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Preemption: Why The State Won't Appeal the Vermont Yankee Ruling 25 Aug 2013 | 07:51 pm
The Crystal Ball Appeals Court Confirms that States Cannot Regulate Nuclear Safety Recently, the Appeals Court ruled that the state of Vermont was trying to regulate nuclear safety. By federal law, ...
Wind Turbine Construction Slows: Guest post by Willem Post 21 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
This guest post by Willem Post appeared as a letter to the editor in our local paper, the Valley News. (I have a subscription, but the letter may be behind a paywall for most people.) Post has allow...
Whack-A-Mole on Anti-Nuclear Claims: Sometimes It's Necessary 21 Aug 2013 | 02:24 am
I think of pro-nuclear advocacy as something better and finer than a game of Whack-a-Mole. You know, the game. You whack down one ridiculous accusation, but two more pop up. It isn't my favorite gam...
Yucca Mountain and Vermont: Scofflaws in High Places 19 Aug 2013 | 05:16 pm
Yucca Mountain Last week saw two court decisions that favored the nuclear industry. Both were about groups (the Vermont legislature, the NRC) that had taken actions that were illegal for them to take...
Vermont Yankee Wins in Appeals Court 17 Aug 2013 | 10:06 pm
We have great news about Vermont Yankee: the appeals court ruled in their favor! The fight has shifted to the Vermont Public Service Board. Your input to the Vermont Public Service Board is still nee...
Comments to the Public Service Board by Tomorrow 15 Aug 2013 | 01:14 am
Important Update Appeals Court Rules for Vermont Yankee! In a sixty-page ruling, the federal appeals court upheld the lower court ruling that the state had overstepped its authority in attempting to...
The Local Scene: Shaffer At ANS Nuclear Cafe 13 Aug 2013 | 08:10 pm
Howard C Shaffer III Today, at ANS Nuclear Café, Howard Shaffer posted about Vermont politics and energy issues--Power Play: People Politics, Electricity, Nuclear. When Shaffer told me he was going ...
Vermont Is Part of the World: Guest Post by N Nadir 9 Aug 2013 | 05:38 am
Reading Prong, in dark pink, from Wikipedia The Prisoner's Dilemma My American Nuclear Society blog post The Prisoner's Dilemma and New Types of Nuclear Energy Reactors was also posted at The Energy...
Curtailment by any other name -- would be ordinary 6 Aug 2013 | 04:16 pm
Time for an opinionated blog post about framing and word usage. Today's weasel-word: curtailment. Lowell Mountain Curtailment Wind Turbines in New Zealand During the recent heat wave, Lowell Moun...
Progressives for Nuclear Progress: Welcome to a New Blog 3 Aug 2013 | 06:28 pm
Welcome to the new blog in the pro-nuclear blogosphere: Progressives for Nuclear Progress. This blog, by Eric Schmitz, has the subtitle: Bringing the American Left on board for a clean nuclear future....
