January, 2008

One of my old favorites in the Blogosphere is James Lileks. In today's Bleat , he gets around to redefining some old and cherished political ideas: Nuclear power is progressive; the status quo, in place for twenty years, still thinks “The China Syndrome” is a documentary. I know it’s a different...

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Rob Johnston put together some great nuclear myth-busting in anticipation of the UK's "green light to the building of new nuclear power stations in the UK." My favorite myth is number 6: 6) Building reactors takes too long This is perhaps the most ironic of the anti-nuclear arguments, since...

Idaho Samizdat is looking hard at build plans in Texas. ...read more

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Slate talked with someone from the American Nuclear Society about it . I think we owe them a favor. ...read more

It’s about that time of the year when the Union of Concerned Scientists comes out with their annual criticisms of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the nuclear industry. After reading their latest critique, “Nuclear Power in a Warming World,” my emotions are mixed. Some of the time I can agree with...

Before the holidays, I forgot to share this clip from NBC Nightly News about the improved prospects for nuclear energy in the U.S.: One quibble: NBC correspondent Martin Fletcher cast the spotlight on opposition to the possible addition of a new reactor at Calvert Cliffs in Maryland. Yet, as we've...

Over at The Atomic Show , our friend Rod Adams interviewed Robert Bryce, Managing Editor of the Energy Tribune on some of the distortions that Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute engages in when he talks about nuclear energy. Give it a listen. For more from our Amory Lovins file, click here...

Yesterday, we shared a video clip of Senator Barack Obama on the stump in Iowa answering a question about nuclear energy. Today, I've got a clip of the winner of the Iowa caucus on the Republican side, Governor Mike Huckabee, addressing the same topic: For our previous posts on Governor Huckabee...

Here's a clip of Senator Barack Obama, out on the stump in Newton, Iowa on December 30: Click here for previous posts concerning the Senator from our archives. ...read more

From the Times-Leader (Penn.): Luis Ramos, who has been the public face of the Susquehanna nuclear plant since 2004, died Tuesday when his 1997 Hyundai Accent swerved off Interstate 80 and onto the median in Foster Township then struck a tree. He was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, which...

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Over at Tech Central Station, Kenneth Green is taking a look at the positions on climate change and carbon emissions among the presidential candidates . Curiously, the words "nuclear energy" appear nowhere in the text. ...read more

Best wishes for a happy and healthy 2008 from all of us here at NEI Nuclear Notes . As many of you no doubt surmised, I was on something of an extended vacation over the Holidays, but now I'm back and ready to start blogging again on all things nuclear energy. Stick with us, new content is on the...