Orlando Sentinel Says Nuclear Should Not Be 'Scapegoat'

Here's what an Orlando Sentinel editorial has to say about the role of the Turkey Point nuclear plant in the Tuesday blackout... Our pos...

Policymakers Push for New U.S. Nuclear Plants

Several leading policymakers have made statements encouraging construction of new nuclear power plants over the past week. Here are some of ...

NEI's Energy Markets Report - February 18-February 22, 2008

Here's a summary of what went on in the energy markets last week: Electricity peak prices increased $3-9/MWh at all hubs except NEPOOL. ...

Makhijani on DallasNews

Two days ago on DallasNews , Arjun Makhijani from the anti-nuclear group Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER) gave his us...

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Joins Blogosphere

The nation's largest federation of businesses, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce , has officially entered the blogosphere. Check out the new ...

Entergy Submits Application for a New ESBWR at Grand Gulf

From Entergy : The application seeks regulatory approvals to potentially build a new unit adjacent to Entergy’s existing Grand Gulf Nuclea...

Bush Administration Has Increased Energy R&D Spending

Federal spending on research and development on key energy technologies has increased substantially since the end of 2000, according to a ...

100 GW of New Nuclear from AREVA by 2030?

That's what they're aiming for : Areva aims to build more than 100 gigawatts of new nuclear power capacity by 2030, one third of th...

NPR and Nuclear Today

The Diane Rehm show is not on all NPR stations, but if you can get it, Scott Peterson and Jim Riccio are on the show NOW talking about wha...

Florida's Power Outage

A widespread power outage in Florida occurred just after 1 PM Eastern today affecting several millions of Florida customers. Two of Florida...

GQ's Nuclear "Meltdown"

In the March 2008 issue of Gentlemen's Quarterly , Wyl S. Hylton wrote a great, balanced piece on the current state of the nuclear indus...

Latest Issue of Nuclear Energy Insight Available

The latest issue of Nuclear Energy Insight is now available online. In it, you'll find an article on congressional approval of an energ...

UK Joins Global Nuclear Energy Partnership

More here .

10 Things the Country Must Do to Avoid an Energy Crunch

Check out number five from the Houston Chronicle : 5. The U.S. nuclear energy industry has proved itself to be safe, reliable and free of to...

What's the Best Energy Advice to the Next President?

It's to go nuclear according to Charles Groat at the Houston Chronicle : The next president of the United States can strike an early blo...

Investment Banks Begin Counting Carbon in New Power Plant Costs

Leading investment banks have begun to incorporate estimates for the cost of reducing carbon dioxide emissions into the cost of building new...

Industry Leaders Brief Wall Street on Expansion of Nuclear Sector

Industry executives described the prudent steps energy companies are taking as they consider builidng new nuclear plants in the United State...

Baldwin on Oyster Creek ... Again

Last night Alec Baldwin moderated a forum on the health effects of the Oyster Creek nuclear plant in New Jersey. From APP.com : Actor Alec B...

Latest Issue of Nuclear Policy Outlook Available

Building Confidence in Licensing New U.S. Nuclear Plants Now that companies have submitted license applications for new nuclear power plants...

Commentary by AEHI's Don Gillespie

Don Gillispie, President and CEO of Alternate Energy Holdings Inc. , wrote an opinion piece at ArbiterOnline which is Boise State's Ind...

Progress Files for Two New Nuclear Plants

From Progress : Progress Energy Carolinas, a subsidiary of Progress Energy (NYSE: PGN), announced that it will file a combined operating lic...

CASE Energy's Whitman on Chicago Public Radio

You can listen here .

Greenspan Endorses Nuclear Energy at CERA Conference

Alan Greenspan last week strongly endorsed nuclear energy as part of a future energy portfolio that provides clean power to the electricity ...

Notes from Platts' 2008 Nuclear Conference

Two weeks ago I attended Platts' 4th Annual Nuclear Energy Conference. Below are some highlights I would like to share from 8 of the 31...

Thoughts from Rod Adams on Peach Bottom's Sleeping Guards

Rod asks: Should we be concerned about guards sleeping in a "ready room"? Late last year there was a lot of hype about a series of...

FAIR's "Hoax of Eco-Friendly Nuclear Energy"

In the January/February 2008 edition of Extra, Karl Grossman at Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting wrote a disingenuous, inaccurate piece a...

NEI's Energy Markets Report - February 4-February 8, 2008

Here's a summary of what went on in the energy markets last week: Electricity peak prices fell $0.09-$7/MWh at the Entergy, NEPOOL, PJM ...

NEI's Frank "Skip" Bowman on White House Chronicle: Jan. 11, 2008

White House Chronicle's Llewellyn King interviewed NEI's Frank "Skip" Bowman for the January 11, 2008 show. Topics cov...

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

Check out Philip Thomas at Action for Pontefract .

Saying Goodbye

I'm sure by now most of our regular readers will have noticed that my byline has been a little scarce around here lately. That isn't...

Constellation to Submit an Application for a New Plant in New York

From Constellation : UniStar Nuclear Energy (UNE), a strategic joint venture between Constellation Energy (NYSE: CEG) and the EDF Group, tod...

Virginia to Study Uranium Mining

From the AP : The [State] Senate has passed legislation establishing a 2-year study on the safety of uranium mining. Before voting 36-4 on ...

Closing Indian Point Could Be Costly

From the New York Times: CLOSING the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan could have dire consequences for the county’s economy, acc...

Jack Spencer's Power Play

Jack Spencer from the Heritage Foundation is at it again: Electricity demand is projected to increase 40 percent by 2030, according to gove...

The Night the Lights Go Out in Buckinghamshire

Looks like they can't build that next generation of U.K. nuclear power plants fast enough. From The Telegraph : Street lights in suburb...

NEI's Energy Markets Report - January 28-February 1, 2008

Here's a summary of what went on in the energy markets last week: Electricity peak prices fell $20-33/MWh at the PJM West and NEPOOL hub...

A Blogger's Tour at Crystal River 3

Chris Gent over at the Conway blog shared his thoughts on his tour of the Crystal River 3 nuclear plant in Florida: The energy complex is th...

NEI's Energy Markets Report - January 21-January 25, 2008

Here's a summary of what went on in the energy markets last week: Electricity peak prices decreased $3-7/MWh at the ERCOT and Palo Verde...

Utilities Turning From Coal to Gas

That's according to the New York Times : Stymied in their plans to build coal-burning power plants, American utilities are turning to na...

NEI Applauds DOE Budget Request

NEI said in a statment it was generally satisfied with the Energy Department's budget request for fiscal 2009 announced yesterday. The ...