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Mark Cooper is wrong about SMRs and nuclear energy

ByRod Adams

…I would say this to you, but here goes: I think you are being too kind to Cooper! Cooper claims that nuclear energy has never been economically competitive. Cooper claims that though nuclear technologies have received 10 times as much subsidy on a life cycle basis {as renewables}, nuclear advocates attack the much smaller and more productive subsidies received by renewables. These economic claims are wrong. These claims are in the press release l…

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Cooper’s criticism may awaken nuclear competitive spirit

ByRod Adams

…. Cooper turns out rubish. The purpose of of such exercises, is to qualify Cooper as an expert on nuclear energy. Cooper then gets to testify at vaRIOUS HEARINGS. We need to ask “Who is paying for all of the anto-nuclear junk scientists at VLS. Bas @jmdesp ..historical spending on the nuclear program have been reviewed last years by the national Court of Auditors.. Thanks! Didn’t know that. So I assumed wrongly. Now it puzzles me highly why EDF in…

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Are Mark Cooper and Peter Bradford climate change deniers?

ByRod Adams

…ticle helps explain the timing of releasing this particular installment in Cooper’s series of papers on the excess cost of nuclear energy compared to today’s natural gas prices. I suspect that Cooper is seeking employment as an expert witness or just seeking to influence the decision process.) Charleston, SC Post and Courier (March 14, 2013) SCANA, Santee Cooper should scrap South Carolina nuclear expansion, report says Citrus County Chronicle (Ma…

President Ford: Statement on Nuclear Policy October 28, 1976

ByRod Adams

…pply new criteria in judging whether to enter into new or expanded nuclear cooperation: Adherence to the nonproliferation treaty will be a strong positive factor favoring cooperation with a nonnuclear weapon state. Nonnuclear weapons states that have not yet adhered to the nonproliferation treaty will receive positive recognition if they are prepared to submit to full fuel cycle safeguards, pending adherence. We will favor recipient nations that a…

If French Nuclear Success Is Socialism – Call Me a Socialist

ByRod Adams

…lant construction program following the 1973 Arab Oil Embargo and read Dr. Cooper’s paper. If the French nuclear program is an example of what Dr. Cooper thinks is socialism, please call me a socialist. In front of Flamanville Unit 3 Don’t misunderstand me – the French program has not been perfect; there are some key lessons that can be used to improve future results. There were increasing costs towards the end of France’s first construction phase…

Digging into NextEra’s decision to close Duane Arnold Energy Center

ByRod Adams

…to do both to some degree. Neither of the two partners, Central Iowa Power Cooperative and Corn Belt Power Cooperative, were a part of the power purchase agreement. As a result, neither of them was invited when Alliant and NextEra agreed to stop power purchases from DAEC to make room for subsidized wind. According to Peter Robbins, a spokesman for NextEra, his company has “a close relationship with CIPCO and Corn Belt and are sitting down with the…

Positive Lessons Extracted From Cooper’s Paper On French Nuclear Experience

ByRod Adams

…ramatic change in household wealth resulting from the financial meltdown. (Cooper Policy Challenges Pg. 24) If Cooper did not already have an anti-nuclear agenda, he might have tried to do some additional investigation to find out if the unit cost reduction trend continued with even more than three units at the same site. Though there are no US facilities with more than three units, there are examples in France and Canada with as many as eight uni…

How does a sociologist become a “senior fellow in economic analysis”?

ByRod Adams

…question the history of opposition to the use of nuclear energy from both Cooper and his funders at the Vermont Law School. Here are examples of the blurbs used to describe Cooper in various sources: Lancaster Intelligencer-Journal “senior fellow for economic analysis at the Institute for Energy and the Environment at the Vermont Law School” Mansfield News Journal “senior fellow for economic analysis at Vermont Law School’s Institute for Energy a…

Seminole Electric Cooperative Cancels Coal Plant; Considers Gas and Nuclear Options

ByRod Adams

…power plant project that it had been developing near Palatka, Florida. The cooperative filed papers with state regulators announcing the cancellation. The stated reasons included uncertainties regarding long term regulations and prices for pollution emissions. The cooperative also mentioned that it was considering other alternative power sources including natural gas, nuclear power and power purchases from other generators. In a follow-up article,…

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Rosatom achieves a marketing win in Finland to supply Fennovoima

ByRod Adams

…mpetition Law, Helsinki Law Review 2010, p. 140) A mankala is similar to a cooperative that is familiar to American farming communities; it’s structure and purpose is nearly identical to the electric cooperatives that were initially developed during The Depression and remain a fixture in many American rural areas. The shareholders in a mankala are bound together in recognition that electricity can be supplied much more economically by cooperating…

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Potential for Korea, Japan, U.S. to Collaborate on Pyroprocessing Under Trump

ByRod Adams

…question, muttering to himself and exuding negative body language. Nuclear cooperation agreements with the U.S., known as 123 agreements after the governing section in the Atomic Energy Act, specify terms and conditions for nuclear technology and information cooperation. Each agreement is individually concluded and some contain specific prohibitions on various components of the nuclear fuel cycle. ROK has been interested in pyroprocessing for a nu…

Who fights energy abundance? Why?

ByRod Adams

…open secret that the Seven Sisters of the multinational petroleum industry cooperated throughout the period from just after WWI through the early 1970s to control the rate of production so that they could retain some control of prices. In the US, the Texas Railroad Commission served the same function in a protected market. The Atomic Age and growing independence of the countries with the easiest and cheapest to produce oil led to a new stage in th…

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