Archive for April, 2011
Chernobyl vs. Fukushima
To learn more information about the accidents at the Chernobyl and Fukushima plants, please take a look at this fact sheet.
The Clean, Safe, Reliable Energy Source We Need: Nuclear Power
By Frank Stewart, President and COO of the American Association of Blacks in Energy and Michael Hill, Executive Vice President of Lincoln University
April 18, 2011
While we each come from different backgrounds and perspectives, we each have been engaged in the national discussion about nuclear energy. We know its benefits – an affordable, available and reliable source of electricity that doesn’t generate greenhouse gases. [read more]
Japanese Nuclear Accident and U.S. Response: Informational Materials
To learn more information about the situation in Japan and the U.S. response, please take a look at this educational powerpoint from the Nuclear Energy Institute.
Download NEI’s Japanese Nuclear Accident and U.S. Response Powerpoint
Gov. Whitman Highlights Safety of U.S. Nuclear Industry
On Monday, April 11, the one month anniversary of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, CASEnergy co-chair Christine Todd Whitman was in New York City for a variety of interviews with top-tier print and broadcast outlets including MSNBC, CNN, TIME and POLITICO. She also discussed the importance of clean, safe nuclear power by phone with key influencers and organizations including Columbia, South Carolina mayor Steve Benjamin and the Georgia Public Policy [read more]
The U.S. nuclear future
Please check out CASEnergy Co-Chair Christine Todd Whitman’s opinion piece at Politico.com on “The U.S. nuclear future.”
Gov. Whitman writes that in light of recent events at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, the stakes for nuclear power in the U.S. could not be higher and supports industry response: providing humanitarian and technical support and conducting a thorough safety review at all U.S. nuclear power plants.
While immediate [read more]
Poll Shows Japan Crisis Has Had Little Effect on Americans’ Opinions of Nuclear Power
A new Harris Interactive/HealthDay poll shows that problems at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan has had little effect on Americans’ views regarding nuclear energy.
Here are some key poll findings from the Harris Interactive press release:
- “The U.S. public is almost equally divided on whether or not more nuclear power plants should be built on American soil, with 41 percent supporting the idea and 39
Keep calm and carry on with nuclear energy
By Jeffrey Merrifield
March 29, 2011
While many are taking measured responses to the recent events in Japan, there has been one predictable exception.
Members of the anti-nuclear community and their supporters in Congress have taken to the media to demand that some or all of our nation’s 104 nuclear power plants be shut down and construction of new nuclear power plants be stopped.
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The U.S. nuclear future
By CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN
March 31, 2011
After helping Japan, we must take steps to review the safety of U.S. plants, the author writes.
As a leading advocate for nuclear energy, it saddens me to see the news from Japan. Nuclear engineers, working under extremely dangerous circumstances, are in an hourly struggle to prevent disaster at that nation’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The stakes could not be [read more]
