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Atomic Show #218 – Ed Calabrese – Researching Dose Response

ByRod Adams

…y based on the fruit fly work that he and his friends continued to do with Rockefeller Foundation and AEC grants at schools with substantial influence from similar funding sources. In 1956, the Biological Effects of Atomic Radiation (BEAR) genetics committee was stacked with geneticists who all subscribed to the radical, fruit fly-based, hit theory. That committee was chaired by Warren Weaver of the Rockefeller Foundation. Weaver was a trustee and…

Jimmy Carter never served on a nuclear submarine. Was not a nuclear engineer

ByRod Adams

…r structure. Real culprits are people like Kissinger, Brzezinski and David Rockefeller, but they had a lot of help. (Interesting aside: did you know that Rockefeller was an OSS operative during WWII? I suspect that many others involved had specific training in propaganda and deception tactics.) I almost forgot to mention why I’m optimistic. Reality is hard to hide forever. If both parties persist in their old approaches to energy, they will simply…

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Smoking gun: Robert Anderson provided initial funds to form Friends of the Earth

ByRod Adams

…Sisters, five of which were American-based oil companies with ties to the Rockefeller trusts. It is perfectly logical for a man like Robert O. Anderson, with his extensive ties to oil, coal and gas, to provide financial support to promote the energy strategies of a man like Amory Lovins, who has built his entire career on promoting virtually all energy sources other than nuclear energy. End Update. I hope you agree that this is one of the cleares…

Project Pele – Part II. Enabling technologies
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Project Pele – Part II. Enabling technologies

ByRod Adams

…r using high temperature gas cooled reactors, Daniels was recruited by the Rockefeller Foundation to create a solar energy research program. However, his pebble bed reactor concept simmered and was eventually taken up by Rudolf Schulten in Germany. He devised a way to coat actinide fuel particles with fission product-retaining coatings. He also devised a method of assembling thousands of particles along with graphite moderator into 6 cm diameter s…

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Why James Hansen might be underestimating nuclear energy’s growth potential and why Joe Romm is wrong

ByRod Adams

…work in Washington as a congressional fellow and then as an advisor at the Rockefeller Foundation. He’s done assessments of energy systems, written a number of books on energy and national security issues, and served in roles of increasing responsibility in the Department of Energy from 1993-1998. He served as Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy in 1997 in charge of Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy while also serving as Principal…

Charles D. Ferguson, Council on Foreign Relations, discounts nuclear (surprise, surprise)

ByRod Adams

…erful. Of course, it was designed that way by its founders (members of the Rockefeller and Morgan families and enterprises) who were intimately involved in the international fossil fuel business. As I have told you many times, I am not a believer in conspiracy theories, but I have been associated with powerful people for long enough to know that they seek to protect their position, resources and interests, often with tactics and strategies that ar…

Anti-Nuclear Effectively Means Pro-Fossil Fuel

ByRod Adams

…wealth and power from dealing in fossil fuels of one type or another. Pew, Rockefeller, and Ford are all foundations with long and deep ties to fossil fuel interests. The charitable giving arms of many utilities, fossil fuel companies, railroads (moving fossil fuel is a major revenue source), pipeline companies and shipping companies have all donated at various times to the groups whose common interest is slowing the development and increasing the…

A good day for an atomic debate

ByRod Adams

…anizations whose money can be traced to oil through foundations like Pell, Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, or those who take major contributions from Exxon, Chevron, Shell, BP or the hundreds of other corporations that make billions from selling fossil fuel. In fact, even many companies that some associate with the “nuclear industry” make far more money supporting the fossil fuel industry or operating fossil fuel powered electrical genera…

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What is behind the natural gas hype?

ByRod Adams

…ch are also the natural gas companies – have taken some pages right out of Rockefeller’s dusty old Standard Oil book. They have invested heavily into the infrastructure required to extract and deliver gas, driven down the price and are capturing market share. As gas producers drive out their competition – primarily new nuclear power plants that do not burn ANY natural gas to supply electricity, which is their most lucrative market – they will act…

Is Republican Nuclear Support a Wedge Issue Or Long Overdue Leadership On Energy And Climate?

ByRod Adams

…Since his early training in energy issues came from the petroleum endowed Rockefeller Foundation and Amory Lovins’s Rocky Mountain Institute, Romm is a committed disciple of the “anything but nuclear” philosophy that inevitably enables continued domination of the energy markets by fossil fuels like natural gas. His interest in even fracking enabled shale gas is not terribly surprising, but the zeal with which he discusses it is a bit over the top…

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Why haven’t world leaders learned the most useful lessons from Fukushima?

ByRod Adams

…r in his pocket all the way to the opulence of the Saudi royal family, the Rockefellers, the Kochs, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. There are many powers of ten difference between having enough money to enjoy power and comfort and simply having a few coins. In the same way, there are many orders of magnitude between the kind of radiation dose that can cause harm, the dose that might provide a slight decrease in long term health, and the dose where…

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Atomic Insights Radar July 20-26 2014

ByRod Adams

…tural gas abundance from shale rock. The names of the foundations — Tides, Rockefeller Brothers, Ford, Pew — and NGOs — Friends of the Earth, Sierra, NRDC, WWF — were familiar since all have been deeply involved in opposing the expansion of nuclear energy for many years. This is more evidence supporting my theory that the underlying goal of many groups that attempt to use the cloak of environmentalism is to reduce abundance for all in order to inc…

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