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Shoreham Chapter 9 – Concluding thoughts; one battle in long war over nuclear energy

September 6, 2011 By Rod Adams

Ray has released the final chapter of the Shoreham documentary. He has also established a store on CafePress.com that features merchandise and artwork. The proceeds from any purchases will help support the documentary artist as well as the educational efforts of PopAtomic Studios.

I hope you enjoyed this production. There appears to be a burst of pro-nuclear creativity going around. If you were intrigued by this Shoreham documentary, you might want to visit The Neutron Economy and follow the links to Upcoming Films about Nuclear Power.

I have inside information that the list on that site is missing at least one soon-to-be-released film that focuses on the potential of Thorium and molten salt reactors.

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Politics of Nuclear Energy, Shoreham video, Technical History Stories

Shoreham Chapter 8 – Revealing portrait of antinuclear tribe

September 5, 2011 By Rod Adams

Chapter 8 in the Shoreham documentary provides some revealing information about a small segment of the tribe of people who are aligned in opposition to the expanded use of nuclear energy. It should raise a series of questions in the minds of critical thinkers who strongly believe that nuclear energy is an amazing gift to humanity that must be developed with due haste in order to break our fossil fuel addiction. If this little coffee shop gathering to hear Harvey Wasserman speak is any indication of the kind of people who fight nuclear energy, why are they winning? Why have we allowed them to dictate our energy policy? Why haven’t we managed to overcome their opposition to design, license and build any new nuclear power plants in the past 35 years?

During this chapter, Ray, the filmmaker, asks Wasserman a revealing question. He does it in a non-confrontational way because he has a plan for a more in-depth interview after the talk and he did not want to spoil that opportunity. Sometimes journalists have to toss out softball questions if they want the opportunity for follow-up questions. However, viewers can learn something from the response if they listen carefully and watch the body language.

By the way, I happen to agree on one level with Wasserman’s response. An advanced degree and even a Nobel Prize in physics does not make anyone an expert in energy production systems. There are many areas of investigation in physics that have nothing to do with producing electricity by converting fission heat into motion using the principles of thermodynamics. However, a scientific Nobel Prize does provide evidence of a very significant professional accomplishment and respect from scientific peers. It indicates something about the person, his intelligence, his tenacity and his ability to achieve goals.

I have a great deal of respect for Dr. Steven Chu, even though he is still enamored with unreliable, uncontrollable energy production systems.

Aside: I have a different respect level for a different holder of an advanced degree in physics awarded for building computer models of the low energy behavior of mesons and baryons. He never bothered to pursue science after earning that degree; instead, he took his degree and used it to become a partisan politician. Instead of achieving greatness in research, he aligned himself with two scientifically illiterate elected representatives who both adhere to dangerous energy policy positions. He needs to be encouraged to leave his current appointed position before he does any more damage. End Aside.

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Politics of Nuclear Energy, Shoreham video

Shoreham Chapter 7 – Lying about Three Mile Island

September 2, 2011 By Rod Adams

In this chapter of the Shoreham saga, Ray has made some clever cuts between assertions about the effects of the Three Mile Island accident from the professional opponents to nuclear energy and to assertions from people who have read the massive quantities of scientific and technical research about the details of the accident and its […]

Filed Under: Accidents, Antinuclear activist, Health Effects, Shoreham video

Shoreham Chapter 6 – Logical inconsistency: Wanting clean air while fighting to shut down nuclear

September 2, 2011 By Rod Adams

Ray has released Chapter 6 of the Shoreham saga. Unlike some filmmakers, he has allowed plenty of time for even slow readers to fully read the front matter on this chapter, so either be patient or skip ahead to about minute 1:20 to watch the action start. The stars in this section include Harvey Wasserman, […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Fossil fuel competition, Nuclear Communications, Politics of Nuclear Energy, Shoreham video

Shoreham – Chapters 3, 4 and 5 – Karl Grossman, Marge Harrison, Rod Adams

August 27, 2011 By Rod Adams 29 Comments

Ray has released three more chapters of his Shoreham documentary. Karl Grossman provides excellent justification for why I thoroughly dislike and disrespect most professional antinuclear activists. He insults an entire profession by coming straight out and accusing all nuclear professionals of being liars whose noses should grow every time we speak about nuclear energy. He […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Politics of Nuclear Energy, Shoreham video

Shoreham Chapter 2 – Project focused on reducing oil dependence

August 19, 2011 By Rod Adams 12 Comments

One of the myths about nuclear energy is that it is unrelated to oil consumption because the US does not burn much oil to produce electricity. That may be true today, but it certainly was not true during the two decade long campaign against the Shoreham nuclear power station. As late as 1978, power plants […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Fossil fuel competition, Politics of Nuclear Energy, Shoreham video

Shoreham – Chapter 1 (The Penn Jillette Inspiration)

August 16, 2011 By Rod Adams

Though many casual observers of the nuclear energy industry in the US believe that Three Mile Island and a fear of “The China Syndrome” are the root cause of our 35 year hiatus in new nuclear plant construction, perceptive observers more often point to the Shoreham Syndrome as the more important contributing cause. Shoreham was […]

Filed Under: Politics of Nuclear Energy, Shoreham video, Technical History Stories Tagged With: Shoreham

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