Low-Dose Radiation Not As Harmful As Previously Believed

An illustration titled ‘What Radioactivity Is’, with six panels’ reading (top) ‘Water in pond is ‘stable,’ it expends no energy,’ water can be carried up-hill and its energy level raised,’ ‘as it runs downhill it gives off energy and reaches a stable state’, (bottom) ‘atom is stable, it does not expend nuclear (atomic) energy,’ ‘atom…

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Texas HyperGrid: Hope Or Hype?

Former Texas governor and former Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, now a co-founder of Fermi America, has emphasized the importance of competing with China in energy-intensive technological advancement as a motivation for the HyperGrid project. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Getty Images The Texas power grid, long isolated from the rest of the country’s interconnections…

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