Ruth Sponsler produces the excellent blog We Support Lee. (William States Lee III is the name for a proposed new nuclear plant in South Carolina near the border of Ruth’s home state of North Carolina.) She has been finding some interesting information about the political and economic ties between virulent anti-nuclear activists and fossil fuel interests. One of her most interesting recent posts is titled Anti-nuclear Politics and Coal Interests i…
Nuclear energy in the Republic of Korea is being threatened as a result of the May 9 presidential election of Moon Jae-in. Since at least 2012, when he suffered a narrow election defeat, Moon has advocated a halt to nuclear plant construction, prohibiting license extensions and achieving a “nuclear zero” policy by 2060. With the election behind him, Moon can expect support in the National Assembly from fellow members of the Democratic Party of Ko…
Peter Beattie and his friends in Queensland Australia have succeeded in their mission of protecting the coal and gas industry in Queensland from having to compete with nuclear power. They did it the old fashioned way – they made it illegal to build or operate nuclear facilities in their state. According to a May 2, 2007 article titled New law bans nuclear power in Qld published by theage.com.au, the new law bans the following types of facilities…
…t, the evidence often leads me to produce another article for the “smoking gun” category here on Atomic Insights. Amory penned a rather heated response to my statement about the Brower-Anderson connection. He didn’t like the way I assume there is was a financial motive involved in the fact that the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant was FOE’s first target in its 40-year long, world-wide antinuclear campaign. Quoting from Lovins’s comment: The notio…
…gue along with the ever present antinuclear “nuclear engineer” named Arnie Gundersen. Here is the “In These Times” mission statement on the organization’s “About Us” page. In These Times is a nonprofit and independent newsmagazine committed to political and economic democracy and opposed to the dominance of transnational corporations and the tyranny of marketplace values over human values. In These Times is dedicated to reporting the news with the…
…c energy, but it is an enlightening analog that would fit into the smoking gun series. It involves actions to limit the supply of valuable commodities by established suppliers of those commodities. Coordinated private actions that stop competitors from entering a market are illegal under US antitrust laws, but they can provide incredible money-making opportunities. There are big risks associated with taking actions that violate antitrust laws, inc…
…Unit 3 fuel pool I would be glad to read it. However if you are relying on Gundersen/Fairewinds for your Fukushima information I suggest you stop and go to the source info not Gundersen’s anti-nuclear power focused interpretation. NICURN I appreciate your gracious reply. After making my post I started digging around, especially looking at the TEPCO bulletins and various interpretations of their info. I think calling the state of the reactors a “Co…
…their bases as widely as possible, I am classifying this post as a smoking gun and calling out Richard Muller as a natural gas salesman in a “converted skeptic” costume. PS – there is one point I want to make as clearly as possible. I am not saying that fossil fuel money has changed the results of the work that Muller has done. I am saying that fossil fuel money has helped to change the amount of attention it is being given and might have changed…
…er to be lies, from the “Spent Fuel Pond No. 4 is a raging inferno” (Anrie Gundersen, Michio Kaku) to “the ongoing metldown in Unit 3”(Gundersen, et al) and others. We’ve specifically addressed the true accurate dosages of radiation that has escaped Fukushima. MORE over, we are trying to address the very real problems of the No. 4 Spent fuel pond. Which, BTW, no one, including yourself, explains *exactly* what the danger ‘could be’ if the pond col…
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