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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The second annual Nuclear Construction Summit will be held in Charlotte, NC on October 25-26, 2010. The meeting will include talks from leading figures associated with designing, licensing and building new nuclear power plants. The tentative speaker line up includes Ellen Ruff of Duke Energy, David Matthews of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Jeff Merrifield of…
I recently had the pleasure of reading an advance copy of an informative and important book written by Gwyneth Cravens titled “Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy”. (You can find out a bit more about the book and the publication schedule at Borzoi Reader | Catalog | Power to Save the…
The CIA Factbook on Jordan includes this description of its economic status: Jordan is a small Arab country with insufficient supplies of water, oil, and other natural resources. Poverty, unemployment, and inflation are fundamental problems, but King ABDALLAH II, since assuming the throne in 1999, has undertaken some broad economic reforms in a long-term effort…
A friend of mine who has been a professional nuclear engineer for a couple of decades sent me a link to a mid September 2009 blog post at AdWeek.com titled Grey Energizes America’s Natural Gas Alliance: WPP Group shop fires up first salvo this weekend. Here is a quote from the advertising trade press publication:…
I ran across an article published on Sunday 13 January 2007 by Times Online titled I pushed Blair’s nuclear button that gives some background on high level discussions leading up to the recent decision by the UK government to include nuclear power as a significant part of its future energy mix. Here is a tantalizing…
One of the profit centers in the nuclear business is in supplying manufactured fuel elements. Though fuel costs are a much smaller portion of the overall costs of generating power in a nuclear plant than they are in a fossil fuel plant, there is still a significant amount of money involved. Though full economic information…
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