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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On July 18, 2005, President Bush met with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the White House. The leaders announced several new areas of cooperation including commercial nuclear power. This is the first time since 1978 that the United States government has allowed nuclear technology sharing with India, the world’s most populous democracy. The chill…
On Friday, November 13, 2009, President Obama paid a brief visit to Tokyo, Japan. As part of his visit, he gave a speech in which he affirmed America’s commitment to the basic bargains of the nuclear non proliferation treaty. All nations have a right to peaceful use of nuclear energy Nations with nuclear weapons have…
On August 12, 2008, Hyperion Power Generation issued a press release announcing the receipt of a letter of intent (LOI) from TES Group, an investment company that is developing energy projects in Central Eastern Europe. (Update posted August 12, 2008 – I found a web site for a TES Group that seems to match up…
As I have mentioned several times here on Atomic Insights, I hold a special place in my heart for people who respond and rebuild electrical power systems after a damaging storm. When I was growing up, I clearly remember my Dad’s “storm training” days. Dad was a supervising engineer for Florida Power and Light and…
There is a good discussion on the Scientific American blog – SciAm Observations – titled The Nuclear Option. As you might expect, I had to put in my two bucks worth and ended up writing more than I intended. Here is the comment that I added to the discussion, just in case you do not…
Here is another excellent product that reinforces my belief that we can learn something from our past. When you watch the first few minutes of this video please think for several moments about some of the commentary that you might have heard recently about the New Deal. According to some pundits, the New Deal did…