NEI Energy Markets Report (August 21st - 25th)

Here's a summary of what went on in the energy markets last week: Electricity prices were mixed throughout the country last week. Gas pr...

TXU Announces Plans For 2-6 GW of New Nuclear Capacity

More good news just off the wire from TXU : To help meet Texas'’ need for power beginning in the latter part of the next decade, TXU Cor...

Fluor in Talks to Purchase BNG

From the Times (U.K.): FLUOR, the US engineering giant, last night made a direct approach to the Government in a bid to buy British Nuclear...

Report: Australia Could Lose Billions in Export Income Without Nuclear Industry

That was the conclusion of a report prepared by Silex Systems at the behest of Prime Minister John Howard's government: The Age has ob...

Energy Information Digest

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

More on South Africa and Enrichment

Earlier this week we noted South Africa's announcement that it was considering creating its own uranium enrichment program . Today, Com...

Westinghouse Snags $300 Million Contract in South Korea

From the Pittsburgh Business Times : Westinghouse Electric Co. said it signed contracts worth more than $300 million to provide equipment an...

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

Meet Charlie Dragon . Technorati tags: Nuclear Energy , Nuclear Power , Energy , Technology , Environment , Electricity

LES Breaks Ground on National Enrichment Facility

It's another good news day for the nuclear energy industry. Down in New Mexico, LES has broken ground on the new National Enrichment Fa...

One Year After Katrina, Oil and Natural Gas Production Still Hamstrung

From the Houston Chronicle : In all, Hurricane Katrina destroyed 46 offshore platforms and Hurricane Rita destroyed 69, according to the Min...

FPL Gets Ready for Hurricane Ernesto

With Hurricane Ernesto bearing down on Florida, FPL is getting ready for the storm to make landfall later today . In case of hurricane wind...

The IT Challenge at NRC

With NRC on the cusp of a new wave of internal expansion due to the revivial of the American nuclear industry, the agency is going to have ...

James Lovelock to Make Washington Appearance

James Lovelock , the originator of the Gaia Theory, will be in Washington on Friday, September 8 at 7 P.M. to lecture and sign his most rece...

NEI Nuclear Performance Report (July 2006)

Here's a summary of U.S. nuclear plant performances last month: For July 2006, NEI estimates the average net capacity factor reached 98....

MIT Nuclear Energy Q&A

In this month's edition, my colleague Lisa Stiles-Shell is the subject of the interview, as she answers some questions in the wake of he...

Lisowski to Head GNEP

Just off the wire from DOE: U.S. Department of Energy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy Dennis Spurgeon announced the appointment of Dr...

Standing By on NAM Labor Day Report

Off the wire from our friends at NAM : **MEDIA ADVISORY** Study Shows Energy Costs Shrinking the Pie for America'’s Workers WHO: John En...

South Africa Considers Uranium Enrichment

The home of the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor is considering the move . More, here . Technorati tags: Nuclear Energy , Nuclear Power , Techno...

Wooten: For Georgia and the Nation, Build More Nuclear Power Plants

In Friday's edition of the Atlanta Journal Constitution , Jim Wooten wrote an editorial in support of the expanded use of nuclear energy...

Correcting the Record on Three Mile Island

An August 19, 2006 story in the Boston Herald concerning the distribution of KI tablets around U.S. nuclear power plants contained the fol...

NEI Energy Markets Report (August 14th - 18th)

Here's a summary of what went on in the energy markets last week: Electricity prices were mixed to decreasing throughout the country las...

Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid

From Reuters : Oil leapt more than $1 on Friday as a storm brewing in the Caribbean threatened to sweep through the U.S. Gulf next week and ...

Coal Exec: Energy Demand May Strain Mines

From the Deseret Morning News : America's voracious appetite for energy will put tremendous pressure on the nation's coal industry, ...

Argentina Nuclear Update

From the AP : Argentina announced an ambitious plan Wednesday to expand its nuclear program to meet rising energy demands, including extendi...

Public Citizen VA Renewables Report: Fails Reality Check

As many of you already know, Public Citizen was an active participant at the NRC and DEQ meetings for North Anna last week. As part of the...

More on Scientific American's Nuclear Option

Our friend Rod Adams just read through John Deutch and Ernest Moniz's recent piece on nuclear energy in Scientific American , and he ha...

Penn. Representative Has Some Questions About Nuclear Energy

Over at Daily Kos , Pennsylvania State Representative Mark Cohen is asking some questions about nuclear energy. Though he's a long-tim...

James Lovelock and The Revenge of Gaia

In Tuesday's edition of the Washington Post , Australian environmentalist Tim Flannery reviewed James Lovelock's new book about glob...

More Anti-Nuke Half-Truths About North Anna

I've got a follow-on comment to Lisa's post below about the performance put on by some of the anti-nukes who showed up at the NRC p...

It's Fashionable to Not be Anti-Nuclear

I hope to have time soon to write down all of my thoughts about the North Anna public meetings in Louisa County, Virginia last week, but th...

Department of Energy Awards $510,000 to Grad Students Under Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative

Off the wire from the Department of Energy : To help meet the growing demand for nuclear-educated scientists and engineers, and to build upo...

GBN Webcast on the Future of Energy

Back in May, the Global Business Network hosted a Web conference about the future of energy that looks interesting: Increasing concerns ab...

The Atomic Show, #26

Shane and Rod are back with what they're calling their best show yet : Shane and I get our groove back and engage in a geeky discussion...

EU Energy Commissioner Backs Nuclear Power

From Bloomberg : The European Commissioner for Energy promoted the use of nuclear power for electricity generation on the grounds it can pro...

Clanton on Nuclear Energy

Brent Clanton of the Biz Radio Network is looking at some of the business and investment opportunities in new nuclear build . And click he...

NRC Quarterly Report to Congress

The NRC just issued its first quarterly report to Congress under new chairman, Dale Klein. Click here for a copy. Among the highlights: ...

Cleaning Uranium Waste With Bacteria?

Our friends at greenr have uncovered an interesting research paper : A bacteria has been found that can convert soluble radioactive uranium...

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

Meet Aubrey Weese . Technorati tags: Nuclear Energy , Nuclear Power , Energy , Technology , Environment , Electricity

Soon To Be Added To The Blogroll...

Tesla Motors , makers of the Tesla Roadster electric sports car , now has a Blog . Thanks to gimme-five for the pointer. Technorati tags: E...

A Grand Bargain on Nuclear Energy and Global Warming?

After reading the recent piece in Scientific American by John Deutch and Ernest Moniz proposing a tripling of the nation's nuclear capa...

American Utilities Weighing New Nuclear Build

In today's edition of the New York Times , a story by Matt Wald compares and contrasts the strategies of two different nuclear power pla...

America's Nuclear Electric Future

Here's Llewellyn King with a column that ran nationally this weekend on the McClatchy-Tribune News Service: Electricity has transformed...

No Time To Ban Bananas

In yesterday's Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel , an editorial cautioned readers not to overreact to news of a leak of tritiated water at the ...

Taking Issue With The Washington Post on Used Fuel

After reading a Washington Post editorial on Yucca Mountain and used nuclear fuel , Rod Adams has a bone or two to pick with the paper : Th...

The Atomic Show, #25

In their latest podcast , Shane and Rod talk about a possible nuclear power plant in Amarillo, Texas , while Rod provides a report from the ...

Another Electric Rate Hike For Los Angeles

California Energy Blog has the details. And natural gas is the reason why. Technorati tags: Energy , Politics , Technology , Economics , E...

Refusing to Panic

Visit Cheat-Seeking Missile . Technorati tags: Nuclear Energy , Nuclear Power , Energy , Technology , Environment , Electricity , Tritium

Who Would Benefit From a Resurgence In Nuclear Energy?

Over at Marketwatch , Marshall Loeb, former editor of Money , says that there is money to be made in the American nuclear industry : Expect...

NRC Chairman to Nuclear Industry: "Show me."

New NRC Chairman Dale Klein in a speech delivered to the NEI dinner at the latest meeting of the Nuclear Strategic Issues Advisory Committee...

Soon to be added to the Blogroll...

Meet GridBits . Technorati tags: Energy , Electricity

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

Meet Roger Field . Technorati tags: Nuclear Energy , Nuclear Power , Used Fuel , Energy , Technology , Electricity

Social Barriers to Clean Energy

In response to yesterday's editorial in the Washington Post concerning expanded use of nuclear energy , Geoffrey Styles writes that op...

Deroy Murdoch on the "No Solutions" Gang

Columnist Deroy Murdoch has already figured out what environmentalists are against. But what he can't figure out is what they might ac...

The "Tooth Fairy" Visits Amarillo

With folks in Amarillo thinking about building a nuclear reactor , I guess it was only a matter of time before Richard Mangano, author of th...