Monthly Archives: May 2010

America Speaking Out Submission Errors for Nuclear Energy

The America Speaking Out website is responding with erroneous errors when trying to submit ideas pertaining to new nuclear construction.

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Republicans Launch Site to Get American’s Feedback

Republicans launch a website to get feedback direct from Americans. Let your lawmakers know that you want more clean, safe, and reliable nuclear energy.

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PopAtomic and the Right Brained Nukes

Suzanne Hobbs, founder of PopAtomic Studios has relaunched her website as the movement to marry fine art and nuclear energy gains momentum.

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US Government Loan Guarantees for New Nuclear Construction

Explaining why Government loan guarantees made to utilities with qualifying projects under Title XVII of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 are not subsidies.

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Help From Outsiders

Edward Carr’s quote promotes the idea that there is plenty of potential contributions to nuclear energy from outside the nuclear industry.

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Antinuclear Spin Machine Exploiting Fossil Fuel Disasters

The antinuclear sharks smell blood (oil) in the water and are scrambling to use the many fossil fuel tragedies of 2010 to advance their short-sighted agenda.

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President Obama: Unexpected Nuclear Supporter

President Barack Obama surprised conservatives when he announced a loan guarantee for two new nuclear reactors at the Vogtle Plant in Georgia. I suppose even my staunchly conservative self can praise him for that.

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Response to Charles Faddis’ Op-ed in the New York Times

Charles Faddis’ Op-ed in the New York Times, though well-intentioned, lacks technical merit and makes it seem like it would be easy for terrorists to cause a plant meltdown. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

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Rod Adams Defends Nuclear on Bloggingheads TV

After watching a video debate about nuclear power on Bloggingheads.tv Rod Adams stepped in to strengthen the pronuclear position.

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Nuclear Fission for Dummies: Xenon-135

Xenon-135 is a neutron absorbing isotope that can cause big problems in a nuclear reactor. It can cause power to seemingly rise or drop all by itself.

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