Special Issue on Small Modular Reactors, the May 2012 issue of the journal Nuclear Technology (vol. 178, no. 2), includes a foreword by guest editor Daniel Ingersoll and eight technical papers on topics such as advanced passive safety systems designed for the NuScale nuclear power plant and financial case studies on small- and medium-size modular reactors. The journal is a publication of the American Nuclear Society, which has provided a position statement on small modular reactors (ANS-25-2011, PDF). (posted 5/8/12)

Firm Futures, a strategic consultancy based in the United Kingdom, aims to position organisations for the future. The company works in the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors and has particular expertise in the international security and defence sectors. Read more. (posted 5/2/12)

Rutgers Environment and Public Health Summer Program, a 7-week course followed by a 200-hour field training internship, will prepare candidates to sit for the New Jersey Registered Environmental Health Specialist (REHS) state licensing exam, the first step toward a career in public health. The course will be held this summer from June 4 to July 20. Read more. (posted 5/2/12)

The Human Factor in Risk will be the focus of the Union of Risk Management for Preventive Medicine (URMPM) World Congress 2012 in London, September 8–9, 2012. Abstract submission has been extended through May 15, 2012. Read more. (posted 10/19/11, updated 5/1/12)

Acorn International, LLC, based in Houston, Texas, delivers environmental and social risk management consulting to global industries and investors. Read more. (posted 3/23/12)

CAP Index, Inc. has provided innovative solutions to corporations and government agencies looking to minimize a broad range of losses, including shortage, general liability, fraud, and crimes against persons and property, since 1988. Read more. (posted 3/26/12)

Higher Ground: Learning from the East Japan Tsunami and Meltdown at Fukushima NPS, by Shunji Murai, engineer and professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, is written in two parts. The eleven chapters of part one summarize the earthquake and tsunami survivors' stories, from which the author has extracted lessons to hand down "generation to generation in order to prevent such misery occurring again." Part two provides follow-up on and cites lessons from the accident at Fukushima Nuclear Power Station. In his preface to the book, the author concludes "Since Japan may fall victim to similar or even larger earthquakes and tsunamis over the coming hundred or thousand years, it should be our duty to avoid catastrophic risk as far as possible for our children’s children. I should like this book to be useful in preventing repetition of similar tragedy and misery." The book is available from Geomares Publishing. (posted 2/22/12)

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