Old Seismic Data Yields Treasures

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This is exactly like one of my stories!  They had a ton of moon quake seismic records and couldn't deal with it in the 70's.  Enter Moore's Law, and now they can process it.  Very neat.

My story was the same.  They had a ton of seismic data on the great lakes from previous unsuccessful oil exploration.  Modern computers processed it and revealed the deep megathrust geology beneath Ontario.  We never processed Lake Huron, we left that for the Bruce deep nuclear waste thingie to completely ignore!  Is that criminal?  No, stupidity is always a valid defense.

Quebec Shale Gas Leaks

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Probably no worse than your average landfill.  I'd love to see them inject the brine on the margins of Charlevoix. Wow, they could set the new record for an induced earthquake!

China Gooses the AP1000

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This is interesting news.  China is going to pimp up the AP1000 to 1400 mw.  (maybe leave off some safety stuff)  This is a dream reactor Ontario could go after!  Even though it's not designed, it's probably further ahead than the ACR1000!  Still, it doesn't reach the astonishing power density of the AECL design, even the Chinese aren't that adventurous!  Maybe in about 20 years the rest of the world will catch up to the Imaginarium of Dr. AECL.