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Fix the economy? Simple, let's build 200 "new" nuclear plants!
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Educating the public is critical to advancing nuclear technology
It is very important that we help the public to understand that
new nuclear plants can be "built" in 48 to 60 months when
application approvals are streamlined. The major factors for
delays and overruns have ALWAYS been due to government agencies
and lack of public education. These factors must be addressed in
order to make nuclear investment more practical to the industry
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PAST MEETINGS, OVERVIEWS, CONVENTIONS
Unless we understand the value of nuclear "clean" energy, we cannot
understand its vital importance for America's economic growth. It takes
POWER to run a
BUSINESS and expensive POWER will RUIN any business!
Northern Nevada USNEF Chapter Meeting
Wednesday July 11th, 2012-7:00 PM
Speaker is Dennis Moltz, PhD
Topic
Is “Nuclear Energy around the World
Emphasis on Australia”
King Buffet
3650 Kietzke Lane (next to Jones West Ford)
775 828-7997 King's Buffet
Buffet
is $13.50, includes, beverage, tax and tip.
Notify
the buffet HOST if you are dining or just attending the meeting
The
banquet room is on the immediate right of the entry.
Dennis Moltz, PhD
Dr.
Dennis Moltz
B.S. Chemistry, B. S. Mathematics, Texas A&M
University (1974)
Ph.D., Nuclear Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley (1979)
Speaker is Sharron Angle
Topic
“America’s Vote Fraud Epidemic,
her book Right Angle &
How politics affects Energy Independence”
King Buffet
3650 Kietzke Lane (next to Jones West Ford)
775 828-7997 King's Buffet
Buffet is $13.50, includes, beverage, tax and tip.
Notify the buffet HOST if you are dining or just attending the meeting
The banquet room is on the immediate right of the entry.
Sharron Angle
Sharron Angle will address our group on
America's Vote Fraud Epidemic,
her book “Right Angle” and how politics affects energy independence in
America.
Sharron Angle is the author of
Right Angle: One Woman’s Journey to Reclaim the Constitution. She
currently serves as the Chair of OurVoice PAC (A super PAC dedicated to
election integrity and removing Harry Reid as Senate Majority Leader.) and
Vice President of National Federation of Republican Assemblies.
Sharron Angle was born in Klamath Falls, Oregon on July 26,
1949. Her father worked in the family business, a potato farm in Tulelake,
California, until he enlisted in the Navy and fought in WWII. After WWII,
her father was called up a second time for the Korean conflict. Sharron, her
parents and her three younger brothers moved to Reno, Nevada after her
father's discharge where they owned and operated a small motel for over 20
years.
Northern Nevada USNEF Chapter Meeting
Tuesday APR 17th, 2012 7:00 PM
Speaker is Nicholas Tsoulfanidis, PhD
Topic
“Is Nuclear Power Green?”
King Buffet
3650 Kietzke Lane (next to Jones West Ford)
775 828-7997 King's Buffet
Buffet is $13.50, includes, beverage, tax and
tip.
Notify the buffet HOST if you are dining or just attending the meeting
The banquet room is on the immediate right of
the entry.
Retired Professor Dr. Nicholas Tsoulfanidis
Dr.
Nicholas Tsoulfanidis
Editor of the Journal Nuclear Technology
NE Professor Emeritus Missouri University S&T
Adjunct Professor-University of Nevada-Reno, and University of Utah
Dr.
Tsoulfanidis received a
B.S., Physics, University of Athens, Greece, 1960 a M.S., in Nuclear
Engineering (NE), University of Illinois, 1965 and a Ph.D., in NE,
University of Illinois, 1968. In 1968 he joined the faculty of the NE
program University of Missouri-Rolla, There, he served until 2004 as a
faculty member, Chairman of the Department, Interim Vice Chancellor for
academic Affairs (one year), and Associate Dean of the School of Mines and
Metallurgy for Graduate Studies and Research for more than 10 years. In
addition to his teaching and administrative duties he performed research in
the
area of radiation transport, radiation protection/health physics, and the
Nuclear Fuel Cycle. He has written numerous technical papers and a text
entitled “Measurement and Detection of Radiation”, its 3rd Edition
came out in November 2010; He is the co-author of the book “The Nuclear
Fuel cycle: Analysis and Management”; the 3rd edition of this book will
appear in September 2012. He did consulting work for electric Utilities and
the NRC.
He
received many awards, among them the Glenn Murphy Award (1995) given by the
American Society for Engineering Education [ASEE] for “Outstanding
contributions in the profession and teaching of Nuclear Engineering” and the
Rockwell Lifetime Achievement Award (2010) given by the Radiation Protection
and Shielding division of the ANS. He is a Fellow of ANS.
Since June 1997, Dr. Tsoulfanidis is serving the Editor of Nuclear
Technology, an international technical Journal published by the American
Nuclear Society [ANS]. During the period July 1 2005- July 31 2007 he served
as Interim Chair of the Chemical & Metallurgical Engineering Department at
the University of Nevada –Reno. He is now an Adjunct Professor at UNR and at
the University of Utah.
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Northern Nevada USNEF
Chapter Meeting
Wednesday DEC-7th, 2011 7:00 PM
Speaker is
Retired Navy Commander Kirk Lippold, USS Cole |
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In a TRUNC statement (Tea Party & Republicans Uniting
Nevada Conservatives) Nevada's Economic Future and
Freedom, Lippold said, "I propose a four-point plan for
the economic future of Nevada:
(1)
Open Yucca Mountain. It is a critical facility necessary to
safeguard the thousands of tons of nuclear waste around the
country that is subject to terrorist attack or natural
disaster.
(2) Develop and open a nuclear waste
reprocessing facility, similar to the mixed-oxide facility
in France. State-of-the-art technology exists fo build the
facility and provide our nation with a renewable source of
energy that will last us hundreds of years;
(3)
Build one or more nuclear power plants on the Nevada
national Security Site, formerly the Nevada Test Site.
Modern nuclear power plants no longer require massive
amounts of water to run them. Using the Palo Verde facility
near Phoenix, Arizona as a model one nuclear facility can
provide 3.3 gigawatts of power capable of powering 4.4
million homes . . . more than enough energy to support
Nevada and also provide power to surrounding states at a
profit;
(4)
Make Nevada the Nuclear Education Center of Excellence (NECE)
for nuclear power. Just as the Mackay School of Mines set
the standard for the mining industry, the NECE can do the
same for Nevada in nuclear power.
Given Nevada's history with nuclear weapons and testing, it
is time to shed the yoke of a difficult past and look to the
future of Nevada and the nation. Nuclear issues, starting
with Yucca Mountain, have always been political poison in
our state. Those days are over. Our national security, both
in dispersed nuclear waste products and growing dependence
on foreign sources of energy, must be secured and reduced
with a long-term outlook geared to the future not the past.
The entertainment industry, mining operations, and every
single business in the state will benefit from cheaper
energy costs. The economic future of Nevada beckons, and it
is time for Republicans and others to join together in
demanding a new future for Nevada.
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Northern Nevada USNEF
Chapter Meeting
Tuesday NOV 8, 2011 7:00 PM
Nevada State Senator James Settelmeyer
Tonight’s Speaker:
Nevada Senator James Settelmeyer to address the US Nuclear
Energy Foundation on November 8th. His presentation will be on
redistricting. He was in the legislature for many years before running and
handily winning the seat vacated due to term limits by Mark Amodei, now U.S.
Congressman.
Most media and business organizations are talking about the cost of Nevada
energy being one of the highest in the Western U.S. Naturally this is a
deterrent to manufacturing firms considering relocating in Nevada. Although
the state does have some advantageous programs for business development
these can be reversed by the high cost of energy. Most arithmetic
calculations prove that wind and solar still cannot compete on the
commercial scale of energy production and will serve to ever increase the
cost of Nevada power.
USNEF hopes to point out to Senator Settelmeyer that Nevada pays up to 30%
more for electrical power than many other states. Between 40 and 50% of
Nevada power is purchased from the grid, “we” are not producing our own
power and all of these factors are the reasons for our high cost of power.
The Nevada public, business community, casino industry must all move Nevada
in its “own” direction of energy independence and nuclear power is one of
the answers.
REGARDLESS OF THE YUCCA MOUNTAIN DEBACLE, THE STATE OF NEVADA HAS TO REALIZE
THAT “COST EFFECTIVE” ENERGY AND WATER ARE PRIME FACTORS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH!
US Nuclear Energy Foundation Director, Gary J. Duarte to
Address Rotary Club of Sparks
The Rotary Club of Sparks has invited Gary Duarte to present “A Primer on
Nuclear Energy”
Wednesday, August 18 at the clubs normal meeting at
John Ascuaga's
Nugget
from NOON until 1:30 PM. Duarte’s PowerPoint presentation runs about 30
minutes. It consists of contributed slides from multiple sources, The Idaho
National Laboratory, UniStar Nuclear, AREVA, Entergy, Dr. Bernard Cohen, and
others. The overview covers the start of nuclear energy development in 1949,
and also comments about U. S. states which support, impede, restrict or are
neutral in respect to new nuclear energy expansion.
AREVA, the massive French company is currently under contract with the
Department of Energy to build a new 2.3 billion dollar uranium enrichment
facility next to the Idaho National Laboratory in Idaho Falls, Idaho. It
will require Thousands of construction jobs and hundreds of operating jobs
after completion. We are helping the public understand that although nuclear
plants have high front end capital costs they are not 60 month stimulus
packages, they are 60 YEAR stimulus packages. It’s important that the
public, government and the industry REMEMBER that nuclear is a long term
energy producer.
Senator Lamar Alexander has proposed a mission to develop 100 new nuclear
plants by 2030. The U. S. public support has been growing steadily in recent
years because we have seen the results of many corrections and improvements
in the industry. Public support has also been improving by the advocacy of
small grassroots organizations such as the US Nuclear Energy Foundation.
CONTACTS:
Gary J. Duarte, Director
US Nuclear Energy Foundation 775 224-2089
Sparks Rotary Club
Lloyd Diedrichsen Phone 775 358 2413
Presentation
“A Primer on Nuclear Energy”
North Reno Kiwanis Club
Tuesday August 24 – Noon
Kings Buffet, Kietzke Lane, Reno, NV
Recent Presentations
“A Primer on Nuclear Energy”
Greenbrae Lion’s Club Meeting
Tuesday August 10 – 7:00 AM
Denny’s Restaurant, 205 Nugget Avenue, Sparks
We held our slide presentation “A Primer on Nuclear Energy” with the
Reno Arch Lions Club, a very warm interested enthusiast group,
Tuesday July 27.
“A Primer on Nuclear Energy”
Reno Arch Lion’s Club Meeting
Tuesday July 27 – 6:30 PM
Austin's Restaurant
http://usnuclearenergy.org/MEETINGS.htm
John Weiss 775 853-0160 / Dennis Moltz 775 841-3195, Northern Nevada
Chapter Coordinators
USNEF
John / Dennis
ijohnweiss@yahoo.com
/
dmmoltz@highdesertnuclear.com
www.usnuclearenergy.org
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