As part of its Nuclear Option Special Section, MarketWatch included a video interview with Aude Lagorce asking Ben Ayliffe of Greenpeace for his opinion about whether or not nuclear energy is “green”. Not surprisingly, Ayliffe strongly disagreed with the characterization of nuclear energy as “green”; his organization has been professionally engaged in opposing nuclear energy…
The above embedded video comes from a Canadian show called The Agenda with Steve Paikin on Friday, May 21, 2010. For this episode, Steve interviewed Trevor Findlay, a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. Mr. Findlay was the lead for the production of a new report titled The Future of Nuclear Energy…
When the business publications start paying attention to nuclear energy, it shows how close we are getting to a true recovery of the large and growing enterprise that was the source of so much promise when I was in high school and making career decisions. Perhaps that is one reason why the professional anti-nuclear crowd…
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy I came across the above video on a post at The Energy Collective titled A Month after the Oil Disaster, We Need Obama to Lead. As I watched it, I could not help but nod in agreement with some of the points while…
For most of the past thirty years, there has been little incentive to develop nuclear energy systems that release more than a tiny portion of the potential energy found in uranium. The same lack of market incentive has nearly completely kept thorium out of the energy supply market. The perception was that we were doing…
There is an interesting discussion taking place on ScienceBlogs.com on a post titled The myopia of energy production: “Nothing will go wrong”. The post is quite short, consisting mainly of a cartoon that plays on the world’s intense concern about the continuing uncontrolled gusher deep in the Gulf of Mexico to raise safety questions about…
If you happen to be near Stanford University this afternoon – May 18, 2010 – and have some free time between 4:15 and 5:15, visit building 420, room 40 to hear the Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission give a talk titled Nuclear Regulation In An Era of Growth And Change. Here is a summary…
It is consistently frustrating to engage in rational discussion with people who cannot see the inconsistencies in their own positions. People who express great worry about climate change and then dismiss nuclear energy as unnecessary indicate either an amazing ability for self-delusion or an inability to perform basic arithmetic. People with either affliction should never…
On Monday, May 17, 2010, Bloomberg Businessweek published an article by Jeremy van Loon and Alex Morales titled Fridge-Sized Nuclear Reactors to Tap $135 Billion Power Market. (Update: The article headline has been changed to now read Miniature Nuclear Plants Seek Approval to Work in U.S (Update1); the link still works.) The article focuses on…
There is a detectable effort by people who are opposed to the development of nuclear energy to try to link environmental concerns related to the Deepwater Horizon off-shore oil well explosion and continued large scale Gulf of Mexico pollution with the effects of well publicized nuclear energy related accidents and incidents like Three Mile Island…
This article originally appeared in issue number 358 of Fuel Cycle Week dated January 6, 2010. It is reprinted here with permission. By Rod Adams, Special to Fuel Cycle Week To Americans the trade name for the China Ocean Shipping Co. sounds like the big-box competitor to Sam’s Club. But COSCO may soon become a…
Power Magazine has published an important, information rich article titled U. S. Spent Nuclear Fuel Policy: Road to Nowhere that provides the best available summary of the numerous dead-end paths that have been attempted in a supposed effort to provide a permanent storage location for used nuclear fuel. The article’s authors, James M. Hylko and…