In the wake of the EU energy report, Angela Merkel has reaffirmed that her government will stand by the deal that they made with their coalition partners when she was elected. Her party will not back out of the agreement to begin shutting down nuclear power plants. However, she apparently is working hard to convince…
A couple of days ago, I posted some musings about the amount of uranium available on the earth. One of the Atomic Insights blog readers responded with a link to an interesting paper titled “How much Uranium is in the Earth? Predictions for geo-neutrinos at KamLAND”. Okay, I will admit that the paper is a…
The Al Gore presentation titled “An Inconvenient Truth” has had a run in the theaters and is selling like hot cakes on DVD. Live versions are being presented at college campuses and at town hall meetings around the globe by volunteers that believe strongly in the message and the need for change. There are a…
Topics on the show range all the way from rural electricity to atomic airplanes. The desire for electricity and the services that it provides is growing throughout the world. In many places the main source of that power is burning diesel fuel in small generators. Much of the conversation was spurred by an article in…
This is a thought piece, not a detailed statistical assessment. I have about 20 minutes to jot down a few ideas that I want to share widely to encourage conversation and perhaps later some additional study. The idea that uranium supplies are limited to a few decades at most is being widely repeated; often by…
Shane and I were unable to get together for a show last week, but stay tuned. We will be back this week with Show #44.
The Current Argus.com web site – billed as “Your online information oasis for the Pecos Valley” published a story titled Schedule set for GNEP public scoping meetings. These public scoping meetings will occur in the 11 geographic areas that are currently conducting studies to determine if they are viable sites for one or both of…
The RightDemocrat blog describes itself in the following manner: Right Democrat is the voice of Democrats who believe in economic populism and social traditionalism. This site is dedicated to revitalizing the mainstream populist wing of our party. For too long, both parties have ignored the concerns of working and middle class Americans. The blog’s author…
According to an article in MaineToday.com titled Wiscasset scouted for power plant, there are some power plant developers that are interested in building a coal-fired power plant in Wiscasset, Maine, on the site where the Maine Yankee nuclear power plant (now completely decommissioned) used to be. The site has a number of advantages for a…
Mr. Gene Karpinski is the President of the League of Conservation Voters, based in Washington, DC. He is excited about the prospects for changes in governmental attitudes toward environmental issues that have arisen from the recent congressional elections. He was interviewed by Bruce Gellerman of Living on Earth on January 5, 2007. Here is the…
TodayOnline.com, a web version of a compact daily newspaper published in Singapore, posted a story on 6 January 2007 titled The atom calls to KL, Jakarta that provides some information about the atomic power plant plans for Kuala Lumpur, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand, all of which are located in southeast Asia and…
I have been absent from this blog for nearly a week; I hope you have missed me. It has been a busy week – I made a quick trip to a disappointing bowl game in Charlotte, NC where my alma mater almost broke Boston College’s bowl game winning streak. It was a sad moment when…