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Is it Time for California to Phase Out Nuclear Power?

By Tam Hunt, President, Community Renewable Solutions, LLC, January, 12, 2012 - Italy recently became the fourth nation to pledge to phase out nuclear power since Japan's Fukushima disaster. Italy accomplished this feat by a popular referendum, soon after Germany did the same in its legislature (Bundestag). Switzerland has also agreed to a phase out and Japan itself has agreed to phase out much of its nuclear capacity in favor of renewables and natural gas. more...
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Nuclear-Based Electricity and Economic Theory

By Ferdinand E. Banks, Professor, , January, 10, 2012 - The purpose of this article is to extend the short paper I presented as part of an energy 'debate' at the recent 'Singapore Energy Week'. What I attempted to do in that talk was to call attention to several issues that were not understood by at least one debater at the 'meeting'. This errand was important, because as Marcel Boiteux -- the eminent French economist who at one time was President of Electricité de France -- once remarked: "In the United States (U.S.) and elsewhere, they have succumbed to the dictatorship of the non-nuclear minority." more...
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Chancellor's 'Atomausstig': Implications of Nuclear Abandonment for German (and European) Economy. Will Renewables Help Out In It?

By Karol Mazur, Student, , November, 23, 2011 - Three weeks ago on Friday night in Hamburg, while having a pint of German beer in world-famous St. Pauli district, I met a friend, Michael, an engineer working for one of Germany's leading onshore windmills producers. After a short while our discussion focused on his work and energy economics in Germany after controversial decision of Chancellor Merkel to abandon the power of the atom. In light of it I would like to attempt to sum up current situation of Germany's energy supply-side market. more...
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Will France Also Play the Nuclear Fool?

By Ferdinand E. Banks, Professor, , October, 19, 2011 - Many years ago, although it seems like centuries, I was sitting in a small bar-disco in a town near Stuttgart Germany, talking to an Ivy League type from the same brigade in the U.S. Army as myself, as well as a friend of his who was the son of a former German general, but whose Christian name was definitely American/English. more...
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Germany and the Nuclear Future

By Ferdinand E. Banks, Professor, , August, 26, 2011 - Lets start with the bottom line, or what I usually call 'The Message' more...
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Panic in the Nuclear Streets

By Ferdinand E. Banks, Professor, , May, 26, 2011 -

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Nuclear Power is Dead - Part 2

By Warren Reynolds, Consultant, , May, 12, 2011 - This is a continuation of a two-part series. In Part II, we will discuss: more...
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Nuclear Power is Dead - Part 1

By Warren Reynolds, Consultant, , May, 10, 2011 - The nuclear explosions in Japan put the final nail in nuclear power's coffin¹. In this two part series, Part I will discuss: more...
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On The Sunny Side of the Nuclear Street

By Ferdinand E. Banks, Professor, , April, 12, 2011 - This note is a preview of the keynote address I want to present at the 2011 international conference of the International Association of Energy Economists (IAEE), which takes place in sunny Stockholm this coming June. This assumes that I will be invited to present a keynote address, or allowed to give any sort of address, or for that matter will be permitted to just wander through the corridors of the magnificent building in which those noble proceedings will take place. more...
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