We update the cost of nuclear power as calculated in the MIT (2003) Future of Nuclear Power study. Our main focus is on the changing cost of construction of new plants. The MIT (2003) study provided useful data on the cost of then recent builds in Japan and the Republic of Korea. We provide similar data on later builds in Japan and the Republic of Korea as well as a careful analysis of the fore...

professor gorton has given us an exceptionally informative picture of the nuclear core of the financial crisis —the fragile structure of subprime mortgage-backed securitization and the chain of derivatives built on top of it. those who have the patience to read a long paper filled with lots of important details will be rewarded with a much better understanding and appreciation of the reasons wh...

In this article, we briefly describe a crisis management case that has been chosen (in the European funded project PLAY) to test the federated-open-trusted platform for event-driven interaction between services. A description of such complex use case in natural language is obviously limited and should be completed with a formal description methodology to gather the necessary knowledge. Consider...

The magnitude-9.0 Great East Japan Earthquake, which struck at 14:46 JST on March 11, 2011, was the largest ever recorded in Japan. Strong quakes were felt not only in Tohoku, the closest region to the epicenter, but also nationwide from Hokkaido to Kyushu. This exceptional event was followed by huge tsunami waves that severely damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which consequent...

The human retinoblastoma gene (RB) product, which is involved in the control of cell cycle and tumor suppression, is constitutively expressed as a nuclear phosphoprotein in normal human cells. We examined leukemic cells from 22 patients with blast crisis of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) for alterations of the RB expression. Western blotting and flow cytometry with anti-RB-protein antibodie...