Engineering Ethics Blog

That's a question a lot of peopleare asking as the field of nuclear-powered electricity attempts a comeback inthe U. S.  An article in the MITTechnology Review examines some critical issues that will affect the answersto that question.
U. S. nuclear power has had acheckered career.  Beginning in the1950s, nuclear power plants were built by the leading nuclear-bomb-makingcountries:  the old Soviet Union,England, and the U. S.  A building boomin the U. S. for nuclear plants peaked in...

The word Grok, which Elon Muskadopted for the name of his generative chatbot integrated with the social-mediaplatform X, formerly known as Twitter, was coined by sci-fi writer Robert A.Heinlein.  In a 1961 story, Heinlein usedit to mean something like...

The old Beatles song"Imagine" asks the listener to think what life would be without Heaven.  Libraries are not Heaven, but they perform alittle-considered yet essential role in the cultures of many nations.  And some recent trends in library science...

For those who may not be familiarwith the term, a "tube amp" is short for a vacuum-tubeamplifier.  Many people know that before thetransistor were invented in 1948, the only way to do electronics was withvacuum tubes.  By the 1960s, mostelectronics used...