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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There is an October 7, 2007 article posted on Boston.com titled As Maine goes … Former Maine nuclear expert comes to Vt. that describes the recent change in venue for Uldis Vanags, a “nuclear expert” who does not seem to be much of a friend to the technology. In August, Mr. Vanags took a position…
On Saturday, November 21, 2009, at about 4:00 pm installed radiation monitors inside the containment building at Three Mile Island Unit One showed higher than normal readings. The normal actions for such indications were taken. People in the area were directed to leave the building while the source of the radioactivity was located. Once they…
On Sunday, February 21, I gathered a group of well experienced nuclear professionals to talk about the impact of President Obama’s February 16, 2010 speech announcing loan guarantees for Southern Company to build two additional units at its Vogtle Nuclear Station. Margaret Harding, Kelly Taylor, John Wheeler from This Week in Nuclear, Dan Yurman from…
This is an important week for the economic future of the United States as representatives and senators and their staffs work to refine companion bills that will establish a stable financing mechanism for the kinds of long term, high quality projects that often have difficulty gaining support in the “get rich quick” Wall Street arena….
Nuclear power is often dismissed as “just another way to boil water” as if that is not an industrially important activity. The problem with people who try to turn that statement into a condemnation is that boiling water is historically the most lucrative and important physical process that enables modern human society. It was, in…
During day three of the ANS Winter Meeting, I chose to focus my efforts to learn about advances and efforts underway in the areas of training and education. That area seems very important to me – as the Second Atomic Age begins it will be very important to work diligently to train operators, technicians, engineers,…
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