After posting my comment about the Washington Times review of Jeff Goodell’s “Big Coal”, I wanted to find a different point of view.
Google found a good one at Sustainablog: Big Coal: Empire of Denial published back on June 4, 2006. Sorry I missed this one when it was written, I could have had the book read by now.
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The UAE is one of the world’s most richly endowed oil and gas producers, but it has recently signed a contract with a consortium of South Korean manufacturers to build 4 large (1400 MWe) nuclear power plants to supply the electricity baseload in the country. This decision is completely rational. The UAE has a growing,…
As I told you in my last post, I attended the first ever Young Professionals Congress, A Hitchhiker’s Guide to a Career in Nuclear meeting today. The diverse group of about forty – about half of them women – nuclear professionals and students included people associated with national laboratories, universities, power plants, corporate headquarters, power…
In a shocking development, (tongue firmly planted in cheek there) the Wall Street Journal has published a lengthy article by Rebecca Smith discussing the potential that the Nuclear Renaissance might be derailed because of rapidly escalating cost estimates for new nuclear power plants. You can find the article at New Wave of Nuclear Plants Faces…
On 2 January 2006, Deutsche Welle published an article on their web site titled Gas Dispute Reignites Atomic Energy Debate. In that article, the German Economics Minister, Michael Glos, is described as wanting to initiate a discussion about Germany’s planned shutdown of its nuclear power plants. He is careful to indicate that he does not…
A mailing list that I subscribe to sent out a link to a document that should be required reading – with a later test – for all presidential hopefuls. It is a comprehensive statement on nuclear policies issued by President Gerald Ford on October 28, 1976. For those without an immediate understanding of the importance…
On Tuesday 28 June, Rep Bernard Sanders I-VT introduced an amendment to the foreign aid bill that would prevent the Export-Import Bank of the United States from lending $5 Billion to Westinghouse that is intended to finance the sale of nuclear reactors to China. The Sanders amendment to H.R.3057 was passed by a 313-114 vote….
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