A few months ago, I had an encouraging discussion with an open minded science writer named John Horgan. John had appeared on a Bloggingheads.tv video with George Johnson and expressed some strong anti-nuclear feelings, especially about the Indian Point nuclear plant near his home in New York. I contacted him via email to offer counter…
I admit it – I distrust very large companies who make billions of dollars in after tax profits every quarter. That is especially true when their leaders are reaching for my wallet and asking me to support their investments with my tax dollars as well as my purchasing dollars. I cannot fully explain how I…
On July 8, 2010, an activist group named NC Warn that is specifically organized to fight reliable nuclear energy and promote unreliable, weather dependent wind and solar energy published a press release announcing to the world that they had commissioned a paper proving that solar generated electricity had become cheaper than electricity from new nuclear…
For the past 17 years, the American Nuclear Society has sponsored a utility working conference for members who engage in the demanding, but rewarding work of operating and supporting the fleet of 104 nuclear power plants that provide approximately 800 billion emission free kilowatt-hours each year to the United States power grid. The conference has…
Ever since the first oil price shocks of the 1970s, it has been fashionable for some energy market observers to sagely recommend conservation and energy efficiency as the cheapest, quickest form of new energy supply. Amory Lovins famously gave this response to energy challenges the name “negawatts”. Conservation and efficiency are attractive notions – people…
A friend sent out a link to a July 30, 2010 blog post on Young Australian Skeptics titled Does nuclear energy have the answers we need?. The post was written by Luke Weston, the man who provided excellent material at Physical Insights before real life intruded and he got busy completing his studies in Physics…
The Washington Nuclear Engineering Student Delegation makes an annual trip to Washington DC. The trip provides students in nuclear engineering programs around the country the opportunity to talk with leaders in DC based organizations important to nuclear technology like the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Department of Energy and the Nuclear Energy Institute. The trip also…
Analytics Graph for the Atomic Insight Blog I just checked my Google Analytics stats for the past month. Interestingly enough, most of the increase in visits is due to a single day and most of the visits on that day went directly to a single post instead of to the blog front page. Guess which…
The Washington Nuclear Engineering Student Delegation makes an annual trip to Washington DC. The trip provides students in nuclear engineering programs around the country the opportunity to talk with leaders in DC based organizations important to nuclear technology like the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Department of Energy and the Nuclear Energy Institute. The trip also provides…