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…Reactor Construction: Cost Escalation and Crowding Out Alternatives by Dr. Mark Cooper. During the press conference, Dr. Cooper emphasized that the French model for nuclear energy development was state socialism. Michael Kanellos at Greentech Media also picked up that important word from the press conference as the headline for his post titled Time to End Nuclear Socialism, Says New Study. Here is a quote of Dr. Cooper from his initial remarks dur…

…I wrote yesterday about the press conference announcing the release of Dr. Mark Cooper’s paper titled Policy Challenges of Nuclear Reactor Construction: Cost Escalation and Crowding Out Alternatives. Though I strongly disagree with the conclusions, I believe that the paper is worth reading because it can provide both cautionary information and some indications for ways to improve on past history. Unlike Dr. Cooper, I am unabashedly in favor of the…

…ease that was picked up by MarketWatch.com, Gillispie took aim at the same Mark Cooper generated pronouncements on the cost comparisons between unreliable forms of energy like solar or wind and nuclear that I have attacked here on Atomic Insights. (See, for example, Gullible Reporting by New York Times on the Cost of Solar Electricity Versus Nuclear Electricity or Positive Lessons Extracted From Cooper’s Paper on French Nuclear Experience) Here is…

…nd held a press conference. During the report, I heard two familiar names, Mark Cooper and Steven Thomas. To learn more about the background of the story, which I assumed was based on a Washington, DC press conference, I did a Google News search for “thomas cooper nuclear renaissance”; the search provided a single result. That link was to a site with the interestingly titled International Yacht Vacations and Charters which had faithfully reproduce…

Mark Cooper, of the Vermont Law School’s Institute for Energy and the Environment, apparently subscribes to the Al Gore theory that nuclear power plants come in only one size – extra large. In the above video clip titled The Economics of Nuclear Reactors from CleanSkies.com, dated July 17, 2009, he explains why he does not like the assumption that plant construction costs may come down with increased experience. Though I do not like much of what…