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• Lieberman-Warner Requires Some Heavy Nuclear Power Contributions

  Jack Spencer at the Heritage Foundation is one of the more thoughtful analysts that I know when it comes to nuclear power's place in the world's energy mix. He recently wrote a must read piece titled Nuclear Power Needed to Minimize Lieberman-Warner's Economic Impact that dug deep into the numbers and assumptions used in recent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Energy Information... Posted Jun 06 2008, 02:30 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Politics and Nuclear Power

• Proud to be living in Maryland

  Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley (D) made some very useful comments in a recent article in the Washington Post titled 'It Is a Moral Imperative' "It is a huge moral challenge and it is a moral imperative given what massive new burning of coal will do to the planet if we don't develop better and cleaner technology, including safer and cleaner nuclear, which is what is . . . planned... Posted May 04 2008, 04:57 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Politics and Nuclear Power, Maryland

• Wall Street Journal's Environmental Capital blog chats about energy subsidies

  The Energy Information Agency has recently released a report in response to a Congressional request to put numbers on the subsidies provided to various energy sources. The Wall Street Journal's Environmental Capital Blog is discussing that report with a post titled At the Trough: A Peak at US Energy Subsidies . The discussion is currently being dominated by a man who spends a lot of time quoting... Posted Apr 27 2008, 05:59 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Politics and Nuclear Power

• Another Senator for Nuclear Power

  In a recent article titled TVA joins Energy Department in nuclear recycling I found the following section worth noting: "If we're going to have a renewal of nuclear power, which I believe is critically important, TVA can and should play a big role in that future," said Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, energy and natural resources subcommittee member. The goal would be to develop a system of... Posted Apr 27 2008, 03:34 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Politics and Nuclear Power

• Thoughts on government support for nuclear power

  A couple of weeks ago, I got involved in a long conversation on a rather obscure web site when I found that there was some discussion about my repeated questioning of Amory Lovins's academic background. My post about joining the conversation is titled When is ad hominem information relevant to an energy discussion? . Some of you asked why I bothered, but I find it useful sometimes to engage in... Posted Dec 22 2007, 04:31 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Politics and Nuclear Power

• Liberal Democrats easing opposition to nuclear power

  In a December 19, 2007 column in the Washington Post titled A Nuclear Renaissance Ignored Max Shultz of the Manhattan Institute makes the case that the Democratic Party has moved away from the reflexive anti-nuclear position that it held in the 1980s as an official part of its party platform. He cites several examples of changes in planks to the platform and he mentions recent, less dismissive comments... Posted Dec 22 2007, 03:22 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Politics and Nuclear Power