On China and Nuclear Energy

Rod Adams has some thoughts.

Senator Larry Craig and Al Gore on Nuclear Energy

During his testimony before the U.S. Senate Energy and Public Works Committee , former Vice President Al Gore had this exchange with Senator...

Senator Hillary Clinton on Nuclear Energy

The following comes from a campaign rally held in South Carolina :

Thinking About a Career in Nuclear Energy?

Our CEO, Skip Bowman, guest stars.

Finland Making Way for Sixth Reactor

Details from Helsingin Sanomat . UPDATE : Found this piece from DW Television on the project from last month. There's an interview with...

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...

More on Al Gore and Nuclear Energy

Last week, I asked Mary Quillian, NEI's Director of Business and Environmental Programs, a couple of questions about Al Gore's testi...

NRC Vote Authorizes ESP for Entergy's Grand Gulf Site

It's been a busy day here at NEI, but not so busy that we can't pass along this great news : By a 5-0 vote, the Nuclear Regulatory C...

Why Oxford Research is Wrong on Nuclear Energy and Total Lifecycle Emissions

This morning, both Reuters and Business Week wrote lengthy features concerning the publication of a report by U.K.-based Oxford Research c...

STP Completes Second Consecutive Breaker-to-Breaker Run

Just off the wire from STP : Completing a second consecutive breaker-to-breaker run, the South Texas Project nuclear power plant successfull...

Senator Bingaman on E&E TV

On today's edition of E&E TV , you'll see footage of Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) speaking at the March 23 USEA Newsmaker Bre...

What Nuclear Energy Means to Eunice, N.M.

Jobs and economic development, that's what it means. From The Albuquerque Tribune : Eunice, population 2,700, is expected to grow by ab...

Why Doesn't Al Gore Embrace Nuclear Energy?

From The Daily Inter Lake , (Mont.): Al Gore, the former vice president and recent Oscar recipient, sanctimoniously decrees that Americans s...

Energy Outlook on the Gore Testimony

As we noted earlier this week , during his testimony on Capitol Hill this week, former Vice President Al Gore went to pains to say he wasn...

A Trip To Yucca Mountain

AQTEBlog reports from the scene.

USA Today: "Some rethinking nuke opposition"

From today's edition : Other environmentalists say the need to address global warming means taking a harder look at nuclear. Besides Pew...

Australian Labor Party Yields on Uranium Mine Policy

From the Sydney Morning Herald : Labor appears certain to dump its policy of banning new uranium mines, with the party's Senate leader a...

Life Cycle Emissions Facts Acceptance Reluctance

Last week I had an interesting email exchange with Dulce Fernandez, research and policy coordinator for the GRACE Energy Initiative. Ms. Fer...

On MIT's Uranium Study

Yesterday, MIT released a study that the Globe and Mail described this way: Growing global competition for scarce enriched uranium threaten...

Nuclear Energy in Ireland

The Good Life ponders the production of electricity in an interconnected Europe: No European nation is an island when it comes to their nat...

Introducing Left Atomics

For a long time now, we've contended that nuclear energy shouldn't be a left/right issue. Thanks to folks like N. Nadir , we've...

Fluor Creates Dedicated Nuclear Energy Business

Just off the wire : Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) today announced the formation of a dedicated business line within its Power Group to addre...

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

From WILLisms : We should make every common sense effort to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, not because bureaucrats in Brussels or Kyoto sa...

Listening in on Al Gore's Testimony

I've been listening to Al Gore's testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee this morning , and he predictably left exp...

NEI's Nuclear Performance Monthly (February 2007)

Here's a summary of U.S. nuclear plant performances last month: For February 2007, NEI estimates the average net capacity factor reached...

Al Gore Ignores Nuclear's Role in Restraining Emissions

NEI Nuclear Notes has visited this topic before, but it warrants looking at it again. The discussion on how best to reduce the growth of gr...

NEI Energy Markets Report (March 12th - March 16th)

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

On Nuclear Energy and Global Warming

Here's Santa Clara University professor David D. Friedman : Nuclear power is the one energy source that does not produce greenhouse gase...

Kevin Kamps Unmasked

Last week we told you about how anti-nuclear campaigner Kevin Kamps was masquerading as a "nuclear waste expert" during a trip to ...

South Africa and Russia May Cooperate on Nuclear, Natural Gas Projects

From Engineering News : South Africa is considering helping Russian state oil firm Rosneft and gas giant Gazprom in making liquid fuel from ...

Nuclear Energy Insight

The March issue of Nuclear Energy Insight is now available online. In it, you'll find an article on the nuclear energy industry’s stell...

The State of Environmental Justice in America 2007 Conference

Our old friend Norris McDonald of the African-American Environmentalist Association is responsible for putting together The State of Enviro...

Ankle Biting Pundits on Nuclear Energy

Bull Dog Pundit, one of the contributors to the popular Ankle Biting Pundits , has some specific problems with Senator John McCain's pos...

More on Google and Electricity

Looney Dunes cracks the code when it comes to where Google is building its data centers .

Japan and Russia in Bilateral Energy Talks

From Bloomberg : Japan, the world's fourth-biggest energy user, will discuss plans to boost imports of oil, gas and uranium from Russia ...

Bodman in India to Discuss Energy Issues

From the Economic Times : MUMBAI: Indo-US nuclear deal talks will be in the limelight this week as America’s energy secretary Samuel ‘Sam’ B...

Texas at the Forefront of the Nuclear Renaissance

That's a story that's running in today's Houston Chronicle : The number of nuclear-powered generators in Texas could triple in t...

Can Nuclear Energy Work for the Developing World?

That's a question that MIT Technology Review is asking today: New reactor technologies offer poorer nations cheap, safe, efficient powe...

Idaho Falls Turns Out for GNEP

Details from Idaho Samizdat .

Next Week on the Hill

Here are some hearings scheduled for next week in Washington to keep an eye on: House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Air Qua...

Interview With NRC Commissioner Merrifield

Yesterday afternoon I had a chance to interview NRC Commissioner Jeffrey S. Merrifield in between sessions at the RIC and ask him some que...

The Atomic Show, #51: Talking Uranium

Rod and Shane return after a couple of weeks off to talk Uranium : Uranium is as common as tin and can be found in measurable quantities alm...

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

Meet Commander Salamander .

NEI Energy Markets Report (March 5th - March 9th)

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

The Distributed Energy Canard

One of the most common arguments anti-nukes use against nuclear energy concerns the fact that a nuclear power plant is a "centralized...

At the RIC

That's RIC as in Regulatory Information Conference , an annual event hosted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission . With all the activit...

EU Rejects Kozloduy Appeal, Even in the Face of Rising Electricity Prices

From the EU Observer : Bulgaria's plea to restart two reactors at the Kozloduy nuclear power plant has suffered a blow, with the Europea...

APPA Resolution Calls for Streamlining of New Reactor Licensing

From the American Public Power Association : Members of the American Public Power Association today adopted unanimously a resolution urging ...

TXU to Order Mitsubishi's APWR

From Reuters : Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd is set to receive a $5.2 billion order to build two nuclear reactors for U.S. power plant ope...

The OPEC of Natural Gas

More bad news for American and its allies from the WSJ Energy Blog : OPEC, meet Opegasur. That’s the name of a new natural-gas cartel estab...

The Future of Nuclear Energy in Europe

In the wake of this weekend's deal on European greenhouse gas emissions , the European Tribune has some thoughts on the future of nucle...

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

Visit View From the Bushes , who has some thoughts on nuclear waste and double standards.

The New Seven Sisters and the Implications for Energy Security

After the breakup of Standard Oil, the seven companies that dominated global oil production became known as the " Seven Sisters "....

What Makes a Specialist?

Kevin Kamps, taking a tour of Australia to talk about the dangers of nuclear energy , is billing himself as a "nuclear waste specialist...

'Big Oil' Must Go Nuclear

From ThisIsMoney : Shell and BP will have to go nuclear if they want to remain 'supermajor' leaders of the global energy industry....

EU Climate Deal Gives Boost to Nuclear Energy

From the Times of London : The role of nuclear power in Europe received an unexpected boost yesterday as EU leaders hailed a landmark clima...

Arguing Nuclear Energy at The Oil Drum

Back on March 1, The Oil Drum kicked off a discussion of nuclear energy . Here we are 10 days later and the discussion is still going on. ...

Sellafield Using RFID for Radiation Detection

Via RFID Journal comes a story about how Sellafield is using RFID monitoring for radiation dtetection .

WGI Inks Deal With Mitsubishi on U.S.-APWR

Just off the wire : Washington GroupInternational (Nasdaq: WGII) announced today that it has been selected by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, L...

France Digs in Over EU Fight on Nuclear Energy

From the Guardian : Divisions over nuclear power and renewable energy threatened to derail the EU's campaign to assume a global leadersh...

Virginia Needs More Electricity

On the morning of February 6, 2007, Dominion Virginia Power set a peak winter usage record of 18,079 megawatts . We Support Lee thinks it...

Boy, Those Rock Concerts Use a Lot of Electricity!

Over at NAM Blog , Carter Wood writes about how he ran into a USPIRG canvasser who wanted to ignore the connection between affordable and re...

Reid Release on Yucca Mountain Legislation

From the office of Senator Harry Reid : Today U.S. Senators Harry Reid and John Ensign of Nevada introduced bipartisan legislation that woul...

NRC Approves Browns Ferry Uprate

From NRC : The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved a request by the Tennessee Valley Authority to increase the generating capacity of...

You Can Help Close the Nuclear Fuel Cycle!

No, this doesn't mean that we need you to find the best way to transmute minor actinides (though if you do have that information I know ...

NRC Approves Clinton ESP

From Reuters : The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved on Thursday the first site in over 30 years that could eventually house a new...

Archives Online for Nuclear Policy Outlook

A couple of weeks ago Eric let you know that the January/February 2007 issue of Nuclear Policy Outlook is available online. Well, now all i...

Senator McCain Supports Yucca Mountain

From last week's Deseret News : Arizona Sen. John McCain said Friday he supports high-level nuclear waste storage in Nevada — even thoug...

Is Nuclear Power Green? Part 2

Over at Gristmill, anti-nuclear zealot David Roberts is at it again . This time with the Christian Science Monitor article I referenced yes...

How Green is Nuclear Power?

That's what the Christian Science Monitor is asking : "Saying nuclear is carbon-free is not true," says Uwe Fritsche, a resear...

NEI Energy Markets Report (February 26th - March 2nd)

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

The Nuclear Energy Search Engine

Stewart Peterson, the mind behind the blog Nuclear is our Future , has created a specialized Google search engine just for the nuclear energ...