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When nuclear is closed in California, what takes its place?
What replaced San Onofre? Nicholas Thompson It sounds like a pretty simple question, and the answer is actually pretty simple. To the first order, San Onofre, a low carbon nuclear facility in...
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Did Dr. Mark Z. Jacobson just call anyone supporting nuclear energy a zealot?
Recently, Jesse Jenkins, a PhD student at MIT studying decarbonization pathways, was blocked on twitter by Dr. Mark Z. Jacobson. Dr. Jacobson has made it a habit to block seemingly anyone who disagrees...
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For Clean Energy Standards, New York is Leading the Way
Photo by David Lassman/The Post-Standard New York State’s Department of Public Service has put forward a Clean Energy Standard proposal that values renewables and keeps existing low carbon nuclear...
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A Response to Lawrence, Sovacool, and Stirling.
Introduction A few months ago I read a paper, “Nuclear energy and path dependence in Europe’s ‘Energy union’: coherence or continued divergence?” and after reading it, I wasn’t sold. Their fundamental...
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Last month I wrote a response to a paper written by Dr. Andrew Lawrence, Dr. Benjamin Sovacool, and Dr. Andrew Stirling. If you haven’t read that, here is a link to that analysis and response. Since...
View ArticleOLC Memo on Form and Legality of President Trump’s Executive Order
Last week, President Trump announced the Executive Order entitled: “PROTECTING THE NATION FROM FOREIGN TERRORIST ENTRY INTO THE UNITED STATES”. The Office of Legal Counsel reviewed this order, and I...
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Is Nuclear Energy going the way of the Concorde?
They don’t exist unless they make money. Some people don’t like that idea, but that’s a fact of life, they are there to make money. And if they are making a product that doesn’t make them money,...
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