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Contradicting Arjun Makhijani’s claim about bombs from power reactors

…g a non-profit organization grandly named the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER). Based on the organization’s publicly available IRS Form 990s the IEER seems to exist mainly to fund the research efforts of a single individual – Dr. Makhijani himself. In 2011, Makhijani’s $288,000 in compensation was 47% of the IEER’s $613,900 revenue. In 2012, his $103,000 in compensation was 38% of the IEER’s $271,400 revenue. In 2013, his $11…

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Atomic Show #183 – Discussion with Dr. Arjun Makhijani

…Takoma Park, MD. The conversation is available at Atomic Show #183 – Arjun Makhijani Explains Carbon Free, Nuclear Free Strategy Dr. Makhijani is the author of Carbon Free, Nuclear Free (PDF download copy). That book is dedicated to Helen Caldicott and S. David Freeman. Makhijani claims that they were the inspiration for the effort. Our conversation abruptly ended when Dr. Makhijani realized that I was not accepting his answers. He seemed disturbe…

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Atomic Show #183 – Arjun Makhijani Explains Carbon Free, Nuclear Free Strategy

…ing fission was better than depending on coal. After hearing that lecture, Makhijani questioned the need for using so much power in the first place. He spent the next year developing what he called one of the first papers on energy efficiency. Makhijani earned his PhD in 1972. That PhD was awarded in Electrical Engineering. Here is the description of his PhD from his CV: “Area of specialization: plasma physics as applied to controlled nuclear fusi…

Professional Anti-Nuclear Analysts Deny the Existence of a Nuclear Revival

…ars to convince South Africans to stop developing the PBMR); and Dr. Arjun Makhijani, author of Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy (2007). These professional anti-nuclear activists are entitled to their opinion, and they are working hard to turn their minority opinion into something as close to fact as possible, but my research indicates that they are simply wrong. The building process envisioned in 2005 has been slowed…

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Antinuclear activists don’t like continued storage rule

Several of the usual suspects — including Dr. Mark Cooper, Dr. Arjun Makhijani, and Diane Curran — have banded together to assert their opinion that the NRC’s recently issued NUREG-2157, Generic Environmental Impact Statement for Continued Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel, violates the following provision of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. In connection with applications for licenses to operate production or utilization facilities, the applicant shal…

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What We’re Told About Climate Change Versus What We’re Told About Genetic Effects of Radiation

…mate change (problem) argument, but a nuclear (solution) argument. Lovins, Makhijani promote false solutions that work in their elitist version of a future where most of the world’s energy-poor folks stay energy-poor and continue to live lives without electricity. This isn’t a climate change thing, its the distorted view that Lovins, Makhijan et al have of nuclear energy vs the scale of the energy problem in a world where everyone has access to re…

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Arnie Gundersen Caught on Video Lying About Risk of Radiation Released During Fukushima Event

…ridiculous and comes from a dedicated, professional antinuclear activist. Makhijani provides no explanation for how it is even remotely possible for strontium to be present in concentrations that are 30 times those of cesium when both have similar fission yields, both have similar half lives, and cesium is far more soluble in water. Though it is not entirely pertinent to this discussion, IEERs 990s suggest that Makhijani is a Fukushima profiteer….

Divergent views about nuclear power economics

…e chose to quote with regards to nuclear power’s investor appeal was Arjun Makhijani, a man who has been a professional anti-nuclear activist for several decades. Another piece of the financial puzzle that needs understanding is the fact that no development is right for all times and all places. Mr. Parenti makes a big deal about the fact – discussed in previous posts on Atomic Insights – that Warren Buffett made a decision not to proceed with pla…

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Paul Wilson & Bret Bennington vs Arnie Gundersen & Heidi Hutner on Nuclear Sustainability

…ribute to powering the entire state of New York. He also stated that Arjun Makhijani has doubled down on his claim that it is possible to have a carbon-free, nuclear-free power system by moving his transition completion target date back from 2050 to 2035. At the very end, Gundersen explains why he soured on the nuclear industry in 1990, 19 years after he earned his MS in Nuclear Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. There’s nothing li…

"Wall Street Does Not Like Nuclear Power" – That's Great, Because I Do Not Like Wall Street!

…Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, Michael Mariotte of NIRS, or Arjun Makhijani of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research claim that nuclear power is destined to fail because “Wall Street does not like nuclear power”, take that as a ringing endorsement for the technology. Perhaps someday, they will figure out that recent history has clearly exposed the systemic weakness of “Wall Street” decision making capabilities. I am not terr…

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Small Reactors, Safety Culture, Safe Design, and Lessons Learned From SL-1

…organizations that have never met a nuclear reactor that they like. Arjun Makhijani, the nuclear fusion specialist who rarely misses any opportunity to spread FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) about the use of nuclear energy, has gotten together with the Physicians for Social Responsibility (the group initially formed by Helen Caldicott) to release a “study” claiming that small nuclear power plants are “no panacea” for the issues that they claim…

Quoted Press Release Anti-MOX Coalition Statement

…l, thereby perpetuating the threat of theft and diversion,” said Dr. Arjun Makhijani, President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research in Takoma Park, Maryland. Another major concern for coalition members is the impact of the DOE providing significant subsidies to the nuclear power industry to facilitate the use of MOX in commercial reactors. “This smells like polluter pork to me,” said Anna Aurilio, a staff scientist with the U.S….

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