GE-Hitachi to Add 900 New Jobs in NC

North Carolina Governor Mike Easley (D) and state officials announced today that GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy will expand its campus in Wilmin...

Latest Issue of Nuclear Energy Insight Available

The April issue of Nuclear Energy Insight is now available online. The cover story features the Florida Public Service Commission's app...

What Arab Nations Think About Iran's Nuclear Plans

Iran is pursuing nuclear energy for purely peaceful reasons. This is the result of the 2008 Annual Arab Public Opinion Poll taken by Zogb...

Bush Addresses Sagging U.S. Economy

In a Rose Garden press conference this morning, President Bush acknowledged American's growing anxiety over the economy and faulted the ...

Inside U.S. Energy Subsidies

The Wall Street Journal 's excellent blog, Environmental Capital , takes a look at the federal energy subsidy pie and asks, Who's g...

Monday Morning Breakfast

...nuclear energy news you may have missed this weekend . The DOE report on long-term storage of used fuel will be delayed one year....Alge...

The Shining Path to a Nuclear Workers' Paradise

Stuart Jordan over at Workers' Liberty proposes an interesting reason to oppose nuclear energy if oppose it we must: Whether or no...

Charlottesville Mayor Interviews Anti-nukes

Yesterday, the Mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia Dave Norris (not to be confused with Chuck Norris ), hosted an interview with Stratton Sa...

"Is Nuclear Energy Our Best Hope?"

Discover Magazine has just published an article, "Is Nuclear Energy Our Best Hope?," written by Gwyneth Cravens. The pull quote: ...

Entergy Profits Surge in First-Quarter

Entergy Corporation this morning reported first-quarter earnings of $308.7 million, up 46% from one year ago. 1Q revenue rose 6.3% to $2.86...

Vermont's Fanatic Anti-Nuclear Movement

John McClaughry, president of the Ethan Allen Institute , wrote a commentary piece to the Rutland Herald about Vermont's Fanatic Anti-N...

New and Updated NEI Resources

We have posted several new and updated fact sheets and policy briefs to NEI’s public Web site during the past few weeks. They cover such ...

Ohio Lawmakers Embrace Nuclear Energy

The Ohio General Assembly has sent Gov. Ted Strickland (D) sweeping energy legislation that includes Nuclear Energy in the new state definit...

The Snap Together Energy Plant

If solar power has an image problem, it is that there is an aura of fluffy-headed idealism about it, a wouldn't-it-be-cool do-good fact...

Energy Policy in the North Carolina Primary

As the Democratic presidential candidates turn their attention to North Carolina and the upcoming primary, residents of the Tar Heel state w...

Laura Bush Touts Eco-Friendly House

Or ranch, I guess, as in the Crawford Ranch. Hosting the third hour of the Today Show yesterday, Mrs. Bush won a sandwich-making contest, li...

The Rough and the Smooth in Canada

An editorial in the Ottawa Citizen offers some surprises. Here's the rough: The latest fiasco in the world of nuclear is that th...

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

Check out Negative99 .

Wind Energy Production Tax Credit Subsidy

The U.S. wind industry's production tax credit subsidy is set to expire at the end of 2008. The wind industry has received this PTC ince...

McCain Answers Energy Questions

Or rather, surrogates from his presidential campaign are. Making the rounds on Earth Day, McCain's environmental and energy policy advis...

Mambo Italiano: Nuclear Energy in Italy?

It certainly seems likely : Enel SpA. plans to build a nuclear power plant in Italy to take advantage of a possible legislative shift i...

Energy Secretary Bodman on Biofuels

U.S. DOE Secretary Samuel Bodman spoke at DOE's Biomass Conference on April 18. In his prepared remarks the Secretary acknowledged conc...

TVA Eyes Nuclear Waste Center

From the Alabama " Times Daily :" The Tennessee Valley Authority, along with the U.S. Department of Energy, could announce as earl...

Monday Morning Breakfast

...nuclear energy news you may have missed this weekend. The United Arab Emirates will pursue a vigorous nuclear energy program to answer g...

Illinois Earthquake and Nuclear Plants

(4/18/2008) - This morning at 4:37 central time a 5.2 magnitude earthquake shook southeastern Illinois . Illinois is home to six nuclear pla...

Baby Steps: Mother Jones on Nuclear Energy

Not the magazine you would consider a go-to for nuclear energy  advocacy, but Mother Jones and writer Judith Lewis make the most honest atte...

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

Here's a summary of what went on in the energy markets last week: Electricity peak prices saw small changes at all hubs last week. All p...

Staying On Task with Global Warming

The Fox News Channel is determined to play as still controversial an issue that much of industry, not to mention the public, not to mention ...

Google Trends and "Nuclear Energy"

I've been spending some time recently with a great little Google widget (redundant, no?) called Google Trends . More robust than Google...

Bechtel, AFL-CIO in Labor Agreement for New Nuclear Energy Plant

At the BCTD conference , it was announced today that the AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department had committed to negotiate a pr...

Taxes and Nuclear Power

Joe Somsel, a contributor and frequent commenter here on the blog, asked me to share this with our readers: Since I'm posting on the day...

Skip Bowman Builds on Nuclear's Promise

Speaking today before the Legislative Conference of the Building and  Construction Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, NEI President and CEO ...

Patrick Moore in Newsweek

Patrick Moore , one of the cofounders of Greeenpeace and an advocate for nuclear energy, is interviewed by Fareed Zakaria in the latest i...

How Not to Be Helpful: Iranian Edition

Somehow, the very real seriousness of what the United States may or may not do as regards Iraq's Persian neighbor pales when one conside...

Nuclear vs. Fossil Share Price Performances

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) hosted their annual energy conference last Saturday with keynote speakers including MIT...

Nuclear Blog Roundup by Idaho Samizdat

From Dan Yurman : Every four weeks or so I'll take a look at what other nuclear energy blogs are talking about and provide some pointers...

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

NEI Nuclear Notes has fallen a bit behind in recognizing new bloggers for nuclear energy. Nevertheless, Rod Adams is still keeping it up and...

NEI's Energy Markets Report - March 31-April 4, 2008

Here's a summary of what went on in the energy markets last week: Electricity peak prices increased $4-32/MWh at all hubs. ERCOT increas...

T. J. Rodgers on Alternative Energy Sources

Peter Robinson from the National Review Online interviewed T. J. Rodgers on the "the promise and pitfalls of the most popular alterna...

Japan and France: Nuclear Energy Points the Way

Back in 1959, director Alain Resnais released a film that has since become a classic. Called Hiroshima Mon Amour, it posited a love affair b...

Showing OPEC the Door:

Broadly speaking, the nuclear energy community is in favor of a diverse energy mix. The current mood of the country has tied nuclear power e...

Berkeley School of Law Launches New Journal

In its innaugural issue of Ecology Law Currents , the Berkeley School of Law has published an article , "Relative Risk: Global Warmin...

Economic Benefits of North Anna Power Station

One of the tools NEI provides the public is a series of economic benefit reports. Created in collaboration with the plant owners, these repo...

British Energy Hits 20-Month High on the LSE

British Energy Group ( BGY ) rose 38 pence (.75 USD) or 5.4 percent on the London Stock Exchange in trading Thursday. The jump occurred aft...