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In my new energy economics book (2013), the words "lies" and "misunderstandings" are found several times in almost every chapter. I may also have mentioned (once again) that many years ago I took a stroll through wonderful Vienna with some sort of Japanese insider, who explained to me in a more...
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"Not personal but business" is one of the famous lines delivered by Al Pachino in the film 'The Godfather'. In this short contribution I move in the other direction, because nuclear energy happens to be an essential input for the maintenance of my standard of living. Without it I might more...
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According to the United Nations energy organization (IAEA), statistics indicate that for 2009 and 2010, nuclear reactors in Sweden and Germany managed by the Swedish firm Vattenfall had the lowest capacity factors in the (nuclear) world. Fifty-five percent was the figure given by that organization for the average availability of more...
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In the early summer of 2011 I saw a notice in a Swedish newspaper that the well known nuclear debater, Amory Lovins, had been invited to a large conference sponsored by the Tallberg Foundation. It was to be held at Sigtuna (Sweden), which is located between Stockholm and Uppsala, and more...
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It's not been a good year for nuclear power. A federal court recently found that local storage solutions for nuclear waste, kept currently at each power plant where the waste is produced, have not been shown to be safe. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the federal agency that regulates nuclear power, more...
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For many years I have enjoyed thinking that I know everything I need and want to know about the economics of nuclear energy. But recently I published an article called 'In the head of U.S. Energy Secretary Chu' in the important forum EnergyPulse, and the discussion of my article (and more...
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Nuclear power has demonstrated excellent technical and economic performance in many countries but, like any advancing technology, it continues to chase improvements. The industry's accumulated experience is now being used to develop advanced nuclear power plant designs. With the majority of Generation I reactors developed in the 1950s and '60s more...
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During the 10 years of so that I taught international finance at Uppsala University (Sweden), I made two things clear: I didn't teach nonsense any longer (meaning a large part of advanced macroeconomics), and so whatever I taught had to be learned perfectly. I also informed my students that they more...
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Why the heated attack between the pro-nuclear and pro-renewable energy experts intensifies after the Fukushima incidence? The two groups had been attacking each other for quite a long time. Pro-nuclear group claims that nuclear energy is, and will in the next decades be the cheapest and most reliable sources of more...
According to ExxonMobil's newest energy report The Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040, "By 2040, worldwide electricity demand will be 80 percent higher than it was in 2010," and "electricity generation will account for more than 40 percent of global energy consumption." In light of that projection, two news more...
