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Allison Macfarlane and Pete Lyons receive a dressing down for actions by predecessors

ByRod Adams

…recommend you look at it. Brian Mays EL – Whatever, you pretentious prick. Naturally, I was referring to the abolitionist wing of the Republican Party — the ones who were disappointed with the nomination of the “moderate” Abraham Lincoln in 1860. But please feel free to continue to misrepresent what I have written. It seems to be your favorite debating tactic. EL Whatever, you pretentious prick. Naturally, I was referring to the abolitionist wing…

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Diseconomy of scale – world’s largest canned-motor reactor coolant pump

ByRod Adams

…he elite since they don’t have the N-stamp. What happens if you produce an artificial monopoly that artificially locks out many major names and their experience and leaves only a few brands that just happen to be good at paperwork? Ioannes Folks, Forgive the instructor within me and be grateful it isn’t Catholic theology in Latin. I am sure Engineer-Poet and some others here already know all this, but for those who don’t, here goes my brief disser…

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Why James Hansen might be underestimating nuclear energy’s growth potential and why Joe Romm is wrong

ByRod Adams

…so has a far larger “carbon footprint” than nuclear fission, comparable to natural gas in fact, especially when those solar cells are manufactured in China (PRC), the cheapest world manufacturers; those PRC solar cells are manufactured under a far more carbon intensive coal driven economy than the US. Jacobson recently published a 50 state 100% renewable roadmap energy plan by 2050: http://thesolutionsproject.org/infographic/ Romm & Jacobson shoul…

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Change at EPA could reduce the high cost of nuclear energy & improve grid cleanliness

ByRod Adams

…ill facilitate oil sands’ extraction without burning copious quantities of natural gas, as they do now. And so, until I see a similar self-interest for U.S. oil/gas companies to sing a pro-nuclear tune, I expect that such a radiation science reform at the EPA may be forced on them by geopolitical events. Namely, when China is ready to crank up the mass production lines for Gen III and IV reactors, it will be in their interests to collaborate with…

New Englanders thinking hard about energy choices

ByRod Adams

…t 27% less than coal and for less than 1/4 of the cost of electricity from natural gas (2006 numbers) shows me a questioning attitude and an understanding of that repetition is not reality. (I did not provide a link because it is a very long URL, but you can find the graph on the web site for the Nuclear Energy Institute on the page titled US electricity production costs 1995-2006) Of course I understand that nuclear power plants CAN cost more tha…

Judah Freed's Recent Examiner.com Opinion Piece Demands Response

ByRod Adams

…ricting or eliminating nuclear power? Don’t you understand that coal, oil, natural gas, wind, and solar suppliers enjoy the increased prices and increased demand for their products? Can you tell me the last time that a nuclear focused company reported quarterly profits in the tens of BILLIONS – like the oil/natural gas companies? We do have one thing in common – I think Yucca Mountain is a waste of money. However, for me, that is because I think t…

Are Nuclear Plants Really Terrorist Targets?

ByRod Adams

…inously, people that make an obscene amount of money selling oil, coal and natural gas make even more money selling fossil fuels at the higher prices that result when nuclear power is restricted in its ability to compete and expand. The reason that I find that particular group’s motivation to be ominous is that there is a known relationship between some oil interests and the financial strength of some terrorist groups. When fear of terrorist attac…

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Update on Fukushima water leaks – unrepresentative sample used to support fear mongering

ByRod Adams

…ss of finding, extracting, processing, financing, and transporting oil and natural gas that are also benefiting hugely from the fear that people have about harmless “leaks” of “radioactive” water at Fukushima. Aside: I used quotes around radioactive not because I believe it is NOT radioactive, but because fear stories never put the word into any context or tell anyone any useful information about how radioactive the water is. Without any quantific…

Radiation, Pollution and Radiophobia
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Radiation, Pollution and Radiophobia

ByRod Adams

…applied to naturally occurring sources often associated with coal, oil and gas extraction and consumption — add a substantial cost penalty to nuclear-related products and services. Without those artificial costs and schedule-slowing impositions, nuclear-related products would be more serious competitors to products offered by established, non-nuclear vendors. There are many tens of billions of dollars per year in sales at stake related to the assu…

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Antinuclear activists are too modest

ByRod Adams

…Nuke” that calculated that the debacle will end up costing a total of $13.8 billion including the cost of replacement power over the period when the plant should have been producing low marginal cost power. Congratulations, Paul. You and your professional antinuclear, pro-natural gas friends have made an impact with the help of the corporations and the regulators that you love to criticize. You have helped to impose significant costs on a large nu…

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