Jack Spencer

Green Energy and Red Tape

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Nuclear reactors are designed to withstand severe weather, earthquakes, even airplane crashes. But how much more handling from the federal government they can endure remains to be seen. Almost since the ...

Feds Fail on Nuclear Waste

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The federal government assumed responsibility for nuclear-waste management more than 30 years ago. The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 created an ostensibly simple system: Nuclear utilities would pay the ...

Re: Will a Green China Lead the Way?

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I must take exception to Jerry Taylor’s claim that nuclear power is not economically competitive or that investors are afraid of the technology. Nuclear plant construction hasn’t been stymied by ...
Politics & Policy

On The Pulse

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Do you know that one missile, properly targeted, could degrade the electronic grid of the entire continental United States? Do you also know that even North Korea has weapons capable of ...