(Ir)responsible Speculations

The slow pace of news coming from Japan means that reporters have to write about things in a somewhat more speculative fashion – about thin...

Bad Cop

We’ve run a series of editorials over the last few days that take a cautious but supportive view of American nuclear energy going forward a...

Small Reactors and Closed Minds

Here’s a novel suggestion from Stephen Bainbridge: President Obama has a ready source of nuclear knowledge in the government that could t...

Stormy Weather and Energy Myopia

After receiving flowers and surviving a hail of flash bulbs, new IAEA chief Yukiya Amano officially began his four year term and made a sho...

The Future, The Shifting Ground, and Bachmann

Bob Metcalfe has an interesting futurist editorial in the Wall Street Journal: The good news is that the big names in nuclear energy ...

The Warp Effect: WSJ on Buffett, Constellation and the Fate of the EPR

The Wall Street Journal has a story about Warren Buffett's pending purchase of Constellation Energy and, particularly from our point...

A Holisitic View

In the world of Washington politics, one man's incentive may be another man's subsidy or boondoggle. A Wednesday afternoon posting o...

Nuclear Energy, Terrestrial Energy: WSJ

In the Op-Ed pages of The Wall Street Journal today, William Tucker provides as normalizing an explanation about nuclear energy production...

The Wall Street Journal Energy Report

In the unlikely event you've missed it today, The Wall Street Journal has published a special package on Energy and nuclear is the cov...

Explaining the Costs of Nuclear Power Plants

Conferences, campaign speeches, and media all contributed to an especially busy NEI Monday. At Brookings , Sen. Lamar Alexander (R) called f...

Let the Battle Begin: The Wall Street Journal on the Expense of New Plants

The argument that building new nuclear energy plants will represent ruinous expense for anyone to undertake has percolated among nuclear opp...

S&P Launches Global Nuclear Energy Index

Details from PR Newswire .

How Green is Nuclear Power?

That's what the Christian Science Monitor is asking : "Saying nuclear is carbon-free is not true," says Uwe Fritsche, a resear...

Uranium Price to Peak Around $103 / Pound in 2008

That's according to The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics : The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Ec...

Wall Street Journal Starts Energy Blog

They're calling it Energy Roundup . Looks like they soft launched it in the middle of the month. Just check their archives, and they ha...