Nancy Thorner of Lake Bluff has written a letter to the editor of the Daily Herald to tell them she would rather have a restarted Zion Nuclear Plant in her backyard than accept several proposed wind turbines that would produce just a tiny fraction of the power – if the wind blows from the right direction at the right velocity.
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You learn something new every day. One of my Google Alerts brought me a letter-to-the-editor from David Hollein, who indicated that he was once the “Westinghouse senior engineer assigned for all the Commonwealth Edison Company nuclear reactor sites”. His letter, published on June 15, 2008 by the Daily Herald (Suburban Chicago’s Information Source) and titled…
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy The above video shows some excellent footage of the inside of a nuclear fuel manufacturing plant making assemblies for large, light water reactors. It also includes views of used fuel storage pools and dry cask storage. Critical thinkers who have an established fear…
I am highjacking the Atomic Insights feed and blog site for a brief advertisement. People who visit the site instead of receiving posts via RSS feed might have noticed a series of profile photo changes as I went clean shaven for the first time in 28 years and as I have gradually replaced my mustache…
I received a comment on a recent post letting me know about a new CNBC Original production titled – The Nuclear Option. It will be shown starting October 14, 2008. Check your local schedule for a listing, but the web site says it will be shown at 9 pm Eastern Time in the US. I…
There was a useful article published in the Jun 10, 2007 issue of the St. Pete Times titled Who will staff the nuclear renaissance?. The subtitle of the story should be very encouraging to those hard working young people who have been studying nuclear technology during the past dozen or so years. Nuclear power’s unlikely…
The March 6, 2011 edition of Energy Now focuses on the controversy surrounding hydraulic fracturing. Thalia Assuras interviews Ian Urbina, the lead author of the recent New York Times series titled Drilling Down and also hosts a panel consisting of a state hydrologist, a former state official, a gas industry representative and an environmental group…
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