As a counterpoint to the often repeated claim among anti-nuclear activists that the nuclear industry has not started building any new plants, I want to quote from a MarketWatch.com article reporting on the Shaw Group’s most recent earnings report: J.M. Bernhard Jr., chairman, president and chief executive officer of Shaw, said, … “We enter fiscal…
While continuing to participate in the discussion associated with Lester Brown’s guest post at Grist titled Waste of Energy: The Flawed Economics of Nuclear Power I asked for the contributors to suggest real world examples of places that currently depend on the “soft energy” technologies that have been touted by Amory Lovins and friends for…
I just read Lester Brown’s guest post at Grist titled Waste of Energy: The Flawed Economics of Nuclear Power. Considering the fact that one of Lester’s primary sources is Amory Lovins’s “The Nuclear Illusion” (4.2 MB PDF), I was not at all surprised to recognize some substantial holes in Lester’s logic and data. David Bradish…
I just watched a half hour long message that matched my political desires for leadership with one glaring exception. In a long list of energy programs that included wind, solar, natural gas, clean coal and automotive fuel standards, not one word was said about the important contribution that can be made by nuclear power. That…
The Reason Foundation recently hosted a moderated discussion between William Tucker, author of Terrestrial Energy: How Nuclear Power Will Lead the Green Revolution and End America’s Long Energy Odyssey, and Jerry Taylor, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. In addition to the initial essays, Reason’s Out of Control blog hosted a continuing exchange titled…
I just have to get this off of my chest. There is a meme that is going around – particularly in the conservative press and from the lips of wealthy people being interviewed – that there are a large portion of workers in America who do not pay taxes on their income. The example of…
Dan Yurman of Idaho Samizdat and Rod Adams of Atomic Insights chat about nuclear power developments from the third week of October 2008. Dan Yurman, who produces the excellent blog titled Idaho Samizdat visited the Atomic Show for a discussion about the exciting world of nuclear power developments. We talked for well over an hour…
Luke Weston, over at Physical Insights, published a post reminded me that I have not yet welcomed Finrod, a frequent contributor to discussions on Atomic Insights, as another blogger for nuclear energy. That designation is the nuclear bloggers’s way of continuing the tradition started by our old friend, Eric McErlain. Check out the thoughtful commentary…
Yesterday I pointed to some major news outlet articles about the newly announced joint venture between Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding and Areva. The JV will build large nuclear plant components in a location adjacent to the shipyard. I was not surprised to find follow-up article in a local new source from Hampton Roads, Virginia that provides…
My Google Alert summary on “new nuclear power plants” this morning is chock full of articles from major news publications like the Wall Street Journal, CNNMoney.com, Forbes, International Herald Tribune, and the New York Times. All of them are pointing to signs that the sleeping giant – the heavy manufacturing industry that will be involved…
It is encouraging to find that some members of the investment oriented press are beginning to “get it” with regard to the opportunity provided by nuclear power. They are also beginning to understand that the old anti-nuke mantra of “we do not know what to do with the waste” is being overcome by reality. There…
The Wall Street Journal’s Environmental Capital blog has an October 17, 2008 post titled Coal Storage: Clean Coal’s Next Big Hurdle?. It attempts to put the challenge of storing CO2 from coal fired power plants into the same bin as the challenge of storing used nuclear fuel. It gives a completely inaccurate picture of the…