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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It is becoming apparent that the establishment Environmental community has made its bed with the natural gas industry. In the above video, you will see and hear Carl Pope, the long time Executive Director of the Sierra Club and its future Chairman, extolling the virtues of natural gas. He talks about how abundant it is…
Watch the latest business video at video.foxbusiness.com Fox Business interviews Westinghouse Senior Vice President Kate Jackson about the company’s steady growth in employees during a period that has seen other companies shrink. She explains how the nuclear industry is growing internationally, what the company is doing to find new hires, and what kind of skills…
Monsters and Critics has published a UPI wire story titled Nuclear energy rules knocked as outdated. You can probably find the same story elsewhere, but Monsters and Critics has a pretty nice comment feature so this might be a place where a real discussion about the article may occur. The discussion area has already been…
During the recent IAEA Conference, Dr. Steven Chu has signed a nuclear cooperation agreement with South Africa. One mentioned area of immediate interest is the PBMR project, one that Atomic Insights has been covering for a number of years. You can read more about the agreement in the following articles: United States and South Africa…
On Tuesday 28 June, Rep Bernard Sanders I-VT introduced an amendment to the foreign aid bill that would prevent the Export-Import Bank of the United States from lending $5 Billion to Westinghouse that is intended to finance the sale of nuclear reactors to China. The Sanders amendment to H.R.3057 was passed by a 313-114 vote….
Just before heading out for a Christmas party, I noticed a link to the following article from Bloomberg.com in my Google News alerts – Westinghouse Wins $5.3 Billion China Nuclear Contract (Update5). This is the same contract that was originally supposed to be awarded by the end of 2005. The contract selection follows about 18-24…
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