Friday YouTube Fun: Giving Nuclear Power a Bad Name

Nuclear Power Pants , a band from Baltimore, MD, has a uniquely awful video up on YouTube that might best be described as GWAR meets Ed Woo...

FOEs of the Truth

Further to David’s post below, we thought we’d feature our old friends at FOE, that is, Friends of the Earth, using that discredited several...

Why Not Yucca Mountain?

That question reverberated through a couple of hearings about the  Department of Energy’s 2011 budget request and, up to now, has not recei...

CBO Director on Loan Guarantees for New Nuclear Plants

The Congressional Budget Office’s Director, Douglas Elmendorf , provided some important insight into how loan guarantees are assessed in the...

Investing in Powerhouses

The Washington Post tried a front page story about nuclear energy – and if you develop a higher profile, as nuclear energy has done, then n...

Hitting Pay Dirt in Australia

We published a sour editorial the other day from Australia to show we had to go down under for a negative view of our loan guarantee. But le...

Lobbyists As Big As a Solar Panel

We generally have no beef with the lobbying class, whether on the federal or state level. Legislators have to deal with a tremendous number...