A couple of days ago, Marc Fisher, who operates a blog titled Raw Fisher at the Washington Post, published a commentary titled Mixed greens: How nuclear power splits environmentalists. This post has attracted a significant string of well-reasoned (and a few goofy) comments. I encourage you to visit, read the thread and contribute if you are so inspired.
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Yesterday I posted a clip of John Fees, the CEO of McDermott International, announcing the mPowerTM modular reactor. It was an important announcement, delivered competently by the responsible leader of a major international engineering company. At least one of the comments on that post asked for a bit more “enthusiasm”. Having spent my life around…
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…
In an article written by Eve Samples for the December 19, 2005 edition of the Palm Beach Post titled FPL nuclear plants draw shrugs, Charles Grand is described as an environmentalist and as the head of the Presidents Council of Hutchinson Island. He has apparently spent much of the past year in a successful battle…
About six weeks ago, I wrote about Nancy Thorner’s relatively lonely effort to encourage Exelon, the largest owner/operator of nuclear power facilities in the United States, to operate a nuclear plant in her backyard. Nancy’s effort has a giant advantage over those of several other groups around the country who are trying to attract the…
One of the mantras often repeated by the anti-nuclear community during the nadir of the nuclear industry was that any company announcing a nuclear project would see its stock price hammered on Wall Street. That argument has actually been quite effective at slowing down corporate interest in investing – no leaders like to make big…
The Wall Street Journal has published several letter responses to Bob Metcalfe’s June 24, 2009 opinion piece titled The New Nuclear Revolution: Safe fission power is our future — if regulators allow it. You can find them under the title of It’s Time to Take Another Look at Nuclear Energy. I liked the first two…