Alex Matthiessen, President of Riverkeeper, has written a letter to the editor of the New York Times with his suggestions for replacing the 2045 Megawatts of emission free electricity produced by the Indian Point nuclear power station. Because letters to the editor sections of commercial newspapers often are not reliably archived an available for future…
If you want to feel revived and excited about the development of clean, reliable atomic energy, it is hard to beat a decision to attend an annual American Nuclear Society student conference. I just got back from the 2010 conference hosted by the University of Michigan chapter; it was an event that made me proud…
Jerry Taylor, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, has taken the time to produce a detailed and well-referenced rebuttal to my post titled Jerry Taylor, a Fellow at the Cato Institute, founded by a Koch, Focuses Libertarian Rhetoric Against Nuclear But Ignores Natural Gas Subsidies. Here is the comment that I posted in response:…
Watch the latest business video at video.foxbusiness.com Jerry Taylor of the Cato Institute, a self proclaimed libertarian think tank, recently visited Fox Business to explain his opposition to nuclear energy. The episode was on the Stossel Show and is called Nuclear Power: Republican Junk Economics?. If you listen really closely, you will hear him using…
Kennedy Maize published a Power Magazine blog post titled Curmudgeon’s View: Waste, DOE, and New Reactors that provided a view of high temperature gas reactors that conflicted with mine. (Ken Maize happens to share my view about Yucca Mountain and the efficacy of simply storing used fuel in safe containers on reactor sites, so I…
It is going to be a short post – I was up way too late last night watching a scrappy little college team take one of the elite programs in all of college basketball all the way to the wire in the National Championship game. Congratulations to both teams for an excellent game. The report…
A couple of my favorite colleagues – Ted Rockwell and Jerry Cuttler – have published an updated version of the Nuclear Energy Facts Report. That report is a concise resource that should be kept close at hand for anyone who wants to break through the complexity of nuclear energy and all associated issues that are…
The Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission has rejected a power purchase agreement negotiated by Deepwater Wind and National Grid. Their justification is that the agreement did not meet the required standard in state law that a power production project be “commercially reasonable”. The agreement, which was for the output of 8 large turbines installed off…
Once again, the forces that are bound and determined to shut down the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant and remove its 620 MW of reliable (90% capacity factor) electricity from the competitive supply of electricity in New England have found another hook. The incredibly detailed analysis that is being conducted of the soil next to…