AREVA in Funkytown: Bad Quarter or Harbinger of Industry Doom?

Today, French nuclear company AREVA said it expected to post operating losses of about 1.4 to 1.6 billion euros in its 2011 year-end fin...

Closing Up Shop in Germany

Here’s one way of looking at Germany’s decision to accelerate the retirement of nuclear energy facilities: Shares in German power utilitie...

Quick hits: IAEA Confab, AREVA in Japan

This speaks for itself : The International Atomic Energy Agency will host a high-level conference on nuclear safety from June 20 to 24...

35th Carnival of Nuclear Energy – Bullish Views, Big Perspectives and Burgeoning Economies

This week is the 35th week the nuclear carnival has been going on and our fourth time hosting. Always staying up with the latest technolog...

A Roundtable, A Voice and Death

Interesting roundtable discussion over at Penn Central. Participants include John Herron, president, CEO and chief nuclear officer of Ente...

Heavy Writers and Deep Thinkers - 6th Carnival of Nuclear Energy Is Here

Over the past number of weeks, you’ve seen us highlight nuclear carnivals at other folks’ blogs. This week we’re hosting it. For those ne...

If Wishes Were Nuclear Plants

We’re not sure we’re looking forward to the beige box that would be Microsoft Nuclear Plant, but points to former MS CEO Bill Gates for tur...

Dream Beneath the Desert Sky

The Victorville (Calif.) Daily News writes something we basically agree with : Monday the Wall Street Journal reported that a Korean-l...

COP15: Leaks, AREVA and Tree People

Our impression reading the daily news wrap-ups about COP15 is that everyone is holding their breaths over the arrival of the world leaders ...

Video of AREVA's Nuclear Recycling Facility in France

Check out this very descriptive video produced by the good folks at AREVA on how they recycle used nuclear fuel , it's definitely worth ...

NEI's 2009 Top Industry Practice Awards on Video - Number Four: "Robotic Inspectors"

Below is the last video of four videos NEI has released over the past month highlighting top industry practices. Hope everyone has found t...

Video of Areva's Jarret Adams at Olkiluoto 3

For those who may not remember, Jarret used to write with us last year until he began at Areva. Now he's traveling it up and spreading A...

AREVA Enters the Blogosphere

NEI's former blog contributor, Jarret Adams, is one of the authors for AREVA's first blog . Welcome and best of luck! Hat tip to Ida...

Friday YouTube Fun

First, the spinach: NEI's 2009 financial briefing for Wall Street analysts is now available on NEI's YouTube channel . Part 1 can be...

Happy Chinese New Year!

2009 is the year of the Ox ; an animal that symbolizes hard work and tenacity.* And while I resolve to be more diligent in studying my Manda...

The Infrastructure of the Renaissance

If nuclear energy is going to push forward to a true international renaissance, it’s not enough to apply for licenses and and clear some la...

Areva, Northrop Grumman Deal Roundup

Yesterday's announced deal between AREVA and Northrop Grumman to build a $363 million nuclear reactor manufacturing plant in Newport...

Founding a Foundry

One thing we've mentioned here a few times is that a nuclear renaissance is going to require some oomph from the steel industry if the ...

AREVA Affirms No Need to Restart MOX Tests

Recently a pair of antinuclear groups issued a misleading press release calling in question the results of trials of MOX (mixed oxide) fuel ...

Germany, Merkel Rethinking Nuclear Power

From Deutsche Welle , more on German Chancellor Angela Merkel's call to restore Germany's nuclear energy program: Although Merkel ha...