Regarding my post in which I advised the nuclear power industry to “move on from the past,” a reader comments: Craig, it sounds like, “The truth is the best policy.” I have a response from an engineer friend of mine …
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Reader Mike Carpenter asks: Craig: Please look at NuScale Power in Corvallis, Oregon. Thanks very much, Mike. Unfortunately, I’m not qualified to evaluate the merits of individual approaches to nuclear energy. Having said that,
A reader named Barry has been active in 2GreenEnergy since its inception and asks: I had a couple of college professors that told me in 1977 at UCSB that nuclear power was using a flawed theory and that we have …
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Re: my recent post on liquid fluoride thorium reactors, a reader notes: It seems thorium is the best choice, as they become flexible enough to reduce atomic gen-sets down to 20 MW, put anywhere near clean water with 8-10 pre-made …
As much as I stand behind the developers of solar, wind, and any other forms of renewable energy that can be made cost-effective, it appears that we will be unable to turn the corner on the environmental catastrophes associated with …
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For the first time in the history of Hollywood, filmdom is caught in a no-win situation: if Sony Pictures airs its movie exposing the insane brutality of the Kim Jong Un regime, it’s a near certainty that North Korea is …
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I wrote a post recently on nuclear energy and how its advocates tend to denigrate wind and solar. Commenting on it, my colleague Mario Gottfried offers a note about nuclear reactors’ lasting 100 years. 100 years? Obviously, neither Mario nor …
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“It is not enough to succeed; one’s best friends must fail.” – variously attributed to Gore Vidal, La Rochefoucauld, Somerset Maugham, Genghis Khan (pictured), and Larry Ellison People who think this way must have very sorry lives. Personally, I’ll be …
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Here’s a note I sent earlier to a very senior scientist who leads a group of people whose purpose is to re-invigorate the nuclear industry here and around the world. He rests his position on a point with which I …
On the subject of nuclear power, my friend Cameron Atwood notes: The plant designs currently in operation and planned for construction for grid-commercial purposes are inherently unsafe, and not especially cost effective. The waste from the current designs is also …
