By the Numbers: The Benefits of New Hampshire’s Seabrook Nuclear Station

Today, the Seabrook Public Library is showing a film that highlights the start of the anti-nuclear power community. The film is about a l...

Revisiting Nuclear Energy and Cooling Water

Earlier this week, the journal Nature Climate Change published a study concerning how warmer weather and reduced river flows might impact e...

Moving the Needle with Coal and the EPA

The Environmental Protection Agency has released a proposed rule that indicates, absent more progress (effective, scalable, reasonably econo...

94th Carnival of Nuclear Energy – Old Battles, New Technologies and One Scandal

Last week was another busy week in social media. Today we’re hosting the 94th carnival and highlighting 21 posts from 14 blogs. To start, ...

NEI Confronts Politifact on Clinton Statement on Nuclear Costs

Last week, David Bradish posted his take on President Clinton's statement concerning the costs of electricity generated by wind, solar ...

Are Wind and Solar Cheaper Than Nuclear?

Last week on the Daily Show , former President Bill Clinton asserted that wind and solar are projected to be cheaper than coal in 2-5 years ...

60 Years of Energy Incentives – An Analysis of Federal Expenditures for Energy Development from 1950-2010

In 2008, NEI published a study based on an analysis by the Management Information Systems, Inc. that detailed the amount of subsidies that ...

EPRI Cost Analysis on Energy Technologies

The Electric Power Research Institute has a report out that compares the costs of fossil fuels, nuclear and renewables. The Integrated Gene...

SCANA’s Analyst Day - “New nuclear continues to be the low cost alternative for customers”

Yesterday, SCANA held an Analyst Day that mostly talked about the construction of the two nuclear units at their Summer station. Here’s the...

Grist’s Anti-Nuclear Campaign Distorts Reality (Part 1 of 3)

Over the past week or so at Grist, it’s been hit-jobs galore against nuclear. A fellow by the name of Arne Jungjohann published four negativ...

Energy and Electricity Data on Japan

The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan has an informative brochure on Japan’s current and future energy plans (pdf). It provi...

Analysis of Replacing Japan’s Nuclear Plants With Other Technologies

Over at Forbes’ blog, Sara Mansur has dug into the numbers to see what it would take if nuclear were phased out in Japan: If nuclear ...

Thinking Out Loud

This is the kind of editorial that pops up more frequently, from the Lexington Herald-Leader (actually, an op-ed in this case): Shoul...

“Fareed's Take: Hold judgment on nuclear power”

CNN’s Fareed Zakaria urged folks not to jump to conclusions about nuclear because of the accident in Japan: I think it's very impo...

IHS Analysis - “Global Economic Impact of the Japanese Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Disaster”

IHS Global Insights (parent company of Cambridge Energy Research Associates ) provided an analysis of the economic impact the earthquake w...

23rd Carnival of Nuclear Energy: Uphill Battles and Spaghetti Regulations

For the third time since the nuclear carnivals began, we have the privilege of hosting this week’s highlights of the pro nuclear blogs. I...

Americans Using Less Energy, More Renewables

Lawrence Livermore Laboratories toted up energy use last year (for 2008) and found a marked drop. This year’s version (for 2009) reveals a...

Comparison of Energy Technologies on Economics, Jobs, Land Footprints and More

Last May, Public Utilities Fortnightly published an independent analysis by Navigant Consulting that provided some great comparisons betwee...

Updated 2009 Nuclear Stats

Over the past couple of weeks we’ve updated a large number of stats on our website for the curious public as we normally do every April and...

About Coal and Coal Miners

The Washington Post has an excellent, plangent photo gallery of the funeral for the 29 coal miners killed in West Virginia. The Post could...