Rod Adams and Andrew Feinberg of the blog Capitol Valley discuss motives behind anti-nuclear activism. A couple of weeks ago, Andrew Feinberg of Capitol Valley interviewed one of the new heros of the pro-nuclear world, Dr. Patrick Moore. You can hear the interview and read Andrew’s thoughts at Everything Old is New Again: From “No…
New Zealand, a small nation that has an established policy of “No Nukes”, is also the home of a number of rational, articulate people who are having a discussion about whether or not they should reconsider their country’s longstanding position. You can find one place where that discussion is happening by visiting a New Zealand…
Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association is struggling to obtain approval for its proposed project to build 1400 MWe of new coal fired power in Kansas. (The actions that led to denial of the needed emission permit for that project, a partnership with Sunflower Electric Power Corp., was the subject of Smoking Gun Part 8 –…
It has been a great weekend. I learned something about rugby by watching the Army-Navy rugby match (Navy 19 – Army 17), had a great springtime bike ride and finished up my contributions to the Nuclear Energy “Live” Debate on Green Options. Judging from the quick poll associated with the debate forum, our team did…
During a recent vanity search through Technorati to find out who is linking to Atomic Insights and what they are saying about it, I came across a comment dated March 23, 2008 on Capitol Valley titled (crackpot) Reader Feedback! and realized that I was the “crackpot” in the subject line. Rod Adams, of the Atomic…
I do not know if any of you have been paying attention to the recent television, print and radio advertising campaign called “America’s Power”. In case you have missed them, you can find some of the videos at www.americaspower.org. Though the commercials a attractive and well produced, and they use some factual material – like…
Ted Rockwell, Michael Stuart, Robert Margolis and Rod Adams discuss the Linear, No Threshold radiation dose assumption, the political controversy that it has generated, the costs it imposes and the people who think of the costs as a valued revenue stream. There is an assumption that underlies most of the world’s radiation protection standards called…
As part of my continuing effort to share information about the relationship between energy commodity prices and nuclear power plant operations, I encourage you to read a March 31, 2008 article posted on Tradingmarkets.com titled DJ US GAS: Futures Rise On Supply Concerns, Nuclear Outages. As you can see by the date, I am a…
One of the mantras that some people in the nuclear industry have repeated to themselves so often that it has become a fundamental part of their belief system is that “the media” bears a lot of responsibility for the 30 year hiatus in building new nuclear power plants. That could be the subject for many…