Nuclear Policy Outlook - Fourth Quarter 2006
From Vision to Foundation: Ensuring the Workers, Components and Fuel for New Reactors
What will it really take to build new nuclear power plants in the United States? How you answer that question depends on your point of view and how you measure the challenge. The Energy Department predicts demand for significant increases in electricity production—45 percent by 2030. As a result, energy companies are exploring options for new baseload electricity generation, including new nuclear reactors.
Sourse: Nuclear Policy Outlook - Fourth Quarter 2006
Another blogger for nuclear energy
News media that mangle nuclear nomenclature
should be advised . . .
Andrea Jennetta and Nancy E. Roth have launched Fuel Cycle, a blog on nuclear energy.
The bloggers, both veteran journalists and Democrats, hope to help reframe the debate on the role of nuclear in the world’s future energy mix. Accordingly, they say they will take on the inaccurate and skewed depictions of nuclear energy that regularly appear in the popular media, and in the process detoxify the public discourse.
The blog is also about the nuclear fuel cycle especially markets and industry developments globally.
Sounds like a great idea.
Idaho Samizdat ~ http://djysrv.blogspot.com
Sarkozy Conquers the Middle East With Nuclear Energy
That’s right, France is back. After the depressive years under Jacques Chirac, France finally has a leader who wants France to play a major role on the international stage. Nicholas Sarkozy has just signed nuclear deals with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Libya, Egypt, Algeria and Morocco.
Sourse: Sarkozy Conquers the Middle East… With Nuclear Energy
Nuclear Cartridge Reactor to Power Cities
How a nuclear “battery” could provide clean power.
Hyperion Power Generation, a U.S. company, is developing a Jacuzzi-sized cartridge reactor that has the potential to generate 27 megawatts of power, providing electricity to 25,000 homes, for five years.
Hyperion struck a deal with Los Alamos National Laboratory, and with the help of government funds designed to turn technology in government labs into civil applications, set out to develop their “battery”. (more…)
Barack Obama on Nuclear Energy
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.
Sourse: Barack Obama on Nuclear Energy
An indepth overview of nuclear energy and its uses.
Abstract
This paper examines one of the most promising energy resources being currently explored, nuclear energy. It shows that the idea of using nuclear energy is being used to scare mankind, because at the time the only connection one had with nuclear energy was nuclear weapons. In recent years however, there have been efforts to explore the use of nuclear energy for the purpose of sustaining life. While there are questions about its safety and use, it is quickly becoming evident that nuclear energy is going to be the wave of the future. This paper takes the reader on an exploratory journey of the issues surrounding nuclear energy and the positive as well as negative aspects of the topic.
From the Paper
“The first alert came by way of Three Mile Island, in Pennsylvania (Siegel, 1991). The threat of a melt down that occurred there caused a nationwide panic and a first time anger at the fact that law makers had allowed nuclear energy to be used(Siegel, 1991). Just as those concerns finally were laid to rest the incident at Chernobyl occurred. If Three Mile Island was the cake, the accident at Chernobyl was the frosting and after it killed dozens of people, destroyed countless miles of land for the next few centuries and exposed millions to fallout symptoms for the next several generations America firmly put its foot down and began to demand the slow and stopping of all nuclear power activity in the states.
Sourse: An indepth overview of nuclear energy and its uses.
Dispelling Myths About Nuclear Energy and Total Lifecycle Emissions. Again.
Once again, the global anti-nuclear lobby has found a reporter willing to parrot its lies and distortions regarding nuclear energy and CO2 emissions. Stepping to the plate this time is Reuters reporter Nick Trevethan:
Nuclear power’s claim to be the answer to global warming is being questioned by reports suggesting mining and processing of uranium is carbon intensive.
While nuclear power produces only one 50th of the carbon produced by many fossil fuels, its carbon footprint is rising, making wind power and other renewable energies increasingly attractive, according to environmental groups and some official reports.[…]“Nuclear is a climate change red herring,” said Ben Ayliffe, Senior Climate and Energy Campaigner at Greenpeace. “There are safer, more reliable alternatives, like energy efficiency and renewables as part of a super-efficient decentralised energy system.”
What an utter hunk of baloney. Rather than explain things in detail again, here are the links to some previous posts and other relevant information:
The total life-cycle emissions of nuclear energy are comparable to renewables.
Setting the Record Straight on Nuclear Energy and Total Life-Cycle Emissions. Again.
Why Oxford Research is Wrong on Nuclear Energy and Total Lifecycle Emissions
Sourse: Dispelling Myths About Nuclear Energy and Total Lifecycle Emissions. Again.
John McCain on the Stump on Nuclear Energy
From the AP:
Republican presidential hopeful John McCain says the United States needs to reduce its dependence on troubled parts of the world for oil.McCain told about 200 people at the Center for Hydrogen Research in Aiken Monday the United States should look to hydrogen and nuclear power as alternatives.
The Arizona senator says more nuclear power has been stymied by politics. He says an endless political fight over the storage of old nuclear fuel has made it virtually impossible to build a new plant.
McCain called nuclear energy safe and non-polluting.
Sourse: John McCain on the Stump on Nuclear Energy
NJ could learn from Texas Energy Policy
The CEO of the largest energy generation company in the country told me Friday that he has learned his lesson and will never try to build another power plant in New Jersey.
As a citizen of the Garbage State I would like to thank my elected officials for paving the way for further decades of dependence on the noxious black soot we currently get most of our juice from. We will now inevitably be treated to astronomical hikes in our utility bills caused by the need to import electricity from neighboring states that don’t bury their heads in the sand.
This, just as Texas has been chosen for a possible site containing 4,500 Mega Watts of capacity supplied by the new General Electric ESBWR (Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor). Ahem - that is almost 7 times the capacity of NJ’s Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station and features 25% fewer pumps and valves leading to increased factors of safety.
So, New Jersey democrats - when you point fingers at Texas and call them stupid and claim they are behind the times - try to remember they are light years ahead of you when it comes to confronting the energy crisis.
If you want your home state to really do something about energy other than the useless, uneducated banter you’ve been getting for years - then go to the booth and expel these donkeys who take their Q’s from science ignoring environmental dictators who would rather have the grid fail then see clean, safe, virtually limitless nuclear energy in New Jersey.
~Man Overboard
Sourse: NJ could learn from Texas Energy Policy
Dispelling Myths About <b>Nuclear Energy</b>
Utility companies with nuclear experience have sought to purchase existing plants, are upgrading their existing power plants, and are extending their operating licenses so that they can produce more for a longer time. …
John McCain on Nuclear Energy and Yucca Mountain
Senator John McCain is on the campaign trail in New Hampshire talking …
Sourse: Dispelling Myths About <b>Nuclear Energy</b>
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