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Update: One-Woman Crusade to Encourage Exelon to Restore the Zion Nuclear Power Plant and Operate it In Her Backyard

ByRod Adams

…of electricity that producer sells. As a result, if a peaker plant running natural gas is run on a day when peak power is needed then the price of electricity is set by that expensive electricity. However, if a large nuclear plant is running there is little need for a peaker plant. In fact, they will set the marginal rate most of the time since there is so much abundant electricity. For example, a 2 GW nuke is selling electricity for the day and t…

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Building a powerful pro-nuclear coalition

ByRod Adams

…ch energy as 147 gallons of oil, or a ton of coal, or 17,000 cubic feet of natural gas. With technological advancements, some of which have already been invented and developed through the demonstration phase, it is possible to extract 20 times as much energy from that same mass of material. Using concentrated fuel reduces mining requirements, lowers capital requirements for transportation systems, and enables more inventory to be retained using le…

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Don’t blame “the market.” Individual people with money and power do not like nuclear

ByRod Adams

…e been to shy away from nuclear in the years since June 2008 while natural gas prices here have been suppressed to a level that is about 1/3 of their level in most developed nations around the world. However, there are individuals who have made a different choice and decided to invest in nuclear energy because of its natural advantages and its potential for future market success. If that was not true, I would not have the day job I have today as p…

No obstacles prevent China from rapidly building floating nuclear power plants
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No obstacles prevent China from rapidly building floating nuclear power plants

ByRod Adams

…he world. In contrast, Russia’s export successes have been limited to oil, natural gas, vodka, military hardware and a few long-delayed nuclear power plants. Unlike the United States, which has withheld its world-leading floating nuclear propulsion plant expertise from the commercial market for more than 60 years, China seems to understand that technology developed to propel ships can be put to valuable use in many other applications. Turbines are…

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James Hansen explains climate risk and proposed carbon fee – dividend tool

ByRod Adams

…e American customers that they have discovered a perpetual supply of cheap natural gas. Interestingly enough, they tell their investors a rather different story about how they expect prices to increase soon to make their investments in production capacity pay off. Though there may be some people in the nuclear opposition who are sincerely afflicted with an irrational nuclear phobia, the majority of the leadership clearly dislikes nuclear energy be…

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Radioactive Wolves – Coming to PBS Nature on October 19, 2011

ByRod Adams

…le that the Soviet dependence on hard currency income from selling oil and natural gas to Europe played a role in the response actions and the publicity push to demonize nuclear energy in the West? One of the cardinal rules of that effective propagandists follow is that they never believe their own propaganda. I find it enlightening to know that Russia has not only continued to operate the same Chernobyl-style RBMK reactors that have been forced t…

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The moral imperative to build new nuclear power stations

ByRod Adams

…o resist being seduced by salesmen who are touting temporarily low natural gas prices, and about the importance of helping people to understand that vast expenditures in unreliable energy sources are NOT wise investments of our time and treasure. When evaluated using a monetary yardstick, my atomic energy advocacy seems to be on a losing streak. Many of the projects that produced so much atomic optimism in the US during the period from 2005-mid 20…

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EPA Carbon pollution emission guidelines – New and preserved nuclear capacity

ByRod Adams

…increase in sales for the natural gas industry and an increase in natural gas prices due to the shifting in supply-demand balance toward demand. When the price gets high enough, demand destruction (not demand management) will result in a slowdown in the economy and an eventual drop in prices to allow the cycle to start all over again. When prices are high and before consumers can adjust their lifestyles or production plans to reduce demand, the m…

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Civil disobedience might be needed to overcome illogical EPA limits on radiation

ByRod Adams

…cy. Brian Mays Meanwhile, three people are in critical condition after two natural gas barges exploded on the Mobile river. I guess they were fortunate that the barges weren’t still loaded with natural gasoline (a natural gas liquid) when the explosions occurred. Fire officials couldn’t do anything to fight the fires resulting from the explosions, so the just let them burn overnight. Bas @James … it’s nuclear that has yet to learn the law of the…

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Fukushima Happened. Now What?

ByRod Adams

…use it would prefer to use their power to produce electricity than to burn natural gas for that activity. Russians are smart enough to recognize that natural gas shipped to Germany and sold for several hundred euros per thousand cubic meters is much more valuable than gas sold to internal customers for about 50 euros per thousand cubic meters. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904563904576584831235317422.html Jon Wharf The evidence con…

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

ByRod Adams

…are more storms than in the past. But is this true climate change or just natural variation? Does a particularly cold or snowy winter, such as the one the eastern United States experienced in 2013 and 2014, or variations in the rate of global surface temperature change call global warming into question? If the climate is changing, are human activities responsible, or is it being caused by natural factors? … When we take the long view on climate c…

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Nonproliferation is a disguised antinuclear energy effort

ByRod Adams

…h below the cost of production, that drilling is slowing way, way down. US gas prices are going to soar in a few years. As veteran geologist Art Berman states, shale gas is not a revolution, but a retirement party. Wall Street knows this too. So, where is the cheap energy to come from if not oil or gas? There is only one possibility, nuclear energy. Even the oil companies may jump on board this bandwagon, as their capital expenditures for oil expl…

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