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15 year study at Umeå University, 2000 participants, 300 cases of dementia in the study population. Published in Environmental Health Perspectives journal on July 31, 2015. Those living in the most heavily polluted areas had 40 % increased risk of dementia. 16 % of the cases could be directly...

What is a fast reactor? For terminology, see the NRCs nuclear glossary. To understand why we should or should not build fast reactors, it is necessary to understand what they do and how they differ from other technologies. The difference between fast reactors and ordinary ones is that the...

My parents were very sceptical of nuclear power. I vividly remember watching the burning Chernobyl reactor on TV thinking that tens of thousands of people would die. I saw a firefighter running past a broken graphite block with a large hole drilled through it and realized with horror that a...

I often see the following argument: Marginal electricity is coal, EVs represent a new demand, therefore EVs run on coal. This is wrong. As an electricity consumer in Norway, I can choose what power I want to buy. That destroys the whole marginality thing in one crushing blow. For the sake of...

13. december, the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang (VG) printed an article about misleading fuel consumption numbers. The largest car leasing company in Norway, Leaseplan, tested twenty of their most popular models for VG. At least tens of cars of each model were tested and each car was...

I just read here somewhere that the Roadster is among the slowest depreciating sports cars according to some magazine's list, but I can't find it. What magazine? Any more details, anybody? We recently had a 1h20m test drive - both loved the car, but wife thinks it's too expensive and...

Old news (2009), but I think this deserves its own thread. When seawater and freshwater is separated by a membrane, the freshwater will travel through the membrane and create a rather large pressure differential. The osmotic pressure is 25 times atmospheric pressure, but not all of it can be...