Continuing discussion about "Nuclear Power for Everyone"
A couple of days ago, I mentioned an article on ArmsControlWonk.com titled Nuclear Power for Everyone!. The article is generating some interesting comments. It is worth a second visit.
A couple of days ago, I mentioned an article on ArmsControlWonk.com titled Nuclear Power for Everyone!. The article is generating some interesting comments. It is worth a second visit.
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On August 29, 2008, I spoke with John Deal, the CEO of Hyperion Power Generation about his company’s plans to build 4,000 small nuclear power plants sized to be able to be transported anywhere in the world on the back of a truck. (Of course, there are places in the world not reachable by truck,…
Back in 1980, politicians in Sweden offered the country’s voters a referendum on nuclear power that offered three options for implementing a gradual phase out of the technology, but no options on the ballot called for maintaining or expanding use. After nearly thirty years in which only two smallish plants at Barseback were shut down,…
Exelon is the largest electricity supplier in the country. It also owns and operates the largest fleet of nuclear power plants, with a total of 17 operational reactors that have an average capacity factor well in excess of 90%. Last week, it reported a 26% increase in its 4th quarter profit figures compared to the…
The Energy Information Agency has recently released a report in response to a Congressional request to put numbers on the subsidies provided to various energy sources. The Wall Street Journal’s Environmental Capital Blog is discussing that report with a post titled At the Trough: A Peak at US Energy Subsidies. The discussion is currently being…
The Clean Skies News Energy Report: Afternoon Edition of August 17, 2009 concluded with a report about a wind electricity production record set on August 6, 2009. The video from that report is posted below. It is clipped from the report, but otherwise unedited. I am sharing it with you under the site’s Creative Commons…
Back on September 25, 2009, I wrote about a three part National Public Radio special about the U. S. domestic natural gas that portrayed the industry as a “mom and pop” enterprise made up of thousands of small companies with little political clout in Washington, DC. I expressed my skepticism about that portrayal at the…