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 ...

Whither British Nuclear Energy?

Martin Freer is a professor of nuclear physics at the U.K.’s Birmingham University. He lets us know that he wants his country to stop dither...

A Princely Endorsement

Who said it? “It’s a great pleasure to be back here again and a real pleasure to open something that’s going to have serious and import...

Jumping Fences

Don’t try this at home : An emergency was declared at the McGuire nuclear plant in Huntersville early Sunday morning after a security b...

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...

Wisconsin Clean Sweep

Awhile ago, we featured a race for the House in New York in which all three candidates offered support for nuclear energy. New York, meet W...

A Renaissance Reimagined

Here comes the nuclear renaissance, reimagined. Robin Grimes of London’s Imperial College, with a group of scientists from there and the Un...

Undue Panic, APEC On Board, Nuclear Subsidies (?)

Here’s an interesting article from Fortune Magazine: Allan Sloan on why overreacting to the Deepwater Horizon spill is counterproductive, ...

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...

Lord Love a Nuclear Plant

Now, we admit we can be a little provincial when it comes to viewing the activities of other countries. We’ve travelled and had longer than...

Britain: Renewables No, Nuclear Yes

"The CBI's report is a very good piece of work," said Steve Holliday, the National Grid chief executive. "There is no...

The British Serve Up the Sites

The British Department of Energy and Climate Change (and boy, does that sound up-to-date) has released its list of 11 sites for new nuclear...

Chris Goodall and The Greening of The Atom

We’ve been noting over many posts the exceptionally rapid embrace of nuclear energy by a growing number of European countries and even by t...

When Nuclear Fades

You don't get a very good result: Power suppliers are turning back the clock to use coal-fired plants as their main source of ele...