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• Sierra Club's Anti-Coal Efforts - No Mention of the Atomic Alternative

  It continues to frustrate me that mainstream environmental groups cannot bring themselves to change their political alignment to include acceptance that nuclear fission power is a real alternative to fossil fuel combustion. I feel like I have so much in common with most members of the Sierra Club - I love the mountains, spend as much time as possible in the great outdoors, want to protect our national... Posted Feb 16 2009, 04:50 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Politics and Nuclear Power, coal, Clean and Safe Energy

• 2000 Words About Quitting Coal From the New York Times - Only Tiny Mention of "Nuclear"

  Melanie Warner wrote a 2000 word article for the business section of the New York Times titled Is America Ready to Quit Coal , that was published online on February 14, 2009. (There is also a note on the article that indicates that a version of it appeared in the print edition on February 15, 2009 on page BU1.) The article focuses on the challenges faced by utility companies like Duke Energy to build... Posted Feb 16 2009, 03:07 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Politics and Nuclear Power, coal, Clean and Safe Energy

• More Completely Unfounded CCS Assertions from "Energy Experts"

  The Guardian UK Observer has an article in the February 15, 2008 edition titled Coal at centre of fierce new climate battle . According to this article, some energy "experts" believe that countries like China and India are destined to burn coal in ever increasing quantities simply because it exists. But last week British energy experts warned that a system of carbon taxes had little chance... Posted Feb 15 2009, 07:38 PM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Politics and Nuclear Power, China, coal, Clean and Safe Energy, India

• Shell CEO Damns Nuclear With Faint Praise

  English majors are notorious for reading between the lines and coming up with character motivation theories that are not supported by the text on the page. That is one reason I thoroughly enjoyed my undergraduate education - it was fun to try to find the underlying story while most of my engineer friends were crying out in frustration as the humanities professors graded their analysis as shallow. Here... Posted Feb 15 2009, 07:20 PM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Politics and Nuclear Power, Clean and Safe Energy, Oil

• James Lovelock Provides "Fantasy" Story Line - Russian Oil and Gas Behind Litvinenko Murder by Polonium

  In the Sunday, February 15, 2009 edition of TimesOnline (London) , James Lovelock leads off a column supportive of nuclear power with a hypothetical story line. His hypothesis, nearly as interesting and potentially as conception altering as his famous Gaia theory, is that creative writers missed an opportunity for a believable thriller by failing to explore the possibility that Russian oil and gas... Posted Feb 15 2009, 05:39 PM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Politics and Nuclear Power, coal, Clean and Safe Energy, nuclear myths

• More Than Two Sides to Indian Point Nuclear Plant Discussion

  Peter Applebome has been writing about the controversy surrounding the Indian Point Nuclear Plant relicensing effort for several years. In the Saturday, February 14, 2009 , issue of the New York Times, in the Our Towns section, you can find his most recent piece titled Indian Point And a License To Disagree . After reading that article, I decided it was time to return to an old Atomic Insights tradition... Posted Feb 15 2009, 05:13 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Politics and Nuclear Power, Clean and Safe Energy, new york

• More time reading than writing today - India, Texas, Vermont, South Carolina, and Neo-Cons

  I have spent the last few hours reading some interesting, sometimes detailed articles about nuclear power in India, Texas, Vermont and South Carolina. I also re-read a thought provoking article about how the neo-cons "killed" nuclear power. Though the author of that article used the word "killed", I think she would agree that it is too strong of a word; more accurately, the neo... Posted Feb 13 2009, 04:42 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Politics and Nuclear Power, coal, Clean and Safe Energy

• When ExxonMobil Talks, People Should Listen

  No matter what you might think about ExxonMobil's product, you should take a hard look at their business results and recognize that the company is very good at what it does. The people in charge there look far into the future and deep into the past. They know their product, they understand the market, and they consistently deliver exceptional cash flow and profit results. With the exception of... Posted Feb 01 2009, 03:07 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: new nuclear plants, Nuclear Energy, Energy Budget, energy supply, Clean and Safe Energy, Education, engineering

• Capitol Valley interviews Dr. Patrick Moore in Washington, DC

  Dr. Patrick Moore of the CASE (Clean and Safe Energy) Coalition is a former Greenpeace leader who is now a strong pro-nuclear power advocate. The popular blog Capitol Valley - Views on technology and public policy from both coasts recently interviewed Dr. Moore in a Dupont Circle cafe. You can read the comment and hear clips from the interview at Everything Old is New Again: From "No Nukes"... Posted Mar 20 2008, 07:06 PM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Clean and Safe Energy