According to Duke Energy Corp’s CEO Jim Rogers, his company may be gearing up to construct a nuclear power plant in Ohio. This would give the region a source of carbon-free electricity at a time when demand for electricity is on the rise.
 
Such a venture by Duke Energy Corp has required it to join forces with French nuclear company Areva SA and the American companies USEC Inc and UniStar Nuclear Energy. If everything with the project goes well, the region could see a dramatic improvement in the local economy, with millions of dollars and thousands of jobs being pumped into …read more

This weekend, the nuclear power industry is remembering just how dangerous a field this really is. On March 28, 1979, just after 4:00 in the morning, a series of pumps supplying colling water to a reactor at Pennsylvania’ Three Mile Island shut down. This caused a partial meltdown of the reactor core, which heated up with no cooling water traveling to it. A chain reaction of failures and mistakes led to a bubble of hydrogen gas exploded, causing panic among people living in this region.
I wasn’t alive in 1979, but until about 2 years ago, I lived within an hour …read more