Time is running short before I have to leave for my day job, but I wanted to share a link to an interesting article from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel titled Nuclear power should be generating a major boost in business. Commentary is welcome.
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According to an article in MaineToday.com titled Wiscasset scouted for power plant, there are some power plant developers that are interested in building a coal-fired power plant in Wiscasset, Maine, on the site where the Maine Yankee nuclear power plant (now completely decommissioned) used to be. The site has a number of advantages for a…
I ran accross the following story on Google News a few minutes ago. Apparently there was at least one large explosion followed by a raging fire in the fuel depot of a the Luton airport – 20 miles outside of London. Some reports talk about a series of explosions. Few details are available – a…
CBSNews.com – a company whose lineage includes a period when its corporate name was Westinghouse and its basic nuclear plant design was the basis for approximately 2/3 of the plants built in the United States – has published an opinion piece by Chrisian Parenti titled What To Do With Zombie Nuke Plants. The piece originally…
Dan Yurman of Idaho Samizdat has posted a comment provoking blog entry describing potential job creation effects of an expansion of the DOE nuclear power plant loan guarantee program initially authorized by the Energy Policy Act of 2005. One important point for all decision makers to understand is that the program could and should cost…
One of the important action items from yesterday’s American Nuclear Society plenary sessions was provided by NRC Commissioner Dale Klein. During his talk, he pointed out the need for an increased focus on education and information sharing. He talked about various ways of getting information to the new workers who will be needed to make…
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…
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