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• Joe Romm's Emotionally Charged Anti-Nuclear Pitch at Huffington Post

  Joe Romm, an Amory Lovins protege and strongly partisan anti-nuclear activist who claims to be concerned about climate change, has published an emotionally charged diatribe at HuffingtonPost.com against the very idea that the US Senate included emission-free nuclear power in its list of clean energy sources eligible for loan guarantee programs under the stimulus bill . Comments are encouraged on Huffington... Posted Feb 03 2009, 01:22 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Politics and Nuclear Power, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Power Plant Costs, nuclear waste

• Tactical Use of Deceptive NIMBY Actions

  A recent story by Emily Lambert in Forbes titled Nimby Wars caught my eye while doing some dead tree reading. (I confess; I have subscriptions to a fairly large number of print publications and sometimes leave my computer screen to read them.) The story is about an experienced political operative with the misnomer of Mike Saint who runs a company called Saint Consulting that sells his expertise, and... Posted Feb 01 2009, 10:59 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Politics and Nuclear Power, Nuclear Technology, Nuclear Energy, nuclear waste, nuclear poll, anti-nuclear activists, nuclear fuel, Nuclear Renaissance

• 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

• Nuclear "Waste" versus Fossil Waste - comment on Daily Source Code 767

  On the June 10, 2008 episode of the Daily Source Code, Atomic Rod (that's me) payed a visit to rant about the fact that we have been conditioned to consider nuclear waste as an unsolvable problem while we have also been conditioned to simply accept and deal with the deadly waste products that spew out of smokestacks and tailpipes in our fossil fuel based economy. You can find the comment at minute... Posted Jun 11 2008, 05:46 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: nuclear waste