Obama plan biased against nuclear energy Given the urgent need for clean energy to prevent the worst effects from climate change, the United States cannot afford to wash its hands of zero-carbon nuclear power. Yet President Obama’s clean power plan provides no incentives for utilities to build new nuclear plants or renew the licenses of … Continue reading #Obama plan biased against nuclear energy
Are There Safer Ways To Produce Nuclear Energy? While the United States is working to get four new nuclear units up-and-running in Georgia and South Carolina, it is also partnering with China and Canada to operate some highly advanced next-generation nuclear plants. “Molten salt reactors” that burn “thorium” are not only safer but they also … Continue reading Are There Safer Ways To Produce Nuclear Energy?
Should Nuclear Energy Try To Fight The Natural Gas Craze? The nuclear power industry is trying to get ahead of national energy curve — producing a study in advance of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan to cut carbon emissions. The sector’s report sets out to quantify the fuel’s current economic and environmental contributions. At … Continue reading Should Nuclear Energy Try To Fight The Natural Gas Craze?
Theodore Besmann: Nuclear energy best for long-term needs A year remains until the scheduled completion of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Watts Bar 2 nuclear plant. This represents a significant national milestone, as Watts Bar will be the first U.S. power reactor completed in this century. Construction was suspended around 1985 as TVA focused on completing … Continue reading Theodore Besmann: Nuclear energy best for long-term needs
How Much Land Does Solar, Wind and Nuclear Energy Require? ….According to the MIT authors, powering 100 percent of estimated U.S. electricity demand in 2050 with solar energy would require roughly 33,000 square kilometers (sq-km) of land. That’s if we spread solar panels evenly across the entire country. If we concentrate solar production in the … Continue reading How Much Land Does Solar, Wind and Nuclear Energy Require?
Are Millstone’s Nuclear Plants Adding To The Sound’s Warming Problems? TERFORD — The Millstone nuclear plants suck in about 2 billion gallons of seawater a day to cool their reactors and then pump the heated water back into Long Island Sound, a shallow estuary scientists say has been warming for decades. The plants’ operators and … Continue reading Are #Millstone’s Nuclear Plants Adding To The Sound’s Warming Problems?
Department of Energy Taking Comment on Nuclear Fuel Shipment Plan The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) invites the public to read and comment on a draft supplement analysis it has prepared for a proposal to make two shipments of commercial nuclear fuel rods totaling 80 to 100 kilograms heavy metal (40 to 50 kilograms heavy … Continue reading Department of Energy Taking Comment on Nuclear Fuel Shipment Plan
Pro/Con: Indian Point Entergy and the Nuclear Energy Institute, the lobbying group for the nuclear power industry, released the report “Economic Impacts of the Indian Point Energy Center,” urging us to ignore public safety and the environment, and instead focus on its economic value. You don’t get to operate an unsafe or polluting machine, why … Continue reading Pro/Con: #Indian_Point
Why the U.S. should invest a lot more in nuclear research For the past several years, nuclear power has been a focus of sharp disagreement in the debate over climate change. Traditional environmentalists tend to oppose it, while climate trolls argue it is the savior of mankind, only stopped by green ignorance. For all the … Continue reading Why the U.S. should invest a lot more in #nuclear_research
Nuclear energy may have big future in Virginia: study Virginia could supply virtually all of its future energy needs from nuclear power and even become a player in the global market to supply power from nuclear sources, according to a new think tank report released Wednesday. The case for the Old Dominion’s potential nuclear future … Continue reading Nuclear energy may have big future in Virginia: study
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