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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Here is a story that I have difficulty telling better than the original source. Today’s article in Bloomberg.com titled Oil Surges Above $76 as BP Shuts Alaska Field, Largest in U.S. is a litany of the current threats to the US oil supply. It should be a cause of grave concern for all of us…
In recent weeks, there has been an expanding discussion of the concept of nuclear fuel recycling in the state of South Carolina. I have been following it rather closely for a number of reasons. I have a soft spot in my heart for South Carolina; I spent five and a half very good years living…
Peter Beattie and his friends in Queensland Australia have succeeded in their mission of protecting the coal and gas industry in Queensland from having to compete with nuclear power. They did it the old fashioned way – they made it illegal to build or operate nuclear facilities in their state. According to a May 2,…
After pointing to the clear thinking on the natural progression of energy technology provided on Chicago Boyz, I have continued to participate in an interesting conversation thread tied to Shannon Love’s post titled Fantasy Energy. Shannon’s position is that the only real opposition to nuclear power developments has been the technology fearing leftists who vocally…
Phosphate deposits often contain substantial quantities of uranium with concentrations ranging from a few parts per million to as much as 600 ppm. The spoils left over from phosphate mining for fertilizer can contain even higher concentrations that are in a form suitable for chemical recovery of the uranium. This recovery process used to be…
Kennedy Maize published a Power Magazine blog post titled Curmudgeon’s View: Waste, DOE, and New Reactors that provided a view of high temperature gas reactors that conflicted with mine. (Ken Maize happens to share my view about Yucca Mountain and the efficacy of simply storing used fuel in safe containers on reactor sites, so I…
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