Ohio RPS Includes Nuclear Energy

From the Toledo Blade : Gov. Ted Strickland's energy proposal calls for Ohio's electric utilities to invest heavily in renewable and...

More on Ontario's Energy Plan

We Support Lee has a great roundup of stories related to yesterday's announcement from the province of Ontario's 20-year electrical...

Moore Gives DiCaprio's Movie a Thumbs Down

Dr. Patrick Moore of the CASEnergy Coalition has seen Leonardo DiCaprio's new movie, and he came away less than impressed : DiCaprio’s m...

The Sky Is Not Falling

In response to news that Energy Alberta plans to build a twin-CANDU plant, the London Free-Press (Ontario) had this to say: As concerns abo...

NRDC's Cochran on Dry Cask Storage and Earthquakes

Got an interesting piece of information I wanted to pass along. Back on June 28, Tom Cochran Director of the Natural Resources Defense Coun...

New U.K. Poll Shows New Support for Nuclear Energy

For a while now, I've written that folks ought to be careful when reading public opinion polls concerning nuclear energy in Europe. For...

Argentina to Complete Atucha II

Details from Marketwatch .

NEI's Energy Markets Report - August 20 - 24, 2007

Here's a summary of what went on in the energy markets last week: Electricity peak prices all decreased by more than $5/MWh. Except for ...

Ontario to Phase Out Coal by 2014, Build More Nuclear

From yesterday's National Post Ontario's power system will rely on more wind, solar and other renewable energy sources, build more n...

Food Irradiation and Agriculture

From the New York Times : Pierre Lagoda pulled a small container from his pocket and spilled the contents onto his desk. Four tiny dice roll...

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

Visit Tungsten Fluff .

U.S. and Russia to Ink Bilateral Nuclear Energy Pact in Fall

From RIA-Novosti : A senior Russian nuclear official said Tuesday that a deal is likely to be signed with the United States this fall on the...

On Russian Floating Nuclear Power Plants

Kite, String and Key is getting used to the idea.

U.S. And Australia to Sign Bilateral Nuclear Energy Agreement

From news.com.au : PRESIDENT George W. Bush and John Howard will sign a new bilateral nuclear power pact during APEC, committing both countr...

CPS Energy Endorses Nuclear Energy for San Antonio

From MySA.com : The staff of CPS Energy on Monday strongly endorsed expanding San Antonio's use of nuclear power, recommending that the...

Energy Alberta Files for New Nuclear Plant

From Reuters : Energy Alberta Corp. said on Monday it filed an application with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission to build a nuclear po...

Temelin Gets IAEA Sign of Approval

From Radio Praha : The drawn-out Czech-Austrian dispute over the Temelin nuclear power plant in south Bohemia, located just sixty kilometers...

India Raises Nuclear Generation Target

From The Telegraph (Calcutta): The government is planning to raise the target for nuclear power generation to 40,000MW by 2030 from 36,000M...

On Nuclear Energy and Public Opinion

After reading about the results of an NEI-sponsored study that looked at how people living near nuclear power plants felt about new plants ...

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

After reading about how China's booming economy is affecting the global environment , Martin Varsavsky says that it's time for China...

Taking The Pro-Nuclear Fight to Daily Kos

Long-time readers are already familiar with NNadir , a diarist at The Daily Kos who writes about nuclear energy and the role it can play in...

The Chicago Tribune On The Future of Nuclear Energy

From the Chicago Tribune : The U.S. has 104 operating reactors at 65 sites, providing roughly 20 percent of the country's energy needs, ...

Nuclear Revival Springs New Life Into Canadian Town

After decades of quiet, there's a new buzz around Uranium City, Saskatchewan. For details, see the Toronto Star .

Hans Blix Backs New Nuclear Build

Details from Australia's ABC . UPDATE : More from the Sydney Peace Foundation .

Another Look at Work Force Issues

Late on Friday afternoon, The WSJ Energy Blog picked up on an issue we've been writing about for some time now, namely the challenges a...

The Blogroll

As many of you can see, we've finally resurrected the Blogroll, something we lost when we switched to the Blogger beta a number of month...

The Possible Impact of McCain-Lieberman

Advanced Nanotechnology takes a harder look at S.280.

Alstom Wins China Contract

Again, off the wire .

3 South Carolina Universities Get GNEP Grants

Off the wire .

NEI's Nuclear Performance - July 2007

Here's a summary of U.S. nuclear plant performances last month: For July 2007, the average net capacity factor reached 97.4 percent. Thi...

NEI Energy Markets Report, August 13-17, 2007

Here's a summary of what went on in the energy markets last week: Generation outages, higher gas prices and hot temperatures contributed...

The total life-cycle emissions of nuclear energy are comparable to renewables.

That headline is pretty easy to understand, isn't it? We've written about the topic or something related to it more times than I ca...

Presidential Politics and Yucca Mountain

The rundown on where every major candidate stands is at 2008 Central.net .

Alberta Town to Hold Vote on New Reactor

Details from CBC .

Second Life to Get a Nuclear Reactor

This is very cool. From Insider Higher Ed : Robert C. Amme, a research professor of physics at the University of Denver, thinks there aren’...

NPR, the Steam Cycle and Nuclear Energy

This morning on NPR, Morning Edition ran a feature on France's nuclear reactor fleet and how about a third of those reactors had to cut...

Nuclear Power Plant Neighbors Accept Potential for New Reactor Nearby by Margin of Nearly 3 to 1

More ammunition to fight the folks who say NIMBY. From the NEI newsroom : Eighty-two percent of Americans living in close proximity to nucl...

Washington Times Endorses New Reactor at Calvert Cliffs

From Sunday's edition of the Washington Times : While it's true that this technology brings inherent risks which must be carefully a...

Senator Sam Nunn on Energy Security

Former Georgia Senator Sam Nunn is apparently contemplating a run for President . And one of the issues he's concerned with is energy s...

Giuliani Supporting New Nuclear on Stump in New Hampshire

From The Primary Source : Speaking at a company that makes high-end solar panels, Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani said ther...

IAEA Issues Report on Kashiwazaki Kariwa Nuclear Plant

Click here for the summary and here (PDF) for the complete report. From the summary: Earthquake damage to the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear p...

NEI Energy Markets Report, August 6-10, 2007

Here's a summary of what went on in the energy markets last week: Entergy, ERCOT and PJM electricity peak prices increased by more than ...

The "blast zone" of a nuclear power plant?

A recent article in the Washington Post discusses an NRC public meeting on new construction at Calvert Cliffs. It ends with the following b...

PUC Chair: "United States has made a huge, huge error in not pursuing nuclear energy sooner."

From Hometown Source.com : Public Utilities Commission Chair LeRoy Koppendrayer is direct — you can’t talk about electric power, cutting car...

Australia Mulls Uranium Deal with Russia

After completing deals with China and India , it looks like Russia is next in line for a uranium deal with Australia .

Question of the Day

After posting a clip of the Democratic YouTube debate, Domestic Divapalooza asked: I don’t favor nuclear power either, do you? Why OR why n...

PBMR Signs Deal with South African University

Details from iafrica.com .

Anti-Nuke Propaganda Point of the Day

Thanks to Depleted Cranium for passing along a recent example of anti-nuke madness.

Fluor Wins STP Contract from Toshiba

From the Houston Chronicle .

Australia to Sell Uranium to India

From Nuc Net: Australia has decided to change its foreign policy to allow the export of uranium to India, but only subject to a number of “s...

Re-Running Caldicott

Editor's Note: Over at E&E TV, everyone is on vacation so they had to re-run an interview with Helen Caldicott that originally ran ...

FPL Outlines Nuclear Energy Expansion Plans

From the Palm Beach Post : Florida Power & Light Co. on Wednesday announced a nuclear power plan that could see customers of the state&#...

Calvert County Commission Expresses Support for New Reactor

From the Washington Post : The Calvert County commissioners approved a letter of support Tuesday for the Evolutionary Power Reactor that Uni...

AAEA President and Son Booted From Climate Conference

Here's an incredible story: After attending the Southeast Convergence for Climate Action for a full two days, Norris McDonald, head of ...

IAEA Team: Japan Reactor Damage "Appears less than expected."

from Bloomberg : Damage to a nuclear power station run by Tokyo Electric Power Co. from a July 16 earthquake ``appears less than expected,&#...

Kojo Nnamdi Audio Now Available

The audio from yesterday's edition of the show that talked about the revival of nuclear energy is now available in both Real Audio and...

Report on Calvert Cliffs Public Meeting

Last night on Solomons Island, Maryland, the NRC held a public meeting concerning adding a third reactor at the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power...

Kazakhstan's Nuclear Future

With Kazatomprom taking a 10% share in Westinghouse, UPI picked a good time to take a look at the Kazakh nuclear energy industry .

Ukraine Wants in to Lithuanian Nuclear Power Plant Project

Details from ITAR-TASS .

Nuclear Energy and New Zealand

A geologist makes the case .

Venture Capitalists and the Global Energy Industry

Details from VentureBeat .

EPRI Study: Diverse Energy Portfolio, Including Nuclear Energy, Could Lower Cost of Cutting CO2 Emissions

From EPRI : The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) today released a study that shows that the aggressive development and implementatio...

NEI Exec on Kojo Nnamdi

Click here to listen to an interview on the Kojo Nnamdi Show on the nuclear renaissance. One of my colleagues, Tony Pietrangelo, is a gues...

S&P Launches Global Nuclear Energy Index

Details from PR Newswire .

Senator John McCain on Nuclear Energy

On the campaign trail in Greenville, South Carolina, Senator John McCain answers a question about the role nuclear energy can play in U.S. e...

BBC Report on Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant and IAEA Inspection Team

South Africa to Foster Development of Domestic Nuclear Energy Industry

Details from the Mail and Guardian . More here . UPDATE : More from The Sowetan .

Kazatomprom Takes 10% Stake in Westinghouse

Details from the BBC .

Hillary Clinton on Nuclear Energy

Grist has put together a page detailing the environmental positions of all the candidates for the Democratic nomination for President , and...

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

Visit Ken Reich .

NWR Supports Nuclear Energy with 2008 Sponsorship Campaign

From Newman Wachs Racing : ELKHART LAKE, Wis. - The Champ Car Atlantic series comes to a close this weekend as the Grand Prix at Road Americ...

NEI's Energy Markets Report, July 30 - August 3, 2007

I'm sure some of the readers here have noticed that the markets report hasn't been posted to NEI's blog for several months. The ...

PBMR Construction Start Delayed Until 2009

Details from Engineering News (South Africa).

A YouTube Question for Republican Presidential Candidates

A couple of weeks back, we pointed to a short clip from the CNN/YouTube debate with Democratic Party candidates for President where the top...

Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy vs. Greenpeace

In this video, Bruno Comby of the French-based organization, Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy, debates Frédéric Marillier of Greenpeace ...

Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant May Need Year for Repairs

From the Australian Broadcasting Company : The head of an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts has indicated that it co...

America's Nuclear Plants Running Close to 100% Capacity

NEI's Energy Markets Report will be published shortly, but I thought it might be wise to pass along some preliminary numbers that are cr...

Germany's Environmental Challenge and Nuclear Energy

In the latest issue of The Economist , our readers will find a series of inconvenient facts that we've covered here at NEI Nuclear Notes...

The Great Canadian Debate: Nuclear Energy

Should the expansion of nuclear power be a goal of Canadian governments? That's the question they're wrestling with at The Great Ca...

More on Crocodiles and Turkey Point

A few weeks back, we noted a CBS News feature on how Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant has helped spark a comeback for the American Crocodile...

The Daily Show on Cape Wind

Too funny for words: Thanks to WattHead for the pointer.

On the Trail of Joseph Mangano

Joseph Mangano , is at it again with his baby teeth act, this time in the pages of the Star-Ledger with an op-ed calling for the closing o...

Battling with Helen Caldicott

Over at Physical Insights , Luke is getting busy posting a chapter-by-chapter deconstruction of Helen Caldicott's book, Nuclear Madness ...

The Fueling Station Interviews CASEnergy Coaltion Chair Christine Todd Whitman

Click here for her conversation with David Adams.

IAEA Projects Substantial Expansion of Nuclear Energy

From NucNet: Medium-term projections point to the possibility of “a substantial expansion” in the use of nuclear energy, the International A...

Debunking Paul Josephson and the Anti-Nuke Talking Points

Back on July 30, the LA Times ran an op-ed from Colby College history professor Paul Josephson entitled, The Mirage of Nuclear Energy . L...

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

Meet Roger Schlafly .

Nuclear Energy and Red State America

When I read this post by indie-filmmaker Brian Flemming on U.S. public opinion and nuclear energy, the following passage stuck out a little...

Newsweek on the Nuclear Energy Comeback

From Newsweek : Climate change hardly qualifies as good news for anyone. But for advocates of nuclear energy, these are practically glory da...

Knox News Poll on Nuclear Energy

Here's another poll question that was just posted at Knox Views : Do you agree with TVA's decision to increase its nuclear power pro...

New Features at NEI Nuclear Notes

Hello, I'm one of the web guys over at nei.org , and today I've been working with Eric to add some new functionality to NEI Nuclear ...