Carnival of Nuclear Energy 55

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The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 55 is up at Yes Vermont Yankee.

Atomic Power Review discusses how this is a critical time for nuclear advocacy

As pro-nuclear advocates go, we may find ourselves at a watershed moment when nuclear literacy is in demand, when the NRC is being exposed for what it really is, when the NRC and the EPA might actually be thought of as being at odds (given the CO2 emissions that will increase if nuclear is abandoned) and when little media such as the blog you are reading is getting 1200 page views a day from all around the world, or better. At the surface it seems a bad moment for pro-nuclear advocacy but in point of fact there may be no better hour to act boldly, with confidence that what the public really wants is the truth, and results. something the EPA, global warming advocates, and the NRC cannot hope to produce.

Idaho Samizdat talks about Germanys Nuclear panic attack

In her blog post, Nuclear Power and the Witch Hunt, Margaret Harding shows that the spent fuel pools at Fukushima are a witch story. They didn’t burn, they did run out of water and caused problems for TEPCO, but we should not over-react in the need to “fix” a problem that isn’t there. There is risk that a fix could create other issues.

Saudi Arabia planning 16 nuclear reactors by 2030 and Lithuania building two nuclear reactors.

Desertec is a proposal to build terawatts of wind and solar power in North Africa, which is Libya, Algeria, Saudi Arabia and other countries. This proposal would be to spend $600 billion or more to build wind farms and solar farms in the same politically unstable area where OPEC is now to provide about 17% of europe power needs by 2050. About 110% of the current world nuclear power generation. (2,940 TWh per year). The detailed financial and technical proposal is due in 2012. So currently it is a back of napkin proposal and they hope to progress to vaporware in 2012, all for a bad idea for Europe to fund a solar and wind OPEC by 2050.

Germany and Switzerland make plans to phase out nuclear power. Electricity costs will go up and Germany will depend more on coal and fossil fuel.

German Utility Eon is taking action to recover tens of billions of dollars in lost revenue that will result from the German decision to shutdown nuclear prematurely

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