While searching for more information about Hyperion Power Generation – trying to keep abreast of developments at a potential competitor – I ran across Energy Fallout. It is a relatively new blog with a nice look but few posts. However, two of the posts are about nuclear power, so it is worth watching and perhaps supporting with an encouraging comment or two.
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Sometimes I forget just how many people have recognized that there is a potential market for smaller nuclear power plants. A friend of mine sent me a link recently to an excellent summary of the publicly available information about a myriad of projects from more than a dozen different countries. You can find the article…
Yesterday I mentioned the high cost of the competitors for atomic energy in America. The fact that energy is far more expensive now than it was just two or three years ago is not really news – radio, television and newspaper articles that talk about gasoline prices are published with great regularity. Gasoline prices are…
On Friday, March 5, 2010, NPR’s Science Friday with Ira Flatow focused on new nuclear technologies. The guest list included, John (Grizz) Deal, CEO of Hyperion Power Generation, Scott Burnell, public affairs officer of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Richard Lester, professor and Department Head of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT and Lester Brown,…
On September 13, 2009 current German Chancellor Angela Merkel debated with her Social Democratic Party challenger (and current coalition partner) Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Though most of the debate indicated broad areas of relative agreement on issues and some amount of pride from both on the country’s accomplishments in many areas, they differed on the issue of…
The RightDemocrat blog describes itself in the following manner: Right Democrat is the voice of Democrats who believe in economic populism and social traditionalism. This site is dedicated to revitalizing the mainstream populist wing of our party. For too long, both parties have ignored the concerns of working and middle class Americans. The blog’s author…
In a comment related to my previous post titled Why is “waste” such a large topic WRT nuclear energy a reader mentioned that there are some clean up issues related to uranium mining. I will post some information about that particular topic sometime in the future, but I just happened to be browsing over on…