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

ByRod Adams

…n 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: There is simply no doubt…

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Why doesn’t Bill Nye, “The Science Guy” like nuclear power – yet?

ByRod Adams

…sis in original.) Like many in the tribe of nuclear skeptics that includes Amory Lovins and Joe Romm, Nye has a positive view of the Nuclear Navy. He was confused, however, about the Navy’s prime motivation for being interested in nuclear power; he told the audience it was because it reduced the need to refuel ships. The key feature that really piqued the Navy’s interest was controllable heat from an emission-free, oxygen-free reaction. Nuclear en…

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B&W’s mPowerTM Reactor – Who Says America is Behind in the Nuclear Renaissance?

ByRod Adams

…er the systems that he was busy installing on a series of submarines. Even Amory Lovins has been known to use the memory of Admiral Rickover’s dismissal of these systems as a curse designed to dampen enthusiasm. Of course, EVERY reactor starts as a paper reactor, but Admiral Rickover’s real point was that the paper should be representative of components that were real and did not require some kind of new invention or discovery before they could be…

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