State of the Union and Energy Policy

Here's the passage from tonight's State of the Union address that dealt with energy policy: Keeping America competitive requires af...

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

In a post about the energy policy proposals that may be in tonight's State of the Union address, Dean Armstrong had this to say: There ...

The Industrial Safety Accident Rate in the Nuclear Energy Industry

The World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO)'s mission is To maximise the safety and reliability of the operation of nuclear powe...

Natural Gas Supply Between Russia and Georgia Disrupted

From the Associated Press and Pajamas Media : Iran started exports of natural gas to Georgia on Monday in answer to Tbilisi's appeal for...

A Civil Debate on Nuclear Energy and Renewables

Click here for a pointed, but civil, debate on nuclear energy and renewables between Dave Erickson and James Aach over at Re/Action on Clim...

Newsweek Highlights Nuclear Energy

Over at Newsweek 's international edition, the magazine is taking a broad look at the global resurgence of nuclear energy and the reason...

America's Default Energy Policy

Mac Johnson has some thoughts about America's default energy policy. Thanks to Marc Comtois for the pointer. Technorati tags: Nuclear...

New Energy Blog from NRECA

Our friends at NRECA have started a new blog, Amped Up . Check it out. Technorati tags: Nuclear Energy , Nuclear Power , Electricity , Env...

Deutch and Moniz Propose New Course for Used Fuel Management

Today's must-read comes from yesterday's edition of The Washington Post, where former Director of the CIA John Deutch and former Un...

A Deal for Kyoto Supporters

Virginia's Matt Schor has a message for the supporters of the Kyoto Protocol: I'd support an international treaty for greenhouse em...

Nuclear Energy and Renewables Can Work Together

In today's edition of the Guardian (U.K.): Surrounded by some of the world's roughest seas, Britain could generate a fifth of its e...

Nonproliferation Blog

We don't spend a lot of time on nonproliferation issues here at NEI Nuclear Notes , though that may change. In the interim, stop by Nucl...

Georgia Power and Southern Pick AP-1000 for Vogtle

Georgia Power and Southern Nuclear Operating Company announced today the companies are pursuing the Westinghouse AP1000 as the nuclear re...

This Week in Nuclear Podcast

Our friend John Wheeler has produced Episode 5 and Episode 6 of the This Week in Nuclear podcast. Give him a listen. Technorati tags: Nu...

Russia Targets Nuclear to Provide 25% of Electricity by 2020

We've been writing plenty about Russia and its natural gas supplies over the past few weeks. Even though that nation has the largest pro...

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

Meet Anthony Kendall . Technorati tags: Nuclear Energy , Nuclear Power , Electricity , Environment , Energy , Politics , Technology , Econom...

RFID and Nuclear Components

Hitachi has developed an interesting application for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology in the nuclear industry . With the RF...

Reaction to GNEP Proposal

There's plenty of reaction to yesterday's news concerning the Bush Administration proposal for the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership...

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

Visit Dvorak Uncensored . Technorati tags: Nuclear Energy , Nuclear Power , Environment , Energy , Politics , Technology , Economics

Bush Administration to Back Reprocessing

From today's Wall Street Journal (free feature): The Bush administration plans to announce a $250 million initiative to reprocess spent...

Westinghouse Looking To Bolster Work Force

From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette : Apparently feeling good about its prospects under Japanese ownership, Monroeville-based Westinghouse Elec...

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

Meet Ken Inman . Technorati tags: Nuclear Energy , Nuclear Power , Environment , Energy , Politics , Technology , Economics

Blogger Outage

NEI Nuclear Notes will be going offline briefly at about 7:00 p.m. EST so the folks at Blogger can get something fixed. They say the outage...

Protesting Greenpeace Scare Mongers

Remember the anti-nuclear ad Greenpeace U.K. released a few weeks ago? U.K. blogger David Trent wasn't amused either. Technorati tags...

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

Check out Pharmacy and Compendium . Technorati tags: Nuclear Energy , Nuclear Power , Environment , Energy , Politics , Technology , Econom...

Another Bogus European Opinion Poll

I know I'm beginning to sound like a broken record, but there's another public opinion poll getting some play today that probably do...

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

Meet Pat McGuinnes . Technorati tags: Nuclear Energy , Nuclear Power , Environment , Energy , Politics , Technology , Economics

NPR On "Take Title"

Yesterday at NPR , David Kestenbaum did a short report on legislation moving through Congress that would result in the U.S. government ...

China's Energy Future

Here's an informative overview from Business Week . Technorati tags: Energy , Politics , Economics , Oil , China , Toshiba , Westinghous...

European Natural Gas Crisis Continues

Across Europe, the temperatures keep dropping , and Ukraine keeps diverting natural gas supplies meant for other customers in other nations...

Some Notes on Decorum

I'd like to remind our readers that our comment strings are made available to debate facts and opinion, and not to make personal attacks...

New Nuclear Energy Insight Web Page Debuts

Nuclear Energy Insight, NEI’s monthly newsletter, has a new Web page for the new year. The page, www.nei.org/Insight , features articles fro...

Senator McCain on Energy Security

Here's U.S. Senator John McCain from a Sunday morning interview he did with Fox News : And the second lesson we should have learned fro...

Nuclear Energy Industry Transitions

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards has re-elected Graham Wallis as chairman, William Shack as vi...

Progress Energy Selects Harris Site for Combined License

Progress Energy just announced it will prepare a combined construction and operating license (COL) for its Harris Nuclear Plant, southwest ...

NBC's West Wing: "Duck and Cover" Indeed...

Oh, Lisa, I agree with almost everything you just said , but I'll come back to that later... As Lisa did a good job blogging here , NBC ...

The West Wing's Nuclear Farce

When I first decided to pursue a degree in nuclear engineering, my mom said to me, “Lisa, you realize this means we will never have a meanin...

NBC Cancels West Wing

Guess that nuclear accident storyline didn't help : The new president on "The West Wing" will be a real short-timer: NBC ann...

California PUC Announces Plan to Cap GHG Emissions

Thanks to my colleague Mary Quillian, I was able to find the following draft decision that was issued late last week by the California Publ...

Miss Nevada On Board With Yucca Mountain

Couldn't help but notice this item this morning: Crystal Wosik, the first Miss Nevada to preside over a Miss America pageant held in th...

Program Reminder On West Wing

Just a friendly reminder that the episode of the West Wing that deals with a nuclear accident at a fictional California nuclear power plant...

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

Meet Robert Synott . Technorati tags: Nuclear Energy , Nuclear Power , Environment , Energy , Politics , Technology , Economics

Jeopardy! Tackles Nuclear Energy

In case you missed it last night, click here for video from the first round of last night's episode of Jeopardy! , which contained a ca...

More Polling Sleight of Hand from the Guardian

A few weeks ago, we told you about a poll commissioned by the Guardian (U.K.) that claimed a majority of Britons opposed the expansion of n...

Summary of Long Now Debate on Nuclear Energy

We've been passed an e-mail summary of Friday night's Long Now debate on climate change and nuclear energy that was authored by Ste...

Nuclear Energy Industry Transitions

Cameco Corp. 's newest board member is John Clappison . Clappison recently retired as the managing partner of the Toronto office of Pric...

Hanson on Energy Security

Victor Davis Hanson says it's time for the left and right in American politics to meet in the middle and do something about America...

Lovelock: Earth in "Grave Danger"

Scientist and climate expert James Lovelock, who has been warning for the past two years that the world must turn toward nuclear energy in ...

U.K. Labor Leader Endorses New Nuclear Build

U.K. labor leader Derek Simpson is getting his union ready to put its weight behind new nuclear build : "The debate on the energy crisi...

The Price Of Dependence on Russian Natural Gas

Writing in the Weekly Standard , Daniel Twining, a fellow with the German Marshall Fund of the United States , has a warning for countries t...