Llewellyn King is the executive producer and host of "White House Chronicle" on PBS. His e-mail address is lking@kingpublishing.com
Glance up and around and you’ll know the horizon is changing. From Canada to South Africa, Brazil to China, windmills and solar panels are telling…
In engineering there are credible and incredible failures. Nuclear power plants were designed against what was believed to be a “maximum credible accident.” Then came…
California has been devastated by wildfires. The price in human life is enormous – in animal and plant life, too. The level of human suffering…
There are no solutions to complex problems – except when the problem becomes so complex it must have a simple solution. That is the paradox…
War always goes for the infrastructure: take out the bridges, cut off the electricity and water supplies. All that used to be done with artillery,…
One of the frustrating and intriguing things about nuclear energy is that there is no standard design that is essential. For example, if you want…
Call it a tax without tears. It is a proposal to address carbon pollution by replacing a raft of tax subsidies and regulatory requirements with…
Cape Town, South Africa, one of the most beautiful and green cities in the world, will run out of water in April. On “Day Zero”…
Modern life has a woven-in thread of vulnerability that is peculiar to our times: electricity. It’s the cardiovascular and nervous system of life across the…
Connie Francis sang about “Where the Boys Are” in 1961. Well, the bright boys and girls are flooding into transportation. It is the place of…
Electricity, the world’s silent workhorse for a century, is about to conquer new worlds. While electric cars are coming on fast, their acceptance will speed…
Dear Gov. Perry: As the new energy secretary, if you are confirmed, you will have to learn a lot very quickly. The Department of Energy…
In research there is evolution, revolution and sometimes, what I call “retro revolution,” which happens when old methods have new applications. All three are in…
Just when it needs it most, the United States is losing its most potent weapon in the fight against climate change. One nuclear plant has…
The Treaty of Paris, signed in 1783 by representatives of King George III of England and the fledgling United States of America in a Paris…
Bill Richardson could teach Donald Trump something about the art of the deal.He has done a lot of them. Richardson also wrote a book about…
The market is a wondrous place. It ensures you can drink Scotch whisky in Cape Town and Moscow, or Washington and Tokyo, if you prefer.…
Here in the United States, public officials endlessly urge young people to take up engineering as a profession. These “exhortationists” equate the future of Western…
President Obama says otherwise, but he seems to have a propensity for slapping the nuclear industry across the face. When the Obama administration came into…
America's nuclear power industry should be luxuriating in its extraordinary safety record and the fact that it is a carbon-free way to make electricity. But…