NEI Nuclear Notes

From Duke Energy’s CEO Jim Rogers : "We do need to pause, we need to learn the lessons, we need to implement them," he said. "But I think at the end of the day our industry's prepared to do that. More importantly, we need to start building new nuclear in this country because we're going to start retiring our nuclear plants as early as 2019." He’s right. After all: "Do you think China is going to slow down on any of its 24 reactors (under construction), or India, or Abu Dhabi? No." That’s the spirit of competition! --- When an anti-nuclear advocate changes his mind in part due to Fukushima Daiichi, there’s just no stopping him : Over the last fortnight I've made a deeply troubling discovery. The anti-nuclear movement to which I once belonged has misled the world about the impacts of radiation on human health. The claims we have made are ungrounded in science, unsupportable when challenged, and wildly wrong. We have done...