Another Blogger Considers Nuclear Energy

The blogger behind AustinPermie is in the midst of making up her mind about nuclear energy . Here's something she wrote recently about...

UniStar Selects Calvert Cliffs Site for Possible COL

Just off the wire : UniStar Nuclear, a jointly developed enterprise between Constellation Energy (NYSE: CEG) and AREVA Inc., today notified ...

IPCC to Endorse Nuclear as Means to Fight Climate Change

From the Bangkok Post : The United Nations Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which gathers in Bangkok this week is expected ...

Popular Science Looks at GNEP

From the pages of Popular Science : Later this year, scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee hope to take a big step towar...

Next Week on the Hill

Some hearings scheduled for next week that we'll be watching. Links provided where available: Senate Finance --Energy, Natural Resource...

EDF in Talks With British Energy to Build New Nuclear

From AFP : French electricity group EDF is in talks with British Energy, a part-government owned nuclear group, about constructing the first...

Former EPA Secretary: Nuclear Energy Has a Future

From NC Times.com : William K. Reilly, the former Environmental Protection Agency administrator who served when President Bush's father ...

Newt Gingrich on Nuclear Energy

Appearing on this week's edition of America's Business hosted by NAM's Mike Hambrick, Newt Gingrich had this to say about nucle...

Supplementing the Nuclear Workforce

I've got two stories on the nuclear workforce that came across my desk today. First, here's a feature from PRI's Marketplace o...

21 Years After Chernobyl

It's been 21 years since the accident at Chernobyl. For a variety of information sources on what happened that day, click here for a d...

ANL Director: Use of Nuclear Energy is "Unavoidable"

In today's edition of E&E TV's On Point, Monica Trauzzi interviews Robert Rosner, director of the Argonne National Lab . He has...

Gazprom Bundling Natural Gas With Emissions Credits

Here's an interesting piece of news from the International Herald Tribune : Russian energy giant Gazprom has started to bundle natural g...

More Talk on Nuclear Energy and Progressive Politics

David Walters, a member of the IBEW and the mind behind the new blog Left Atomics , is expanding his thoughts on why political progressives...

This Week in Nuclear, Episode #43

After a lengthy hiatus, John Wheeler is back with another edition of his nuclear energy podcast. Click here (Mp3) to download and here for...

Uranium Set to Trade on the NYMEX

From the New York Post : In a bet on the revival of nuclear energy, Wall Street giants including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are set to...

NRC Proposes Adding Aircraft Impact Assesments to New Reactor Certification Process

Released late yesterday by NRC : The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) today unveiled the third in a series of major steps to enhanc...

American Myths and Facts About Energy

In today's Examiner , Max Schultz takes a look at a recent study by the Manhattan Institute that discovered a serious disconnect between...

Third Way Memo Supports Expansion of Nuclear Energy

Third Way , a strategy center for progressives, today released a policy memo entitled, Another Inconvenient Truth: Solving Global Warming an...

Survey Reveals Gap in Public’s Awareness of Nuclear Energy’s Role in Reducing Greenhouse Gases

New from NEI : Even though nuclear energy is by far the largest clean-air energy source used to generate electricity, fewer than half of Ame...

Patrick Moore on E&ETV

Patrick Moore, co-chair of the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition (CASEnergy) was a guest on today's edition of E&E TV . Here's a...

Senator Dodd on Nuclear Energy

Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) is running for President, and he's keeping an open mind on nuclear energy. From the Brattleboro Reformer :...

The Facts on CSP

If you've spent any time reading energy blogs, you'll probably trip over some comment spam from time to time on Concentrated Solar P...

Gov. Romney on Nuclear Energy

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney was in the Washington suburbs yesterday to give a speech to the Northern Virginia Technology Counc...

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

Visit The Daily Referendum .

2008 Presidential Contenders on Nuclear Energy

In today's New York Sun , Josh Gerstein reviews the positions of the presidential candidates for 2008, and finds that nuclear energy is ...

Crow Learning Same Old Anti-Nuke Talking Points

After traveling around the nation with "global warming activist" Laurie David, singer Sheryl Crow claims she's been "lear...

CFR’s Balancing Benefits and Risks of Nuclear Energy

It’s been awhile since I’ve debunked a report so I thought I’d break my hiatus by starting on a new one. This one is from the Council on For...

EPRI Founder Chauncey Starr Dead at 95

Today, the nuclear energy industry says goodbye to Chauncey Starr , a man who stayed active in the business until the very end: Starr, who s...

Defending Nuclear Energy in Real Time

Hollywood has never been known as a place that's been terribly hospitable to nuclear energy, but it looks like that might be changing if...

NEI Energy Markets Report (April 9th - April 13th)

Here's a summary of what went on in the energy markets last week: Electricity prices were mixed last week (see pages 1 & 2). Gas pri...

TXU, Mitsubishi and the Benefits of Standard Designs

Going through my clips yesterday, I came across the following editorial from the Boston Herald concerning TXU and its plan to build new nuc...

NRC Issues License for Gas Centrifuge Uranium Enrichment Plant in Ohio

From NRC : The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a license to USEC Inc. to construct and operate a gas centrifuge uranium enrichment ...

Tom Friedman on the "Power of Green"

In a piece in yesterday's edition of the New York Times Magazine , Thomas Friedman shows how he's broken the code on the implication...

Poll: New Support for Nuclear Energy in Canada

From the CBC : A little more than half of Canadians believe nuclear power is one way to have cleaner air and lower greenhouse gas emissions,...

It's Nuclear Energy Week in the Minnesota State Senate

Details from Energista .

G7 Gives Nuclear Energy Endorsement

From AFP : Finance chiefs from the G7 industrialized countries have endorsed nuclear energy, an increasingly attractive power source as gove...

NEI VP on America's Business

Scott Peterson, NEI's Vice President of Communications, is a guest on this weekend's edition of America's Business. He'll b...

Browns Ferry Reactor Inches Closer to Restart

From the AP : The Tennessee Valley Authority on Thursday told federal regulators it is ready for a final inspection before returning its old...

Market Improves for Nuclear Energy Lawyers

Details from Law.com .

AREVA and MHI's Joint Reactor Development

From AREVA : AREVA, the world's largest business group in the nuclear energy field, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) confirm ...

NEI Energy Markets Report (April 2nd - April 6th)

Here's a summary of what went on in the energy markets last week: Electricity prices increased last week (see pages 1 & 2). Gas pric...

Australia Discovers Geothermal Energy

Details from The Western Australian . They're calling it, "natural nuclear power". More from Oikos .

The TVA and the Future of Nuclear Energy

Here's Rep. Zach Wamp from today's Chattanoogan : There's another piece to energy independence and that is nuclear energy. We ha...

French Government Gives Approval to New EPR at Flamanville

Details from ForEx News .

On Democrats and Nuclear Energy

Earlier this week, Richard Simon of the LA Times wrote about how more and more Democratic officials are speaking positively about nuclear e...

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

Meet Russell Wilcox .

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

Check out the Ojai Post . And be sure to join in on the discussion as well.

An Interview With Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers

He recently spoke to Amanda Griscom Little of Grist : Q. You've recently tried to define one approach via the U.S. Climate Action Partne...

Texas and the Future of Nuclear Energy

On Sunday night, 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft mentioned that France had managed to build 58 nuclear reactors in a country the size...

A Bright Electric Powered Future for the Car

After taking a hard look at the all-electric Tesla Roadster , Demon Speeding is conjuring up a hopeful, and fun, vision for the future of t...

Is Silicon Valley Taking Another Look at Nuclear Energy?

Green Wombat looks at the possibilities. From the archives: An op-ed I wrote last year concerning myths and facts about nuclear energy tha...

Checking The Numbers On the Anti-Nukes

Megan McArdle : The environmental movement has so far utterly failed to develop a coherent approach to replacing carbon producing power...

We Support Lee on Lifecycle Emissions

Mike the Actuary wrote that he doubted nuclear's green credentials. We Support Lee crunched the numbers. Give it a read.

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

Visit Bob Perrin .

60 Minutes and Vive Les Nukes

To view last night's 60 Minutes piece on the global revival of the nuclear energy industry, click here .

TCS Daily on the Supreme Court and GHG

From Max Schulz : The irony is that the beneficiary of Monday's ruling won't be wind power, solar power, or any of the other renewab...

Are Renewables Really Renewable?

We all know that the fuel required for renewable sources of energy are virtually limitless, hence the name. But what about the essential com...

NEI Energy Markets Report (March 26th - March 30th)

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

New Template for NEI Nuclear Notes

I'm sure by now some of you have noticed some changes in our design template. Please don't be alarmed, as this is all part of our e...

Kincardine, Ontario Wants Nuclear Energy

Details from the Mississauga Business Times . Thanks to We Support Lee for the pointer.

Where in the World is Patrick Moore?

Last night he was on the Texas Gulf Coast. Details from the Houston Chronicle : Speaking Thursday before the Gulf Coast Power Association i...

Bloggers Look to Overturn California Moratorium

Over the past few weeks, we've been pointing to news concerning California State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore's efforts to get the state...

60 Minutes Looks at the Nuclear Energy Comeback

My boss, Scott Peterson passed along an interesting nugget of news: 60 Minutes will be airing a segment on nuclear energy this Sunday night...

Solar vs Nuclear Energy in Hawaii

Michael R. Fox Ph.D. for Hawaii Reporter debates the topic but finds solar doesn't have the answers: In response to a recent article I ...

UniStar Signs Contract with AmerenUE to Prepare COL

From Yahoo : UniStar Nuclear's development arm, UniStar Development Company, has entered into an agreement with Ameren Corporation's...

Ford's Hydrogen-Powered Plug-In Hybrid

Details from Popular Mechanics . They have video of a test drive. Don't forget, one way to make hydrogen without generating emissions ...

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

Visit Terra Rossa .

On the UC Berkeley Nuclear Study

I'm sure many of you saw stories about a report yesterday out of UC Berkeley about nuclear energy and cost overruns : The report is base...

More on Overturning the California Nuclear Energy Moratorium

Today's San Francisco Chronicle is running a story on State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore's legislation to lift the moratorium on new nu...

CERA Report: Nuclear Power “Renaissance” Moving Beyond Talk to Real Action

From the press release : Governments and businesses around the globe have moved beyond talking to real action to renew development of nuclea...

Nuclear Powered Train Sets Speed Record

Well, yes but not quite. I'll explain in a bit. Here's the story from the AP : A French train with a 25,000-horsepower engine and ...

NEI Teaches the Teachers About Nuclear Energy

When 11,000 science teachers invaded St. Louis, Mo. , last week, the nuclear energy industry was there to teach them about clean-air nuclear...

On Europe and Nuclear Energy

The European blog Power Encounter is running an interview with Natalie Horbach, a professor at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral...

Sweden Moving Closer to New Nuclear Build

From The Local : The Christian Democratic party in Sweden has recently announced that it is changing its position on nuclear power. Accordin...

Nuclear Energy on TVOntario

Back on March 15, TVOntario did two programs on the future of nuclear energy in the province. Click here (MP3) for an interview with Patr...