Another view of the Westinghouse sale to China

ByRod Adams

I ran across another commentary on the sale of Westinghouse AP-1000 reactors to China at humanevents.com in the form of an article by Timothy P. Carney titled Administration Poised to Subsidize China’s Nuclear Industry. (Amusingly enough, the banner for Human Events.com includes a subtitle “Leading the conservative movement since 1944”. I know that includes the print version, but it is funny to think of a “dot com” as something that has been around for more than 60 years.)

As regular readers of Atomic Insights know, I do not consider myself a Conservative and almost reflexively decided not to bother reading the article once I noticed the source and the advertisements on the site. (The first time I visited, the banner ad was for Ann Coulter’s Godless: The Church of Liberalism. That is someone that I almost always ignore.) However, the article is worth reading and thinking about if just to obtain a view from a different perspective.

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Rod Adams is Managing Partner of Nucleation Capital, a venture fund that invests in advanced nuclear, which provides affordable access to this clean energy sector to pronuclear and impact investors. Rod, a former submarine Engineer Officer and founder of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc., which was one of the earliest advanced nuclear ventures, is an atomic energy expert with small nuclear plant operating and design experience. He has engaged in technical, strategic, political, historic and financial analysis of the nuclear industry, its technology, regulation, and policies for several decades through Atomic Insights, both as its primary blogger and as host of The Atomic Show Podcast. Please click here to subscribe to the Atomic Show RSS feed. To join Rod's pronuclear network and receive his occasional newsletter, click here.

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