{"id":222,"date":"2005-09-28T16:37:35","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T20:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2005\/09\/28\/a-feisty-talk-about-nuclear-power\/"},"modified":"2005-09-28T16:37:35","modified_gmt":"2005-09-28T20:37:35","slug":"a-feisty-talk-about-nuclear-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2005\/09\/28\/a-feisty-talk-about-nuclear-power\/","title":{"rendered":"A feisty talk about nuclear power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1092'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This afternoon&#8217;s panel on the resurgence of interest in Nuclear Power<br \/>\ngot off to a quiet enough start; but climaxed in a few emotional<br \/>\nexchanges among its five panelists shortly before the end.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>An <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">embarrassingly<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">rough <a href=\"http:\/\/media-cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/gems\/sj\/Nuclearpanel.txt\">transcript<\/a><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/media-cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/gems\/sj\/Nuclearpanel.txt\"> <\/a>(as usual, better<br \/>\nones to come) is online.&nbsp; A quick summary<br \/>\n: big power gorups are conflicted; both trying to support their existing<br \/>\npower investments and trying to pursue nuclear and other options<br \/>\nwithout taking on more risk than necessary.&nbsp; Few energy activists<br \/>\n(or policy-makers in the right gov&#8217;t offices!) have the money or<br \/>\nauthority to put their necks out, even when they feel they know the<br \/>\nright technical steps to make.<\/p>\n<p>The big point that noone picked up was <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">nuclear education <\/span>:<br \/>\nhow to educate the public about nuclear power; something which hasn&#8217;t<br \/>\nhappened well.&nbsp; This is also one place where Wikipedia-style<br \/>\nprojects could help immensely&#8230; There wasn&#8217;t enough interest in the<br \/>\npanelist fesponses to tell how much if any they would care for such a<br \/>\ndevelopment.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon&#8217;s panel on the resurgence of interest in Nuclear Power got off to a quiet enough start; but climaxed in a few emotional exchanges among its five panelists shortly before the end.&nbsp; An embarrassingly rough transcript (as usual, better ones to come) is online.&nbsp; A quick summary : big power gorups are conflicted; both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetic-justice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}