challenge any mainstream theory that sepsis or poor medical treatment can cause death. In fact, you endorse that "mainstream view": ...someone in the process of miscarriage and had infective complications as a result of that process...

The conclusion that this death was related to legal structures is neither a mainstream 'nor a fringe theory. It is a political football. Your frequent references to RSMED also betray your point: RSMED means, after all, "Identifying reliable sources (medicine)". Take it to WP:RS/N if you must, but no-one on FT/N has shown any interest in your POV advocacy and it really belongs on the article talk page. That you feel the need to edit-war this back into fringe theory territory is better evidence of a lack of NPOV in the issue than anything I could point to. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 18:55, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

Perhaps like another editor who recently commented on the noticeboard, you too are not aware of how this narrative is a medically unsubstantianted & therfore fringe opinion. Indeed, I have since linked this other editor to a specific case example of how this FRINGE theory continues to be spread. Upon taking a look at the noticeboard discussion, perhaps you will come to see the issue. Which really is not about POV or any of the other egregious suggestions you may have.

Boundarylayer (talk) 20:17, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

October 2017 block

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 31 hours for making personal attacks towards other editors. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  Miniapolis 22:38, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

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I believe this farcical allegation of "personal attacks" was settled some hours ago? So why is it commencing now? Secondly this block as it stands now is preventing me from responding to an ongoing noticeboard discussion of which I am a part. So it's pretty ill-timed. Or am I to understand, that is the whole point? Boundarylayer (talk) 22:45, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

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You made a clear PA, you refused to admit it despite every single other person who reviewed it concurring that it was a clear PA, and now want to be unblocked on the grounds that it was "farcical"? Declined. ‑ Iridescent 22:58, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

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The manner in which you just went & misrepresented the admin noticeboard is tendentiously false. As the very last time I was pinged, I left a comment to the queston of : do you recognize it as inappropriate & my reply was in the affirmative "I read you 5 by 5". That's the last notification I received from the board. Last thing I saw. Yet now hours later, You've blocked me for "refusing to admit"? You serious? Boundarylayer (talk) 23:28, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

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If you think it's okay to call another user "schizophrenic" regardless of the context, continues to defend the PA, and respond with something incomprehensible like "I read you 5 by 5" when being asked explicitly to take responsibility for your PA? Then that's a problem. Alex Shih^Talk 02:37, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

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The phrase I read you 5 by 5 is actually by defintion, the very epitome of comprehensible affirmation. Yet for reasons only known to you and yours, you have desired to conjure up the minority view that is instead to mean - "incomprehensible"? This to all observers clearly shows how backwardly farcical this entire ban has been. Secondly you also couch the continuation of this block in such vapid hypotheticals that begin with : "if you thinks...".Boundarylayer (talk) 05:23, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

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Actually this is not a request for review, the previous 1 still stands. This is simply a cache, seen as I was engaged in a reply when this dubious block was put in place and seen as this ban even stretches to editing my sandbox. You are leaving me no choice, considering the machine I am on. But to put that reply here, until such time that this dubious ban is lifted.

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This is not an unblock request and is incredibly stale. Yamla (talk) 12:07, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

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Roxy the dog. - Unfortunately exemplifies the problem of trying to improve wikipedia with a greater reliance on medical references on this matter. It invariably devolves into personnel, either openly volting into opinionated polemics of "barbaric and rather awful" or holding their cards closer to their chest. With everyone essentially entrenching in the false dichotomy of "pro-choice/pro-life". When again, the death of this person - had nothing got to do with "denial of abortion". Indeed as Dr. Divakar, the leading OBGYN of India stated in the few days after her death doing an abortion earlier would have killed her sooner.

Secondly, jps, Savita Halappanavar's death is not a "case study" on abortion laws, that is a pretty callous remark. This is exactly the FRINGE big lie effect at work here, that if you repeat a lie often enough, such as: Savita died-abortion, Savita died-abortion, over and over again, it is well documentated that people stop being able to use their own minds and challenge these 2 things as actually being totally irrelevant. Indeed, the very manner in which this discussion has gone has ironically done nothing but affirm, that this is a FRINGE theory. As everyone wants to make it out to be about "denial of abortion". Yet to re-iterate not a single WP:RSMED supports that. So what else is it, but a FRINGE theory?

WP:PROFRINGE states Proponents of fringe theories have in the past used Wikipedia as a forum for promoting their ideas. Existing policies discourage this type of behavior: if the only statements about a fringe theory come from the inventors or promoters of that theory, then various "What Wikipedia is not" rules come into play. Wikipedia is neither a publisher of original thought nor a soapbox for self-promotion and advertising

If you know the history of the death of Savita Halappanavar you know that self professed "pro-choice" groups and journalists. Had both prior knowledge of Savita's death and intended to mold it into a "denial of abortion" story. As discussed in this WP:RS. |"Pro-choice activists got tip-off on tragic death"

Thus as the "inventors" & "promoters" of this entire red-herring are the only ones reiterating it, WP:PROFRINGE applies. As to repeat once again. The WP:RSMEDs all state, "denial of abortion", didn't have anything to do with her death. In fact, had she got one, she may have died sooner according to Dr. Divakar.

As this article is about a persons death, not the reaction to it, the reliable references are solely the impartial & medical ones. Not what the "inventors or promoters" have tried to shoe-horn it into being a "case study" of, of medically unsubstantiated make-believe.

To use an analogy. The Bush administration likewise may have got to invade Iraq with fake reports and whipping up social hysteria over WMDs, but that does not mean the article WMD conjecture in the aftermath of the 2003 invasion of Iraq should proclaim Iraq was invaded...after reports of WMDs]] and just leave it at that. With readers wondering, well did they? Instead the article rightly gives readers the facts, using such phrases as - were wrong, were not found. & conspiracy theories and conjecture have been put forward to explain their possible whereabouts..

Yet in the article, the death of Savita Halappanavar. The article instead misleads readers entirely. There is every effort to promote this medically erroneous & not to mention fringe theory. A theory that was widely acknowledged to be wrong by the world leading OGBYNs as mentioned earlier, Dr Divakar of India & Ireland's Dr Coulter-Smith, both experts, pointing out the abortion narrative is as fringe as it is medically negligent. Both as early as the first week in which the death ocurred.

It's 5 years later & despite all the evidence being in, with inquests held and her husband quietly giving up his earlier narrative, all in 2013. The year we find ourselves in 2017 is still one were "Savita died, after being denied an abortion" is in the lede of wikipedia & tabloids are writing that she was "denied a life saving abortion" = FRINGE.

Though even then I know you probably won't budge, so to sum up. Consider this, Consider the hypothetical reverse case. A pro-life group was contacted by the husband of a recently deceased woman(Sandra) over her desire to hold onto her pregnancy with sextuplets, but she contracted septicemia, her medical staff failed to intervene to follow some unrelated OBGYN guidelines and the end result being that both the mother and all her children tragically die. Under this scenario would wikipedia really entertain an article lede that was to the effect of - "Sandra died...after being denied her wishes to hold onto her pregnancy" & after [Sandra's] death protests occured and now patients can hold mass and prayer in rooms too. No I don't think wikipedia would allow this non-sequitir to stand, as if any one of things actually mattered to her death.

Wikipedia would be especially eager to dispell such notions when a "pro-life" group in this hypothetical scenario, were found out to be behind the scenes before the news broke, intentionally formulating how best to make her death into "a denial of [life]/denial of prayer" story. In this scenario, you'd all be in absolute agreement with me, that it is a FRINGE position, unsubstantiated by a single WP:RSMED. So I ask you all, why the double-standard? Why is your very apparent POV getting in the way?

Boundarylayer (talk) 00:49, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

Please consider WP:DROPTHESTICK. You either have a tremendous comprehension problem or are just being willful in your insistence that you and you alone are correct. Either way, if you don't learn, once you come back from your block you will likely find yourself on the wrong end of a door being shown to you. jps (talk) 01:59, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

jps You fail to engage with the content and instead volt into commenting on the user. Why? Secondly on your interesting point on there being a comprehension problem. If pro-homeopathy groups erroneously used a death to both "invent" a narrative & "promote" their ideals, are you honestly suggesting we wouldn't label it as fringe? If so, could you please explain how that'd be different? Thanks. Thirdly, your in-&-out group metaphor and all it's associated "wrong end of the door" suggestions, only serves to telegraph that you believe that wikipedia is a place of tribal-door-slamming group-think, instead of what it should be. A place of no doors. I don't see any ends of doors, nor am I going to take heed of this, your cryptic insinuation either, Though thanks for letting everyone in, on what you're all about.

Boundarylayer (talk) 05:01, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

You should be thanking jps, not slagging him as he is trying to offer constructive advice on how you can avoid being permanently blocked. I note that you've made five attempts to revise one short paragraph and it still reads like word salad. That alone is evidence of postings showing a lack of competence in English communication. Here's a reality of Wikipedia: it has 16 years and 32 million user's worth of established ways of doing things. You can persist in quixotically tilting at windmills by insisting you and you alone know The Truth^TM, which will render the remainder of your tenure here nasty, brutish and short. You can adapt to the policies and procedures that are in place, which will allow you to remain. No tribalism, no door-slamming, no cryptic insinuations. It's your free choice: do you want to be right (as you define it) or do you want to be effective? Having seen this play out time and time again with the Don Quixotes of Wikipedia, I am betting you will take the former choice but I would not bother posting this at all if I did not have some hope you might choose a more congenial path. Good luck. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 06:56, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

When I notice a standards and practices inconsistency, that reflects a highly likely underlying systematic bias. It always raises my interest, as a place of double-standards is no place to even try to become either of your "effective" or "congenial". Though in that regard, I can't help but notice that I have asked a very specific & simple question, with respect to both a comprehension problem and WP:PROFRINGE. I have even used an elementary analogy in order to facilitate as wide a level of comprehension as possible. To point out the clear similarity to the case of: To reiterate, if this were a pro-life or pro-homeopathy group under discussion, that likewise used a death to "promote" their cause. Were WP:RSMEDs would, without controversy, resoundingly take absolute prominence over their narrative. I cannot help but notice that to not do so now, in this case, would be a very cancerous breach of the principles of this project.

Yet instead of the slightest learned and productive discussion on this very specific and important editorial matter, perhaps on how exactly PROFRINGE wouldn't apply. Instead of receiving any direct discussion on the matter. As one might've expected.

For the second time now, I have received some of the plainest examples of diversionary hand-waving I have truly yet to encounter on this project. As apparently, reading between the lines of your reply. I am to believe that wikipedia is not a crowd-sourced project by "people", with all our well known associated foibles & biases, but to you wikipedia is a totally infallible entity were anyone who raises a concern must obviously therefore be "titling at windmills"? You know, I was not aware that wikipedia had received such infallible status. Perhaps I missed that memo from Jimbo? Alongside all these diversionary tactics, so clearly designed to steer attention away from the editorial issue at hand. An editorial issue, that as you're tragically unaware, other editors likewise agree with me. Here with: [Death of Savita, medical sources required for medical claims], but presumedly all those editors wouldn't be treated to your windmill caricature? It's apparently just me who has raised this issue, according to you? Eggishorn Is that right now? Would you like to contact these editors to let them know how highly you think of them, or will I?

Alongside these silly little attempts of humorous diversions by you and yours, we're now at a juncture were the usual tribalistic intimidation routine has begun to precisely coincide with them. Namely the not too subtle suggestion that, if I continue I will apparently be: "shown the wrong end of the door", & this now latest scarey-warey "render the remainder of your tenure here nasty,brutish and short". When in reality, the only thing that will be "nasty,brutish and short" is how this place will go the way of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, in how it will be remembered as the greatest biased joke of all time, second only to perhaps your transparently thin caricatures. Speaking of which, what exact mental gymnastics are behind your linking of everyone who might ever raise a concern on this project, as a Don Quioxite titling at windmills? Would this be a belief of yours, that you apparently arrived at after producing the dismally misconceived notion that, you got "Z millions", so you're the Truth^TM? That's what I'm taking away from your comment at any rate. As Okrent's law is Okrent's law.

So it seems to me, the actual choice here is:

Do you want social-whim/mob rule, the complete loss of valuable educated editors, with your aforementioned "Z million editors" who primarily create and edit articles such as the already self-parodying List of lists & fictitious characters in their favorite TV show. Or do you want wikipedia to be a place that at least is known to adhere to principles and editorial ideals? Regardless of which "side" you happen to be on in the mob? A decision that it is really you, with the greatest edit count than I, who will need the "good luck" in answering.

Boundarylayer (talk) 11:21, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

Take or leave my advice as you see fit. I come offering my thoughts, not as someone who is trying to attack you. Wikipedia is not an ideal situation and in an ideal situation there would be a way for you to have your ideas heard and then content adjudicated by, say, a panel of experts. That's not the situation, so instead people will deal with you as they have with all other accounts since 2001.

I think you have a lot of value to add to Wikipedia, but you need to know when your approach is going to lead you to problems. I'm telling you that a ban is the direction in which you are going. I am not telling you how to think in an "in-group/out-group" fashion. I speak from personal experience, and I understand that it is tempting to want to WIN when you believe you are right and everyone else is wrong. If that's the direction you choose to take, feel free to take it, but please don't be surprised when you find out what the result is.

From your writing it seems to me that either you don't understand what I'm saying (yes, in terms of communication as you seem to have a predilection for verbosity and refuse to "get the point" as I see it), or perhaps you just don't want to hear it. Either way, please understand that regardless of how you think or feel, I see your intransigence as politically motivated editing in the same way I would find a homeopath politically motivated who tried to write about how, say, it was irrelevant to the question of regulating homeopathy if someone died when under homeopathic care.

jps (talk) 11:30, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

While it is encouraging that you've actually engaged with the specific WP:PROFRINGE issue I raised now. You've really done a right total warping of the analogous case that I always use, to help remind us of our underlying biases and to stay impartial. We are to imagine instead a scenario were a Pro-life or Pro-Homeopathy group [| had both foreknowledge and the intent to orchestrate the public reaction to this person's death to advance their cause], yet when the medical inquest is held into this death. Their long held suggested quack "treatment" or "denial of treatment" in this case, was likewise found to NOT be a causative factor in their death, by a grand total of 3 different medical inquiries and in the opinion of 3 different OGBYNs & microbiologist.(One of which preformed perfectly legal abortions in 2012 himself.) Under those circumstances I know you and indeed everyone else would deem it FRINGE to analogously insinuate, that [Sandra died(4 days) after a denial of her desired homeopathy procedure].

So as you won't take that head-on. You've pretty well gone-off-the-wall about regulation and other loopy societal issues that, I take it, you're invested in? Perhaps it is your genuine lack of familiarity on the real case of Savita Halappanavar's death and so instead you are viewing me with conspiratorial eyes? As "politically motivated". So on that insinuation, we can make something crystal clear here. That for one, the question over Death of Savita, medical sources required for medical claims] has come up before in the opposite case. If you care to take a look at all the editor controversy about this before and note how this medical reference from a world leading Indian OBGYN, is now "mysteriously" absent from the article. Funny that, isn't it?

Which leads us onto the second issue of how this mysterious removal of an WP:RSMEDS, is due to the actual self-professed political-editors who biased the article with their motivated pursuit. Just check the editor history of those involved lately in the article and then mine. On doing so, you'll see political articles in Ireland is all the opposing editors concern themselves with, Indeed I'd go so far as thinking perhaps they're obsessed considering how they penned this User:Ebelular/Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (Ireland). Then look at my edit history, you'll see mostly nuclear, chemistry and science articles, as I've always felt politics is a game of charisma, bluff and ultimately a deceivers game. So your accusation that it is the science guy that is the one who is politically motivated here...I mean really? Are you familar with the phrase the "pot calling the kettle black"? Or are you just downright being facetious?

Look, what really happened to Savita, what actual international OBGYN guidelines for treatment of her condition suggest and do not suggest, needs to be presented in the article on her death. Why is there such antipathy to relying solely on WP:RSMEDs? On an article on someones death? Instead as it stands now, the Death of Savita Halappanavar page, reads like a reactions to... article. It's chock full of material focused almost exclusively on abortion. The lede is ~80% focused on politics, when again, this is about someone's death and I don't know about you but volting into poster-childing is not what I thought wiki was about, as it's highly POV/inappropriate.

However to use your analogy of deeming someone suspicious if they tried to edit during a time of regulation on a system, when someone died under the care of this system. I don't know if you're aware of this, or again you're being facetious with your finger pointing here, but the medical inquests into Savita's death found it had "disturbing similarites" between how staff likewise "whoops and" missed Tania McCabe's signs of sepsis, some years earlier, an incident which likewise resulted in a death. So do you not find it highly suspicious that Tania McCabe is, again, not mentioned in the wikipedia article? Despite both WP:RSMED and newspaper WP:RS commentary discussing the "disturbing similarity" between the lack of care leading up to both of these women's deaths?

Would it help you if I told you the reason why Tania McCabe is likely, strategically excluded from the wikipedia article at present, is because she didn't request an abortion? So the politically motivated editors of the article are keeping quiet about bringing Tania McCabe up?

So yes, I do indeed find it suspicious that the real story of Savita's death, is that Irish [public] hospitals, of which Savita a dentist, curiously admitted herself to. Irish public hospitals have in actual fact a bit of a history of dismal care and an equally disturbing lack of following the regulated protocols. For example, Savita was left alone overnight in the days preceding her death and her bloods were not analyzed by her doctor when they came in that day. Similarly, not a single heart-rate or blood-pressure assessment was completed over a large span of time. So yes, it is suspicious how this red-herring of "denial of abortion" is the focus of the wikipedia article on someones death, a death that the WP:RSMED all chronologically show, had absolutely nothing to do with abortion or catholicism or what color the moon was that night, but everything to do with Irish [public] hospitals not following the Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines that were in place at the time of Savita's death and every hospital was supposed to have all adhered to and implemented these basic protocols, following the equally avoidable death of Tania McCabe.

When everyone who is familar with the case, knows it's because Irish [public] hospitals are really kind of a bit of a death trap & not equal-tier to private hospitals, though no one wants to spend the money on fixing that. To end, this is not a reactions to... article. This is an article on someones death and the real issues at play surrounding their death. There are of course WP:RSMED & WP:RS that re-iterate every single one of the NPOV issues that I've brought up here. So I would urge you to get informed on those neutral viewpoints before responding further as it seems like we're talking past one another here. When really it looks like jps we might actually be of the same mindset?

Boundarylayer (talk) 13:51, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

Look, I get that you think you are fighting a noble cause but I don't care. Nobody really cares about your cause, we care about the project. Those "irrelevancies" are why we're here, not your pure beacon of reason.

You keep trying to get everyone to fight on your preferred ground where you're sure your opponents will be forced to see the light but no-one is required to oblige you. Wikipedia is not a good place for advocacy or setting the record straight or whatever it is you're trying to do.

If you truly feel the need to continue in this manner, post on social media or Facebook or start a blog or, heck, become the Alex Jones of Indo-Irish medical conspiracies. Whatever floats your boat. I'm simply telling you that long rambling walls of text like the ones you have been posting don't change anything. If anything, they cause others to simply tune you out.

Which, having made and obviously failed in a sincere attempt at constructive advice, I will now do myself. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 15:59, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

Are you incapable of following WP:WALLOFTEXT guidance? I can read three short paragraphs and not much more. I don't have any complaints about the ways in which you are handling the facts of the case, but you are upset over implications of a text. That's an editorial decision that is necessarily political. To the extent that you are willing to go to bat for that political position is the extent to which you are going to be judged. To the extent that you are willing to walk away and come back later to do slight fixes is the extent to which you will be tolerated at Wikipedia in the long run. jps (talk) 15:40, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

Actually I've over 2,000 pages on my watchlist. Sure, many are Irish/political/historical/geographical. There's also fiction, TV, science, biographies, sports... But whatever, you've set yourself up with a couple of bêtes noire who are the reason for all your ills, run with it... Bastun^{Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ!} 14:41, 26 October 2017 (UTC)

User:Bastun I spoke of the other editor, who is motivated to write about these matters to the exclusion of all else. User:Ebelular/Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (Ireland). You colloborate with them on many Irish political articles and of late articles on political parties and personnel. The very fact that you came here, read my apparently "incomprehensible" "wall of text" and decided to comment on how you're just not this other editor. Is fairly bemusing.

Boundarylayer (talk) 04:48, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

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A look at the edit summaries show that we are in fact following the BRD cycle. This warning is therefore frankly a little facetious Jytdog?

Boundarylayer (talk)

Nope. You are doing exactly what I had already said would not be OK on the Talk page. Jytdog (talk) 04:11, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

What is "not ok"? The BRD guidelines suggest discussing. If you look at the edit summaries it is plain to see we were calmly discussing and building to a consensus. You specifically remarked for the need for a stronger reference in your summary. I replied "note taken..." and supplied it and did some further uncontroversial editing. So I really find this a tad bit humorous in origin. You are unfortunately misinterpreting calm discussion as warring. There isn't a need to start a talk page discussion when the edit summary is more than a suitale forum. As long as tempers aren't raised and it isn't embattled position A vs B. That is "edit warring". Where we doing that?

When evolution is happening, concerns are being met, it isn't an edit war. Jytdog Can you explain how you arrived at this understanding, from the edit history? A tone or some other trigger perhaps?

Boundarylayer (talk) 04:22, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

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Please slow down and discuss, concisely. Please. Jytdog (talk) 04:05, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Don't worry about me Jytdog, I really don't mind if you take your concerns about my edits to the talk page of the article. Please delineate your view so that we can build to a consensus. I'll let you take the lead on that?

Boundarylayer (talk) 04:11, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

I had opened two sections there after your 2nd edit. Jytdog (talk) 04:12, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

So that's why you thought we were edit warring? Ah that makes sense now. Jytdog I didn't see, or get notified of your talk page sections, until reading your messages here now. Can you therefore lift this silly notion or sanction or warring? In future, if you could simply say in the edit summary "let's take this to the talk page", or "I've started a talk discussion". Something like that, always prevents this kind of thing happening.

Boundarylayer (talk) 04:32, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Removing sourced content

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia without adequate explanation, as you did at Premature rupture of membranes, you may be blocked from editing. Thank you. Jytdog (talk) 21:15, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

This is the subject of a RfC on the talk page, one in which, other editors see the problem with your wording. As your wording is not reflective of the source, instead it is a highly unorthodox phrasing that you have chosen. Describing things as they are not, creates loaded expressions, putting emphasis on wording that is not in the reliable source is also against policy. For example, your wording is akin to writing - based on "expert opinion", not detailed "evidence" User:Jytdog does not take money to edit on wikipedia - You see the problem with writing like that, I hope?

To cite an example of the policy you are breaching, WP:ALLEGED -...the otherwise common interpretation of the quoted expression; the use of emphasis may turn an innocuous word into a loaded expression

Boundarylayer (talk) 20:40, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Edit war warning, again

Your recent editing history at Premature rupture of membranes shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. Jytdog (talk) 21:16, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

"Shows"? Perhaps by your involved perception but when no actual 3revert occurs, then that is fundamentally how WP:BRD works, it is fundamentally how wikipedia works. So it sounds like you're making up un-substantianted claims, as you go along? With vague threats sprinkled about them? That is WP:hounding.

Boundarylayer (talk) 20:49, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

WP:ROPE

You are about out of rope here. I suggest you start editing very, very conservatively going forward, because the next time you make an edit like this, I will seek a TBAN and I am very confident that it will gain consensus. Jytdog (talk) 21:17, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

I suggest we both edit conservatively. You made a curious edit that suggests the RCOG guidelines are to, use your exact phrase "based on expert opinion and not clinical evidence". When that is by definition an unsourced POV. As exactly what are you trying to suggest here? That the RCOG are experts, yet don't follow clinical evidence? Your phrase should be removed and I will begin a request for comment to achieve consensus on that. Secondly, this is the 2nd time now that you have falsely suggested edit warring on my part. A look at the chronology of that page shows. (1) I added that reference to that page, (2) You curiously followed me there and injected this unsourced and controversial phrase (3) I removed that phrase. That does not constitute a "war" by any stretch of your imagination, or "rope"?

Boundarylayer (talk) 22:10, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

about this comment, see my reply here.

This is a note to say that your ROPE is now a single, very frail thread. You don't understand this subject matter, and you keep writing over-excited, incorrect things. If you write something that vehement and that dead wrong on a talk page about this topic again, I go to ANI or AE to seek a TBAN. Jytdog (talk) 13:40, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

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I just saw on the Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018 (Ireland) bieas people got Rid of your good post of ARC, or Amnesty Ireland? Or George Soros. I strongly believe that the page need to be tagged as biased.Leftwinguy92 (talk) 07:21, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

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I've blocked you for 48 hours for filing Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Bastun, which I've deleted as it was meritless and consituted an obvious personal attack. See WP:GAB for your appeal rights.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:47, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

• I have to say I was thinking along the same lines when I saw Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard#George Soros. Boundarylayer, lashing out with wild accusations against others when you are the one in breach of community sanctions is a very bad idea, and you're likely to end up with longer blocks if it continues. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 14:06, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

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You have performed 2 reverts on Great Famine (Ireland) in the last 2 hours, despite knowing that you are not permitted to perform more than 1 revert in any 24 hour period. You must therefore undo your last revert. DrKay (talk) 19:30, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

I don't follow you. What was reverted? Can you supply diffs as evidence of this honestly laughable notion? What are we even supposed to be "warring" over, exactly?

Boundarylayer (talk) 23:30, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

Diffs were provided at 19:51 1 September at Talk:Great Famine (Ireland)#Edit-warring and disruptive tag removal.[7] DrKay (talk) 18:19, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

Trying to re-write history now, are you? They're not reverts you chancer and after you were caught writing talk pages without pinging editors, which the very diff you actually just provided, even proves.

I honestly wonder, are you familiar with the article hypocrites by any chance, User:DrKay, or Pot calling the kettle black?

Boundarylayer (talk) 04:04, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

There are two reverts. That is an incontestable fact, which is proven in the opening diffs at the linked discussion. A revert is any edit that undoes the edit of a previous editor. I started a talk page discussion. That is an incontestable fact, which is proven by the opening comment at the linked discussion. There is no requirement for editors to ping others. DrKay (talk) 06:57, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

@DrKay: Yes, it is contestable. They are not reverts but legitimate edits adding the better sources that you implicitly requested by challenging the existing ones. TheVicarsCat (talk) 08:32, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. DrKay (talk) 06:57, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Boundarylayer, it would be very much appreciated if, when making a whole series of edits to an article or a section, you were to use edit summaries. Thanks in advance. Bastun^{Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ!} 08:49, 4 September 2018 (UTC

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Been a long time since anyone called me a vandal! (If ever). ([8])

It was careless of me to include the section heading. I put it where it was because the text it was with was about residual radiation in the soil, and this seemed to be about residual radiation in a different but related type of organic matter. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 09:13, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

...Yet no one actually called you a vandal in the diff-link you provided, so it will be a long-time more until anyone actually does call you one? As the assumption of good faith on your behalf was made, after your edits generated the appearance of vandalism, an assumption of good faith, resoundingly seen in my wording of the edit summary. An edit summary which anyone can and should clearly read. Forgive me for thinking that this now coming to my talk page, with a completely invented and not to mention, fantastical, narrative of someone calling you a name. It is, at least to me, a little suspect. Can I ask, why are you even on my talk page, attempting to create the appearance of something, WP:PERSONAL, that clearly didn't happen?

It has become my experience of this place, that the tactic of Misconstrue/mischaracterization appears to be a common one, on wikipedia to generate the aura of a "problem editor", at which point sufficient "evidences" strung-together in the over-worked adminstration board and then "action" can be summarily taken. This example, may hopefully be seen for what it is by them, placing their eyes to open to the growing issue, at some future date. Of editors "thinking" or "feeling" such-and-such happened, when it completely obviously, isn't taking place and very clearly didn't happen.

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OMG. Read my message again. If you think I'm trying to be aggressive, you've got the wrong person. I didn't come here for an argument or to paint you in any kind of light. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 08:32, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

Ah that's alright then Dweller, water all under the bridge, I just hope you can appreciate how this may appear to those with an axe to grind? A section titled "Dweller the vandal" and the suggestion being made that I called you one? You feel me? You really wouldn't believe how quick to seize upon and twist these things, some editors are. When they want you banned, they assemble a slew of mischaracterizations and titles precisely like that, are the very thing, they jump on.

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Cite errors in the article Nuclear power

You made about 100 edits in two days to the article Nuclear power. Your edits generated six "Cite errors" to the reference list. ("The named reference was invoked but never defined.") You should fix the errors that you generated. --TuomoS (talk) 12:22, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

As the references in question were derived from other wikipedia pages TuomoS, the autobot system usually retrieves them in a day or two.

Boundarylayer (talk) 12:48, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

The errors you've created cannot be fixed by a bot, it would require AI. You've got different references with same names. Please fix them yourself and do not create more of the same. --Palosirkka (talk) 13:34, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

The bots completed the leg-work and there are no errors as of now.

Boundarylayer (talk) 18:39, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

Nuclear power

Hello. You did 200 edits on nuclear power in the last few days. The article was already long at ~185k, but now it's over 225k and growing. It's very difficult to keep track of what you are adding. All this text will need to be cut down considerably (the article should be half this size) and will require a lot of work, also because much of your edits are biased and off-topic. Please consider editing related articles more specific to the topics rather than the nuclear power article itself. --Ita140188 (talk) 20:57, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

It is actually under that now. There is likewise considerable and lengthy sections on such things as - the industry - that I think we could do without. How much does that section offer to readers? We similarly have discussion on economics and other matters repeated again and again across multiple sections. That too could be trimmed and consolidated? As it gets a bit boring, Ita140188 reading the same thing said in a different way multiple times.

Boundarylayer (talk) 18:36, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

Oh no, somebody's actually trying to improve articles! We mustn't tolerate that! power~enwiki (π, ν) 04:07, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

A few comments of feedback from my review of your changes:

• I don't understand the purpose of the Weinberg/Wigner paragraph; did they have more patents than other people? The reference (which is broken) was a primary reference that wouldn't explain why those two people or their patents were important.
• The "Nuclear power station" section being present in the middle of history is destructive to the article flow.
• The "History" section isn't too long, but if you feel it needs further expansion it would be worth considering a spin-off article History of nuclear power.
• Moving "Decommissioning" to its new location was a good choice; removing "Depleted uranium" and "Industry" were also clear improvements.

power~enwiki (π, ν) 04:07, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

That's some constructive criticism. I'll find a better reference for Weinberg/Wigner and yes they were the major thinkers behind the development of power-generating fission reactors. Before we go on, will we move this entire discussion to the dedicated talk page? Or stay here. I don't mind.

Boundarylayer (talk) 19:34, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

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https://web.archive.org/web/20180815131656/https://mikedashhistory.com/2014/12/29/queen-victorias-5-the-strange-tale-of-turkish-aid-to-ireland-during-the-great-famine/

In 1845 Victoria supported the £26,000 Maynooth Grant to a Roman Catholic seminary in Ireland, despite some Protestant opposition. As catholic clergy were becoming less condemning of Irish agitations, Peel hoped to win over their support and separate them from popular nationalism.

In 1845, Ireland was hit by a potato blight. In the next four years, over a million Irish people died and another million emigrated in what became known as the Great Famine. Victoria would later receive the nickname "The Famine Queen" in an article written by suffragette Maud Gonne, a name which reportedly "stuck". Gonne's article would be "quickly banned" by British authorities. In January 1847, the worst affected year, Victoria personally donated £2,000 (equivalent to between £178,000 and £6.5 million in 2016) to the British Relief Association, more than any other individual famine relief donor, however as it was the "Royal protocol" that no one may donate more than the monarch, the planned donation of £10,000 (£24.83 million in 2013) by the Ottoman Sultan, Khaleefah Abdulmejid, was under the insistence of British diplomats, brought to an end, when promptly informed of the "royal protocol", resulting in Victoria's donation having the effect of a net reduction in received famine aid. The amount ultimately donated by the Sultan was £1,000.

Victoria's initial donation offering of £1,000 had been notably controversial, having resulted in Stephen Spring Rice secretary of the British Relief Association, to be "sufficiently indignant" to abstain from placing the subscription on the list, writing to Henry Grey, who by way of comparison to the amount already donated by British politicians, communicated the monarch's donation was "not enough". Stephen Spring Rice's protest was initially kept private, though would have the effect of the eventual donation rising to £2,000.

In 1845 Victoria supported the £26,000 Maynooth Grant to a Roman Catholic seminary in Ireland, despite some Protestant opposition. As catholic clergy were becoming less condemning of Irish agitations, Peel hoped to win over their support and separate them from popular nationalism.

In 1845, Ireland was hit by a potato blight. In the next four years, over a million Irish people died and another million emigrated in what became known as the Great Famine. Victoria would later receive the nickname "The Famine Queen" in an article written by suffragette Maud Gonne, a name which reportedly "stuck". Gonne's article would be "quickly banned" by British authorities. In January 1847, the worst affected year, Victoria personally donated £2,000 (equivalent to between £178,000 and £6.5 million in 2016) to the British Relief Association, more than any other individual famine relief donor, however as it was the "Royal protocol" that no one may donate more than the monarch, the planned donation of £10,000 (£24.83 million in 2013) by the Ottoman Sultan, Khaleefah Abdulmejid, was under the insistence of British diplomats, brought to an end, when promptly informed of the "royal protocol", resulting in Victoria's donation having the effect of a net reduction in received famine aid. Ultimately the sum donated by the Sultan was £1,000.

Victoria's initial donation offering of £1,000 had been notably controversial, having resulted in secretary of the British Relief Association, Stephen Spring Rice, to be "sufficiently indignant" to abstain from placing the subscription on the list, writing to Henry Grey, who by way of comparison to the amount already donated by British politicians, communicated the monarch's donation was "not enough". Spring Rice's protest was initially kept private, though would have the effect of the eventual donation being raised to £2,000. The story that Victoria donated only £5 in aid to the Irish, and on the same day gave the same amount to Battersea Dogs Home, was a myth generated towards the end of the 19th century.

Near the end of the Irish famine, Victoria would travel to Ireland, her first such trip, that had a "certain surreal aura" given the context and "formal type of public pageant", upon arriving by boat in Cork, Victoria would officially rename the city Queenstown, to mark the point on which she first set foot on the island. The monarch received no major Irish resistance, during what was a carefully stage managed visit, which was intended to symbolize British Rule in a part of the British Empire that had shown repeated disapproval of this form of governance.

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Hello

Hi BoundaryLayer, we might be disagreeing in coming days about how we report on renewable energy and nuclear power. Hopefully we can debate without a heated exchange, and make use of WP:Dispute resolution if the need arises. I'm a little concerned about the sound of some recent edit summaries. One might interpret them as leaning towards a sense of WP:Ownership, which of course is something to be avoided doing consensus based editing. Same goes for my own comments, of course. I don't plan to do marathon sessions, but a bit at a time over time. Carry on. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 16:54, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

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Edit warring over puffery

First off, WP:3RR is not the measure of edit warring. When you undo a revert ONE FRIGGIN' TIME without discussion, that's the first salvo in an WP:Edit war. But of course, you already know this and seem not to care.

Anyway, re your opening salvo of your most recent edit war, there is a difference between dispassionately saying Hall introduced this concept in year X, and has been a regular in the field, and trying to give his views extra WP:WEIGHT via WP:PUFFERY in order to WP:RIGHTGREATWRONGS of perceived censorship (see also here). If you can't dispassionately evaluate the distinction between neutrally explaining his relevance to this topic and heavy handed WP:PUFFERY to overcome what you see as "censoring", you should probably take a break. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 14:55, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

You are so loopily inconsistent here it makes me laugh. Starts off with stating that one revert without discussion, is the start of an edit war. Then tries to frame a revert, [that actually is opening discuss, as an apparent first salvo in an edit war? ...Really? It's a first salvo...In a what now? lol How can you even write such nonsense without suffering a case of severe cognitive dissonance? It's good comedy man, keep it up. Especially with this, your penchant for coming onto my talk page drumming up all these fake accusations and giving me grounds for WP:STALK. You should probably take your own advice and take a break. Or not, it's up to you.

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Thanks for your message but I don't have time to join the debate on the talk page so I will try to remember not to edit that article in future. Chidgk1 (talk) 13:45, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

Seeing this section, I just wanted to let you know I have undone some of your edits to that article. I do not wish to debate them here, or on my talk page. Please do that on the article's talk page. And please, get to the point. NPguy (talk) 03:33, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

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Formatting references in a template

The edit box has a built-in citation tool to easily format references based on the PMID, DOI or ISBN.

1. While editing any article or a wikipage, on the top of the edit window you will see a toolbar which has a button "Cite" click on it
2. Then click on "Automatic" or "Manual"
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4. For Automatic: Paste the URL or PMID/PMC and click "Generate" and if the article is available on PubMed Central, Citoid will populate a citation which can be inserted by clicking "Insert"

Another tool is to to use Citer. Just choose from the pick list, enter the ID, and run Submit. Copy the result into the article. Takes a minute so there are no excuses for leaving a bare url in an article! Good luck. --Zefr (talk) 00:55, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

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Moseley's law

Hi Boundarylayer, check this user carefully because he's continuously spamming the whole Wikimedia project in order to massively advertise his pseudoscientific "work". He's not a true expert of physics nor of mathematics, and Moseley's law is still valid and taught in all universities (he says that he confuted this law). He's not an academic and didn't publish any peer reviewed paper, he's only a cheater searching for some notoriety. --Cisco79 (talk) 16:47, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

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re:welcome?

Hi I'm fine thanks. Fifth pillar of Wikipedia WP:5P5 and http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia:Ignore_all_rules should always be present in the minds of Wikipedia administrators. In your place I would have discussed the veracity of the contents rather than delete them. I am an Independent Researcher sometimes on a collision course with mainstream science. I would have liked a comparison not a rejection of my contents. I thank TreeOfKnowledge who defended me for the sake of truth and science. I hope that Wikipedia without my contents is really better as you say, meanwhile without my intervention today you didn't even have the NIST ka database in the references of Moseley's law page. Meanwhile, with the deletion of my content, the Wikipedia public cannot know that Moseley's law has been refuted. As you may have noticed, having a peer-reviewed article is no guarantee of truth, in fact Philosophical Magazine did not stop Moseley from publishing falsehoods. Science is full of works like mine that are rejected for no reason by scientific journals, without even a reason. Having appeared on a youtube channel that also deals with esoteric topics should not affect the objectivity of the contents transmitted by me. And if the form is more important than the contents and the channel is more important than the broadcasts and the magazine is more important than the scientific articles it contains, you have to tell me this, because I think it's the exact opposite. Then if Wikipedia is of poor quality, you who enforce the rules must ask yourselves about this, perhaps making more exceptions would be healthy for Wikipedia. Returning to my case, my contents were not removed because they were not true, but simply because they did not respect the policies according to a narrow and literal vision. In my case it is an original research that happens to demolish a pillar of Atomic Physics which is Moseley's law and only for this reason the fifth pillar of Wikipedia had to be held and validated. Otherwise what is the fifth pillar for? Finally I tried talking to physicists, but either they don't even know Moseley's law or they avoid confrontation. Dear Boundarylayer, my conscience is calm, by now the world knows what I have done for various information channels, I don't need Wikipedia to advertise. If anything, it's the other way around, Wikipedia needs my content to fill the bestialities that Moseley wrote in his peer rewiewed article that I had offered for free and also spent my time writing them. Are we joking? This ungrateful treatment was the cause of my estrangement from Wikipedia. On my talk I was treated almost like an outlaw, while Cisco79 who first nominated my contents for deletion on Wikimedia and then gave no scientific explanation nor to me who asked him in the appointment of cancellation. Also Cisco79 unduly insulted me by calling me a cheater on TreeOfKnowledge talk and no action was taken. TreeOfKnowledge responded very well, but Cisco79 did not respond to the scientific arguments of TreeOfKnowledge that defended me, also because TreeOfKnowledge was scientifically correct. I believe that personal attacks and measures for vandalism also apply to English Wikipedia, however in Cisco79 talks you made them very sweet welcomes. Finally, if the quality of Wikipedia is poor it is certainly not the fault of people like me who fight every day for the truth. Many greetings.--Starace Aniello (talk) 14:54, 10 April 2021 (UTC)--Starace Aniello (talk) 15:04, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

Half Million Award for Nuclear power

	The Half Million Award
	For your contributions to bring Nuclear Power (estimated annual readership: 500,000) to Good Article status, I hereby present you the Half Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! Reidgreg (talk) 13:11, 6 May 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for improving this vital article! – Reidgreg (talk) 13:11, 6 May 2021 (UTC)

ANI notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Femke (talk) 19:53, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

Continuation of response to the ANI before being unceremoniously blocked, in the dead of the night

Just to let you all know, that's summarizing aerospace engineer Robert Zubrin's book The source referenced at the end of that very paragraph at Club of Rome. That you have "conveniently" left out for admins.

Here in the first literal minutes, that anyone could have found, of a video symposium, of Zubrin on his book tour Video here hosted by Youtube, compares the fringe "anti-humanist", "pseudo-intellectual" "environmentalist" groups still with us, the club of rome, which he'll get to, with "Hitler". Its a long video, though the first 3 minutes should set the tone of the referenced book, for any admins curious, that settles the question, that it is, not my opinion but that of the reliable sources.

Out of interest, I have also looked up the Anglican instruction-Malthus-genocide connection. Just to verify Zubrin.

Malthus and The Secularization of Political Ideology - Jstor...The anglican Thomas Malthus, who advocated a genocide, now what political ideology was that, that was "secularized" in the 18th century? Its a good read.

Certainly looks like Zubrin did his homework.

Not just Zubrin by the way have described this fringe club as Malthusian, that's WP:COMMON, social scientists have described the club just the same. With that with genocidal connotations. They're referenced in the article too.

So none of the above is a "conspiracy theory". What is a conspiracy theory and only now will I venture into giving my opinion, is the promoting here on this project by special interest groups, advocates of the club of rome and its various vassalage WP:FRINGE pseudo "economics", as though they were "the mainstream" on all topics, all across wikipedia, upon every unsuspecting reader.

Which is exactly what is going on, across multiple articles. Where club of rome advocates attempt to go packaging the group as the mainstream "environmentalism" views, without any consideration of what's being pushed, upon unsuspecting readers. With then this followed up here with attempts to ban he, who doth find, those who are engaged with this and anyone that adds anything to the contrary, that would so much as think of putting balance WP:ITA to these WP:FRINGE articles, of what Thomas Sowell calls part of an "anointed" group, at the Club of Rome article.

A group, a club, that are not in List of environmentalists, not in the article Environmentalism. This club are not mainstream. Yet on the Michael Shellenberger article, advocates of the club of rome as mainstream, are being pushed as "most environmentalists". I think we should all take notice of this.

We also have John thinks he [knows better than most economists, here] when one of their, like-minded, recognises in a reliable source, that they are in the minority position and state "most economics" don't agree with them, on the club's "limits to growth".

To end, how exactly did John get here, may I add? From the WP:Canvassing that he was doing? [Here] done without notifying me. Isn't that in contravention of WP:policy and not the least bit disturbing? As much of all of this, has been, over these last few days, that admins may appreciate.

Boundarylayer (talk) 05:36, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

Dead of the night? This is a 24 hour a day worldwide project. Night in one place is noon in another place. The purpose of your talk page access while blocked is to make a legitimate unblock request, not to debate fringe content. Accordingly, I have revoked your talk page access. Please read WP:UTRS for your unblock options going forward. Cullen328 (talk) 06:03, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

I believe that enough time has passed since the incident to allow this user back on, considering he banned for a perceived violation of The Neutral Point of View policy. (ApatheticName (talk) 21:47, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

UTRS appeal #59041

is closed. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 10:19, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

I believe that enough time has passed since the incident to allow this user back on, considering he was banned for a perceived violation of The Neutral Point of View policy. (ApatheticName (talk) 21:47, 30 April 2023 (UTC)