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How has the Trump Administration fared in meeting the multiple challenges that have slowed the growth of nuclear energy in the U.S. to a near-halt? And what are the prospects for nuclear energy in a Biden-Harris Administration? It’s time to nuke the anti-nuke crowd, and it seems to be happening.
It is now seventy-five years since the U.S. ended the war against Japan by dropping nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (both currently thriving). Eight years later, President Eisenhower, in his world-famous “Atoms for Peace” speech before the United Nations, invited citizens to the debate over using nuclear science and technology for power generation.
Experts agree the tide has turned in nuclear power’s favor, but obstacles remain
How has the Trump Administration fared in meeting the multiple challenges that have slowed the growth of nuclear energy in the U.S. to a near-halt? And what are the prospects for nuclear energy in a Biden-Harris Administration? It’s time to nuke the anti-nuke crowd, and it seems to be happening.
It is now seventy-five years since the U.S. ended the war against Japan by dropping nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (both currently thriving). Eight years later, President Eisenhower, in his world-famous “Atoms for Peace” speech before the United Nations, invited citizens to the debate over using nuclear science and technology for power generation.
Commentary: Not the primary skillset
Special to The Enterprise
President-elect Joe Biden’s decision to nominate Jennifer Granholm former governor of Michigan, lawyer, politician and television host to be the next secretary of energy is curious.
The idea circulating is that her primary assignment, in Biden’s mind, will be to speed Detroit’s development of electric vehicles.
That is hardly the job Granholm will find confronting her when she heads to the seventh floor of the Forrestal Building, a bare-and-square concrete structure across from the romantic Smithsonian Castle on Independence Avenue in Washington.
Secretary of energy is one of the most demanding assignments in the government. The Department of Energy is a vast archipelago of scientific, defense, diplomatic and cybersecurity responsibilities. Granholm’s biggest concern, in fact, won’t be energy, but defense.
Sunday news shows in RI, Dec. 20, 2020 The Providence Journal
Gov. Gina Raimondo.
The founders of Knead Doughnuts; Lisa Raiola of Hope & Main.
In the Arena (7 a.m., Ch. 6)
Reporters Ed Fitzpatrick and Dan McGowan of the Boston Globe discuss the state of local journalism in Rhode Island, the new leadership coming to the State House and the possible end of the pandemic.
State of the State (8 a.m., Cox Ch. 13, Verizon Ch. 32 and Full Channel Ch. 9)
Ray Rickman, former legislator and political activist, receives the Frederick Douglass Award. Brenda Jacobs of R.I. Revolver and Rifle Association discusses the Gun Safety Report.