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Nuclear energy should be in our future

by Tapan Munroe

August 14, 2008

It is not just a matter of skyrocketing oil prices. The critical challenges of national energy security, the threat of global warming and fading memories of past accidents have mellowed public opposition against a once-scorned form of energy, nuclear power. The presumptive Republican presidential candidate, John McCain has proposed an aggressive expansion of nuclear power with a proposal of building 45 new nuclear power plants across the country in the next few decades. The presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, Barrack Obama, is in support of nuclear power as long as it was safe and cost effective.

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Other Recent Articles by Tapan Munroe:

Fresh wind blowing from Texas oilman - August 1st

Oil price puts solar in spotlight - July 20th

Oil woes deja vu all over again - July 6th

Gas prices may facilitate change - June 22nd

Available in the Fall

Silicon Valley:
The Ecology of Innovation

by Tapan Munroe
and Mark Westwind

published by the
Spanish Association of Science and Technology Parks

This thriving high-tech region in the southern San Francisco Bay Area is a unique economic environment where bold, new ideas compete and then are transformed into products and services that reshape our world. At the heart of this book are the key elements that make up the core of the Valley’s innovation ecosystem.

Available Now

The rush to cash in on the Dot-com Gold Rush was on. But there were serious problems. The dot-com bubble follows the classic pattern of speculative bubbles that economies around the world have experienced for centuries.

Available from
Orinda Books

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