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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Amory Lovins, of the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), one of the anti-nuclear industry’s leading mouthpieces has produced another diatribe against the use of the cleanest, cheapest, most abundant, and most reliable energy source available both now and in the immediate future. You can find this document at http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid1154.php. During the next couple of days, I…
One of the more reliably anti nuclear groups in Canada is the Energy Probe Research Foundation. Here is a quote from that organization’s web site regarding its position on nuclear energy: In the early 1970s, Energy Probe saw nuclear power as a relatively clean and economic alternative to coal, then a highly polluting form of…
While browsing through this morning’s Wall Street Journal (20 January 2009) I could not help noticing the below full page ad from Peabody Coal which claims to be the world’s largest private sector coal company. It was in a prominent location for the the political junkie class – a special Inauguration section that might end…
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…
I am as excited as anyone about the prospects for new nuclear power plants in the United States, but I have also spent a lot of time over the past 17 years trying to understand what went wrong during the first Atomic Age. I fear that some of the same mistakes are being repeated. It…
One of the most popular and well read bloggers on the planet has weighed in with an excellent comment about his reaction to Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”. Here is what Robert Scoble said in his June 25, 2006 post on the topic: That taught me the depth of the problem. We aren’t willing to…