Archive for October, 2009
CASEnergy Co-Chairs’ Statement on Climate Change Debate
WASHINGTON, DC, October 26, 2009 – If we are serious about reducing our fossil fuel emissions as a hedge against the negative effects of climate change while meeting our growing energy demands, we must search for practical answers. Any one energy source alone will not solve our challenges. A diverse portfolio of energy solutions that includes and favors all low-emissions technologies, such as wind, geothermal, and nuclear energy is needed. Of [read more]
Nuclear is Clean, Reliable, & Creates Jobs, States CASEnergy Co-Chair During Media Interviews in New York
CASEnergy Co-Chair Governor Christine Todd Whitman traveled to New York on October 20 for interviews with top-tier financial and politically focused media outlets — including, the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, MSNBC’s The Ed Show and Fox Business News’ Bulls & Bears — to talk about the vital role nuclear energy should play as part of a national clean energy mix.
Highlighting nuclear energy’s economic and job [read more]
Editorial: Ban on new nuclear power plants should be lifted
Green Bay Press Gazette (Wisconsin)
October 16, 2009
There’s a growing sense that it’s time Wisconsin lifted what is effectively a ban on the construction of new nuclear power plants.
Our unscientific online readers poll this week yielded nearly 71 percent in favor of lifting the moratorium. Soletski’s approach makes the most sense for now — trying to pass one of the Task Force’s dozens of recommendations as a [read more]
Why a Coal Guy is Going Green
Climate Biz
By Marc Gunther
October 16, 2009
Indeed, Duke is “operating today as if climate legislation has already passed,” Rogers says. The company is investing in nuclear power, cleaner coal, wind, smart grid technology, efficiency and solar energy. Rogers says: “We’re in the most transformative period in the history of the power industry, Our mission is to decarbonize our entire fleet.”
Certainly Duke’s plans are ambitious. The [read more]
Avoid problem of carbon dioxide by building more nuclear plants
The Des Moines Register
By Carolyn Heising, CASEnergy member and Professor of Industrial, Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Iowa State University
October 13, 2009
[Just] about everyone should realize there is only one way to head off the serious environmental and energy problems that this largely untested process could cause – an aggressive combination of energy-efficiency improvements and a major increase in the use of nuclear power…
Congress should support [read more]
A changing climate around nuclear energy
Statesman Journal (Oregon)
By Patrick Moore
October 12, 2009
Oregon State continues to be a leader in the development of advanced nuclear energy plant designs. Researchers there helped develop many of the new safety systems that have been incorporated in the designs of the 25 new reactors in the federal government permitting process. And it is working on a five-year, $6 million grant to help engineer future reactors. [read more]
Yes We Can (Pass Climate Change Legislation)
New York Times
By John Kerry (D-MA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
October 10, 2009
[While] we invest in renewable energy sources like wind and solar, we must also take advantage of nuclear power, our single largest contributor of emissions-free power. Nuclear power needs to be a core component of electricity generation if we are to meet our emission reduction targets. We need to jettison cumbersome regulations that have [read more]
Next wave of nuclear plants will move nation to forefront in clean energy technology
Allentown Daily Call
By Forrest J. Remick, professor of nuclear engineering Penn State and commissioner (retired), U.S. NRC
October 7, 2009
In an era with public anxiety over global warming, nuclear power is looking better; it has shown that it can reduce the carbon dioxide emissions that some link to climate change. Nuclear power plants produce 70 percent of this country’s emission-free electricity. In recent years the 104 [read more]
Fla. town warms up to proposed nuclear plant
Associated Press
October 6, 2009
Jobs are a big reason most residents favor Progress Energy’s plan to build the nation’s first nuclear power reactors since the Watts Bar plant in Tennessee came on line in 1996 — even if it brings some environmental risk.
“There’s an awful lot of hope here,” said Bill Lake, the mayor of this village of 1,700 residents about 90 miles north of Tampa, where [read more]
Nuclear to Help Power Pennsylvania’s Clean Energy Future, Says CASEnergy Co-Chair
In Philadelphia on October 1, CASEnergy Co-Chair Dr. Patrick Moore was the featured speaker a Pennsylvania Energy Alliance luncheon – an event that included members of the PA Energy Alliance and the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. During his presentation, Dr. Moore highlighted the important role that nuclear power can play in helping Pennsylvania and the United States meet goals to increase the percentage of energy that comes from clean [read more]