The Houston Chronicle reports today that senators are negotiating a possible compromise on climate change legislation to include goodies for nuclear power and offshore drilling. I understand how nuclear power fits into the climate change debate, since nukes don't emit...
Nuclear, coal, natural gas - they're all just different ways of heating water. But oh, those differences. As Luminant and anti-nuclear activists duke it out during the next few years over Luminant's proposed expansion of its Comanche Peak nuclear plant,...
Congressional Democrats have nicknamed their energy proposal ACES (American Clean Energy and Security). But our very own Rep. Joe Barton has an alternate acronym for the plan that would cap carbon emissions: CRAP. That's shorthand for "continue ruining America's prosperity,"...
The two big, round-topped towers of the Comanche Peak nuclear power plant have stood for decades as landmarks over the hills of Somervell County. Luminant, the Dallas-based power-generating company, has a plan to add two more reactors at the plant...
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