Minnesota Senate Passes Resolution Urging Federal Government to Act on Consolidated storage

Earlier today, the Minnesota State Senate passed a resolution urging President Obama and the U.S. Congress to carry out the recommendations ...

Dreaming About a Repository

Last week, I sat in on a House hearing about the Blue Ribbon Commission’s draft report . The hearing rapidly departed from the subject and ...

Of Valves and Venting

The New York Times starts the story of the valves this way: After the venting failed at the Fukushima plant, the hydrogen gas fueled ...

The Hidden Cost of Yucca, The States of Nuclear

In the Congressional hearing report a few posts down, several House members turned the heat up on four NRC commissioners (including Chairma...

North to Minnesota, South to Australia

The news is good : No new Minnesota nuclear power plants are planned, but state senators overwhelmingly voted today to lift a 16-year-...

A Wedge of Nuclear Pie

It’s a start : A move to undo Minnesota's 17-year-old ban on new nuclear power plants easily cleared its first committee Tuesday a...

A Good Thing in Minnesota

A good thing ? Xcel applied to add 164 megawatts to the plant’s 1,100-megawatt power generating capacity in 2008. The MPUC approved th...

Bad News, Good News

Let’s start with the bad: The Minnesota House has rejected an effort to lift the state's ban on new nuclear power plants. Law...

Minnesota, Malaysia, Mcopenhagen

Here’s something we’ve been expecting for quite awhile: The Minnesota House has voted to roll back a 16-year-old ban on new nuclear p...

A Nuclear Tussle in Minnesota

The Duluth News tries a pro-con pair of op-eds on nuclear energy that would have benefitted considerably from a more direct match-up. John L...

Monday Morning Breakfast

...nuclear energy news you may have missed this weekend. Add Minnesota to the list of U.S. states considering nuclear as an energy solution...

New Nuclear for Minnesota?

Get the skinny from Minnesota Public Radio . For a previous post on the state's energy situation from David Bradish, click here .

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

Visit Say Anything . UPDATE: More from NAM Blog .

PUC Chair: "United States has made a huge, huge error in not pursuing nuclear energy sooner."

From Hometown Source.com : Public Utilities Commission Chair LeRoy Koppendrayer is direct — you can’t talk about electric power, cutting car...

Senator Coleman on Nuclear Energy

In a speech in Minnesota yesterday about national energy policy, Senator Norm Coleman had an interesting way of selling Americans on the ben...

It's Nuclear Energy Week in the Minnesota State Senate

Details from Energista .

WCCO-TV Interviews Patrick Moore

CASEnergy Coalition co-chair Patrick Moore recently sat down with Don Shelby of WCCO-TV to talk about the revivial of the nuclear energy i...

A Realistic Assessment of Wind in Minnesota

A couple of days ago, Aaron Fontaine (an avid reader of NEI Nuclear Notes ), asked us to look at how realistic the state of Minnesota’s goal...