On the advice of a friend, I just visited the New York Times web site to read a story from November 16, 2010 titled When Uranium Outshines Gold. Since I understand how quickly web advertising can change, I thought I would capture the view that I saw when I read the article. It is a…
This clip might seem like a bit of a detour from the normal topics on Atomic Insights, but there is a relationship. A major reason why nuclear energy has not grown more rapidly here in the US is that too many people have passively accepted the fear-promoting efforts of people with hidden agendas rather than…
I just read another antinuclear rant published by Harvey Wasserman titled America’s Eggshell Nukes. It is not an opinion piece, but a series of lies that uses inflammatory language to cause unwarranted fear of an important energy source. The headline itself is an obvious lie to anyone who has ever seen the details of a…
The Nuclear Energy Institute, the American Nuclear Society and the North American Young Generation in Nuclear have been investing time and money into focused workforce development programs for several years. The people leading the effort are taking the action to ensure that there are educated and trained people who are ready to meet the challenge…
This will be just a quick post to log a thought that I just had on the web, where I can find it later. (By the way, that was one of the original purposes of a web log, aka a “blog”.) There are many reasons to doubt the credibility of people who have made a…
Immediately after the November elections in the United States, Dr. Helen Caldicott, a well-known antinuclear activist from Australia, offered commentary for publication by the Huffington Post titled simply The Election. A part of her message was another round of fire in of what I believe will be a lengthy campaign leading to a loud crescendo…
During my stint as a Washington DC bureaucrat, I noticed how certain phrases worked their way into the daily language. Most people were probably not even aware of how quickly they would adopt the popular phrases, but I have always been a bit fascinated with language and how it develops. I tried to take note…
Twice during the past week, I have run into antinuclear rants that point to Admiral Rickover’s final testimony to Congress in January 1982 as evidence to support an assertion that nuclear energy should be avoided. Admiral Rickover was one of the pioneers in the field of capturing nuclear fission energy for beneficial use; he is…
The above footage was taken during the annual protest carnival that happens during the first weekend in November when Germany accepts a shipment of nuclear waste back from the recycling plants in France. The waste is in the form of stable glass logs that will be stored in a stable salt formation near Gorleben, Germany….
Greenpeace recently issued a press release warning about a potential hazard associated with putting nuclear waste containers in a salt formation at Gorleben. The author of the press release and the gullible reporters who faithfully reported the concern without any questions or fact checking neglected a simple physical fact – there is a minimum temperature…
It has taken me a couple of days to get around to finish watching the talk that Dr. John Holdren, Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, gave to MIT students as the speaker for the 2010 David J. Rose Lectureship in Nuclear Technology. Dr. Holdren gave his talk, titled The Energy /…
Greenpeace has issued a press release claiming that the nuclear waste disposal site at Gorleben is a “powder keg” full of natural gas that could be ignited by nuclear waste storage containers whose surfaces could reach as high as 200 degrees Fahrenheit. The UPI has picked up the press release and published a story titled…