Atomic Advocacy

  • The New Fire project nears completion. Please prove there’s an eager market

    Advanced nuclear reactor development is so vibrant, interesting and important that it has attracted a filmmaking team. The filmmakers, led by David Schumacher and Derek Wiesenhahn, are telling a story about some of the projects that aim to produce new ways to use fission to power society. The projects have been created by dedicated, interesting…

  • Maria Korsnick describes nuclear industry strategy under incoming Trump Administration

    Maria Korsnick, the new President and CEO of the Nuclear Energy Institute, recently talked with Monica Trauzzi, host of E&E News’s OnPoint. Korsnick and Trauzzi discussed the nuclear industry’s near term future and its public information strategy under the coming Donald Trump Administration. A complete transcript of the interview is posted on the E&E News…

  • President Trump: Nuclear energy is the mother lode of untapped potential

    President-elect Trump’s gracious acceptance speech includes a statement that should stimulate creative people who appreciate the capabilities of nuclear energy yet are saddened by the huge gap between the promise and the current reality. “I’ve spent my entire life in business looking at the untapped potential in projects and in people all over the world….

  • Battle Hymn of the Atom

    If you plan to attend future nuclear energy rallies, it might be worthwhile to practice singing Battle Hymn of the Atom. It’s sung to the tune of Battle Hymn of the Republic Update (posted August 16 at 6:45 PM EST) After incorporating the inputs from comments here, this is the current version. Battle Hymn of…

  • New York’s environment progressed one step forward

    The US environment and electrical supply system measurably improved yesterday. That is something worth celebrating. The New York State Department of Public Service (NYSDPS) took a small, but significant step forward yesterday. By a vote of three yeses and one concur, the commissioners decided to implement a clean energy standard that includes zero emission credits…

  • Fighting climate change with best available tools

    Today, the New York State Department of Public Service (NYSDPS) will consider a motion to establish a large-scale renewable program and a clean energy standard that will result in a price floor for wholesale electricity prices from zero or near zero emission power sources. Nuclear advocates from New York, along with supporters from around the…

  • CGNP granted “seat at table” for two CPUC proceedings involving Diablo Canyon

    Californians for Green Nuclear Power (CGNP) has assembled a persistent, dedicated and skilled team of engineers, scientists, retired public servants and interested citizens who are certain that nuclear energy is a valuable economic and environmental resource. They have invested a considerable amount of time learning the details of the technology but they have not ignored…

  • Showing up and speaking up for Diablo Canyon and nuclear energy in California

    The California State Lands Commission meeting on June 28, 2016 included a number of articulate, knowledgable, rational and emotional talks by people who took time to attend the meeting and to deliver their public comments. Some had carefully prepared remarks, others spoke directly from their hearts. Some had a prop or a graph, others relied…

  • Hopeful days for environmental progress in California

    Friday marked a big day for environmental progress and hope for our future as a species. Gulliver (nuclear energy) finally began recognizing that the threads holding him down are breakable. The so-far gentle and polite giant has also begun to recognize that the petty aristocrats who have spent so many years wrapping him up in…

  • Wild storms in Virginia crushed my plans to March for Environmental Hope

    After spending the day scrambling for funds, packing my knapsack, arranging transportation and convincing my wife that I was not “crazy” to believe I should drop everything to head across the country to participate in a four-day march/organizing event with a bunch of rabble-rousing environmentalists, Mother Nature (or God, if you prefer) stepped in to…

  • Should I purchase a last minute plane ticket to San Francisco?

    I had originally intended to be occupied and unable to attend the March for Environmental Hope. Things changed. My schedule has opened up. Should I go to San Francisco tomorrow and join in the March? I’m feeling a strong pull, but it’s not an easy or cheap decision to make. I’ve decided to leave it…