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Nuclear proponent versus free market advocate for natural gas

ByRod Adams

…mpetitive” cost of nuclear energy, when a free market advocate like you or Jerry Taylor refuses to admit or address the massive cost burden imposed by layer upon layer of regulations that have nothing to do with safety, I become very suspicious. Sure, let’s compete on a level playing field – allow nuclear energy to adhere to the same safety standards as its competition. One more thing – what is the longest term gas future available on the market t…

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Identifying antinuclear slants in Richard Martin’s “Superfuel”

ByRod Adams

…t one more fossil fuel promoting wolf in sheep’s clothing – on a part with Jerry Taylor of the Cato Institute. Why in the world would anyone who recognizes that conventional light water reactors have an outstanding safety record and generate massive quantities of emission free power at a reasonable cost decide that shutting down existing nuclear plants is a higher priority that shutting down coal plants – and wants to keep on operating natural gas…

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Why is the Green Schools Alliance censoring discussion about nuclear energy

ByRod Adams

…see my discussions with Jerry Taylor of Cato https://atomicinsights.com/?s=jerry+taylor. Brian Mays So one side supports nuclear power for the wrong reasons … What exactly are the “wrong reasons” again? Rod Adams @Brian Mays The wrong reason to claim support of nuclear is simply a rejection of the “other side”‘s opposition. It is an ephemeral reason and often more in words than in deeds. It is ephemeral because a true left leaning person should…

Low dose radiation doesn’t cause cancer, it helps prevent it
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Low dose radiation doesn’t cause cancer, it helps prevent it

ByRod Adams

…tically irrelevant junk. That’s what epidemiology journals are for. EL Dr. Jerry Cuttler recently published a letter to the editor of the Archives of Toxicology … I’m not sure I understand Cuttler’s claim (or what literature he is citing to support it). Jerry Cuttler appears to have made the same mistake as others, using an assessment from 1958 (some 13 years after the bomb blast) as an end-point, and not a longer time frame and more extensive f…

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Fighting climate change skeptics in the pro nuclear community

ByRod Adams

Discussions about science and technology are often colored by opinion, world views, and political alliances. Though everyone is entitled to their opinion but not their own facts, it is nearly impossible to remove bias, even in a technical discussion, because everyone has a tendency to pick which facts they prefer to introduce into an argument. In the past couple of days, I have been involved in a number of different conversations in which people…

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Putting excitement back into nuclear technology development

ByRod Adams

…lable energy flows from the sun and wind. Here is a statement by Lauriston Taylor made during testimony to the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy in mid 1957: “…there is no tangible evidence that I know of, of anybody working under these limits, the 1947 limits, or the new limits, who have been harmed by the radiation levels they were exposed to. In other words, I know of no causative relationship between damage that might develop in an individual…

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Following the money: who’s funding Stanford’s Natural Gas Initative

ByRod Adams

…itute for Energy and Precourt Energy Efficiency Center Stanford University Jerry Yang & Akiko Yamazaki Environment & Energy Building “Y2E2” That response led me to additional source material. One article from 2006 describes a $30 million gift from Jay Precourt to establish the Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency. An article published in January 2009 describes a combined gift of $100 million. Details of the $100 million – $50 million from Jay…

Shaken, flooded, stressed by power outages, Fukushima Daiichi moves into second place

ByRod Adams

…age: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/26/world/main20047526.shtml Ed Jerry Give nuclear power a break! We had 25 years of safe operation worldwide since Chernobyl. With over 400 operating reactors worldwide an accident “somewhere” was a matter of time. Reactors built at a time 40 years ago – when there were no seat belts, no health movement, no catalytic converters, no green movement to speak of – are now being scrutinized with 21ist century…

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Exaggerated myths about nuclear accidents CAUSE negative health effects

ByRod Adams

…rce of energy (a deeply immoral use of our scientific heritage – Lauriston Taylor). So even though “we should never waste a serious crisis” i.e., Fukushima — a an opportunity to bring about a difficult change in attitude — it will not happen because we will not take determined action. Important advice/questions from an ancient sage: “If I’m not for me, who will be for me?” and “If not now, when?” Jerry Joffan The lessons of over-reaction to ma…

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Virtual silence at “Golden Fleece” award news conference for SMRs

ByRod Adams

…e of rhetoric (and that of others – I’m sure you recall your exchange with Jerry Taylor over at MasterResource, and I had my own exchanges with him offline), we’d have a “free” market if we did nothing other than remove all explicit government support without actually considering the implicit subsidies certain players get (like treating the atmosphere as an open cesspool) and the unique barriers to others (including, in some cases, explicit taxes…

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Atomic Show #208 – Communicating about nuclear energy

ByRod Adams

…them we are also fighting Pete Seeger, Billy Joel,Bruce Springsteen,James Taylor,Carly Simon, Alec Baldwin. My point is when people in the nuclear industry buy their products they are supporting the anti -nuke people. Now that they are closing Vermont Yankee how many people who work at VY wish they never ate Ben And Jerry‘s ice cream. They signed a partition to close VY. Also how many people still do eat that ice cream. Also how many people in th…

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Proud – but often frustrated – nuclear professional

ByRod Adams

…? Cal Abel @jmdesp The source of the chart on slide 45 was from something Jerry Cuttler published: Cuttler, J. M. (2004). Time for a Different Approach for Protection Against Ionizing Radiation. Canadian Nuclear Association Forum on IRCP-2005 Reccomendations, Ottawa CN. Dr. Cuttler got it from Ted Rockwell: ROCKWELL T. Creating the New World: Stories & Images from the Dawn of the Atomic Age, 1st Books Library, Bloomington, Indiana (2003) ISBN: 1-…

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