An Engineer in DC

This post is a bit more right-brained than usual. I do the morning feedings for Bethany, so it gives me some time to daydream in the wee ...

There were two articles recently in the WaPo that caught my interest: This one, where the CBO finds that the $38 billion isn't all fro...

Bethany Grace!! 7 pounds, 5 ounces at 5:37pm on Monday, March 28th. The birth of a bouncing baby girl (our first) definitely gives you a...

Time to go back to some regular posting for a bit: this one features the intersection of M Street and Connecticut Avenue, Northwest: If ...

I've had a few, genuine comments from people in the area of the reactors, looking for advice and thanking me for providing some clear i...

I have stopped reading cnn.com and other mainstream media news outlets because of the hysterical, sensational headlines that they're tou...

Things are starting to get more confusing as the news pours out of Japan.  When I last wrote, things appeared relatively calm, as it looked ...

The Fukushima-1 Reactor at Daiichi is a General Electric BWR-3 design with Mark I containment .  It turns out that the Boiling Water Reacto...