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Future of energy must include nuclear

ByRod Adams

…e and nuclear plants will close (But it is their day time job!) Last week, Moniz woke up and said that grid reliability provided by stable base load forces had to be given value. (This one just woke up. He did not know about this 3 weeks ago) Who and how can the ISO dinosaurs react before they instinct us ? The nuclear fleet is a national asset. We have less than 10 months left for 4 or 5 plants and soon all plants operating in artificially priced…

Is Donald Trump considering Donald Hoffman as Secretary of Energy?

ByRod Adams

…. Indeed, signs are now pointing to the oil mogul Harold Hamm as Secretary Moniz’s likely successor.” Rod Adams @poa I’m not sure what you mean by “without providing a direct citation.” The author of the piece, an experienced freelance science journalist and journalism instructor at Northeastern University and Brandeis University, provided his citation at the beginning of the article. “In a telephone interview with Undark” He was not reporting wha…

Replace price of carbon with price on carbon

ByRod Adams

…uclear power plants– right now! Marcel F. Williams Daniel Newly appointed Moniz made energy related comments today. Renewables, wind, solar .. and the forgotten renewables – small hydro and geo thermal. Nuclear ? Nope. gas gas gas good while its cheap. James Greenidge Daniel: Just FYI: This region is regarded as an “aquatic L-5” zone and it’s not solid with trash as stories assert. My freighter crane engineer neighbor was amused by people’s perce…

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Greg Jaczko claims nuclear is too expensive and that unreliables will take its place

ByRod Adams

…s piece has a pro nuclear stance. I love listening to the last words! Now, Moniz and Vogtle’s chief engineer get it. This Vogtle plant is the future of nuclear in the US. Build it on time, on target and within reasonable costs and knowing that economies of scale are lying ahead, and you’ve got it made. This thing about nuclear being linked to solving world hunger by providing caviar comes from Bradford, from the Vermont School of Economics. Just r…

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Is V.C. Summer really dead or is near term revival possible?

ByRod Adams

…ok over direct payments of the contractors. Jeff Walther Don’t forget that Moniz had at least two high ranking DOE positions (chief of staff, single head of several departments) filled with UCS infiltrators who have probably not yet been rooted out. And they are both in the position to propagate and fill more positions with UCS agitators through regular hiring now. Someone needs to be made aware adn some rooting out done… Jan Ebenholtz To not bu…

Michio Kaku – long history of antinuclear activism

ByRod Adams

…mera and has a pleasant voice. And his “look” is as distinctive as that of Moniz. Rod Adams @Joel Riddle (4.) He is honestly and deeply concerned about nuclear weapons and his experience in knowing Edward Teller convinced him that there was too blurry a boundary between weapons and energy. At the time he went to Berkeley, that was all too true. However, that is an addressable problem and I believe it has been partially addressed already. There is…

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Atomic Show #236 – Local Nuclear NW, NE, Canada

ByRod Adams

…isons or chemical plants. Good to hear the low down on Lemar Alexander and Moniz. Also about Steve Aplin’s and your own similar experiences with the regulators and that relationship to potential investors. The prohibitive cost of a review process of $2 Million in Canada is far less than the same process in the US is it not? Rod Adams @Rick Maltese The Canadian process is less open ended and has the potential of being quicker and less costly than t…

PopAtomic produces useful training aid to explain Fukushima Daiichi to school children

ByRod Adams

…e created a whole new nuclear power paradigm. donb Rod Adams wrote: As Dr. Moniz points out, the United States went through a long period that discouraged some of the smartest students in the country from studying the topics that would be useful to them in becoming nuclear specialists. However, my view is that those minds are no more lost to nuclear energy than is the material stored in those dry casks. We can attract the brilliant engineers who h…

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Mr. President – Ike would recommend the nuclear option for energy policy

ByRod Adams

…have consequences, folks. EL Looks like Obama is ready to announce Ernest Moniz as Secretary of Energy (although it’s not official yet). Undersecretary of Department from 1997 – 2001 (where he directed research on Yucca Mountain), Panel Member on Blue Ribbon Commission, Director of MIT’s Energy Initiative and Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems, and more. He seems a major supporter of new reactor builds, SMRs, research on advanced fuel c…

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What should we do with the waste?

ByRod Adams

…the NRC are probably anti nuclear, MacFarlane is a pleasant surprise, and Moniz is at best a squishy supporter of nuclear. And the EPA is about to issue an anti greenhouse gas rule that penalizes nuclear relative to solar and wind. Big Green, a very important part of the Democratic coalition is also fanatically anti nuclear, although some cracks are beginning to appear in this position led by individual environmentalists but still opposed the maj…

It’s too easy to permanently close a nuclear power plant in the United States

ByRod Adams

…us moving forward. NuScale has solid backing and is apparently impressing Moniz and the powers that be. I’m betting on them first, and they are being aggressive with the NRC about their product and the licensing timeline. Idaho will be the first one and if they’re successful, this is where I see advanced LWRs going. TLS Btw, there’s a reason the industry as a collective is trying to standardize operations after 12 straight years of increased cost…

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Vogtle Construction Update Video

ByRod Adams

…s in the form of better lives for billions. Daniel Watch the DOE secretary Moniz show Rep Shimkus who’s in charge. The last 30 seconds are hard to watch. http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=KwsROv6MOmI Daniel Congress has no clout against the NRC nor the DOE. Imagine if the navy and the army were acting as such ! FermiAged I am heavily involved in testing the simulators for the domestic AP1000’s. I have not heard of any involvement of Bi…

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