I was happy to hear President Obama’s positive statement during the State of the Union Address about building new nuclear power plants. I was also encouraged when that statement was seemingly followed up with an expansion of the DOE’s authority to provide loan guarantees for new nuclear energy production facilities. I was even pleased to…
Tom Friedman is an author who can never be accused of being boring. People often love him or hate him. In the below clip he wishes for a “perfect storm” that is big enough to convince people that climate change is real, but small enough so that it does not “end the world.” That is…
Here is an interesting lede from a story in RenewablesBiz.com titled Non-conformity Taxing Developers: Ask any renewable energy project developer what saved the market from total collapse in 2009 and the unanimous answer would be the cash grants program from the U.S. Treasury. That’s the Section 1603 program changes in the Recovery Act in which…
Over the past several days, I have read a series of somewhat troubling and negative articles about the PBMR project in South Africa. There is pressure from the government and discussion about whether or not the large project, which employs about 750 scientists, engineers and technicians, will continue to be funded. There is good reason…
Several weeks ago, I published a copy of an advertisement labeled as a “smoking gun” that was a direct attack on nuclear energy paid for by the Oil Heat Institute of Long Island. Today, one of the people I follow on Twitter shared a link to a blog post featuring an advertisement that might surprise…
President Obama recently participated in a virtual town hall meeting via YouTube, answering questions submitted by viewers. Here is a clip of a question about investing in nuclear energy. We need to help financially inexperienced people, young and old, learn to recognize the important difference between spending and investing. When you invest money into an…
It has been a long running tradition in the small, but growing world of pro-nuclear bloggers to give a shoutout, link and welcome to newly discovered bloggers who are writing about nuclear energy in a positive light. Eric McErlain, who was blogging at NEI Nuclear Notes at the time, introduced this technique and it has…
During the 2010 State of the Union Address, President Obama took the handcuffs off of the nuclear industry revival when he said: But to create more of these clean energy jobs, we need more production, more efficiency, more incentives. And that means building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country….
Scott Peterson, the Vice President of Communications for the Nuclear Energy Institute visited with Clean Skies News to talk about his organization’s reactions to the formation of the blue ribbon commission on used nuclear fuel policy. It is heartening to hear an industry spokesman so clearly stating that the industry has accepted the responsibility for…
During the 2010 State of the Union Address, President Obama took the handcuffs off of the nuclear industry revival when he said: But to create more of these clean energy jobs, we need more production, more efficiency, more incentives. And that means building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country….
Ted Rockwell is a man who literally wrote the book on radiation shielding while he was serving as the Technical Director at Naval Reactors. He was in that position during the period when the Nautilus and the Shippingport reactors were built to use the heat generated by fission to produce useful power. Ted has been…
Every once in a while, I need to produce a post that is not necessarily related to energy or politics. I just finished watching a master presenter describe a device, the Apple iPad, that is now at the top of my list for my next gadget purchase. I love to read, listen to music, create…