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Three sobering facts about nuclear waste in the United States. Americans are getting re-excited about nuclear power. President Trump has signed four executive orders aiming to speed up nuclear reactor … Continue Reading This Nuclear Renaissance Has a Waste Management Problem
How do comparisons to railroads and fiber add up? Being an expert in the electricity industry is becoming cool again because, all of a sudden, the link between power and … Continue Reading Is There Really an Energy Silver Lining to a Datacenter Bubble?
(Title inspired by the Beatles. Blog inspired this song sent by an anonymous reader.) Customers can help avoid blackouts if they are given better information and prices. Even if you … Continue Reading Why Don’t We Do It With Demand?
Backers see job creation, but I see high costs for ratepayers. “The project workforce has reached an all-time high with approximately 9,000 workers now on site. With more than 800 … Continue Reading The High Cost of Nuclear Jobs
Governments should use markets and infrastructure to achieve their phase-out targets. I recently spent a week with executives from Electricite de France (EDF). That meant I heard a lot about … Continue Reading Killing Nuclear and Coal the European Way
These are strange times for competitive power markets in the United States. Baseload power plants, many of them nuclear, are reportedly struggling to stay out of the red. About 10 … Continue Reading Is US Climate Policy Killing Nuclear Power?
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