While visiting our daughter this weekend for a gathering to celebrate the pending birth of our granddaughter, I noticed the below bumper sticker on a vehicle belonging to a young friend who attends college in western Virginia. I gave her a big hug and told her I was proud of her proclaimed sentiments.
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Progress Energy is looking for a site for a new nuclear power plant in Florida. The state’s growing population is leading to a need for more electricity generating capacity and competitive choices like coal, oil, gas, wind, and solar are either more expensive, dirtier or both. On October 9, 2005 the Citrus Times section of…
NEI Nuclear Notes pointed me to Angela Saihi, their most recent blogger for nuclear energy. The NEI post did not prepare me to find a professionally produced show titled People and Power with part one of an episode about how the greens went nuclear. You really need to see this. I am looking forward to…
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has released two frequently referenced studies on the future of major energy sources titled The Future of Nuclear Power (2003 with update in 2009) and The Future of Coal (2007). The most recent installment in the series is titled The MIT Study on The Future of Natural Gas. The…
As the Northeast shivers under its first real cold spell and snowfall of the 2005-06 winter, I thought it might be comforting to see a chart of heating oil prices during the past 17 years or so. What do you mean, you are not comforted? I thought that the heat generated by anger at the…
My Maryland neighbors – UniStar Nuclear – have some new reasons to celebrate. George Chapman’s Amarillo Power has notified the NRC that it now intends to purchase two UniStar Nuclear’s Evolutionary Pressurized Reactors (EPR) instead of two GE ABWRs. At the same time, Amarillo Power also announced its intention to skip the step of applying…
I am a biased observer in the energy field. I firmly believe that atomic fission based power systems have the potential to replace fossil fuels in many applications, that fission power sources can capture market share in competitive contests, and that fission is far cleaner than the fossil fuel competition. I also will assert, based…