Lefteri Tsoukalas, the head of Purdue University’s School of Nuclear Engineering wrote a guest column for the Lafayette Journal and Courier about ABC’s October 13, 2005 “Prime Time” investigation of university research reactors. His well written column is well worth a visit for “the rest of the story.”
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I am haunted this early morning (0230) by a phrase seen on a blog comment yesterday. Joe Shuster, author of “Beyond Fossil Fools”, was once asked WHO he worked for (implying that he was a paid mouthpiece for some evil concern). His reply was simple, true and spot-on! He replied, “For my grandchildren.” (You can…
Robert Rapier, a Dutch renewable energy advocate who blogs on The Energy Collective made a comment on a post titled Nuclear Power in Tiny Package Versus Nuclear is Huge that was cross posted from Atomic Insights (with permission) to that site. Robert suggested that I take part in a discussion on Salon.com associated with an…
New Zealand, a small nation that has an established policy of “No Nukes”, is also the home of a number of rational, articulate people who are having a discussion about whether or not they should reconsider their country’s longstanding position. You can find one place where that discussion is happening by visiting a New Zealand…
The New York Times has a complete, uncut version of the presidential debate, including even the introductory monologue by Jim Lehrer to the live audience telling them how to behave during the debate. I listened carefully to the whole thing – after all, the selection of a Commander in Chief is important to serving members…
The “No Nukes” crowd continues to spread their misinformation. On Tuesday, 23 October, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt and Graham Nash traveled to Washington, D.C. to deliver a petition to Congress. Their demand is the removal of language in the 2007 energy bill that would provide funds to back up loan guarantees for energy producing projects…
Peter Behr has written a thoughtful piece about the somewhat confusing – to outsiders – legislative battle royale over climate change/energy legislation that is working its way through the US Senate after squeaking through the US House of Representatives. You can find the report on the New York Times web site in the Energy and…
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