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Diablo Canyon relicensing public meetings August 5, 2015

…iam Burr Washington, D.C., January 13, 2009 – During the 1970s the Shah of Iran argued, like current Iranian leaders today, for a nuclear energy capability on the basis of national “rights,” while the Ford and Carter administrations worried about nuclear weapons possibilities, according to newly declassified documents published today by the National Security Archive for the first time. Uranium enrichment capability is now the major point of contro…

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Eduardo Porter says states that close nuclear are going in wrong direction for climate

…disagree strongly with some of the rhetoric I have heard from Trump about Iran, but he is not the one who rattled swords, imposed harsh sanctions and taught the world to fear Iran‘s nuclear [energy] capability. There is an element of fossil fuel competition — which some people seem to love to label as “conspiracy” — in this situation. Iran has a bountiful endowment of oil and natural gas. It consumes a fairly large fraction of its production do…

China may export the technology learned by building modern reactors

…xport its variants of recently acquired nuclear technology to Pakistan and Iran.” As regular readers of Atomic Insights know, both Westinghouse and Areva have recently signed deals for major new projects in China that include agreements for technology transfer and local sourcing of key components. That idea makes me nervous, not because I am all that concerned about Pakistan and Iran getting nuclear power technology, but because I would prefer for…

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House Science, Space And Technology Gets Sage Advice From Energy Innovators

…ight: Dr. Jacob DeWitte, Dr. Gaurav N. Sant, Dr. Venky Narayanamurti, Mr. Kiran Kumaraswamy The witnesses testifying at Tuesday’s hearing on Energy Innovation in front of the House Committee on Science, Space & Technology provided forceful and specific examples of the important role that the Department of Energy has played in supporting commercially valuable research and development. They shared their thoughts about ways to improve outcomes, strea…

OPEC analysis – is there room for all of the oil the cartel can produce?

…s established by OPEC production quotas and world events like sanctions on Iran, war in Iraq, and regime change in Libya have been stable at a relatively high level for the past several years. During the same several years, production from oil sands in Alberta and shale rock in Texas and North Dakota has steadily increased. The often mentioned production gain in those unconventional resource fields would not have happened without the steady high p…

Six countries in the Middle East and North Africa indicate nuclear power interest

…or nuclear expertise was to provide the Arabs with a “security hedge”. “If Iran was not on the path to a nuclear weapons capability you would probably not see this sudden rush [in the Arab world],” he said. Mr. Beeston then reveals his own biases with the following statement: The announcement by the six nations is a stunning (emphasis added) reversal of policy in the Arab world, which had until recently been pressing for a nuclear free Middle East…

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Flush With Cash – Where Did Climate Activists Get So Much Money?

…e national treasuries of Russia, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Nigeria, and Iran cannot be good for our general welfare, but it is terrific for the bottom lines at ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, and BP – all of which are multinational petroleum companies that produce about as much energy each year in the form of natural gas as they do in the form of crude oil. I believe they are using their massive oil profits right now to keep the price of natural ga…

Pipeline explosions in southern Russia called sabotage

…r are pretty severe. According to a Mosnews.com article titled Georgia and Iran Hold Talks over Emergency Gas Imports explosives equivalent to a bit less than a kilogram of TNT caused major damage that will require at least 100 hours to repair. Iran may be able to provide emergency supplies through Azerbaijan. It is darned cold in Russia right now with temperatures expected to drop to -30 C over the next few days. Georgia relies on Russian gas for…

Rich natural gas producer talks about nuclear investment

The Bush administration has often pointed to Iran’s oil and gas resources as prima facie evidence that their nuclear power ambitions must be related to weapons. After all, the expressed logic goes, why would a country that is well endowed with oil and gas want nuclear power stations. (Of course, that argument is bunk, especially when you consider that Iran is a large country with nearly 70 Million residents, many of whom do not even have access t…

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Has the MIT Energy Initiative been captured by natural gas industry money?

…tions more times than I care to count. If I was a leader in a country with Iran‘s history, there is no way that I would stop in my drive for an independent nuclear energy capacity. What gives the US, Israel and Europe the right to tell the Iranians that they are not allowed to enrich uranium? Enriching uranium enables some very capable and cost effective nuclear energy system development. Failing to enrich would make CANDU style heavy water or gas…

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Mark Cooper is wrong about SMRs and nuclear energy

…s that are pro-nuke? Rod Adams @POA I have written a number of posts about Iran‘s nuclear program. Here is a link to a long list of posts that include “Iran” somewhere in the post or comment thread. https://atomicinsights.com/?s=Iran Rod Adams @David and EL 1. Stop demanding that a nuclear manufacturer for anything other than a LWR/PWR bring a customer to the table before a review is undertaken. This is an important point. Why would anyone with an…

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Additional evidence re: nonproliferation & antinuclear alliance

…l only pursue nuclear activities in the peaceful domain. The leadership of Iran has pledged at the highest level that Iran will remain a non-nuclear-weapon state party to the NPT and has placed the entire scope of its nuclear activities under IAEA safeguards and Additional Protocol, in addition to undertaking voluntary transparency measures with the agency that have even gone beyond the requirements of the agency’s safeguard system. “Nuclear energ…

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