The Triangle Business Journal is reporting that Progress Energy is preparing a license application for a plant in the Carolinas as well as its previously announced effort to prepare an application for a plant to be located in its Florida service territory.
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Yesterday I had the chance to read my Wall Street Journal from cover to cover while waiting for a plane. As I often do in such a situation, I paid some attention to the advertisements as well as the articles. On the cover page of the Marketplace section, there was a footer banner ad about…
During the State of the Union address on January 27, 2010, President Barack Obama stressed the importance of energy innovation investments in his discussion about leading an economic recovery through infrastructure construction. Here is what he said at the very top of his list: “But to create more of these clean energy jobs, we need…
After writing about Iran’s motivations for atomic energy independence, I came across the following article in the online edition of the Harvard International Review – Forced to Fuel – http://hir.harvard.edu/articles/1294/ which discusses, with more detail and rigor – the current electrical power supply situation in Iran.
My friend Suzy Hobbs over at PopAtomic Studios has posted an important story of personal discovery and patient teaching in a blog titled The Beginning of My Nuclear Education. In her high school biology class, she was taught that nuclear energy and radiation was something to be terribly worried about. She went home and confronted…
A friend of mine recently sent me a clipping that included an opinion piece from the June 2007 issue of Foreign Policy. In case you are not familiar with the publication, here is how they introduce themselves in their About the Magazine page: Founded in 1970 by Samuel Huntington and Warren Demian Manshel, and now…
The Conservative Voice has posted an article by James Finch of TradeTech titled Is $50/Pound Uranium Sustainable? dated 7 September 2006. If you are interested in the factors that influence uranium prices and the profitability of the uranium mining industry, I highly recommend that you read the article, perhaps a couple of times. According to…