Rob Johnston, writing at Spiked, takes apart ten myths popularized by British environmentalists against nuclear power. As many if not all of these myths are promoted here in the U.S., I thought I'd reprint them here, but you have to ...
Physicists Gerald E. Marsh and George S. Stanford, who are the star contributors of our Nuclear Policy Center, have a letter in this week's edition of the journal Nature (Nature 400) . The letter begins: We believe that your worry ...
Those interested in energy development, energy independence, clean energy and/or global warming may be interested in a debate about the advantages and feasibility of nuclear energy ongoing presently in Scientific American and the Chicago Sun-Times. Writing in the December Scientific ...
The National Center's Ryan Balis has suggested I recommended this Miami Herald op-ed by Patrick Moore to blog readers. Moore is a founder of the environmental group Greenpeace. In the op-ed, Moore explains why he left Greenpeace ("By the mid-1980s, ...
In the early days of civilian nuclear power, it was assumed that PUREX -- an aqueous reprocessing method that was used in weapons programs to produce plutonium of the chemical purity needed for bombs -- would be suitable for recycling ...
I'm getting a kick out of May 24 articles in the British newspaper the Independent. It seems that the prominent Greenie James Lovelock has called upon his fellow members of the environmental left to abandon their opposition to nuclear power ...
William La Jeunesse had a report on the Fox News Channel yesterday detailing how anti-nuclear environmental activists are trying once again to shut down America's most environmentally-friendly major energy source. I provide my take on this here. (Just for the ...
BACKGROUND: The Bush Administration is issuing a new rule clarifying what is meant by "routine maintenance" under "New Source Review" provisions in the 1977 Clean Air Act amendments. The 1977 Clean Air Act amendments required power plant and oil refinery ...
BACKGROUND: North America suffered through its largest-ever electrical power blackout August 14-15, leaving tens of millions of Americans and Canadians without power. The blackouts come at a time when passage of an energy bill has been stalled in the Senate ...
Tens of millions Americans got a wakeup call Thursday: cheap, accessible energy isn't something to take for granted. Unfortunately, many of America's most powerful environmental organizations do take energy for granted, and they are trying to set America on a ...
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