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John K. Sutherland

Chief Scientist Edutech Enterprises
	Member Since: 06/10/03 Author Rating: Gold Article Count: 10 Email this author Phone: 506-455-6213

Background

Dr. Sutherland is a retired Health Physicist who worked with radiation for almost 20 years in the non-nuclear industry, and then spent 20 years in various aspects of radiation protection at a CANDU nuclear power plant, while managing the environmental radiation monitoring program and providing a dosimetry monitoring program for about 600 employees.

He now has his own consulting company. He writes about energy in general, radiation, radiation protection, and nuclear power, and provides courses to nuclear workers, university students, high school teachers, members of industry, and emergency responders. He develops training materials for the CANDU reactor and teaches a university course 'Nuclear Safety and Reliability' to graduate and undergraduate engineers. He has also written extensively on Nuclear Wastes and associated issues.

He is especially interested in the history and development of the world-wide nuclear industry; the medical uses of radiation; and in the many health studies related to the uses of radiation over the last 100 years.

Dr. Sutherland is a skeptical scientist. He has written about climate issues for the last 30 years. He studied climatology as one of his university courses more than 40 years ago. Papers on this and other issues by Dr. Sutherland, can be found at: Click Here

Articles

1.13.10	Environment First, or Economy First? Topic: Environmental, Emissions & Carbon Management Article Viewed 3861 Times; 125 comments Time to step back from the brink! Recent revelations of possible wrongdoing in Climate Research, now that the Climate Research Unit in the UK (CRU) data and correspondence has been at least partially, if unintentionally released, should raise many questions of scientific integrity. There needs to be a complete re-evaluation of the impact of environmentalist ambitions (in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - IPCC process) upon the world and its economy, as well as the possible corruption that government engenders in some scientists in their fight for government funding -- as Eisenhower warned.

1.5.10	Cooking the Climate Books - Cancel Copenhagen! Topic: Environmental, Emissions & Carbon Management Article Viewed 4312 Times; 91 comments There is something rotten in the state of Denmark about to happen in early December. It is called COP-15 -- Conference of Partners -- and is a meeting of those UN IPCC diplomats striving for World Government and universal taxation under the UN; politicians seeking more power to tax and control peoples' existence; environmentalists striving to reduce the world's use of energy and its population; and certain climate scientists.

8.12.08	Oil Shales and Tar Sands Topic: Fossil & Biomass Article Viewed 5893 Times; 48 comments The article below was written before about 1995 and is published here as it originally appeared in the enlightened (at the time) local paper (Canada). The figures and statements are from that time so do not reflect what is currently known of these resources and significantly miss recent exploration and developments

10.29.07	Anthropogenically driven Global Warming (AGW): Some pro and con comments Topic: Environmental, Emissions & Carbon Management Article Viewed 14526 Times; 213 comments In the last of my articles on this site, 'The Inevitable resurgence of Nuclear Power,' I challenged those who did not like my stance on Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) to give me their twenty best shots and I would respond with mine. I waited expectantly for the hundreds of insta-pundits here to leap in and slaughter me on this energy manipulation boondoggle of the 21st Century (so far). There were no takers.

4.21.06	The Inevitable Nuclear Resurgence, and the Inevitable Panic Attacks Topic: Nuclear Article Viewed 14021 Times; 81 comments There is now a solid recognition by most politicians in the world, and increasingly even by those in once staunchly anti-nuclear regimes in such places as Germany, Sweden, Austria and a few other Politically Correct holdouts (Italy), that nuclear power is becoming unavoidable. Furthermore, it is also shown to be the cleanest, safest, and often the cheapest way of generating reliable electricity in any advancing society.

5.19.04	Nuclear Waste Perspectives - Part II Topic: Nuclear Article Viewed 8677 Times; 22 comments This is the second of several articles on nuclear wastes. It examines the potential energy value in spent fuel, and in the world stockpiles of depleted uranium.

1.28.04	Nuclear Waste Perspectives Topic: Environmental, Emissions & Carbon Management Article Viewed 9490 Times; 37 comments Previous articles by me on this site examined the political baggage that has held the U.S. nuclear program back and effectively caused the Yucca mountain fiasco; showed that uranium and thorium energy resources are assured for millions of years and could meet most, if not all of our existing and projected energy needs with much less environmental effect than almost any other source of energy; and presented comparative data that showed that nuclear power was far cleaner, much safer, and generally was cost competitive with any other reasonable source of energy.

10.8.03	Nuclear Power Comparisons and Perspective Topic: Nuclear Article Viewed 16806 Times; 57 comments Caution: Reading this article may prove dangerous to your perceptions about nuclear power, energy in general, and low - grade but well - heeled environmental activism.

6.27.03	Nuclear Cycles and Nuclear Resources Topic: Nuclear Article Viewed 9777 Times; 14 comments Today, we have about 1200 reactors of various kinds and sizes in the world, and about 445 large commercial reactors in operation (more than 100 in the U.S.), with about 30 more under construction and another 30 or so in various stages of planning. The 445 large commercial reactors contribute about 8% of the world's total energy requirements, and about 17% of its electricity, rising to almost 80% in some countries and states.

6.13.03	Nuclear Power And Politics Topic: Nuclear Article Viewed 4896 Times; 4 comments When politics intervenes and interferes in energy issues, both good things and bad things can happen, and it is not always obvious which is which until much later, after the damage has been done.

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