The Christian Science Monitor has published an article by Mark Clayton titled If winter is bitter, brace for a natural-gas crunch. The article details some of the effects that might occur because of hurricane damage to natural gas pipelines and production facilities combined with the trend in the past ten years to focus nearly all new power plant investment on natural gas burning power plants to the exclusion of other fuel alternatives.
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Today is the first official day of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) Winter Meeting for 2009. The title of this year’s meeting is “Nuclear Power: Crafting Energy Solutions”. During the plenary session that is scheduled for this morning at 8:00-11:30 two US Senators (James Webb (D-VA) and Lamar Alexander (R-TN)) are scheduled to provide information…
As I described several weeks ago, the Rapleaf symbol now displayed on the Atomic Insights Blog is a link to a service where you can document your opinion of the service provided by Rod Adams (aka atomicrod). In other words, please click on it and add your comments – I think it is a great…
Sometimes there are discussions in the comments of previous posts that deserve to be elevated to the main pages since I know that not everyone is a fan of trying to follow long threads of conversation. I received a comment on an earlier post from reader Ian who asked: Can you summarize how you think…
On Sunday, 12 February 2006, the San Francisco Chronicle published an article by Stewart M. Powell and Judy Holland titled Nuclear power plans surge ahead: 14 new plants set to go online in 10 states over next 20 years. Though the article discusses topics that really nothing new for readers of Atomic Insights, the article…
Carol Browner, President Obama’s top energy and climate adviser and former Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under the Clinton Administration spoke on CNBC’s Squawk Box about the announcement that Southern Company would receive an $8.3 Billion loan guarantee for units 3 and 4 at its Vogtle power station in Georgia.
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