Every once in a while, I like to share this global view of the visitors to Atomic Insights. It is rewarding to know that the discussions we host end up reaching so many corners of the world. It is no surprise that we do not have any regular readers in Greenland or the Democratic Republic…
I love living in an era where we have access to timely videos covering subjects that have traditionally been ignored by the advertiser-supported media. The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) employs forward thinking individuals who recognize the value of communicating without commercial filters. They have created a terrific blog at NEI Nuclear Notes and YouTube channel…
On January 30. 2011, Bill Loveless of Platts Energy Week interviewed Kevin Book of Clearview Energy Partners and Matthew Armstrong of Bracewell and Giuliani to get their reaction to the recent announcement that Josh Fox’s Gasland had received an Oscar nomination for best documentary film. The interview is worth watching, perhaps more than once, to…
(Source: Weekly highlight from Platts Energy Week for February 6, 2011.) Coal is already a global market, but the opportunities for high profits through exports are on the rise. The recent torrential rainfall and tragic flooding in Queensland, Australia caused a significant amount of damage to both the mining and transportation infrastructure. Though the damage…
I just read a BBC Science News article titled Chernobyl birds are small brained. The headline writer succeeded in his job – he attracted me to click on the link and read the article. The person who shared the link on Twitter also succeeded, by copying the link and headline into a tweet, he pointed…
The Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant has been under attack for several years by a concerted, organized effort to force it to shut down. One of frequently employed tactics has been to widely publicize and repeatedly mention any event that puts the plant in a bad light. The tactic of repetition imposes a perception in…
Normally, I am reluctant to simply reproduce a press release, but I figured you might be interested in this one. From the Nuclear Energy Institute: As Texas copes with rolling electricity blackouts and its coldest temperatures in decades, you should be aware that the state’s four nuclear power plants – which have a combined electric…
This morning, instead of getting your daily atomic fix from here, please go to the ANS Nuclear Cafe to read a post titled Nuclear energy is a disruptively cheap and simple way to boil water. I wrote post that while musing on the important role that steam has had in enabling modern societies where machines…
UP 5647 east.Uploaded by BNSFrailfan. – Discover new destinations and travel videos. This might get a little boring. Think about how the people who live next to the tracks feel as they see fuel trains like this pass by with depressing regularity. There are 127 cars full of coal, each carrying approximately 100 tons of…
In contrast to the gullible solar energy promotional article from the UPI that I wrote about yesterday in Gullible Reporting by UPI…, I found an exception bit of investigative journalism at Dailymail.co.uk this morning. The article, written by Simon Parry in China and Ed Douglas in Scotland, is titled In China, the true cost of…
Almost exactly six months ago, the New York Times was taken in by a well-orchestrated media event by NC Warn, an antinuclear activist group, when its editors chose to publish an Energy and Environment Special Report titled Nuclear Energy Loses Cost Advantage. On January 28, 2010, the UPI published a story in their Science News…
I think I will let this one speak for itself. Thank you to Barry Brook at BraveNewClimate for sharing this brief video, created by his sister, Marion. Note: This video has been updated since the initial posting. Marion clarified a comparison that was challenged for mixing primary fuel consumption with electrical power consumption.