For Great Britain, New Nuclear is a Gold Medal Strategy to Reduce Carbon Emissions

U.K. Nuclear Stations Our Olympics-hosting friends in Great Britain appear poised to react to climate change in a manner far different from ...

In Age of Austerity, France Stays with Nuclear Power

First, an additional tidbit on our coverage of IEA’s World Energy Outlook 2011 , where we learned that the rumors of nuclear energy’s demise...

Constellation and EDF Part Ways

We did not follow stories about Constellation Energy and its decision not to accept a loan guarantee on terms offered by the government bec...

They Just Don’t Care

This not very objective comment in the Guardian about a new poll canvassing British attitudes to various energy issues struck us as interes...

Running a Nuclear Plant on a Commodore 64?

Well, all right, not really – but welcome retro-computing fans, anyway – but we have been interested in how the nuclear energy utilizes co...

Italy Swings Open the Door to Nuclear Energy

No sooner does Italy drop its ban on new nuclear plant development than someone starts developing them : The Italian energy company En...

Life’s Little Ironies

A British wind utility, Ecotricity , and French nuclear company EDF are fighting for the rights to a “green” union jack to use at the 2012...

Spiraling Around Constellation Energy

CNN reports that Electricite de France is in discussions with Constellation Energy to take over half its nuclear business. Now, it should...

Open discussion on Constellation situation and what it means for Nuclear

While this article in the Baltimore Sun initially focuses on job cuts, it later gives a good summary of the choices shareholders will have i...

EDF To Buy British Energy for $23.2 Billion

We have a winner in the British Energy Stakes. Per the BBC , French energy firm EDF has agreed to buy British Energy, the firm which operate...

British Energy and EDF: A Fractious Romance?

The British government, wanting to divest itself of its share of British Energy, had many suitors coming by with flowers and blandishment...

Au Revoir, EDF?: British Energy Rounds Up Some More Bidders

We wrote a couple of days ago we may have jumped the gun on the British Energy story by declaring Electricité de France (EDF) the last com...

Monday Morning Breakfast

...nuclear energy news you may have missed this weekend. Add Minnesota to the list of U.S. states considering nuclear as an energy solution...

UniStar Moves Ahead on Calvert Cliffs Project

Off the wire : UniStar Nuclear Energy (UNE), a joint venture between Constellation Energy and The EDF Group (EDF), has submitted an applicat...

EDF CEO: Nuclear to Take Center Stage in Climate Change Battle

From Thomson Financial : EDF chief executive officer Pierre Gadonneix backed greater use of nuclear power as a way of combating climate chan...

Toyota Powering Plug-In Vehicles With French Nuclear Energy

From the IHT : Would you feel better about the environment by filling up on electricity generated by a nuclear plant than plain, old gasolin...

Strong Local Support for Calvert Cliffs COL

There's an interesting piece in the Metro section of the Washington Post concerning just how much local support there is to add an addit...

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

Visit Below The Beltway . UPDATE : David Wogan likes what he hears about the nuclear provisions in the latest energy bill.

More News on the Calvert Cliffs COL

Both the Washington Post and Bloomberg take a look at the most recent steps to build a new nuclear reactor at Calvert Cliffs. UPDATE : Our...

The Nuclear Resurgence is Good News for EDF

With countries with around Europe beginning to think again about nuclear energy, the future is looking bright for EDF, France's national...