Nuclear Energy Goes Dark in Japan

For now, anyway, Japan is doing without nuclear energy: Over the weekend, Japan's last remaining nuclear reactor shut down for reg...

Choisis le Nucleaire

Cute and only somewhat cringe worthy, this anthemic pro-nuclear song by a French group called ACDC (les Artistes Chanteurs de la Droit...

Patrick Moore’s Economic Justice

Patrick Moore, ex-Greenpeace, sees in nuclear energy an interesting argument for what he terms “environmental justice,” which is true enough...

Wanted: New Stunt Men for Greenpeace

The French arm of Greenpeace is probably searching for a few new recruits after two of its activists were arrested today by French authorit...

Nuclear Energy Not Affected by French Election

We’ve followed the French election here a bit because we were interested to see whether challenger Francois Hollande would hold to his stand...

Eating Peppo

We’ve written a bit about the upcoming French election and the fact that one of the candidates, Francois Hollande, is less nuclear friendly ...

The French Choice; The Iowan Misapprehension

Even in the context of a political contest, it’s nice to be reminded how nuclear energy benefits people in the nickel-and-dime sense: ...

Is Bloomberg Businessweek Censoring Comments?

Suzy Hobbes over at Pop Atomic Studios makes the case .

Powering Space; Radical Oppositions

From Digital Journal : Engineers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center installed a nuclear power source Thursday onto the Mars rover set to la...

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...

Will Europe Struggle to Keep the Lights On?

A new study from consulting company Capgemini said that Europe may have trouble “keeping the lights on” this winter thanks to the nuclear p...

Having a Future

Even after the Fukushima Daiichi facility achieves a cold shutdown and even if no one becomes sick or dies as a result of the accident – no ...

France: “An industrial accident, not a nuclear one”

In France today : One person was killed and four were injured Monday afternoon in an explosion at a nuclear waste treatment site in sou...

The Water Around Fort Calhoun

Last night, I saw a “Be afraid. Be very afraid.” segment of a chat show that focused on Nebraska’s Fort Calhoun station, which is sitting i...

NEI; Japan; France; Cars or No Cars?

We’ll continue to bring you Japan updates on this page, but you may also want to take a look at NEI’s new site dedicated to Japan and Fukus...

Sarkozy in Japan, Workers for Fukushima

He is the first foreign leader to visit Japan since the earthquake there and he visits with an idea: French President Nicolas Sarkozy...

A Poll, Saudi Arabia, Pueblo

The Hill takes note : A new poll commissioned by the nuclear industry shows that 71 percent of people in the United States support inc...

Nuclear in France, Egypt, Germany: Has It, Wants It, Needs It

A company called Research and Markets has put out a report called France Power Report 2010. I couldn’t begin to afford it – almost 600 Euro...

Around the World with Nuclear Energy

Around the world: France has made a deal with Kuwait: An agreement "to develop the peaceful use of nuclear energy" was si...

France and Loans, Sweden and Polls

French President Nicholas Sarkozy wants you to know: I do not understand why international financial institutions and development ban...