You know, it’s kind of sad that no one is willing to invest in nuclear energy anymore. Wait, what? NuScale Power celebrated the news of its company-saving $30 million investment from Fluor Corp. Thursday morning with a press conference in Washington, D.C. Fluor is a design, engineering and construction company involved with some 20 plants in the 70s and 80s, but it has not held interest in a nuclear energy company until now. Fluor, which has deep roots in the nuclear industry, is betting big on small-scale nuclear energy with its NuScale investment. "It's become a serious contender in the last decade or so," John Hopkins, [Fluor’s group president in charge of new ventures], said. And that brings us to NuScale, which had run into some dark days – maybe not as dark as, say, Solyndra, but dire enough : Earlier this year, the Securities Exchange Commission filed an action against NuScale's lead investor, The Michael Kenwood Group. The firm "misap
Today's Wall Street Journal profiles our friend, Dr. Patrick Moore of Greenspirit Strategies, and highlights his support of nuclear energy.
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You guys forget, actually, if you think its about "leadership coup," you don't have a clue; good leadership makes sense and has the trust and support of its clued up mass membership.
You think "Greenpeace" for clear cut logging or toxic dumping is going to build a mass movement? Ask Mr. Moore how he's doing on that one.
Same's true of his phony "Go Nukes" ad scheme-concocted and funded from the polluters' boardrooms.
If Mr. Moore had a book title to his credit at least we could try to get him on the Colbert Report.
How's "Our Friend the Atom: The Rerun"?
Think he'd be interested? NEI can ghost write it, right?
gunter, nirs