Large-scale tests and experience with nuclear accidents demonstrate that even severe accidents expose the public to only low doses of radiation, and a century of research has demonstrated that such exposures are beneficial to health. A scientific basis for this phenomenon now exists. PRAs are valuable tools for improving plant designs, but if nuclear power…
Reprinted with permission of the author. Originally printed in the Colorado Springs Gazette. By Charles Rombough, President CTR Technical Services, Inc. The president’s energy plan has called for an expanded use of nuclear power to meet our energy needs. It is refreshing that someone in authority is starting to recognize nuclear energy’s enormous benefits. The…
Reprinted with permission of the author by Richard Rhodes, author of Making of the Atomic Bomb and Nuclear Renewal (Prepared for delivery at the Opening Session of the 34th Japan Atomic Industrial Forum Annual Conference, Aomori City, Japan, 25 April 2001) Conferences such as this are appropriate occasions to remind ourselves of the deep connections…
Reprinted with permission of the author By Tom McClintock The newspaper’s front page contained one of those jigsaws of incongruity that one comes to expect these days in California. One article reported that the California Independent System Operator had just declared the latest in a long series of Stage Two electricity shortages, while another reported…
Guest Letters By Tom McClintock Reprinted with permission of the author Sacramento, where bad ideas never die. Sacramento is once again host to a variety of plans for the government takeover of California’s power system. The private sector, it is said, has done such a terrible job of providing electricity that government must now step in to…
Reprinted with permission of the author Guest Letters By Tom McClintock In two devastating acts the state government has jumped into the business of buying and selling electricity. As one power executive said, “I sure hope you guys know what you’re doing. It takes just a small misjudgment to lose an awful lot of money.”…
The City of Thousand Oaks was a brand-new suburb of Los Angeles in 1965, with fresh, modern tract homes springing up everywhere. As a 9-year-old transplant from stogy New York, I coveted my neighbor’s house, the newest and the most modern on the block. It displayed an emblem near the front door proclaiming that the…
Reprinted with permission of the author by Dr. Jerry Cuttler, Cuttler and Associates A symposium on this subject was held in Washington, November 15, near the ANS/ENS Winter Meeting. It was sponsored by Radiation, Science and Health (RSH), an international non-profit organization, and the Center for Nuclear Technology and Society at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI),…
As a scientist whose career includes the management of a plutonium laboratory, I am keenly aware of the many attributes of plutonium. Over the years I have also learned that advice from nuclear critics about plutonium is consistently unreliable. The critics are again offering unreliable information to the Secretary of Energy about the disposition of…
In a press release carefully coordinated with mass internet mailings to all the old anti-technology political action groups, Nader’s well-funded Critical Mass organization tries to create the impression of “a growing coalition of national, international and grassroots groups” joined by “many scientists, experts and the public.” But there is nothing spontaneous or grass-rootsy about this…
Theodore Rockwell is the author of The Rickover Effect: How One Man Made a Difference. He was one of Rickover’s key team members in the early days of the Navy nuclear power program. This letter is published with his permission. The following letter was written by Mr. Rockwell to the Washington Post. It was not…