Continuing discussion about "Nuclear Power for Everyone"
A couple of days ago, I mentioned an article on ArmsControlWonk.com titled Nuclear Power for Everyone!. The article is generating some interesting comments. It is worth a second visit.
A couple of days ago, I mentioned an article on ArmsControlWonk.com titled Nuclear Power for Everyone!. The article is generating some interesting comments. It is worth a second visit.
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Tim Douek, Principal, Utilis Energy has published a well researched and useful article on Energy Pulse titled Natural Gas Supply, Demand and Pricing. I highly recommend reading it if you are interested in some of the details that drive the complex natural gas market. The article is especially strong when it talks about the nature…
On October 14, 2008, I watched CNBC’s premier of “The Nuclear Option”, a 35-40 minute video documentary about using nuclear fission as a power source. The show was squeezed into a 60 minute television time slot shared by many minutes worth of commercials, but that is par for the course and part of the cost…
Frank Zarb was the pragmatic energy advisor to President Ford during the period between the Arab Oil embargo and the Iranian hostage crisis. It was a period when plenty of people were thinking hard about how to reduce America’s vulnerability to petroleum supply disruptions caused by uncontrollable events in unstable areas of the world. On…
I once earned the nickname of “Fuels” while participating in a series of Naval War College seminar courses titled National Security Decision Making, Strategy and War, and Joint Maritime Operations. Each course in the series was taught in three-four hour blocks one night per week and lasted for two full academic semesters. Anyone who has…
Jack Spencer at the Heritage Foundation is one of the more thoughtful analysts that I know when it comes to nuclear power’s place in the world’s energy mix. He recently wrote a must read piece titled Nuclear Power Needed to Minimize Lieberman-Warner’s Economic Impact that dug deep into the numbers and assumptions used in recent…
We have reached the point where a response to the time worn question “What about Three Mile Island and Chernobyl?” can be answered with “They were both problems that happened MORE than 20 years ago.” Of course, there is room for discussion about the events and they should not be dismissed or forgotten, but the…