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• Iowa Representative Believes the State Could Use Some Nuclear Power

  Iowa is the corn capital of America which also makes it the ethanol capital, with an annual current production capacity of 1.5 billion gallons of that gasoline supplement. The trouble is that most of the production plants use a lot of natural gas and electricity produced in coal fired power plants. Some Iowans believe there is an alternative that works : How many Americans would risk living in a place... Posted Feb 01 2009, 05:29 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Politics and Nuclear Power, Nuclear Technology, Nuclear Energy, energy supply, engineering, Nuclear Renaissance

• 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

• If the Planet is in Peril - Why Are the Biggest Doomsayers So Focused on the "Cost" of Nuclear Power?

  On January 28, 2009, the Senate Foreign Relations committee invited former Vice President Al Gore in to testify about global climate change at its first major policy related hearing of the current Congress. Through the amazing tool of C-span video, I watched and listened carefully to the entire hearing yesterday morning before going to my day job in Washington. (Yes, I am a wonk, a geek and an insomniac... Posted Jan 30 2009, 12:49 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Uranium, Politics and Nuclear Power, Nuclear Technology, energy supply, nuclear waste, Nuclear Renaissance

• Slovakia Ready on Technical Level To Restart Jaslovske Bohunice Reactor

  The gas crisis in Europe continues. The European Commission has sent a letter to Slovakia requesting clarification for the reason it has announced its intention to put aside its EU the accession agreement. That agreement, despite requests for reconsideration, resulted in shutting down two 408 MWe reactors that had met International Atomic Energy Agency safety standards. The shutdown occurred as agreed... Posted Jan 15 2009, 03:08 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Nuclear Energy, energy supply, Alternative Energy Sources, Russia

• One point of view about Asian energy choices

  Geoffrey Gunn has written a summary article about energy options in the ASEAN countries titled Asian tigers eye nuclear future that provides an interesting perspective. He has a cautious attitude about the technology and its potential for project failures, but he also provides a lot of useful information about the energy supply situation in countries that do not generally make the news in the US. In... Posted Feb 15 2008, 04:16 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: energy supply