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Talking about a sputnik moment is a mistake

February 1, 2011 by Dan Yurman
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The reason is you are not looking at the right country when it comes to progress with nuclear reactor technology. The New York Times reported Feb 1 that during the great recession of 2008 the nuclear renaissance in the U.S. went into hibernation. It looks like it is going to stay there for a long time.  The reason is that Congress... [read more]

My Plan for Dealing with Climate Change

October 28, 2009 by Senator Lamar Alexander
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This post is based on my opening remarks at the beginning of the hearings on the Boxer-Kerry Bill in the Committee on the Environment and Public Works on Tuesday, Oct. 27. I have no problem with the problem; my problem is with the proposed solution. The National Academies of Sciences of eleven industrialized countries, including the... [read more]

Nuclear power: An inconvenient solution?

October 5, 2009 by Marc Gunther
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Renewable energy threatens the planet. Who knew? Our nation runs the risk of damaging the environment, in the name of saving the environment. There are negative consequences from producing energy from the sun, the wind and the earth. So, at least, said Lamar Alexander, the Republican senator from Tennessee and a long-time... [read more]

Miners Who Blow Up Mountains are Mad at Senator Alexander. Wonder if His 100 Nuclear Plants in 20 Years Goal is Part of the Reason?

July 26, 2009 by Rod Adams
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According to a July 26, 2009 article in the Washington Post titled Miners Boycott Tenn. Over Alexander's Bill: It Would Ban Mountaintop Removal, a group of coal miners from West Virginia have decided to quit visiting Dollywood and the Knoxville Zoo in an attempt to show their displeasure with Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN).... [read more]

Sen. Lamar Alexander’s nuclear energy speed run

July 18, 2009 by Dan Yurman
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Is there climate change compromise coming in the Senate? Even if you’ve been ignoring energy issues being debated in Congress, you are unlikely to have missed the repeated media reports that Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) (right) is advocating the U.S. build 100 nuclear plants in the next 20 years. Just so you get the complete picture... [read more]