thenextright.com - 12/17/2008
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President-elect Obama will appoint a reputable scientist and Nobel-winning physicist , Steven Chu , as the new Secretary of Energy. Those of us hoping for more nuclear energy in the US portfolio - it supplies 80% of France's electricity , so at least some on the Left have managed to come ...
washingtonpost.com - 12/11/2008
gristmill.grist.org - 12/10/2008
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gristmill.grist.org —
No, I'm not talking Al Gore. The big
buzz is about Dr. Steven Chu, the Nobel-laureate director...
of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He would be a terrific choice for many reasons, as the Wonk Room has already noted, see " Energy Secretary ...
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A Nobelist for energy secretary who gets both climate ...
blogs.sciencemag.org - 12/11/2008
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blogs.sciencemag.org —
Steve Chu could be a groundbreaking energy secretary
for the energy research efforts of President-elect Barack Obama's...
Administration in several ways. It's not just that Chu will be the first life-long scientist— and a Nobel prize-winning physicist at ...
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Putting the E back into DOE: Three Ways Chu Could ...
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Hope For Nuclear?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Jon Henke likes the rhetoric of Obama's new energy secretary.
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Weekly Standard Blog —
Russia "to give" Lebanon 10 MiG 29 fighter jets.
US Navy's first tail-less, stealthy unmanned aircraft unveiled.
Obama's energy secretary said in 2005: "the risk-benefit equation looks pretty good for nuclear."
Michael Gerson v. John O'Sullivan
Sam Brownback will retire in 2010.
Madoff gave big bucks to Democrats.
Study shows chick flicks destroy relationships. ...
Will Obama Consider Nuclear in Energy Policy?
PoliGazette —
When I first read up on Obama Energy Secretary nominee Steven Chu’s work in alternative energy field, I felt sure that we’d be seeing a real focus on them in an Obama administration. I was sure that a Chu appointment pointed for a decidedly liberal energy policy dominated by alternatives.
Now I’m not as sure.
John Henke at The Next Right notes that Chu has previously given some support for nuclear energy.
He quotes a 2005 interview with UC Berkeley’s Bonnie Azab Powell:
Should fission-based nuclear power plants be made a bigger part of the energy-producing ...
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