Kirk Sorensen is one of the most energetic pro-nuclear activists I have ever met. Not only is he the head nuclear technologist at Teledyne, but he is teaching at the University of Tennessee, obtaining his PhD, and raising some of the brightest young ladies I have ever met. Somehow, he manages to find time every…
I admit to a lack of original thinking. At this time of year, everyone has lists on their mind, so I will add one more. According to Google Analytics, the following posts drew the most visitors during the year. Interestingly enough, several of those posts were not even written in 2010, which provides one more…
As part of my preparations for a final post of 2010, I reviewed my 2010 Google Analytics results. For reasons that I cannot quite understand, a short post I published more than five years ago showed up as third on the hit list. Perhaps I just discovered a catchy title. Here is a updated version…
Michael Eckhart, President of the American Council of Renewable Energy (ACORE), visited with Bill Loveless on Platts Energy Week on December 19, 2010. He was invited to lay out his industry’s proposal to change electric power grid rules to favor power plants that are a hybrid of unreliable, weather dependent energy sources like wind and…
Robert Stone is an independent film maker who is working on a production titled Pandora’s Promise that explores the history and potential future of nuclear energy through a series of interviews with some of the “world’s leading environmentalists, scientists and energy experts, many of whom have undergone a metamorphosis in their thinking about nuclear power”….
Shane Brown, my old friend from the early days of The Atomic Show, send me a link yesterday evening to a comic titled Climate Change. When Shane recommends that I read something, I generally follow his advice. I hope you will as well; this comic is quite good, gently opinionated and thought provoking. Here is…
I had an opportunity to chat with David Hollein, a man who has been campaigning to reopen the Zion Nuclear Power Plant for more than a dozen years. His efforts were the initial inspiration for Nancy Thorner, a lady who is working hard to convince Exelon to operate a nuclear plant in her hometown. David…
About six weeks ago, I wrote about Nancy Thorner’s relatively lonely effort to encourage Exelon, the largest owner/operator of nuclear power facilities in the United States, to operate a nuclear plant in her backyard. Nancy’s effort has a giant advantage over those of several other groups around the country who are trying to attract the…
I clipped this MP3 audio file from a video titled “Colorado Clean Air-Clean Jobs Act Panel” that is available at The Rocky Mountain Energy Epicenter 2010 web site. The speech is one that should fascinate people who recognize that the energy discussion is far deeper and nuanced than many discussions about technological choices. It is…
NPR produced a story yesterday about the fight over electricity fuel market share between natural gas and coal. Interestingly enough, both fuels have been extracted for many years from the same area in Northern Colorado. The NPR story provides some voices of real people that share their views of the effects of the market battle…
I received a depressing press release last evening. Exelon has announced a decision to close Oyster Creek in 2019, 10 years before the expiration of its current operating license. The company has announced that the decision is based on several factors. As the plant ages the cost of maintenance gradually increases; the selling price of…
On December 7, 2010, I attended the New Millennium Nuclear Energy Summit, sponsored by Third Way and the Idaho National Laboratory. The event was held at the Freedom Forum, a part of the Newseum that is located just a few blocks from the Capitol Building in Washington, DC. When I received the press release announcing…