There have been serval articles about atomic energy published in the past couple of days. These articles are appearing in prominent places in my local newspapers. Here is a sample:
Calvert Residents Content in Nuclear Plant Shadow from the Washington Post on Saturday, August 13, 2005
Power Hungry World Embraces Nuclear Energy from the Washington Times on Monday August 15, 2005 – front page
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In Northwest Alabama there is growing interest in the prospect of new jobs tied to the Second Atomic Age. According to an article titled Nuclear future published on November 6, 2006, there is the potential for 90,000 new jobs associated with building new reactors during the period from 2007-2011. The source of that estimate, according…
Senator Mark Udall (D-CO) has signed on as a co-sponsor for a proposed bill that would, among other things, enable the Department of Energy to increase the amount of research and support that it provides to small and medium sized nuclear power plant development. The reaction in the Colorado press and in the blogosphere to…
Sometimes I forget just how many people have recognized that there is a potential market for smaller nuclear power plants. A friend of mine sent me a link recently to an excellent summary of the publicly available information about a myriad of projects from more than a dozen different countries. You can find the article…
This afternoon I shared an overflowing ballroom at the Fairmont Hotel in Washington, DC with about 300 excited young professionals that are members of the North American Young Generation in Nuclear (NA-YGN). The theme for this year’s conference is “Investing in Our Future With Nuclear”. I felt really old when one of the speakers asked…
On Tuesday 28 June, Rep Bernard Sanders I-VT introduced an amendment to the foreign aid bill that would prevent the Export-Import Bank of the United States from lending $5 Billion to Westinghouse that is intended to finance the sale of nuclear reactors to China. The Sanders amendment to H.R.3057 was passed by a 313-114 vote….
Kate Mackenzie, who writes for the Financial Times excellent blog about energy called FT Energy Source (free registration required), published a reaction to President Obama’s June 15, 2010 Oval Office speech about energy. Her piece was titled Obama’s big oil spill speech: An opportunity only half-seized. She was apparently looking for specific actions that would…
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