I came across an article on a web site named Londra Toplum Postasi by a woman named Fazile ZAHIR titled simply Nuclear Power. It is an interesting article that starts off with a rather unsettling description of a nuclear power plant response following an earthquake, but then makes it quite clear that the scenario is not realistic. Check it out!
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American Clean Skies Foundation, Worldwatch Institute, and the U. N. Foundation sponsored a panel discussion titled The Evolving Role of Natural Gas. Panelists include: Holmes Hummel, Senior Advisor for Policy and International Affairs, U.S. Department of Energy Ian Smale, Group Head, Strategy and Policy, BP Dr. J.K. (Jorg) Gigler, Manager, Sustainability and Clean Energy, KEMA…
The Washington Post published an article on July 31, 2007 titled Firm Applies To Expand Nuclear Plant In Maryland. In the article it did not mention that the filing took place on July 13, 2007 according to NRC MEETING AUG. 14 IN SOLOMONS, MD TO DISCUSS REVIEW PROCESS FOR CALVERT CLIFFS REACTOR APPLICATION. I have…
One of my favorite sources of interesting commentary on the energy business is Energy Outlook. It has been on my blogroll for a long time. Here is the author’s profile: Geoffrey Styles is an energy and strategy consultant specializing in the application of scenario thinking for Fortune 500 companies and other clients. In his corporate…
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…
Tim Worstall published an article titled “Nuclear Power and CO2 Emissions” on 1 November 2005. Well worth a read. The topic has been discussed several times before and Tim does an admirable job of trying to be fair to people who baldly assert that nuclear power has measurable emissions of polluting gases that are worse…
On March 12-14, 2008, the Wall Street Journal sponsored an executive conference called ECO:nomics: Creating Environmental Capital. The conference took place at the Bacara Resort and Spa in Santa Barbara, California one of the birthplaces of the modern environmental movement. At the close of the conference, Kimberly Strassel, a Wall Street Journal editorial page writer…