New Energy and Fuel has published a post titled Another New Small Fission Reactor Joins the Group. It is a perceptive post whose author uses a well proven technique to attract my attention. I recommend reading the piece and the comment thread.
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On August 5, 2009 Time Magazine’s online arm published a story Areva’s Field of Dreams that begins with the following lede: This should be Areva’s time in the sun. As governments search for clean, renewable energy sources and consumers worry about volatile oil prices, nuclear power is hot again.(Emphasis added) I am certain that the…
The Conservative Voice has posted an article by James Finch of TradeTech titled Is $50/Pound Uranium Sustainable? dated 7 September 2006. If you are interested in the factors that influence uranium prices and the profitability of the uranium mining industry, I highly recommend that you read the article, perhaps a couple of times. According to…
On Friday, December 5, 2008, Eskom, the giant South African utility, announced its decision to halt the bidding on a previously announced, 2 or 3 unit nuclear power station. The remaining bidders in the project were Toshiba’s Westinghouse division with a proposal for a 3-unit AP-1000 based station and Areva with a 2-unit EPR based…
Though there are many benefits of nuclear energy and many reasons to justify the claim that it is superior to fossil fuel combustion, one particular aspect of the technology is being given credit by many journalists for its recent rise in popularity – it does not produce any carbon dioxide during plant operation. It also…
In my day job, I often get frustrated by people that avoid doing math. My particular area of interest there is network and server capacity questions – there are senior people that do not understand that putting something on a server somewhere does not make it instantly available to an organization with more than 600,000…
The Energy Bulletin has published a post titled “Energy resources and our future” – remarks by Admiral Hyman Rickover delivered in 1957. The talk was for delivery at a banquet of the Annual Scientific Assembly of the Minnesota State Medical Association St. Paul, Minnesota. According to Energy Bulletin contributor Rick Lakin, it was pulled from…
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