Another blogger for nuclear energy

Most misconceptions about nuclear energy can be tied back to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, says Leslie Corrice-who should know, since he spent an entire career dealing with misconceptions on behalf of a U.S. nuclear utility.

Now retired after a second career as a high school math and science teacher, he updates two web sites three times a week.

He said in a telephone interview that he started posting about 10 months before the events that took place at Fukushima in March 2011.

"At that point, blog traffic just went off the deep end," he said. "Even after the U.S.started bombing Libya, and the mainstream news media moved on, interest remained strong about Fukushima."

At the Hiroshima Syndrome, he writes in the tradition of the great American humorist Will Rogers, who said,

It ain't what you don't know that counts. It's what you know that ain't so.

Here are some examples:

Did you know...

...Mother Nature is totally nuclear.

...Uranium is not a natural explosive.

...Three Mile Island's accident was a severe meltdown.

...Bomb fallout is very different from nuclear power plant radiation releases.

At his blog on Fukushima, he posts news and detailed updates three times a week.

Corrice also has the distinction of having been an early commenter on the ANS Nuclear Cafe in 2010.

Welcome to the nuclear blogsphere, Mr. Corrice! We're glad you're in it.

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