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2005 Yale Divinity School Alumni Award Recipients
Distinction in Lay Ministry
Nancy H. Broeder '85 M.A.R., Princeton, IA and Lighthouse Point, FL
Nancy H. Broeder is a native of Davenport, IA. Since 1980 she has been visiting prisoners under auspices of Prisoner Visitation and Support (PVS). As a national visitor with PVS, Broeder is authorized to visit at every federal and military prison in the United States and meets yearly with the director of the Bureau of Prisons. It was work in her other passion, archeologyand, specifically, excavation of an 1850 lock-up in Norwalk, CT that led indirectly to her association with PVS.
She describes visits in the cacophony of a Federal prison visiting room or in the inhumanity of a solitary cell. Over the years, Broeder has been to prisons in 17 states in the South, Northeast, Midwest and West. She estimates that she has made over 2,000 prisoner visits, including visits to Death Row inmates.
Prisoners enjoy speaking with Broeder not only about her worldwide travels but about theological subjects as well. Broeder derives great joy from watching prisoners grow in their faith -- whether Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Rastafarian, or Buddhist -- and takes pride in encouraging such growth. Prisoners especially value her nonjudgmental attitude.
While working part-time at the First Presbyterian Church of Greenwich, CT, following a sojourn in archeologically rich Turkey, she had enrolled as an undergraduate anthropology student and received her B.A. from SUNY in 1980 -- with an honors thesis on the archaeology of the old jail in Norwalk. During this period she also completed "The Palestine of Jesus" course at St. George's College in Jerusalem and then studied theology and Near Eastern archaeology at Oxford. She has worked with the Expedition to the Dead Sea Plain (EDSP), conducting research on the jewelry from tombs and sanctuaries of the "cities of the plain" of Genesis 13.
Broeder lives in Lighthouse Point, FL in winter and in Princeton, IA during the summer. Married and the mother of four children, one deceased, she has eight grandchildren.
William Sloane Coffin '56 Award for Peace and Justice
Arthur B. Keys, Jr. '73 M.Div., Potomac, MD
Arthur B. Keys Jr. is founder, president and chief executive officer of International Relief and Development (IRD), an Arlington, VA-based non-governmental organization committed to improving the living conditions and lives of the world's most vulnerable populations.
As IRD president, Keys has been directly involved in management of an aggregate of approximately $ 322 million of development assistance with major grants from the United States Agency for International Development, United States Department of Agriculture, the United States Department of State, and private and faith-based donors. IRD has programs in Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Ukraine, Serbia, Iraq, Jordan, Cameroon, Chad, Mozambique, and Montenegro under the sectors of relief, civil society, infrastructure, food security, economic development and health. IRD has 900 staff worldwide.
In his prior work as president of Keys and Associates, Inc. (KAI), Keys raised over $150 million in grants and in-kind contributions for NGOs in international development. He lived and worked in the former Yugoslavia under the auspices of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Urban-Rural Mission Program in the early 1980s. He speaks Serbo-Croatian and is the author of numerous articles dealing with public policy and the Balkans. His research work on refugees from the war in Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina is included in the 1992 War and Humanitarian Assistance Project of Brown University.
He earned a B.A. from Bethany College and a D.Min. from Emory University. He is married and the father of three children.
Distinction in Theological Education
Frank E. Reynolds '55 B.D., Plainfield, MA
After graduating from Yale Divinity School, Frank Reynolds spent three years as program director at the Student Christian Center in Bangkok, Thailand. Working with Christians, Buddhists and Muslims, he became convinced of the need to supplement confessional modes of religious scholarship with new approaches that are non-sectarian and empirically oriented.
Upon his return to the United States, he earned his Ph.D. in the History of Religions program at the University of Chicago. In 1967 he joined the Chicago faculty as professor of history of religions and Buddhist studies in the Divinity School and the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations.
Throughout Reynolds's career at Chicago, he has fostered -- through his writing, his teaching, and the research projects he has directed -- the establishment and development of religious studies as an independent discipline that utilizes and creatively adapts approaches employed in other areas of the humanities and social sciences.
During Reynolds's stay in Thailand, he married Mani Bloch, with whom he enjoyed a family life that produced three sons and nine grandchildren as well as an academic partnership that resulted in the translation of a 14th century Buddhist cosmology, The Three Worlds of King Ruang. In 1997, after the death of his first wife, Reynolds married June Nash, an anthropologist who has written extensively on global issues and local communities in Burma, Bolivia, Mexico and the U.S.
Distinction in Community Service
Joy D. Skeel '76 M.Div., Perrysburg, OH
Joy Skeel is a widely recognized expert in the field of clinical health care ethics who is a sought-after speaker and consultant at the national and international levels. She is currently professor of medical humanities and ethics in the Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine at the Medical University of Ohio in Toledo, OH (MUOT) and director of MUOT's Ethics Consultation Service. She was educated at the University of Cincinnati, Yale Divinity School, and the University of Michigan.
Skeel was among the first women working in the field of clinical health care ethics and initiated the Program in Ethics and Medicine at the Medical College of Ohio in 1977. She has also been a pioneer in teaching about the importance of religion, culture and spirituality in medical care. She received the annual award from the Society for Health and Human Values in 1992, for her teaching and service in the field of medical humanities.
Primarily, Skeel teaches third- and fourth-year medical students during their clinical education, along with students in the Colleges of Allied Heath and Nursing. She provides numerous consultations, helping to resolve ethical problems faced by patient families, physicians and staff at MUOT.
Skeel has been a member of national and international task forces for the Presbyterian Church and the United Church of Christ that have examined ethical issues in health care as well as the relationship of science, technology, and religion. She was involved in development of Connecticut Hospice (first in the U.S. ) and was one of the founders of Hospice of Northwest Ohio. She is the ethics consultant to the King Hussein Cancer Center in Amman, Jordan.
Skeel has two daughters and two grandsons.
Distinction in Ordained Ministry
Bishop Richard B. Wilke '55 B.D., Winfield, KS
United Methodist Bishop Richard B. Wilke created excitement in local churches with his books And Are We Yet Alive? and Signs and Wonders. With his wife, Julia, Wilke coordinated, designed, and wrote the DISCIPLE Bible study, a training for Christian leaders, with nearly two million graduates in more than 10,000 congregations in 30 denominations. The DISCIPLE series is now available in German, Korean, Spanish, and Chinese. Many DISCIPLE graduates have entered the ministry.
Elected to the episcopacy in 1984, Wilke served for 12 years in the Arkansas area. As bishop, he worked to emphasize church growth and evangelism, while maintaining a love for the local church. He served on boards of colleges, hospitals, and the United Methodist Church.
During his 30 years in the pastoral ministry, Wilke lead several United Methodist congregations in Kansas in Scandia, Wichita and Salina and served as district superintendent for the Winfield District. For nearly 11 years, he preached and initiated televised services from First United Methodist Church in Wichita, reaching out to all of central and western Kansas.
Well traveled, Wilke is widely known as a speaker and preacher, often serving as conference preacher and keynote speaker at regional and national meetings.
The Wilkes have four children and nine grandchildren. They make their home in Winfield, KS, where Bishop Wilke serves as bishop-in-residence at Southwestern College.


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During the 1800s, Dr. Hahnemann established the first homeopathic school in the United States and was able to gain popularity due to his ability to cure diseases during that period.
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The mode of transportation will have some bearing on the type of pictures you can take. Each method of travel has certain characteristics that set it apart, but there are things that make taking pictures from an airplane unique.
From a plane, things are perceived differently. You get a whole new perspective of landscapes, cityscapes, mountains and rivers. And cloud formations can be absolutely spectacular. If you fly over the vicinity of your destination, you can use the opportunity to make an aerial record of the local.
When flying, though, you should keep in mind a few factors that don't apply when taking pictures on solid ground. Not that photographing from the air is any more difficult - it's just different.
First, the down side. You can't expect to get top-notch photos when taking pictures through the window of a commercial plane. The double or triple-pane glass will cause some distortion, the window is usually tinted an unphotogenic yellowish-green, and you can bet that it'll be dirty. Even though the quality of the pictures may not be the best, by following a few guidelines you can still get some memorable photographic keepsakes of the flight.
When being assigned a seat, ask for (1) a window seat (2) on the shady side of the plane (3) in front of or behind the wing. A forward seat is best because the jet engine exhaust can distort the image somewhat.
Motion is another factor. The plane will be moving at a very high rate of speed, so if you'll want ground shots as you take off or land, you should use at least an ISO 400 speed film or a setting of ISO 400 on a digital camera. A shutter speed of 1/1000 should be fast enough to provide sharp images.
When photographing through a plane window, hold the camera with the lens close to the window, but not touching it. This will reduce vibration, and lessen the chance of window reflections.
Also, keep in mind that many autofocus cameras focus on window glass rather than through it. If your camera has a manual-focus mode or infinity-lock, be sure to use it.
When shooting from a plane, most shots will include the horizon. It's important that you keep it horizontal. On the other hand, you can get some very dramatic shots if the horizon is tilted. If you try this, be sure that the horizon is tilted considerably. Otherwise it will look like you tried to get it horizontal and blew it.
In the air, various factors can create false readings with exposure meters. Bright scenery such as snow or a light colored sandy beach can result in underexposure. The result would be lack of detail in the shadows, and colors would be muted. For compensation, on a compact film camera, use the backlight button. With an SLR or digital camera, you could increase exposure by a stop or two, or set the exposure compensating dial to +1 or +2. Try it with both settings to find out what works best with your camera. Dark scenery on the ground can result in some overexposure, but no compensation should be needed for this.
Another factor is atmospheric haze. If you're a single-lens-reflex (SLR) user, your UV or haze filter will sharpen up the images to some degree by reducing this invisible haze (the skylight or 1A filter will have little effect on haze reduction). With a compact 35mm or a digital camera that doesn't accept filters, overexposing somewhat will reduce the effect of the haze.
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Neck Gaitors
Sometimes called "buffs," micro-fleece neck gaitors come in a variety of colors and designs and can be used to keep a lot more than just necks warm. A lot less bulky but no less warm than most scarves, they also can be used to cover faces and be twisted into make-shift hats as well. And Pete Lane's at Dollar is even offering a sale on buffs with Sun Valley's 75thAnniversary design on them for a mere $4.95, while supplies last.
Colorful Skis and Helmet Covers
Atomic has a line of unique and colorful skis designed specifically for kids that not only help youngsters shred the mountain, but do so in style. Helmet covers not only help kids keep warm on cold and windy days, they also make spotting a child in the sea of young shredders much easier. They come in a wide variety of colors and styles.
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9th Mar 2010, 12:26 PM | #341 |
You mean these packages ?:
UnrealArt_URP.utx UTArt_URP.utx Xmas_A_URP.utx Those packages are made by myself and they also have full S3TC support. In time i will release dozens of new packages that mappers can use to build new levels. And as said, all will have S3TC but also CTF support. The releases have not been made public yet, and i will do so if there are really interesting package being released. And its up to you to install them or not, they are not essential files and are only needed if you play a map that uses them. But if you have the harddrive space, than my advise would be, simply install those as well. Better safe than sorry As for the renderers, i guess that v3.6 for UT will do just fine, though its a beta version. But if you encounter serious problems, you may want to go down to the lates stable version being v3.5 which you can find on this page: utglr For Unreal you can install patch 227, but seeing the fact you aim at SP and COOP than the current beta will break with RTNP or any other map(s) that make use of the Upack. So i asume you are better off with the OMP patches which can be found on this page: OMP Patches But of course if you dont have UnrealGold and RTNP than you can safelly install beta patch 227f which can be found on this page: Unreal Mainpage And patch 227 does contain some serious cool stuff like decals, footstep prints if you come out of the water and lots of more cool goodies. The final version of patch 227 will also have full RTNP support, so its just a matter of time. But for now, if you want to play RTNP than 227 is a no go.... . . . |
9th Mar 2010, 12:30 PM | #342 |
Almost forgot, no, the renderers will not have any effect on mods or maps, they just make sure your game will handle the latest textures and fix crucial problems in older renderers. And for both the Unreal and UT patches go, they are absolute crucial updates, so in that respect you HAVE to have them installed.
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9th Mar 2010, 02:37 PM | #343 |
Thank you for the prompt answers! I play Unreal(Gold) and RTNP thru UT mostly but also separately and I just want to clarify something if I may.I sometimes have problems after playing RTNP on UT and I'm now wondering if it's because I patched Unreal to 227f? Are you saying that if I patch/leave Unreal at 226 it will run much better in and out of UT? If so it would explain a lot!! Also should I do the textures in Unreal as well?
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9th Mar 2010, 03:07 PM | #344 |
From what i understand you are saying, than the answer is no. If you patch UT than thats completelly limited to UT and this will not affect Unreal in any way. Vice versa the same thing, you can throw any patch in Unreal you want, but it wont effect UT in any way.
And now i understand you have plain Unreal(224) which you did patch 227 and you use UT to play RTNP. Than that should work just fine. Because i means you have the very latest patch for Unreal, and you still can play RTNP through UT. The reason why patch 227 cant be used for RTNP for Unreal is because it will disable the Upack which is needed to play RTNP. And personally i hate the situation, because it always makes it difficult to tell people what patch to use for Unreal. But its a temporary problem that will be solved in the final release. But as said, patching Unreal with 227 will absolute not reflect on UT. All patches for Unreal and UT only update the system folder per game, it doesnt add files globally in Windows or something similar. Its only a local update on the games systemfolder. So if you have a problem with UT of some kind, than its limited to some problem in UT and has no bearing to Unreal. And yeah, if you want the high res textures for Unreal, than yeah, download those as well and add them to Unreal. Smee thing there, Unreal uses its own texture folder and UT uses its own texture folder. Its not the case that Unreal can "borrow" textures from the UT texture folder. . . . Last edited by Diehard; 9th Mar 2010 at 06:01 PM. |
9th Mar 2010, 05:16 PM | #345 |
Once again thanks Diehard What I meant about problems is after I play RTNP in UT I have to fiddle with it a bit that's all,no problems with UT itself.
Seek and Ye Shall Find |
13th Apr 2010, 07:07 PM | #346 |
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I have been away from UT for a while and am trying to get caught up. I have all your High End textures from the first post. Unfortunately I have a really hard time navigating your site. Can you please post a link to where any and all Extreme texture downloads are so that I can get the best visual quality you have available ? Many thanks and keep up the great work.
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13th Apr 2010, 07:55 PM | #347 |
Upfront, i really would like to know why the navigation gives you problems. And its certainly not the first time i hear this. Actually it happens alot. And i am wondering if this applies to the entire site, or is it limited to the texture section?
The texture department is difficult simply due to the sheer amount of options there are, and i would like to see input before you read ahead below where i explain where to find the textures you are looking for. So if you want to give input than please stop reading here before i tell you and influence you, and tell what bothers you on the navigation. Continue: On itself it is like this: - Click Unreal Tournament - Click Downloads - Click Textures - Click S3TC Extreme End - Click Stock UT and start downloading And i agree it might be smart to change all Stock UT buttons for Single Files. But in the past that also created a conflict but i forgot what. On the other hand, alo of changes were made a few months ago, and maybe the change does allow to have Single Files after all. If above doesnt work for you continue below: Continue: Direct link to the downloads for the Extreme End packages: http://www.unrealtexture.com/UT/Website/Downloads/Textures/ExtremeEnd/StockUT/UTExtremeEnd.htm . . . |
13th Apr 2010, 08:23 PM | #348 |
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Hi bro,
I didn't mean to upset you. Its just that FOR ME it was slightly confusing. Navigation is usually linear UT > Downloads > Textures> S3TC Extreme>Stock The main problem I found on the site is that as you navigate through buttons don't disappear and it gives too many options. Downloads should point straight to download imho and not to info pages as valuable as they are .... perhaps a link on the download page to the info pages ect might be possible/preferable. Its your site .... ultimately you decide.
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13th Apr 2010, 09:08 PM | #349 |
Oh no, i am not upset, i only asked because i really do hear that often, and i simply want to improove the site so people can easelly find what they need. So please dont pick it up as me being upset or something similar.
Yep, buttons keep being in sight so you can easelly go back without pressing the back button on top of your screen. On itself this should enable fast navigation. But true, it does mean that theres alot of buttons in plain sight. And normally, the page itself gives info for the buttons on the leftside. I did that on purpose, because too often people didnt know what they were looking at, and a page giving explanations should help here. And its either that or no explanation at all, which is also unwanted. In the past i added a button on the main page of the site called downloads, and there it used the same script as www.ut-files.com does. But i had to remove the script under pressure of my hosting company as it took waaaay too many resources from the server its running on. And i could make it myself, but that will consume alot of extra time i (currently) dont have. But if i got any time left i could have a second look at it. And of course another problem is that there really are alot of options, and mainly in the texture department. And that simply cannot be be bypassed at all. After all there are normal, low end, high end, extreme end textures. And aside those, you got the stock textures, homemade, projects and what more. But i do have an idea to what your main problem is, and it pretty much points to the direct downloads i already had, but which i had to remove again....... So ill keep that in mind if i work on the site again. . . . |
30th Apr 2010, 07:45 AM | #350 |
I tried out the Extreme End textures, and wow. UT is even more beautiful. The update for the mountains in skyboxes is amazing, too...now the view in Dreary is just breathtaking. To see blue skies with a faint yellow light on the horizon, masked by mountains underneath the eternal rain...what an experience.
Just curious though, have you ever heard of problems with either BTPlusPlus or i4Games_InstaGib_200810.u? Since I implemented S3TC textures, some Bunnytracks maps on servers running these mods leave me frozen in spawn, unable to mouselook, move, or shoot. I left a message on i4g asking if they know about any S3TC texture conflicts. It's not worth going back to low-quality UT is just too beautiful now. I'm used to the yellow train-cars in AS-HiSpeed too now, haha. Edit: pic of Dreary skybox: http://chronofan.com/Zeality/Dreary.png This is why the game was named Unreal. It's standing on another world, hyper-realistic and completely different... I wonder how I"d take an SS without the HUD showing, though.
Last edited by ZeaLitY; 30th Apr 2010 at 10:25 AM. |
30th Apr 2010, 10:12 AM | #351 |
^yea I agree dreary looks amazing now. played facing worlds the other day and spent about a minute or two staring at the high quality globe!
30th Apr 2010, 10:39 AM | #352 |
Just untick Show HUD under HUD preferences.
For those willing to build a mountain of bodies
and climb to the top. In environments that stun. Against A.I. that kills. For those willing to stake their lives in the pursuit of victory... we salute you. |
30th Apr 2010, 01:02 PM | #353 | ||
This is a known issue and is called the "skating player glitch" and less known "the frozen player glitch" the solution to the problem is discribed in this article: S3TC Server Packages The culprit of the story is that serveradmins have either S3TC or so called net textures installed who give a conflict during online playing. The problem is easelly solved by installing the textures from the 1st CD or better have them download the files offered on that instrucktion page. There is a clientsided solution in the make. Someone on these forums has been investigating the problem, and found the original creator from the S3TCfix. He was able to discribe the problem, and i quote here: Quote:
This has been tested(not by me) and it seems its fixable clientsided, e.g. i need to make the textures conform to eachother and re-release ALL S3TC packages for UT agian. This could have been done months ago, but i am simply to ill to do anything decent, as a matter a fact i have not been able to do anything this entire year, so its not going to well with me. Needs to be said, there are some puzzling things in the story above, as i use the 1st CD textures to create the S3TC packages, so from that point of view the story looks flaw. But testing shows a different result and it seems to work never the less. As said, seeing my health i cannot predict when i re-release the packages, just i hope it will be soon. Aside all above, where i could i have been working on several S3TC updates, but those too have to wait till i am a bit better. But i am glad you like the textures, and thats the important part. But yeah, you simply could point admins to the mainpage from www.UnrealTexture.com and have them click the "skating player glitch: link on the frontpage. . . . |
30th Apr 2010, 07:51 PM | #354 |
Thanks, I'll post these at fragnesscity. I'm sure to promote unrealtexture.com too I've told a lot of players how beautiful UT looks while playing.
4th May 2010, 01:06 AM | #356 |
Hey, just in case it hasn't been reported:
Some sky texture border mismatching. Had High End before, then installed Extreme End by overwriting. Sorry if it's been reported before; low on time to re-read the thread.
4th May 2010, 08:07 AM | #357 |
Yes it has been reported though not on this site. And the solution is quite simple, but same thing there, my health prevented from fixing it.
The error is caused by the new mergertool which i used to process all packages in the latest update. Apearently the tool causes an error where on occasion the clouds become non-tilable, as you can see in the screenshot. The same error also caused certain masked textures to disapear completelly. Luckelly both errors seem to be very rare. And the solution is to rerelease the packages involved while using the old mergertool with exception of the HubEffects and XbpFX package that really depends on the new mergertool. The new tool was developed to fix the procedural problems that prevented the release from HubEffects and XbpFX for a long time. But unfortunatelly it also created 2 new errors. Casey who is doing the development is working to fix the tool. But its a real shame, because it always has been a spearpoint in my project to have NO errors in the packages. And each time something did happen, wheather its a technical fault or i simply made an error myself i wanted to have it fixed within 24 hours of discovery. But luckelly both errors are very rare, henge the fact it took 4-5 months before it was discovered by someone on these forums. But as soon as my health allowes it, all 3 errors(non tiling clouds, disapearence of masked, and the skating player glitch) will be be fixed by me. P.S. i rely heavely on you guys to do bugreports, so if you find a weird error, please always report it, as most errors are stupid errors on my part and in general can be fixed easelly. So if you see something weird, always come forward, and tell it here. . . . |
6th May 2010, 02:59 AM | #358 |
Okay, understood. That explains also why the girders in CTF-Eagles aren't masked.
I absolutely love this project; thanks for all your hard work.
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No, thats new to me, and i had a look at it, and the grate texture is the LeadW1 textre in the Indus6 package. That package was never updated(will be soon though, because of several request's) But that grate texture is masked by default and is also added masked to the map. The girder texture is more of a problem, its the CrosGrdr texture thats sitting in the Metalmys package, and is by default NOT masked. In the map its set to masked, so it should apear masked. This package too was never updated by me. I guess its the same problem that haunted UT before, where they added a texture to the package that should have been masked, but for whatever reason it was flagged non-masked on release. And if i ever do that package, than the decision needs to be made by me to make it masked or not. But for now, that to me sounds like a render problem. And i asume the renderer is not processing correctly to the masked flag that the mapper used. In any case, it has nothing to do with the current updates. And its simple, i didnt work on the package, so its 100% an Epic release and not mine. But if you guys can tell me if this specific texture is always used in a masked form, than i could release an update to try fix it, and try force it to be masked. And i could do that without an actual update on the textures themselves. So basically it would be a technical update to fix a masking problem. Up to you guys to have me do that or not. . . . |
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I am afraid to report that I have MAJOR problems with the current textures. My server unreal://18.104.22.168:7777 has your server packages as per requirements, however when I spawn in ctf-Face for instance I am unable to move. My mates though see me skating across the map. Ping also skyrockets and stays that way. Has this bug been reported to you ? My current setup is ut 4.36 with latest open gl and High End + Extreme End Textures. I know the problem is the textures because I spent many hours trying to nail things down. All is good up to the stock Epic s3tc textures. CTF maps Face SE Face Face ][ High Kosov Noxion Nucleus Orbital
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Installing the polished landscapes is causing me to crash on load up...
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Nuclear Power: Think Smaller?
Among many thoughtful comments on the last post, Debater Sully asks us to consider scaled-down plants that power just one small city, saying they would be "safer and easier to control."
It's an intriguing suggestion. So, let's consider.
Regardless of whether Sully's assumption about safety is accurate, the primary issue is cost. Seems like it would be more difficult to build several small nuclear reactors than one large one; in a large plant, the reactors would share infrastructure, such as the water source, while multiple smaller plants would require infrastructure to be built many times over.
Then again, perhaps it is just as expensive to construct and maintain reactors regardless of their size or concentration. Anyone have any insights into this?
Another consideration would be that more sites would mean more "not in my backyard" objections. Picture the overflowing city council meetings, the neighborhood petitions, the lawsuits. In the face of such resistance, finding suitable sites for these reactors could take years.
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Were I live at FPL has 2 nuclear generating plants and it requested to build one additional because of groth in the area. But of course we had that major NIMBY constituant show up at the planning board commitee meeting and they got it killed. Not more than a month later they were all crying about their electric bills. The thing is these plants are not that large and most people wouldn't realize that the 2 plants were nuclear just by looking at them. This is what happens when you get zellots of any type. They spread fear not facts and radiation has gotten a bad rap because of mishaps in the past, but if everything is built to specs. and inspectors do their jobs as well as the plant personell them their isn't the problems that plagued the previous reactors.
Posted by: Lab Rat | April 18, 2006 11:53 AM
Here's a good write up about the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor which is a leading design for small nuclear power plants:
Whatever direction plant designs take, the success of nuclear power in the US will depend on how it is regulated. A republican administration that listens to the economic concerns of industry before scientific and medical concerns is very worrying when it comes to licensing and regulating the nuclear power industry. A government that instead was more concerned for safety might make those who will have nuclear power in their back yards less nervous.
Posted by: Sully | April 18, 2006 02:28 PM
This is not the week's big issue. With all of the stuff going on in the nation and the world, this issue is tangential, at best.
Your earlier request th have Chris Ford email you is a larger issue than nukular power. Y'all need to get a (chat) room.
Chris and Emily sittin' in a tree...
I smell sex and candy.
Posted by: smafdy | April 18, 2006 03:00 PM
In our nuclear past, we tended to build nuke reactors like Detroit put out cars. Standard model which was then "customized" to owner specs. We went "bigger is better" to realize economies of scale, but found that made construction more expensive. Also, engineering issues like the propensity of neutron flux to chase around in different areas of a 12' by 12' 3500MW thermal, 1250MW electrical reactor. Whereas a smaller core had simpler nuclear physics, controls, and less operating constraints and much less decay heat to remove on shutdown.
So we had in effect "custom stick-built" plants that required people specifically licensed on only one or two unique plants, harder to regulate, siting limited to only initial application for a few plants, and existing plants using 60s technology.
We learned from that that there are greater economies in standardization, modular construction, and common licensing - as France and Japan do.
The exponential advances in materials technology, quality control, computer controls, modular construction, management theory, and engineering design since the 60s mean new plants can be constructed cheaper, safer. Part of the new 4th and 5th Generation nuke plants proposed is use of passive cooling systems that remove the need for huge, complex, and expensive active cooling systems that also required tremendous training on their use. Remove active cooling - and risk analysis found mode failures, and risk of fuel damage and rad release to containment went from very low frequency to near-negligable risk.
As part of that, we found optimum design for passive cooled - boiling water load following units, baseload pressurized water units, or the new pebble bed, sodium fast flux, and a few newer designs with superheaters or certain exotic technology components seemed to center on 400-800 MW electric capacity rather than the 1000-1300MW upscaled naval pressurized water reactor basic design.
But that is no impediment if construction makes standardized units and you have "4-packs", "six-packs", as the French do..even future "8-packs" now contemplated. Siting objections are not substantially different for a nuke facility that puts out 3600 MW from 6 reactors, or one that has two "bohunka" nukes and puts out 2450 MW. Standardized units mean you can more easily move technicians, engineers, maintenance, management, and operations people between plants to make running the units easier, with lower cost and regulatory difficulties. Even have a few different reactor types on site for peak load following AND baseload and a new technology demo plant ---as long as they are standard in other locations, so you can fly a few hundred engineers and techs into a plant shutdown from one area of the country, even from a foreign country using standard design...to a plant shutdown for refueling or repairs...
The economics are there. As indicated by China and India's rush to develop a massive nuclear electric generation infastructure rather than follow the "turkey guts to oil", windmills, "beautiful solar energy - it's so cool!" approach the Greenies advocate.
Because they think it is safe, will clean up their air pollution considerably, and is very cheap compared to other alternatives. And best, nuclear energy is renewable and can keep them going for many centuries. With the proper reactors, you make more fuel than you burn, and with recycling, you reduce radwaste volume by 95% and recover 95% of unused nuclear matter for reuse in future core burn cycles.
The main opposition is political and from an American education system that churns out graduates unable to assess risks of any phenomenon objectively and generally ignorant of technology. We and the Euros have a propensity to grasp onto an issue and convert it into an Article of Holy Faith that something is entirely "good" or entirely "bad" despite the facts.
Once a "Cause" group has decided something is good or bad, they are frequently unable by their nature to admit what they committed to as dogma is "not so bad" or "not so good" - without emotional rage or outright rioting. Several German Greenies were seriously injured in a riot when the debate about genetically modified crops devolved into fistfights between those willing to consider certain GM food crops might benefit humanity and those of the "never, never, never!" persuasion.
Other cultures can be irrational. Japan has an inordinate fear of mad cow disease. Indians like soybeans over the taste of lentils when offered them in blind tastings, the economics favor soybeans over lentils, but for 2,000 years Indians have eaten lentils and by golly, lentils it will stay! Drives American and Brazilian soybean producers trying for decades to open India up to soybean exports absolutely nuts...
Nuclear will be aided if global warming from CO2 is confirmed as an incontrovertable fact. And if people finally realize that the enviroweenie mantras of "solar", "wind power", "conserve by banning RVs", "recycle your kitchen grease!" are absolutely trivial sideissues - and when they recognize that wrecking major parts of the environment for ethanol, solar farms, mountain ranges and coastlines festooned with windmills and piles of dead birds at the bases isn't going to solve the problem. That only coal (if we don't care about or don't believe in global warming) or nuclear will address the preponderance of the world's and America's - future energy needs.
Posted by: Chris Ford | April 18, 2006 03:25 PM
As I was reading your post above I was nodding until you disparaged solar farms. I have been watching the solar roof market for the past few years and it needs lower costs but has tremendous potential considering every rooftop could be producing electricity. Here's a link to California's effort to promote rooftop solar:
I agree it won't solve the oil problem and neither will ethanol or wind completely, but every feasible solution should be encouraged.
Posted by: Sully | April 18, 2006 03:41 PM
I beleive that until there is a way to get rid of "WASTE" that is stockpiled now, there is no point in making more waste that has a lifespan of 150 years,that takes up "massive" amounts of water. The people of this planet need to get a grip on their consumption practices, we have become a throw away society. A thousand years from now there will be no digging up of pyramids only garbage dumps.
Posted by: Terri Robson | April 18, 2006 04:36 PM
Terri Robson writes "A thousand years from now there will be no digging up of pyramids only garbage dumps."
Sigh, if only I could watch the wonder and curiosity of archaelogists as they explore what was once New Jersey.
Posted by: Geb | April 18, 2006 05:14 PM
Sully -
I agree that if costs and technology problems ever make solar viable as a power generator, people should and will reconsider it. And the other rooftop use that is being considered is to paint them white so cities aren't 5% hotter than surrounding areas in the summertime to cut down on AC energy use.
But we use 107 Quads, will need 127-28 by 2030 due to Open Borders.....and solar accounts for 0.063 Quads. It hasn't grown in the last 30 years despite all the championing of it and research grants given. So it's still in the "wouldn't it be nice" category - whereas our energy choices have to be "what works" category - not what "might work, or might be commercially viable" reliance on future predicates we don't know the answer to or which investors and governments have adequate confidence in to risk the future or their money for.
It may well be that solar will generate enough electricity with new technology and cost reductions that people flock to buy units. It may well be that cold fusion will be discovered to exist and we can use that future discovery to completely revolutionize world energy use. Or that quantum wormholes can control dark matter flows which form an endless cost-free generation of DC electricity.
But we don't know. And we are all smart enough to have a certain skepticism about advocates that insist if we only throw enough money at a problem, it will be solved so base your present day and future days on the "fact" solutions are guaranteed. Like - "smoking is OK because if only we put more money into research we will soon find a cure for lung cancer", or -if only enough money went into "sensible, mandated, organic" agriculture and educating people that Agribiz is bad - "then we could make all our food organic so our bodies are purer and longer-lived."
Sully, the other objections to desert solar farms are coming from people that believe that such farms over widespread areas would have "devestating" impact on delicate desert ecosystems. I saw one such article claim an experimental solar station did harm to several species. I don't know...we have lots of desert...and if I favor sticking nuke waste on 3,000 acres of it, I don't see loosing 100 or so square miles of it to solar. Chances are if something better comes along or people find solar is not economically competitive and tire of taxpayer subsidies and get rid of it, the "delicate desert ecology" will return.
I do know I had a different reaction to one of our boondoggle trips "advising" government people on energy investment. We went to visit a wind farm out Wst because the government people in an Eastern state were excited about adding wind because a few "wind entrepreneurs" had told them how great they were and about the government tax breaks and funding. Kind of a funny story. When we got there, we found the site in a low mountain pass was swarming with rattlesnakes eating dead and maimed birds. I was pissed. But Boss Lady said keep it out of the discussion later and stay on economics and view of the technology. As luck would have it, the 3rd or so question we got at the gov't panel was from a woman who had read about "bird kills" in her Audubon Magazine and wondered if we saw dead birds. So Boss Lady had to answer and watch the horrified expressions following her talking about rattlers with little bird feet poking out of their mouths. And explain why we didn't save the "wounded birds" to a followup question. Seemed like a NIMBY problem with that panel...and Boss Lady didn't like my suggestion that maybe at future meetings wind farms could be cast in a more positive light if the birdkill question arose as "snake-friendly places for snake lovers to visit". (We weren't advocating any power source, just what was a good blend given transmission capabilities, resources, and demand...the panel with the bird questions went with "committing to study" a new nat gas plant, a new 345KV line, and "more research into alternative energy"...)
Posted by: Chris Ford | April 18, 2006 06:16 PM
I dunno Chris....I gotta sympathize with the Boss Lady trying to keep you on her message :o)
Might that pass have been on US 80 between Oakland and Sacramento?
I took due note of your observation about that dumb (like a fox) populist leftwinger Chavez. I also read the story about the Venezuelan reserves a couple of days ago. Ecuador has the same very heavy crude east of the Andes in the Amazon basin. It does bring up a very important point. Reserves are a function of price, i.e. the lower the price the less reserves there are, the higher the price the more reserves there are; all that with no new drilling. That extends to other things besides oil, too. Like gold, tar sands, oil shale, silver, platinum, natural gas, coal, uranium, etc. Makes me kind of wonder how these kinds of changes get reflected on balance sheets of companies holding big reserves.
But it necessarily makes it quite difficult to project out how many years supply of oil we have since you get a different answer for every price you choose. Not so? Similarly for other energy sources like natural gas, coal, tar sands, etc.
Could you by any chance point me towards web sites that might have or lead towards some reserve data I could dredge up relative to prices?
Posted by: Cayambe | April 19, 2006 03:53 AM
I have seen reserves described as "X million tons recoverable at todays prices" and "X million tons - net". Which try to say to investors what is available and what exists as potentially minable. Then there is the gray area of "estimated reserves".
And I have seen oil companies like Shell play games with their listed reserves in all categories - not that I suspect they manipulate their data to better position their quarterly numbers and stock option triggers. Oh, no! That would be wrong! I do know there are lots of commodity websites, can't point you to any single one....but be conscious there are two levels of knowledge - one for the stupid little investor and gen public - one for the people with the big bucks that pay for premium knowledge so as to better exploit the "free market". Of course KSA and other nations are thought to keep two books, same with Shell and other companies on a insider-outsider basis.
Actual sites? Morgan Stanley and Barclays have stuff up that the lower classes can access. And the commodity exchanges have links. Oil and gold have lots of "schlock" brokers and data, gold companies listed on the Toronto and Vancouver exchanges are notorious for lying and stock price manipulation so their data is suspect. I'd say look around in a thinner traded, unsexy commodity like tin or palm oil, note the firms and gov't websites with data and see if they are good, no-hype stuff. Chances are they are more responsible than a hype-site that offers you millions for trading in the "exciting gold and oil" markets. But still you don't get what the "Big Boys in the network", "members of the politically powerful/Ownership Class" do in the way of reserves, demand, and trends.
Anyways, I like El Presidente Chavez's proposal. It would make Venezuela a bigger listed source of available oil than KSA. Pity we have let Israel and ME oil & terrorism dominate or diplomacy and news cycles to the extent the average American is unaware of the big changes in Latin America, Mexico, China, Russia - that in the big scheme of things matter more than crappy little ME nations.
Didn't know Ecuador had unrecoverable (for now) heavy bitumin. Thanks for the info.
Posted by: Chris Ford | April 19, 2006 11:44 AM
There is a very small village in central Alaska named Galena. Toshiba has offered to put a small nuclear power plant in for the village for free as a demonstraton! I believe it delivers 10 MGW, which is enough for Galena. Considering that most villages in Alaska are powered and heated by oil and the price is sky high, there has been a lot of support by the people in Galena for this. It is my understanding that the plant will not need to be refueled for 30 years and that Toshiba has agreed to dispose of the fuel after the 30 year time period, so the people in Galena don't have to deal with the spent fuel.
I guess I find this just a little disturbing. Toshiba plans to sell the small power plants to other places in Alaska and the United States if the "experiment" in Galena works. Still, they have not divulged, as far as I know, what the plan is for the spent fuel, but they have to go through the same permitting process as large nuclear power plants do, which is very expensive.
Posted by: anpw | April 19, 2006 02:38 PM
There is a very small village in central Alaska named Galena. Toshiba has offered to put a small nuclear power plant in for the village for free as a demonstraton! I believe it delivers 10 MGW, which is enough for Galena. Considering that most villages in Alaska are powered and heated by oil and the price is sky high, there has been a lot of support by the people in Galena for this. It is my understanding that the plant will not need to be refueled for 30 years and that Toshiba has agreed to dispose of the fuel after the 30 year time period, so the people in Galena don't have to deal with the spent fuel.
I guess I find this just a little disturbing. Toshiba plans to sell the small power plants to other places in Alaska and the United States if the "experiment" in Galena works. Still, they have not divulged, as far as I know, what the plan is for the spent fuel, but they have to go through the same permitting process as large nuclear power plants do, which is very expensive.
Posted by: anpw | April 19, 2006 02:39 PM
The ability to control a reactor is a cubic function of the size of the unit. There is a reason that our miliary units on our carriers are 550 MW. The typical carrier has two. The doubling up is not for operational availability but for reliability of control. The USS Enterprise originally had three, but never needed more than two and the third was removed.The Nimitz carriers all have two in a standardized design. We could build and intall these safely in our communities til the cows came home. Chernobyl and 3 Mile were in the area of 950 to 1050 MW. When control on these units started to go they could not be recovered. 550 to 650 is the smart size. Everything else is politics and emotion.
Posted by: Bob Nixon | April 19, 2006 04:27 PM
Having lots of small plants can help to prevent blackouts of the scale we recently saw on the East Coast. More small plants, closer to the energy demand, can help to reduce the huge amounts of energy lost in transmission (at least 30%). So it may not be cost effective when you initially build them, but over time you save money by having to produce less electricity in the first place, and you have a more stable and reliable power grid.
Posted by: Ella | April 19, 2006 06:18 PM
My my, so many power experts. There are economies of scale that make bigger components more economic. ALL power plants need cooling, as they reject about 66% of the total megawatt rating (how they are licensed) to water and air. (Quick tip: If you are talking about a 1300 MWe plant, double that and you get approximate heat rejection (assumes 33% efficiency). Thus, 2600 rejected, 1300 electricity and you get about 3900 MWthermal rating of heat source (neglects pump heat).) Years ago, US nuclear license limit used to be 3800 MWt.
Maybe the French, ROK, and many other countries of the world "get it." Nuclear: clean, safe, efficient, economic, reliable.
Posted by: Ed Trottier | April 20, 2006 12:44 PM
Sorry, but USS Enterprise, CVN-66 I think, had eight (8) reactors. Two per engine room, 4 engine rooms and 4 shafts. Reactors started out at about around 264 MWe, I think. The issue of control is not related to size, but core physics and control rod speed. Military reactors are typically in the 90+% range. This allows them to run longer between refuellings. They must have quick response for maneuvering and catapults, for example.
Posted by: Ed Trottier | April 20, 2006 12:54 PM
Yep, there was a movement to medium sized nuclear plants (maybe 600 MWe range) years ago. Anyone (anyone at all) wonder what happened to them and why the latest are without fail (ALL) up around 1000 MWe to even 1500 MWe? Even the latest "darling" ESBWR (advanced reactor) is about 1550 MWe.
Maybe the folks ordering these units are familiar with "economies of scale."
Posted by: Ed Trottier | April 20, 2006 01:01 PM
Though there are economies of scale that lead to lower overall electric power costs for large plants, there are also some disadvantages that might not favor large plants in every situation. There are also certain production cost advantages that come from larger volumes of smaller plants.
Large plants can be disruptive to local power markets if the capacity that they produce is more than the growth in power demand. The plant will have to run at something less than full power or will push otherwise profitable production facilities out of the market.
As is pointed out in previous posts, all heat engines need a heat sink. For very large plants, the only real choice is to throw the heat away as fast as possible using either large bodies of water or massive cooling towers. With smaller plants that can be flexibly sited, there is a possibility that the waste heat from the electric power production can be effectively used for space heat or even factory process heat in a cogeneration mode.
In many of the world's electric power grids, the total grid capacity is either below or within a factor of two or three of the size of "standard" 1000 MW plants. These grids are too small to accept a large nuke without causing the grid to be vulnerable to collapse if the nuke has a problem. It is normally best for grids to have at least 5-10 separate generating sources with similar capacities in order for stability and redundancy. In other words, smaller nuclear plants have the opportunity to enter into more markets than do large nuclear plants.
Finally, smaller nuclear plants can be used to directly replace oil burning plants on board ships and in generating plants in remote areas. Since oil is the competitive fuel in these markets, the scale diseconomy is not as important as it would be in more established markets where the incumbent power source is a cheap coal plant or a large nuclear plant.
Adams Atomic Engines, Inc (www.atomicengines.com) expects to build plants sized between 10-50 MWe.
Posted by: Rod Adams | April 20, 2006 11:17 PM
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Last Update: 4:41 PM ET Jan. 24, 2006 LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- After months of negotiations, Walt Disney Co. will acquire Pixar for $6.3 billion in stock plus $1.1 billion of the computer animation specialist's cash, the companies said Tuesday.
The deal combines the two companies that have been partners for more than a decade, and gives Disney a leg up in animated films, where it has been struggling in recent years.
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Looking for some resources about Bastille Day and perhaps a few technology-based ways to teach / learn about it? Look no further. First though, what the heck is Bastille Day?
Quite simply, it's the French Independence Day. It commemorates the storming of the Bastille, which took place on July 14, 1789 and marked the beginning of the French Revolution. The Bastille was a prison and a symbol of the absolute and arbitrary power of Louis the 16th's Ancient Regime. By capturing this symbol, the people signaled that the king's power was no longer absolute: power should be based on the Nation and be limited by a separation of powers.
Although the Bastille only held seven prisoners at the time of its capture, the storming of the prison was a symbol of liberty and the fight against oppression for all French citizens; like the Tricolore flag, it symbolized the Republic's three ideals: Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity for all French citizens.
It marked the end of absolute monarchy, the birth of the sovereign Nation, and, eventually, the creation of the (First) Republic, in 1792. Bastille Day was declared the French national holiday on 6 July 1880, on Benjamin Raspail's recommendation, when the new Republic was firmly entrenched. Bastille Day has such a strong signification for the French because the holiday symbolizes the birth of the Republic.
As in the US, where the signing of the Declaration of Independence signaled the start of the American Revolution, in France the storming of the Bastille began the Great Revolution. In both countries, the national holiday thus symbolizes the beginning of a new form of government. On the one-year anniversary of the fall of the Bastille, delegates from every region of France proclaimed their allegiance to a single national community during the Fête de la Fédération in Paris – the first time in history that a people had claimed their right to self-determination.
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This activity looks at how the 14th July is celebrated in France. Students watch video clips and then use multiple choice cards to decide which answer completes each sentence. They then are presented with facts about how it is celebrated with true / false questions (again using true / false cards). They write sentences on mini whiteboards explaining how the English celebrate Bonfire night before a pairwork discussing their favourite festivals. Homework will be to write about their favourite festival. You'll need a TES account to access this lesson but click here to get started.
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I still have not decided which faucet to get for our Kohler Whitehaven sink (the largest size). There is a window in front of the sink and I don't want anything incredibly large that will impede opening the window. I really don't want anything contemporary looking and will very likely choose a living brass finish. I was looking into the Rohl Country sink, the one with a single handle, one hole, and a separate sides spray. Then I saw this online and thought it was rather interesting as well. In case you didn't know, we're going for the Plain English Design Spitalfields look in our new "old" Georgian house. |
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That is only a filtration faucet, not a regular kitchen faucet. Take a look at Waterstone's website and you can see the difference. |
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To amplify, you linked the filtration faucet from the Towson suite. Waterstone's products are organized by "suites" that include regular faucets, filtration faucets that get installed next to a regular faucet for instant hot and/or cold filtered water, soap dispensers, air switches, etc. that match one another. You can see the whole suite by clicking on the link that is contained within the link in your post. I almost went with the Towson faucet but opted for a pull down instead, so I got the 5600 PLP. The Towson is great looking though and Waterstone faucets are fabulous. |
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