Here is a link to a well reasoned viewpoint from Donald A. Grant, Ph.D., P.E. He is the R. C. Hill Professor and chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Maine.
This piece is recommended reading for anyone trying to understand why so many people are waking up to the importance of nuclear power developments.
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A good friend sent me the link to this well produced video that makes some excellent points. I am fully aware that the source of this video may call into question its veracity, but I have been doing a lot of research for the past year or so and have come to the conclusion that…
A financial industry contact sent me a link to a press release by Yves Marignac, WISE-Paris and Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), asking me if I knew anything about the source. The release was full of lies and half truths about the French nuclear energy success story. Even the headline of the press release…
There have been many analytical reports issued in the 8 days since ExxonMobil announced that it was purchasing XTO Energy, one of the largest independent natural gas producers in the United States, for a total of approximately $41 billion. ($31 billion in ExxonMobil stock plus assumption of $10 billion in XTO debt.) Some analysts have…