Japan to Phase Out Nuclear Energy – Over 30 Years – Maybe

The New York Times has the story : In its first comprehensive energy review since the Fukushima disaster, Japan said on Friday that it ...

NEI Energy Markets Report (September 3-7, 2012)

Here's a snippet of what went on in the energy markets last week: Electricity peak prices were mixed last week across the country. ...

Fusion-Fission Fandango in Texas

It’s like the doublemint twins at the University of Texas at Austin. The researchers — Mike Kotschenreuther, Prashant Valanju and Swad...

A Nuclear Energy Binge to Combat Climate Change

Professor Peter Wadhams off ice This suggests an academic freak-out: Geo-engineering techniques such as whitening clouds by adding fine spr...

NEI Energy Markets Report (August 27-31, 2012)

Here's a summary of what went on in the energy markets last week: Electricity peak prices made marginal gains last week across the ...

A Daft Car, Pope Benedict XVI and Nuclear Energy Present and Urgent

The Renault Kangoo Z.E. Ridiculous? You decide No comment (it speaks for itself): Pope Benedict XVI is now a bit greener. The 85-year-old p...

NuScale Back in Action with Unexpected Support

The other day, we mentioned Babcock & Wilcox’s small reactor project and its indirect use in the Gubernatorial race in Indiana. Now, ano...

NEI Energy Markets Report (August 20-24, 2012)

Here's a summary of what went on in the energy markets last week: Electricity peak prices fell $1-$16 last week across the country ...

Japanese Business to Nuclear Energy: Stay

Reuters has released a poll gauging the attitude of Japanese businesses toward nuclear energy. Based on a number of stories I’ve read, I exp...

Uranium of the Sea – and How to Get It – and Why

This is interesting, but it doesn’t seem quite enough: Japan developed an adsorbent that attaches the uranium-loving chemical group ami...

Fox Gets It Right on Emissions – Or Close Enough

Media Matters for America and Fox News are not the best friends in the media landscape, with the former often calling out the latter for w...

Plant Vogtle Crane One of Largest in the World

The 560-foot tall lift derrick at Plant Vogtle (Southern Company). That is one mighty big crane . Here are all the details from Southern Co...

Nuclear Today, Lignite Tomorrow: Germany’s Withering Choices

German Nuclear Plants (Wikipedia) Color Bloomberg unimpressed : Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government says RWE AG’s new power plant that can...

The Most Polite Strikers Ever and Nuclear Energy in Canada

The CANDU's fuel assembly Way up north, a group of nuclear engineers are striking against contractors of Canada’s Candu Energy. They hav...

Nuclear Energy and Those Who Are Reasonable

It should come as no surprise that environmentalists oppose the use of nuclear energy in the same way they oppose coal or the fracking te...

What Does the NRC’s Order on Waste Confidence Mean for New Plant Licensing?

Dry cask storage It is not every day that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission   advises everyone to “take a deep breath,” but when it comes t...

How the North Anna Nuclear Power Plant Weathered the 2011 East Coast Earthquake

Dominion Virginia's North Anna Power Station We're coming up on the first anniversary of the 2011 earthquake that jolted the East Co...

A Nuclear Namibia Nearer Than Naught?

If you’ve read enough of our posts here, you know we like to keep up with what’s happening around the world – who’s interested in nuclear en...

Japan: Onagawa Good - Emissions Very Bad - Nuclear Energy?

Japan's Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant The nuclear facility that was nearest the epicenter of the 2011 earthquake in Japan was not Fukushim...

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 ...