A couple of weeks ago, I was interviewed by Rob McNealy, who runs a very informative podcast called StartUpStoryRadio. You can find the recorded interview at Alternative Energy Sources with Rod Adams of Adams Atomic Engines.
Arthur Scargill, former leaders of the UK’s National Union of Mineworkers, published a commentary on August 8, 2008 on Guardian.co.uk that qualifies as one of the clearest examples of a professional coal advocate trashing nuclear power for economic reasons. Here is Mr. Scargill’s view of nuclear power and his reaction when a long time critic…
George Monbiot, a longtime critic of nuclear power, recently made a statement that was almost a ringing endorsement considering the source. On August 5, 2008, he published an article titled The stakes could not be higher. Everything hinges on stopping coal in The Guardian. Here is a quote from that article: I have now reached…
About a week ago, I posted a link to a discussion about the world’s energy situation hosted by The Economist. One of the scheduled featured debaters was Joe Romm. I assumed that he would provide commentary that strongly discouraged the use of nuclear power – that is his normal position. I was wrong and apologize….
Senator James Webb, a former Marine who holds an engineering degree “that he did not want” from the US Naval Academy, spent two days in Lynchburg VA (Aug 20, 21) getting an education about their nuclear industry and education programs. He toured Areva’s engineering and development center where he got briefed on the availability of…
The Fresno Nuclear Energy Group has made an agreement with the Westlands Water District to study the feasibility of building a dual unit nuclear plant on about 500 idled acres. Westlands has about 100,000 idle acres, much of which was taken out of production due to increasing salt concentrations. Apparently, Fresno Nuclear Energy Group wants…
Nuclear energy news. Atomic conversation with Robert Margolis, Kelly Taylor and Rod Adams Kelly Taylor, Robert Margolis and I got together on August 17, 2008 to discuss the events of the week in nuclear energy. Kelly and Robert had been involved in an interesting discussion with people from itsgettinghotinhere.org regarding the expansion of Dominion Power’s…
I got notified via a Google Alert on “small nuclear power plants” about a post on a blog that I had not previously visited. The post was titled The Environmentalists Nuclear Debate (2) Mark Lynas. The post provided a link to a very interesting article by Mark Lynas in the New Republic titled How nuclear…
I received an email invitation to help The Economist advertise a “two-week long online, Oxford-style debate”. I am happy to oblige, and actually feel kind of honored that Atomic Insights was included in the list of bloggers invited to help such a major magazine capture reader attention. The debate proposition is: “This house believes that…
A good friend sent me a link to Steven Milloy – of JunkScience.com – opinion piece titled Environmentalists Prompt Nuclear Power Wake-Up Call published on August 14, 2008 on FoxNews.com. Here is the lede from that piece What did the nuclear power industry get for playing footsie with the “greens” on global warming? A knife…
There is an interesting editorial debate going on the USA Today web site. The pro-nuclear view, posted on August 14, 2008 and apparently a product of the editorial board for the newspaper includes the following useful comments: It’s not that nothing could go wrong here, but the safety and security risks seem less ominous and…
Nearly a month ago, I mentioned in a blog post that Amy Goodman of Democracy Now had posted an article following her interview of Amory Lovins about nuclear power. During the interview, Lovins casually stated “You know, I’ve worked for major oil companies for about thirty-five years, and they understand how expensive it is to…