Nuclear Energy

Ralph Nader's Conservative Argument Against Nuclear Power

西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Conservative P. E. Hodgson's making of the liberal, statist argument for nuclear power — The Politics of Nuclear Power — brings to mind the conservative, anti-statist argument against nuclear energy made by the man who got my vote last year, Ralph Nader , whom I quoted in a post entitled Atomic Corporate Socialism as observing that "the atomic power industry does not give up... as...

Spain goes halfway on nuclear power

Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | yesterday

Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's decision to keep a small nuclear plant operating has been criticized on both the right and the left.

US nuclear expert, Napocor to discuss possible revival of BNPP

Positive News Media (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

MANILA, July 6 (PNA) -- A United States expert on nuclear energy is now in Manila to explain issues surrounding the possible revival of the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) in Morong, Bataan.

Nuclear weapons: Global Zero is coming

Nouslife (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

"out of the spotlight, Global Zero, a new alliance of prominent diplomats, military and civic leaders, is beginning to persuade the nuclear powers that there is only one answer to solve this crisis: the elimination of all nuclear weapons.Presidents Obama and Medvedev are meeting next week. Let's call on them to put their historic pledge into action and lead global efforts to achieve a nuclear

Kicking The Nuclear Habbit

FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | yesterday

Why We Need a World Free of Nuclear Weapons By Lawrence S. Wittner June 22, 2009 Courtesy Of Waging Peace This article was originally published by the History News Network With President Barack Obama and other world leaders now talking about building a nuclear-free world, it is time to consider whether that would be a good idea. Six reasons for supporting nuclear abolition are particularly cogent....

Nuclear plant shuts down after second mishap

Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | yesterday

A controversial German nuclear power plant at the center of a national energy debate has been forced to shut down again following a second mishap.

Deciding What Iran Can Have and Not Have

Campaign For Liberty Blog (Free subscription) | 49 minutes ago

By Doug Bandow President Barack Obama has declared that he can't accept Iran becoming a nuclear power. Reports antiwar.com : In the latest sign that the administration is ratcheting up anti-Iran rhetoric in the wake of the disputed election in that nation, President Obama declared in an interview today that he is "not reconciled" to the notion of Iran having nuclear weapons within a year...

Couldn't hit the side of a barn? Well...apparently yes you can! And, a mentally ill man bombs out.

I Ain't Afraid of No Daleks (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Just when i thought that this place I live in couldn't get more full of thick people...in the paper this morning was the news that some drunken tourist riding around in the mountains north of here, drove his car...into the side of a big stinking red barn! Gives new meaning to the saying, "couldn't hit the side of a barn." Well, apparently you can--if you're a drink driver. Apparently, the...

Cap-and-trade plan could cost northern Kansans more

Kansas City Star (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

WICHITA | Unless changes are made, a proposed cap-and-trade system would mean coal-dependent northern Kansas utility customers would face higher rate increases than their nuclear-power using neighbors to the south. The systems proposed in Congress would force utilities to reduce their emissions or pay extra for pollution credits.

• Cap-and-trade plan could cost northern Kansans more - kansascity.com

Obama's bizarro-world Iranian policy

Vacuum Energy (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

President Obama's original foreign policy with respect to Iran was based on the principles that Iran was a "normal" power that could be usefully negotiated with and that the United States was not going to "meddle" in Iran's internal affairs. The recent Iranian electoral protests created a shift in that policy. The United States would present Iran with some criticism of its internal...

Procedure Writer/D.O.E. Cleared — New Mexico

Writer's Resource Center (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

Perform alteration of technical and administrative procedures and develop new procedures in accordance with project requirements. Must have at least 7 years of recent experience in the preparation of procedure alterations and development of new procedures in a DOE facility and/or nuclear power plant. Must be able to obtain security clearance by [...]

Iran update

Mabinogogiblog (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

Useful BBC review of the current Iran situation. It is all down now to internal politicking in Iran's elite. By no means all Iranian politicos accept that AhmadiNajad's election was fair. We shall see what emerges. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia has given Israel the nod in case they need to use Saudi airspace in an attack on Iran's nuclear facility. Apparently the Syrians also would not be displeased if...

US Electricity Production Cost Graph From 1995 - 2008

Atomic Insights Blog (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

One thing that continues to befuddle me is the consistently repeated myth that nuclear energy is expensive energy. I want you to take a hard look at the above graph. It is a slightly modified version of the original which can be found buried several layers down at the NEI web site under the heading of Resources and Stats. The major change that I made was to alter the background to make the lines show...

UK households face rise in energy bills

www. echarger.co.uk - ( weekly blog updates on solar /... (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago

Consumers will have to pay hundreds of pounds more on their electricity bills in future because the Government has failed to invest enough in cheap alternative sources like wind and solar power, the Royal Society has warned. The UK Government has committed to cutting greenhouse gases by 80 per cent by 2050 to tackle climate change. Most of the cuts will have to come from switching from fossil fuels...

Montgomery Burns on the BBC

PhotoReflect (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago

click photo to enlarge The Reith Lectures is an annual series of radio lectures on BBC radio given by a person of national or international standing. This year Montgomery Burns, the owner of Springfield nuclear power plant on the TV cartoon show, The Simpsons , was invited to address the nation on the subject of "A New Citizenship". If you find it hard to believe that a figment of Matt Groening's...

Hooking up the new power sources to the grid

www.carbonfreeenergy | 06/20/2009

National Grid PLC chief executive Steve Holliday has acknowledged that connecting new nuclear power stations and offshore wind farms to the UK's electricity network would require over £1 billion a year additional investment from 2012 onwards. The utility is already investing the majority of its planned £18 billion program to 2012 in the U.K. "If you look at the plan for new nuclear and the offshore...

Wind, Water And Sun Beat Biofuels, Nuclear And Coal For Clean Energy

www.carbonfreeenergy | 06/19/2009

The best ways to improve energy security, mitigate global warming and reduce the number of deaths caused by air pollution are blowing in the wind and rippling in the water, not growing on prairies or glowing inside nuclear power plants, says Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford. And "clean coal," which involves capturing carbon emissions and sequestering...

New Wind Turbines for 11 Minnesota Cities

www.carbonfreeenergy | 06/13/2009

This summer, Anoka, Buffalo, North St. Paul and 8 other Minnesota cities are gearing up for the production of wind energy . They will use recycled turbines for this purpose. In Buffalo, the work will start from June. After the completion of this project Buffalo will have the honor of the first city with one of the 115-foot-tall turbines among the 11-member cities of the Minnesota Municipal Power Agency...