Atomic Advocacy

  • Effective government involvement essential for many innovations

    The Breakthrough Institute has published a thought-provoking piece titled Reinventing Libertarianism: Jim Manzi and the New Conservative Case for Innovation It is highly recommended reading. Here is a comment that I left on the piece, focusing on my particular interest area of clean nuclear energy development. Interesting observations. I agree with just about everything other…

  • Nuclear energy – Clean air energy made in America

    This is terrific. Now it needs to be played as frequently as possible in as many venues as possible. My dream would be seeing it several times during the Final Four this weekend, but something tells me that is a true fantasy. Way to go, NEI. A few more ads like this one and I…

  • Vogtle Construction Update Video

    This video provides an encouraging view of the positive impact that the Vogtle expansion project is having on the local community. It’s 4,000 – 5,000 construction jobs is just one part of the economic impact; that $23 million dollar property tax check shown during the video is another part that apparently brings smiles to the…

  • Future of energy must include nuclear

    On Monday, Feb 24, the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) unveiled its Future of Energy advertising campaign with a press conference at the National Press Club. The campaign will stress four major aspects of nuclear energy that are not as well understood as they should be. It will talk about the importance of nuclear energy in…

  • Open letter to antinuclear groups claiming to be “environmental”

    Dr. Alexander Cannara is an environmental activist who has been writing letters to antinuclear groups. He gave me permission to republish one of his missives here. The views expressed are his, but they deserve to reach a larger audience. By Dr. Alexander Cannara Date: 19 Sept. 2013 Subject: An open letter to groups I’ll no…

  • Plant Vogtle expansion is big news

    It’s time to help people outside of Georgia and South Carolina understand exactly what kind of infrastructure development they are missing.

  • VC Summer makes impressive progress during 2013

    SCANA has produced a terrific short video that provides an update on the progress they and their suppliers have made in building VC Summer units 2 and 3 during 2013. It’s hard not to be encouraged and impressed by the people, the machinery and the equipment being assembled into two powerful new clean energy sources….

  • Another blogger for nuclear energy – Atoms for California

    There is a new web site / blog with a very interesting mission – changing the conversation about nuclear energy in California. Atoms for California is an attractive site run by a person with a unique perspective about the use of nuclear energy in California. His father has worked as a nuclear engineer for Southern…

  • No Agenda Show recommends Hiroshima Syndrome for Fukushima info

    One of my favorite pastimes is listening to Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak, who bill themselves as “media assassins”, on the No Agenda Show. On yesterday’s episode, number 580, John and Adam spent about 15 minutes (starting at about 1:44:00) discussing the absurd tales that are propagating around the web regarding USS Ronald Reagan…

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  • Atomic Show #209 – Nuclear energy conference reports

    The month of November is chock full of nuclear energy related conferences. I was fortunate enough to attend four informative and professionally engaging events. Unfortunately that left little time for gathering friends together to produce a new Atomic Show podcast. This is a downpayment on remedying that situation; during the show preps I realized it…