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…r led me to go back and find the above video documenting the nature of the cooperative effort at Vogtle and the example that it sets for many other projects that are waiting in the wings for additional loan guarantees to be granted. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an organization that has never been known as a free market proponent or a libertarian think tank, sent Dr. Tom Cochran to the subcommittee meeting with a presentation full…

…ral gas pipeline deal to enble it to buy gas from Iran. That deal requires cooperation with Pakistan, its neighbor and longtime enemy. Here are some articles that have been published over the years about that deal: Not a pipedream: back to Iran gas pipeline option R K Pachauri, The Times of India, 17 August 2000 Analysis: Iran-Pakistan-India Gas Pipeline Imperiled India, Pakistan Begin Talks on Gas Pipeline from Iran The country has been working o…

…Electricity Versus Nuclear Electricity or Positive Lessons Extracted From Cooper’s Paper on French Nuclear Experience) Here is a quote from the AEHI press release: Most importantly, the price of nuclear plants is far lower than critics like Cooper estimate. “My company is on track to build not one, but two, large plants in Idaho for $9 – $10 billion,” Gillispie says. Reasons for the lower price tag include competition as new suppliers enter the m…

…onomies of scale. If given the opportunity to have a conversation with Mr. Cooper, I would ask him if his opinions would change if project sizes were reduced, if manufactured plants entered the market as an option, and if he would be willing to put some numbers on his assertion that customers have only been able to justify their decision to purchase nuclear power plants by using “really stiff price” on carbon. I would challenge his assertion that…

…nce. The three self-titled “experts” on the nuclear industry included Mark Cooper, author of “The Economics of Nuclear Reactors: Renaissance or Relapse?” (2009); Stephen Thomas, (a guy who has worked for several years to convince South Africans to stop developing the PBMR); and Dr. Arjun Makhijani, author of Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy (2007). These professional anti-nuclear activists are entitled to their opinio…