WILLIAM TUCKER: Sequestration Follies – Will Nuclear Reactors Start Melting...
By William Tucker If Congress insists on sequestering 2.3 percent of the federal budget, we will be forced to shut down the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and reactors will start melting down next week....
View ArticleWILLIAM TUCKER: Germany’s Paradox – Proving to the World That Quitting...
By William Tucker You wouldn’t think a nation of so many smart people as Germany can boast would get involved in such a hare-brained scheme as trying to shut down the 25 percent of their electricity...
View ArticleWILLIAM TUCKER: Methane Hydrates – The Mystery That Nobody is Bothering to...
By William Tucker Japan startled the energy world this week with the announcement that it has developed a way of harvesting methane hydrates, the “inflammable ice” that has always fascinated geologists...
View ArticleWILLIAM TUCKER: Confronting the New Energy Giants
By William Tucker Several developments this week make it clear that the other two resource giants of the world – China and Russia – are moving full speed ahead even as the President of the United...
View ArticleWILLIAM TUCKER: Living in the Nuclear Past
By William Tucker If you want to see a perfect example of a country living in its past while being upstaged by an upstart country living for the future, take a look at the negotiations going on right...
View ArticleWILLIAM TUCKER: Ted Rockwell, RIP: Nuclear’s Cockeyed Optimist
By William Tucker It is one of the more embarrassing commentaries on current American culture that when Ted Rockwell died on Monday at the age of 93 there was nary a mention of it in any American...
View ArticleWILLIAM TUCKER: Surprise! Surprise! Nuclear Saves Lives!
By William Tucker Last week somebody at NASA finally got around to stating the obvious and breaking the taboo against saying anything positive about nuclear energy. Nuclear has saved an estimated...
View ArticleWILLIAM TUCKER: Bad Week for Biofuels
By William Tucker In the speech I give to energy audiences around the country, I always refer to biofuels as “the stupidest idea in human history.” Now granted, that might be challenged by recent...
View ArticleWILLIAM TUCKER: How to Ruin an Electric Grid — Germany Shows Us How
By William Tucker "Renewables set record in a Germany," says the headline this week. "Windmills and solar panels produced 35,905 megawatts, the equivalent of 26 nuclear plants." Renewal advocates were...
View ArticleWILLIAM TUCKER: Finally, Some Sense from the EPA
By William Tucker Any time you find the anti-nuclear community up in arms about something you know it’s good news. That seems to be the outtake from the EPA’s recent report on how to respond to...
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