I noticed a short article on Page B2 of the June 10, 2008 issue of the Wall Street Journal titled Edison Unit Cancels Suzlon Order. Something tells me that you will not hear Amory Lovins or Joseph Romm mentioning the technical issue discussed in the article. A quick Google search leads me to believe that…
There has been a strong shift in the talk about nuclear power in the European Union, driven by concerns about global climate change, energy prices and increasing dependence on Russian oil and natural gas. Until recently, Germany’s official position has been that it would continue with its plan to shut down all of its operating…
The U. S. arm of Areva has announced a plan to invest $25 million for additional space at its Lynchburg, VA engineering/nuclear services site. The additional space will be needed as the company hires the 500 new employees that it intends to add during the next 3 years. These new employees will be assisting in…
A couple of days ago, I mentioned Jack Spencer’s analysis of the need for nuclear power if there is going to be a real effort to change the amount of CO2 entering the atmosphere. Yesterday, FoxNews published an opinion piece titled Heritage Foundation: Road to Clean Air Runs Through Yucca Mountain that Jack wrote with…
Joseph Romm recently published an article at Salon.com titled Nuclear Bomb that attempted to prove that nuclear fission power plants were too expensive to consider building without massive government subsidies. He has apparently failed to understand or acknowledge what is happening in the electrical power industry and in the energy industry in general. He also…
India is the world’s largest democracy. It is a country that has been growing and developing its economy at an impressive rate. As a former British colony that worked hard to get rid of its colonizers, it is also endowed with fierce pride and an independent streak. I like that in a country – I…
Jack Spencer at the Heritage Foundation is one of the more thoughtful analysts that I know when it comes to nuclear power’s place in the world’s energy mix. He recently wrote a must read piece titled Nuclear Power Needed to Minimize Lieberman-Warner’s Economic Impact that dug deep into the numbers and assumptions used in recent…
Bonne Posma wants to use heat from atomic reactors as part of a process of cleanly converting coal into a liquid hydrocarbon – either diesel fuel or jet fuel depending on the market demands. Bonne Posma is a serial entrepreneur whose latest company is called Liquid Coal, Inc.. He has developed a concept for using…
I read a lot of business publications. Recently I have decided to begin collecting a selection of the advertisements that I believe support my contention that the effective opposition to nuclear power comes not from the vocal anti-nuclear organizations but from the more subtle activities of the non nuclear energy industry competition. Below is an…
I began my nuclear career as a submarine officer in the US Navy, so I have never really understood why a substantial body of people believe that all nuclear power plants have to be steady state behemoths producing at least several hundred megawatts of power. Ever since I got interested in taking some of my…