36th Carnival of Nuclear Energy Blogs --and a Video.

The 36th Carnival of Nuclear Energy Blogs is up at the ANS Nuclear Cafe.

In this Carnival, we learn

• Zion plant may be sold instead of being decommissioned. (Atomic Insights)
• Electric cars are only a small pollution-control advance over gasoline engines if they start with electricity from coal. Electric cars will be a great advance if they start with electricity produced in nuclear power plants. (PopAtomic)
• Popular support for nuclear energy is on the increase in the United States. (ANS Nuclear Cafe)
• Alvin Weinberg's predictions on energy were almost always correct. In this way, they are very different from Armory Lovins predictions. (Nuclear Green)
• Dan Yurman's recent predictions that the Chinese would have to slow their rate of nuclear construction were correct. The Chinese are still building a lot of plants. They are just not building 80 GWe in 10 years (Idaho Samizdat)
• In Canada, concerns about privatization of AECL are taking a back seat. Plans for a new nuclear plant are moving forward. (Canadian Energy Issues)
• What does the new congress mean for nuclear? It's complicated. (Nuke Power Talk)
• Gwyneth Cravens is visiting Vermont and giving several talks, including one at the State House in Montpelier. (Yes Vermont Yankee)
• Uranium extraction from seawater looks promising (Next Big Future)
• Talking bears are featured in a new video that "paraphrases every conversation I have ever had with an anti-nuclear activist" (Nuclear Fissionary)

The video is excellent, and I share it below. As Dan Yurman describes it in the Carnival:

This video is the perfect vehicle for sending this message and it is all because of monotone. The monotone, unwavering and robotic delivery of the animations inserts a fresh breath of calmness and seeming neutrality to this heated debate.

Come to the Carnival. Learn. Have fun. Watch a video!