Jim Pierobon is Founder and principal writer of The Energy Fix. He is a policy, marketing and social media strategist who has reported on, testified and consulted about smarter grids, cyber-security as it affects the power grid, fossil fuel shortages, price spikes, energy efficiency and the rise and fall -- and the rise again of nuclear and renewable energy sources.‘Fuel Cycle to Nowhere’ crystallizes the few, expensive options facing U.S. Blue Ribbon Commission searching for nuclear waste solutions
NEW BOOK REVIEW The timing might not have been worse: President Obama deletes funding for the Yucca Mountain high-level nuclear waste repository in Nevada and two years later the Fukushima nuclear meltdown caused by the Japan earthquake and resulting tsunami triggers new alarms over whether nuclear power can be counted on to generate electricity safely. [...]