User talk:Bksovacool

Welcome!
Hi, Bksovacool. Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page contains a lot of helpful material for new users—please check it out! If you need help, visit Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place   on this page, followed by your question, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. EBY (talk) 22:51, 2 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 pages EBY (talk) 22:49, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much, EBY. It's nice to be here and I will certainly let you know if I have any questions. As for Boundarylayer, I've been having problems with him for almost a year now, hopefully things will reach resolution soon. Bksovacool (talk) 01:56, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Welcome again
Hi Bksovacool. I'm glad you're here. There have been a lot of edits to the nuclear power and related articles in recent months. I, and I suspect some other regular editors, do not always have enough familiarity with the full range of published literature to know how best to order and emphasise various sources and viewpoints for balanced and up-to-date coverage. If you want a hand with any of the technicalities of editing, or some pointers on how to navigate the maze of Wikipedia policies and guidelines, I am not an expert, but I will be glad to try to help where I can. Just leave a message on my talk page with a link to whichever article or talk page you'd like me to look at with you at any time. --Nigelj (talk) 23:19, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
 * One little tip - We normally add comments at the bottom of discussions, and never inside other people's comments (e.g. here). Sometimes discussions do separate into separate threads, and well-indented comments below others at the relevant place work OK. If you separate part of someone's comment from their signature, it makes it hard to know who said what, in what order. --Nigelj (talk) 23:32, 2 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Thank's Nigel, I suspect I'll need all the help I can get. Wikipedia has its own etiquette and I need to learn it. Happy to also provide comments and suggestions to almost any page related to energy technology or policy.Bksovacool (talk) 01:57, 3 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Above all collaborative attitude and speaking to article content instead of subject matter is the high road. Everywhere else in the world, good intentions may lead somewhere bad. Here, good intentions towards the encyclopedia and its mission will win you the day. EBY (talk) 04:44, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

10,000 tonnes of spent fuel in Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power: A Critical Global Assessment of Atomic Energy?
Hi again

I wonder if you could help with this edit to the top-level article 'Nuclear power'? There is a brief discussion here too. Either your book supports the deleted text, or something like it, or it doesn't. People may claim 'citing yourself' if you fix the article text directly, but it appears that the main problem is that no one presently editing the page has access to a copy of your book. I have found this, but it doesn't provide the text on page 141. If you could either point us to an online copy of the relevant text, or at least suggest whether what was there would be supported by your text, it would be very helpful indeed. Perhaps the previous wording needed adjustment in some way more fairly to represent your data? Any help would be appreciated. You can reply here, or on the relevant talk page Best wishes, Nigelj (talk) 19:02, 14 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi Nigelj, sorry for just getting to this - been traveling extensively and then moving my family overseas. The calculation for nuclear waste is definitely accurate, and pretty simple to do.  According to peer-reviewed studies, we know that a single nuclear reactor will consume an average 32,000 fuel rods over the course of its lifetime, and it will also produce 20 to 30 tons of spent nuclear fuel per year.  This is why an average of about 2,200 metric tons annually is produced for all of the US.  You get to the 10,000 tons number by simply multiplying the 20 to 30 tons per reactor by the ~430 reactors in the world, leading to a total somewhere between 8600 and 12900 tons.Bksovacool (talk) 18:16, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

Jevons paradox
Hi, Sorry for the delay in replying, but I thought you may like to know that I've replied on Talk:Jevons_paradox. Best, LK (talk) 05:07, 28 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi LK, no worries, and I appreciate your careful response.

Articles of interest?
Hi Prof Sovacool, When you have time, could you please review this content: Environmental impact of nuclear power, Nuclear power plant, Environmental impact of wind power and Benjamin K. Sovacool bibliography. And maybe add a comment or two about your Greenhouse emissions work and to Talk:Breeder reactor... This would certainly help to clarify things. Thank you. regards, Johnfos (talk) 08:34, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks John, will see what I can do.Bksovacool (talk) 10:51, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Many thanks Prof Sovacool, for your expert contributions. Thanks also to Nigelj for making improvements to these articles. A nice bit of teamwork... Johnfos (talk) 09:06, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Life-cycle emissions question
I am very interested in life-cycle emissions of different power sources. I noticed you listed biomass and anaerobic digestion as very low environmental impact. I believe this may be an error, because although these sources are renewable, they have a much more severe environmental impact and consume a large amount of water resources. Do you agree or not? Thank you. Brian Everlasting (talk) 13:32, 25 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi talk, thanks for writing. Those numbers aren't a mistake but they also don't come from me - just the nuclear numbers in that study are the result of a meta-analysis I did, and I have a second, newer study for wind and solar. Haven't gotten to biomass yet, but I can appreciate your concern. Remember too that we're only talking carbon here, not water or other pollutants like dioxin.  If you want to email me (address available by searching google), I can send you the original source that gave me those biomass numbers.Bksovacool (talk) 13:39, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Energy Research and Social Science


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 * Thanks Randykitty, good advice. I've tried it again and followed the template offered by a similar journal, Social Science & Medicine, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Science_%26_Medicine. Hopefully the revisions to Energy Research & Social Science are sufficient.

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Proposed deletion of Energy Research & Social Science


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Nomination of Energy Research & Social Science for deletion
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Please do not directly edit the article about yourself
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