I'm sure by now many of you have seen the video produced by NukeFree.org, starring Bonnie Raitt, Graham Nash and Jackson Browne -- some original no-nukers -- asking Congress to alter language in legislation that makes provisions for loan guarantees supporting new nuclear plant construction. Click here for a CNN op-ed.
Here at NEI we had a good laugh over some of their claims and decided to do something about it. So I got together with Elizabeth King, NEI's manager for economic policy -- it's safe to say she's a loan guarantee expert -- to record the following video response:
Perhaps we should be cheered that others have seen the video, and are less than impressed.
UPDATE: More folks who are less than impressed with what they've seen:
The Fourth Checkraise
The Pajamahadin
Instapundit
We should probably note that it was Rod Adams who had us pegged first. Click here too.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Here's an interesting wrinkle: The CNN.com commentary that the musicians and Harvey Wasserman wrote is now closed to comments. I submitted an edited version of our video to them as a response. I wonder if they'll use it.
Here at NEI we had a good laugh over some of their claims and decided to do something about it. So I got together with Elizabeth King, NEI's manager for economic policy -- it's safe to say she's a loan guarantee expert -- to record the following video response:
Perhaps we should be cheered that others have seen the video, and are less than impressed.
UPDATE: More folks who are less than impressed with what they've seen:
The Fourth Checkraise
The Pajamahadin
Instapundit
We should probably note that it was Rod Adams who had us pegged first. Click here too.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Here's an interesting wrinkle: The CNN.com commentary that the musicians and Harvey Wasserman wrote is now closed to comments. I submitted an edited version of our video to them as a response. I wonder if they'll use it.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOjjCWzcj_A
Basically, he has three points:
1. Nuclear power is uneconomical
2. Nuclear power plants are a safety risk due to terrorism, design problems, and human incompetence
3. There is no solution to nuclear waste
Given my own area of expertise, I'm sure that RosEnergoAtom will be taken by surprise by all three of these "facts"- or Wasserman's claim that the first nuclear power plant opened in 1957 (Every Soviet schoolchild knows that the world's first atomic power plant was built in the USSR in 1954!).