DEBATE OF THE WEEK: SHOULD ATLAS SHRUG?
By William Tucker The Vermont State Legislature has voted not to re-license Vermont Yankee. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection is insisting that Oyster Creek close down if it does...
View ArticleDEBATE OF THE WEEK: WILL THE RENAISSANCE BE ECLIPSED WITHOUT A CARBON TAX?
The possibilities for any kind of carbon economics within the context of a Senate energy bill now seem over. The terminology of “cap-and-trade” has become so poisonous that Harry Reid won’t even...
View ArticleDEBATE OF THE WEEK: IS THORIUM A VIABLE OPTION FOR THE FUTURE?
You don’t have to be involved in nuclear very long before you start hearing about thorium. It’s the other naturally occurring radioactive element that exists in large supplies and can produce nuclear...
View ArticleDEBATE OF THE WEEK: SHOULD THE NRC ADOPT TIME LIMITS?
Last week the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission directed the NRC staff to produce a plan on how to integrate the use of risk insights into the review of small modular reactor applications. The...
View ArticleDEBATE OF THE WEEK: IS NRC CHAIRMAN JACZKO FIDDLING WHILE YUCCA BURNS?
On February 22, 2010, just 21 days after the U.S. Department of Energy formally announced it would suspend the Yucca Mountain national nuclear spent fuel and high-level waste repository project in...
View ArticleTOWNHALL DEBATE OF THE WEEK: HOW DOES NUCLEAR GET INTO THE CLEAN ENERGY...
When the Senate and House reconvene after the November election either for their lame-duck session or the new Congress in January, it’s likely that a national renewable portfolio standard will be again...
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