When 51 Percent Say Yes

From the department of unlikely mind changes , India division: An anti-nuclear forum spearheading the stir against Koodankulam Nuclear ...

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...

Not Speeding But Not Stopping

The analysts at the Commonwealth of Australia Bank want you to know : "But it is a case of one step backward, two steps forward,...

SCANA’s Analyst Day - “New nuclear continues to be the low cost alternative for customers”

Yesterday, SCANA held an Analyst Day that mostly talked about the construction of the two nuclear units at their Summer station. Here’s the...

“30 percent higher than it would otherwise be”

One of the points that is made again and again about nuclear energy – on this blog, certainly, but really, in many places – is that if the ...

Quick Hits: Electric Cars, Solar/Nuclear, China

What about electric cars ? Plans in Europe call for about 1 million EVs on the road by 2020, and a lot that push centers around increa...

A Visit from China

The state visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao to these shores last week proved to be quite consequential in the nuclear sphere: The ...

Sense and Senselessness

Let’s kick off the year with news that has a, shall we say, rather odd tinge to it: Chinese scientists have mastered the technology f...

Reasons to Be Thankful

Shall Canada be thankful ? The government of Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, announced plans to spend billions of dollars mo...

Around Europe and Asia

Marketwatch takes a look at the resurgence of nuclear energy in Europe and elsewhere. Here’s the gist of it: Overall, the NEA, a divi...

The Great Chinese Fuel Switch

“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” – Sun Tzu.  Here’...

A Thought, Security, Bad Logos?

Where non-proliferation and nuclear energy meet, from China’s Xinhua news service: Nuclear energy is one of the most important energie...

Investing in Powerhouses

The Washington Post tried a front page story about nuclear energy – and if you develop a higher profile, as nuclear energy has done, then n...

2009 Was a Strong Year for Reactor Construction Worldwide

One of NEI’s knowledgeable writers, Chris Charles, tallied up some promising world nuclear numbers in NEI’s weekly member newsletter. Below...

Voices from Copenhagen: Obama and Jiabao

At the COP15 conference in Copenhagen, President Barack Obama did not seem very pleased: So America is going to continue on this cour...

Amory Lovins vs. Stewart Brand - Part Four (The “Role of Government Myth” and Final Thoughts)

This is the fourth and final post from us that looks critically at the bogus claims in Amory Lovins’ latest study. “Role of Government My...

Rhetoric and Action at the U.N.

As you may have heard, President Barack Obama gave a speech at the United Nations about climate change yesterday. Now, just to get it out o...

The Greenest and the Blackest

Monday morning, Let’s see which stories will help us digest our breakfast better and which will make us do a coffee spit take. Two Lib...

First Concrete Pour of Westinghouse's AP1000 Completed at China's Sanmen Nuclear Site

From Westinghouse : Westinghouse Electric Company, its consortium partner The Shaw Group Inc. , China's State Nuclear Power Technology C...

China's Nuclear Energy Program Accelerating

According to Caijing magazine, China is considering a revision to its nuclear energy development program: now targeting 5% of total capaci...