Nuclear Energy Industry Transitions

Bryan Hanson has been named site vice president of Exelon Nuclear’s Clinton Power Station in central Illinois. Hanson previously served as...

Dems Angry At Kennedy Over Cape Wind Fight

The fight over Cape Wind is getting louder, with a number of traditional Democrats refusing to shy away from a fight with Senator Ted Kenne...

Patrick Moore on the News Hour

Dr. Patrick Moore , co-chairman of the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition , made an appearance on The News Hour on PBS last night to talk about...

Per Peterson on Yucca Mountain's Storage Capacity

Following up on a post we did last week about Yucca Mountain's storage capacity , Per Peterson, an engineering professor at UC-Berkeley,...

The Tritium Challenge

Back on March 23, WTTW-TV's Chicago Tonight broadcast a story on the tritium leaks at Exelon's Braidwood Nuclear Power Plant . A fr...

On Air Alert

Our head of media relations, Steve Kerekes, will be on 89.3 KPCC-FM with host Larry Mantle at 2:00 p.m. U.S. EDT to discuss the 20th annive...

Energy Information Digest

The April issue of Energy Information Digest is now available on the NEI Web site , in the Newsroom . In it, you'll find articles about...

NEI Energy Markets Report (April 17th - 21st)

Here's a summary of what went on in the energy markets last week: Electricity prices mostly increased throughout the country (see pages ...

Another Blogger for a Grand Bargain on Nuclear Energy

Last week it was blogger Dean Esmay who wrote that he was ready to make a deal with Greens on global warming if it meant building more nuc...

Greenpeace and Cape Wind

Greenpeace has a message (Quicktime) for opponents of the Cape Wind Project . Technorati tags: Energy , Electricity , Environment , Wind P...

More Natural Gas?

British pundit George Monbiot has reevaluated his stance on the U.K. energy situation, and he's concluded that the solution is more natu...

India Nuclear Update

From The Hindu : India and Germany today agreed to co-operate in several areas including that of civilian nuclear power, trade, infrastruct...

CASEnergy Coalition Kickoff

This morning at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., the The Clean and Safe Energy Coalition (CASEnergy Coalition) held a public k...

President Bush Discusses Hydrogen Technology on Earth Day

Yesterday President Bush marked Earth Day at the California Fuel Cell Partnership by discussing his agenda to help develop advanced transpo...

Looking at Gazprom

From today's New York Times : Gazprom is not just a lucrative state-owned monopoly, but also a powerful instrument of Kremlin policy at ...

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

Blogger Dean Esmay is a doubter when it comes to global warming . But if environmentalists insist on regulating carbon emissions, he's...

Nuclear Energy Industry Transitions

UniStar Nuclear has appointed three new executives : • Shawn Hughes, Ph.D. will be senior vice president of project management. He joined C...

EPRI Study: Yucca Mountain Could Hold Up to Nine Times Design Capacity

The Electric Power Research Institute , known in the industry as EPRI, presented a study yesterday that said that the planned used fuel repo...

Finland Needs Uranium

Australia is thinking it over . Technorati tags: Nuclear Energy , Nuclear Power , Electricity , Environment , Energy , Politics , Technology...

Nuclear Energy Finds New Support in U.K.

On three separate occasions in January, I called British newspapers to task for fronting public opinion polls about nuclear energy while ...

Patrick Moore Hits #1...

For the second day running, Patrick Moore's article on expanding the use of nuclear energy from Sunday's Washington Post , has been...

More Video from Sandia National Labs

Last week, we posted video footage of the crash testing of spent nuclear fuel casks conducted by Sandia National Labs . Unfortunately, the...

The Rotten BANANA of the Environmental Movement

After getting to know the folks who make up the fierce opposition to wind power projects, Anne Applebaum of the Washington Post puts her fi...

NEI Energy Markets Report (April 10th - 14th)

Here's a summary of what went on in the energy markets last week: Electricity prices mostly decreased throughout the country (see pages ...

Thoughts From the Gristmill

Some thoughts about the nuclear energy industry from David Roberts at Gristmill : It got me thinking about the nuclear question again, and a...

Skip Bowman at LA Town Hall

Last September, our President and CEO, Skip Bowman, delivered a speech entitled, "Why America Needs Nuclear Energy Now," at Town H...

U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory Released

From EPA : The report shows that both methane and nitrous oxide emissions have decreased from 1990 levels by 10 percent and two percent, res...

DOE to Fund Research to Produce Hydrogen From Reactors

The Department of Energy announced last week that it will allocate up to $1.6 million this year to fund industry studies of methods for pr...

NEI Welcomes New Members

Altran Solutions , a consulting firm based in Cranbury, N.J., provides engineering and technical services to nuclear facilities. Wyle Labora...

Nuclear Energy Industry Transitions

The Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory has announced a number of changes. • Phillip Finck has been named associate laborat...

Nuclear Energy Insight

The latest issue of Nuclear Energy Insight is now available online. In it, you will find an article on a land transfer near FPL's Turke...

Norris McDonald on NPR on Global Warming

Our friend Norris McDonald from the African-American Environmentalist Association will be interviewed by NPR 's Ed Gordon. You can lis...

Patrick Moore Live Online at 11 a.m. U.S. EDT

He'll be part of an online chat at washingtonpost.com at the top of the hour to talk about yesterday's opinion piece on nuclear ene...

More on Alberta Oil Sands

Here's an interesting look at the possibility of extracting oil from tar sands in Alberta . As you might recall, there have been report...

Patrick Moore Resumes Pro-Nuclear Push

Dr. Patrick Moore , one of the co-founders of Greenpeace, is making another big splash today with an op-ed in favor of the expansion of the ...

Sweden Nuclear Update

Here's more evidence that Sweden is reconsidering its nuclear phase-out: A survey into attitudes to nuclear power conducted annually by...

Videos of the Day: Crash Testing at Sandia National Labs

Containers used to transport used nuclear fuel have been extensively tested to survive crashes with trucks and trains at Sandia National Lab...

On Security at Nuclear Power Plants

Earlier this week, the Philadelphia Inquirer published an editorial critical of NRC's efforts at regulating security at America's n...

NEI Energy Markets Report (April 3rd - 7th)

Here's a summary of what went on in the energy markets last week: Electricity prices increased in the East and Midwest but mostly decrea...

Methane Hydrates, Plug-In Hybrids and Nuclear Energy

Glenn Reynolds points to a Popular Mechanics piece on the potential of extracting natural gas from methane hydrates from the sea floor , b...

Patrick Moore in Australia

Pro-nuclear environmentalist Patrick Moore is visting Australia, and he did an interview with ABC Radio National . Though he's in the c...

Bodman to Visit Yucca Mountain

Just off the wire from DOE: On Thursday, April 13, 2006, Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman will visit the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Yu...

Learsy: India Nuclear Deal Good for U.S. and the World

Over at the Huffington Post , long-time energy industry observer Raymond J. Learsy writes that Congress ought to give President Bush the be...

Small Town America Embraces Nuclear Energy

In today's New York Times , reporter Rick Lyman uncovers something we've been telling you about for some time here at NEI Nuclear No...

Infrastructure Can't Keep Up With Global Oil Demand

From The Times (U.K.): THE world lacks the means to produce enough oil to meet rising projections of demand for fuel over the next decade, ...

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

Meet Noblesse Oblige . Technorati tags: Nuclear Energy , Nuclear Power , Electricity , Environment , Energy , China , India

NY AREA Addresses AG Spitzer on Indian Point

Just arriving on my desktop was a copy of a letter that John Kelly, a member of New York AREA and one-time director of licensing at Indian ...

NRC Issues Final Environmental Impact Statement for Grand Gulf

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued its final environmental impact statement on the proposed early site permit (ESP) for the Gr...