An Interview With Patrick Moore

Michael Kanellos of CNet recently interviewed CASEnergy co-chair Patrick Moore . Here's an excerpt: Q: When people look at your biograp...

Again, On Nuclear Energy and the Southern Drought

Here's a letter to the editor that NEI has been sending around the country in response to last week's AP wire on nuclear power plan...

The Top 10 Things Environmentalists Need to Know

A great list from Depleted Cranium .

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

Visit Gadgetopia . Click here too.

Van Leeuwen and Smith's Egregious Mathematical Errors

Last month Leslie Berliant of Celsias asked Jan Willem Storm van Leeuwen if nuclear power is “free of greenhouse gas emissions.” For those ...

WNA's Nuclear Financial Index

The World Nuclear Association and S-Network LLC have created a world nuclear financial index expected to become available by March. A new i...

The Nuclear Resurgence and Reasonable Expectations

Over the past few days we've seen a number of announcements that have given some folks pause over the near-term prospects for a resurgen...

Is Nuclear Energy Becoming a Non-Partisan Issue

I sure hope so. More from Elizabeth Souder in the Dallas Morning News .

Nuclear Energy on YouTube

Over the past couple of months, I've been gathering YouTube videos on nuclear energy into a single online group I call Clean, Safe Nucle...

Can Flex-Fuel Cars Break OPEC?

Robert Zubrin says yes.

Should America Build More Nuclear Power Plants?

That's the question that Patrick Kiger at the Science Channel is asking his readers : So what do you think? Should we build more nuclear...

NEI's Nuclear Performance - December 2007

Here's a summary of U.S. nuclear plant performances last month: Preliminary estimates indicate nuclear generation in 2007 was approximat...

NEI's Energy Markets Report - January 14-January 18, 2008

Here's a summary of what went on in the energy markets last week: Electricity peak prices increased $22-32/MWh at the Entergy and NEPOOL...

What the AP Story on Water Use and Nuclear Won't Tell You

Here's another followup to yesterday's AP story on drought and nuclear energy that we referred to earlier today. Steve Kerekes, a ...

The Effects of a Shutdown Nuclear Plant

Lisa Black of the Chicago Tribune wrote a piece on the effects the shutdown Zion plant in Illinois has had on the community : Ronald Schuste...

On Nuclear Energy and Drought

Yesterday, the Drudge Report fronted an AP story by Mitch Weiss entitled, " Drought Could Force Nuke-Plant Shutdowns ". To say t...

Nuclear Energy Risks and Benefits in Perspective

Stan Gordelier, Head of the NEA Nuclear Development Division of the OECD , wrote a piece last month putting the risks and benefits of nuclea...

Hawaii to Repeal Nuclear Moratorium?

Details from the Hawaii Reporter .

Pro-Nuclear Quote of the Day

From John Cole of Balloon Juice : And I will say it again, even though it always rankles people. Three Mile Island was a success. It was not...

Sweden Reconsidering Nuclear Phase-Out

While Sweden's Volvo might be having doubts about nuclear power , it seems like public opinion in that nation is turning against a previ...

More Nuclear Myth-Busting

A couple of folks are picking up on that list from Spiked that David Bradish posted a link to a few weeks back. Click here , here and her...

Quebec Looks to Overhaul Gentilly-2

Details from the Canadian Press .

Shaw Looking for Nuclear Engineers

It's a 4-6 year hitch to build in China .

A Repository, Not a Dump

Andrea Jennetta and Nancy E. Roth, the two minds behind the new blog, Fuel Cycle Week , have a challenge for their colleagues in the mainstr...

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

Visit Mike's Space .

What About South Carolina?

S.C. Politics Today poses an interesting question: The chance juxtaposition of the Nevada and South Carolina primaries creates a Yucca prob...

More on the Nuclear Comeback

The American takes a closer look.

The California Nuclear Moratorium and Breast Cancer Treatment

Over at Pajamas Media , Dr. Linda Halderman writes about the connection .

Press Weighs In on Democrats and Yucca Mountain

That Democratic Presidential debate on Tuesday night in Nevada keeps kicking up some dust. Here's USA Today : Yucca Mountain thus become...

Sproat ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ About 2008 Yucca License Application Despite Budget Cuts

The following is an early release of a story that's scheduled to run in the Monday, January 21 edition of Nuclear Energy Overview, NEI ...

Blogger Asks Questions About Yucca Mountain

Flopping Aces watched Tuesday's Democratic debate from Nevada, and has some questions for each of the candidates.

Is Nuclear Energy Renewable?

A member of the South Carolina legislature ponders the question .

Greenpeace's Jim Riccio Gets it Wrong

Yesterday on WNYC-FM's Brian Lehrer Show, Gwyneth Cravens, author of Power to Save the World: The Truth about Nuclear Energy , made a jo...

Matt Yglesias: Now and Then on Nuclear Energy

It looks like Adam Blinick's post at TNR has kicked off a little debate. Over at The Atlantic , Matt Yglesias had this to say: We...

An Appeal for Unity on Nuclear Energy

After hearing John Edwards declare his outright opposition to nuclear energy during Tuesday's Democratic debate in Nevada, Adam Blinick...

10 Green Arguments for Nuclear Power

Over at Planetsave , Shirley Siluk Gregory, a self-described nuclear skeptic, has just finished reading James Lovelock's book, The Reven...

Science Not Good Enough for Greenpeace

Here's a clip from Britain that demonstrates exactly what Patrick Moore was talking about when he explains why he left Greenpeace: That...

NEI's Energy Markets Report - January 7-January 11, 2008

Here's a summary of what went on in the energy markets last week: Electricity peak prices decreased $10-50/MWh at the Eastern hubs as t...

Michael Mariotte from NIRS Needs to Update His Cost Sources

Tampa Tribune ’s “Nuclear Costs Explode” piece provided some updated insights to the estimated costs of a new nuclear plant. The article be...

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

Visit the Greenby Blog .

Italy Looking at Nuclear Again

From Reuters : Simmering debate of a nuclear energy relaunch in Italy, banned 20 years ago in a referendum, got a fresh boost on Wednesday w...

Reuters Report on New Nuclear Build in the U.K.

Found this clip on YouTube today that gives a nice overview of the decision by the U.K. government to approve a new generation of nuclear po...

AREVA and Siemens Snag Bulgaria Contract

Details from EarthTimes .

Belarus Approves New Nuclear Build

Details from ITAR-TASS . This is the same project we first mentioned last October .

The Presidential Candidates on Energy Policy

MarketWatch looks at the particulars.

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

Meet Lou Guzzo . UPDATE: Also, visit Roy's Rants .

Ireland Considers New Nuclear Build

Now that the U.K. seems poised to embark on building a new generation of nuclear power plants , Ireland -- which already draws on nuclear-ge...

Czech Prime Minister Calls for European Nuclear Energy Expansion

From Wiener Zeitung (Austria): Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek has called for a "renaissance" of nuclear energy throughout E...

California Wants to Control Your Thermostat

Interesting piece from the pages of the International Herald Tribune . Joe Somsel, a one-time contributor to NEI Nuclear Notes, makes an ap...

New NRC Photo Gallery

Click here to check it out.

Eskom Seeks Bids for New South African Reactors

Eskom has invited AREVA and Westinghouse to submit bids .

Obituary: Herbert J.C. Kouts, Nuclear Power Safety Expert

Herbert J.C. Kouts, an important figure in the early years of the development of the American nuclear energy industry, has died at the age o...

Who's who in opposing credible information on new baseload energy?

You gotta love truth in advertising. If I were opposed to a new power station no matter how safe, clean , reliable , or necessary it were, n...

IBD on America and Nuclear Energy

From Investor's Business Daily : Most of France's electricity has been generated by nuclear power for years, and now Great Britain i...

"Nuclear Power is progressive."

One of my old favorites in the Blogosphere is James Lileks. In today's Bleat , he gets around to redefining some old and cherished poli...

Britain Inches Closer to New Nuclear Build

Details from the BBC .

Nuclear Myth-Busting at Spiked Online

Rob Johnston put together some great nuclear myth-busting in anticipation of the UK's "green light to the building of new nuclear ...

More on Nuclear Energy in Texas

Idaho Samizdat is looking hard at build plans in Texas.

Another Blogger for British Nuclear Energy

Visit Blaney's Blarney .

Why We Don't Put Nuclear Waste in a Volcano

Slate talked with someone from the American Nuclear Society about it . I think we owe them a favor.

UCS’ “Nuclear Power in a Warming World”

It’s about that time of the year when the Union of Concerned Scientists comes out with their annual criticisms of the Nuclear Regulatory Co...

NBC News on the Nuclear Comeback

Before the holidays, I forgot to share this clip from NBC Nightly News about the improved prospects for nuclear energy in the U.S.: One quib...

Fact Checking Amory Lovins

Over at The Atomic Show , our friend Rod Adams interviewed Robert Bryce, Managing Editor of the Energy Tribune on some of the distortions t...

Mike Huckabee on Nuclear Energy

Yesterday, we shared a video clip of Senator Barack Obama on the stump in Iowa answering a question about nuclear energy. Today, I've g...

Barack Obama on Nuclear Energy

"I don't think that we can take nuclear power off the table..." Here's a clip of Senator Barack Obama at a recent debate i...