tnr.com - 11/6/2009
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Nukes, nukes, and … nukes. These days, when it comes to energy and climate change, that seems to be all Republicans want to talk about. Throughout last week's hearings on the Senate climate bill, Lamar Alexander kept interjecting that a massive ramp-up of nuclear power was the only ...
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Nuclear Socialism
Matthew Yglesias —
... Brad Plumer has an interesting piece about the American right’s strangely passionate love affair with nuclear power and the impact it’s having on the climate debate in congress. What I find especially odd about it is that it’s so at odds with American conservatives’ ardor for the free market. You see this mismatch in a small sense in that their nuclear agenda in congress consists basically of asking for subsidies. But in a larger sense the issue is that the big example one can find of a country living the nuclear dream is . . . France. And it’s not ...
Nuclear Socialism?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Bradford Plumer addresses the conservative love of nuclear power: Many projections for a low-carbon future do envision a supporting role
for nuclear power--indeed, a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gases,
by making fossil fuels pricier, could help usher in the first new wave
of reactors in the United States since the 1970s. But that's not enough
for the GOP, which wants to put nuclear into overdrive. The party's
energy plan, released in July, calls for a whopping 100 new reactors
built by 2030. That's twice as many as even the most optimistic
industry ...
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