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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One of the challenges that faces the wind industry is that the most economical turbines from the point of view of cost per kilowatt hour generated are massive structures that are 80-120 meters tall, have blades with a radius of up to 90 meters and cost upwards of $3 million per unit. Those are not…
Ronald Cooke, author of Oil, Jihad and Destiny has published an article on Energy Pulse titled The 2006 Economic Forecast: Oil Remains a Wildcard that should be required reading for government policy making officials. If you are involved in any government economics policy or if you are a strategic planner for a business, or if…
At least two large organizations that claim to be dedicated to a mission of reducing greenhouse gas emissions have demonstrated that they are still in the denial mode when it comes to the use of atomic fission as one of several ways to attack the problem. You can find story by Brita Belli about Greenpeace’s…
Under the headline Anger over Valli accolade on the Mail and Guardian – out of South Africa – web site, I found an article about the head of a major environmental group named the World Conservation Union (IUCN) who is also a strong backer of the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR). Valli Moosa, chairperson of…
My Google News Alert that searches the world of publications for me every day for the words “new nuclear power plants” brought me a rather interesting link yesterday afternoon. The article, titled A Good Day for Nuke Power, was published on September 28, 2007 on the blog for The Texas Observer. The author, Forrest Wilder,…
Nuclear Engineering International published a story on 2 November 2005 about Progress Energy’s announced plans to apply for two new nuclear power stations. Each station would include two reactors. Progress Energy has not announced its choice of reactor designs, but has indicated that it will limit its choice to one of the three evolutionary designs…
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