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Moniz hires the president of the Union of Concerned Scientists as his gate keeper

ByRod Adams

…within the DOE sent an email from inside the organization. He included Dr. Moniz’s internal announcement following his pithy response to that correspondence. I am done. The inmates are running the damn asylum. Anyone need help? (Name removed) _____________________________________________ From: Secretary Moniz Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 12:55 PM Subject: Announcing Kevin Knobloch as the New Chief of Staff Colleagues: Over the past few weeks, on…

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Moniz attempts to credit Obama Administration with supporting nuclear energy

ByRod Adams

…tical officer, i.e. handler/watcher. Arcs_n_Sparks Having met both Chu and Moniz, it is disappointing see bright individuals co-opted by politics. Actually, painful is a better term. Wayne SW Moniz still has to answer for his part in trashing the High Flux Beam Reactor at Brookhaven Lab the last time he worked for DoE. That was a perfectly benign and incredibly productive research reactor, a world-class laboratory for neutron scattering and neutro…

Pragmatic view of the Nuclear Renaissance from Dr. Moniz

ByRod Adams

…prospects in the United States and its current technological position. Dr. Moniz is a professor at MIT, was one of the co-chairs of the study group that produced MIT’s recent report titled The Future of Natural Gas and serves on the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Energy Future. Dr. Moniz has a pragmatic, measured approach towards the development of nuclear energy production systems. I agree with his advocacy of above ground, dry cask…

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SMRs – lots of noise but DOE budget that’s 1% of annual wind tax credit

ByRod Adams

…he clip of that interaction between New Hampshire Senator Shaheen and Sec. Moniz. PS – I learned something I didn’t know about Dr. Moniz while reading a March 28, 2015 New York Times article titled No. 2 Negotiators in Iran Talks Argue Physics Behind Politics. Mr. Moniz, who was born in 1944 in Fall River, Mass., got hooked on science as a high school student in the post-Sputnik era of the late 1950s and early 1960s. After attending Boston College…

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Has the MIT Energy Initiative been captured by natural gas industry money?

ByRod Adams

…involving “energy” at MIT goes straight through the MIT energy guru, Ernie Moniz. And nuclear is an afterthought at best with Moniz. In the first 5 conferences, I was told by several MIT nuclear engineering graduate students that nuclear got almost no play. Last year, driven by frustration, several of the NE grad students got on the inside and inserted a couple of panels in the program. I chaired one of the panels, a session on small modular react…

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How Did the MOX Project Get So Expensive?

ByRod Adams

…ime thought leaders of the Northeast non-proliferation clique — Dr. Ernest Moniz. He is currently serving as the U.S. Secretary of Energy. Moniz, who has been testifying for the past several years that the MOX project is too expensive, was deeply involved in creating the framework that made the current MOX morass almost inevitable. After his 2013 appointment, Dr. Moniz selected another Cambridge, MA based non-proliferation proponent, Kevin Knobloc…

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NuScale wins second round of DOE SMR funding under FOA

ByRod Adams

…transcription of an audio file recorded during the talk.) After Secretary Moniz had finished his talk, he allowed time for a short question and answer period before getting back to more pressing business. Here is the question I asked with his response. Adams: Good morning Dr. Moniz. This is Rod Adams and I am the owner and publisher of Atomic Insights. I’m interested to pursue a little bit your description of the small modular reactor program as…

DOE Signing What May be the Only Nuclear Loan Guarantee

ByRod Adams

…t to,” he said. However, during his speech at the National Press Club, Dr. Moniz fielded a question about the loan guarantee program that provides a slightly different point of view about whether there may be more deals in the pipeline. Q: There are a combination of reasons why more utilities aren’t building nuclear. The NRC is reviewing the Waste Policy, natural gas prices are low, etc., but utilities including Georgia Power say they want to keep…

Nuclear energy and nuclear weapons are not inherently linked as a single enterprise

ByRod Adams

…So why are these nuclear people laughing?? Daniel Robert, In that article Moniz again refers to the 8 billion dollar loan guarantee given to Vogtle. Nothing has been signed yet as Moniz wants to shove down Vogtle’s throat terms And conditions that are outrageous to a multi billion revenue générating company. Wayne SW Mitch, I’m going to take a wild guess and say that the people in those photos are not (former) employees of Vermont Yankee, SONGS,…

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Designated law-breaker at DOE still wants budget approved

ByRod Adams

…comply with the Nuclear Waste Policy Act as it is currently written?” Sec. Moniz: “Yes.” (1.26) Moving along: Sec.Moniz: “Secondly, we have more than adequate funding right now to do all the responses that might be called for by the NRC to support their process. As I said, we expect our first report to be submitted very soon, probably the end of this month (April 2014). And third, our budget request is for all activities that are authorized under…

Update – DOE Loan Guarantee for Vogtle

ByRod Adams

…se that DOE posted after Dr. Moniz’s talk at the National Press Club. Sec. Moniz to Georgia, Energy Department Scheduled to Close on Loan Guarantees to Construct New Nuclear Power Plant Reactors Word is spreading that Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz will make several major announcements at his scheduled luncheon speech at the National Press Club today. Among those announcements should be a statement that the DOE has reached final agreements with…

President Obama: We have emission free fuels available NOW.

ByRod Adams

…/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/28/coal-is-making-a-comeback-in-2013/ ) AP Interview: Moniz sees coal’s ‘significant role’ Moniz said he was sympathetic to that point of view, saying a key part of the president’s strategy is to push technical innovations such as carbon storage. “We have an aggressive technology department program that will lower the cost of doing that,” he said. He cited a study by the U.S. Geological Survey showing that the United States ha…

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