Ralph Nader at NEI - the Wrapup

Ralph Nader and some Greenpeace activists showed up yesterday outside our offices to shout slogans and wave signs - well, not Nader himself,...

NEI's Energy Markets Report - May 19-23, 2008

Here's a summary of what went on in the energy markets last week: Electricity peak prices decreased $1-24/MWh at all hubs except for Ent...

McCain to Miss Lieberman-Warner Vote

In yet another sign that Lieberman-Warner is DOA, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has announced that he will not be present when the Senate begins d...

Westinghouse in the Press

Local news reporter straight out of central casting ( Jon Delano ) aside, a nice piece about Westinghouse ran on Pittsburgh's KDKA las...

Ralph Nader to Visit NEI

We bow to no one in our respect for Ralph Nader and the work he has done to expose government and corporate corruption and to work always f...

SCANA to Build Two New Nuclear Reactors

SCANA ( SCG ) subsidiary, South Carolina Electric & Gas , announced Tuesday that they had reached a contractual agreement with Westingh...

No Hope, All Is Lost: A New Argument Against Nuclear Energy

Glenn Compton, chairman of ManaSota-88 , a regional environmental  group (the region being Florida), writes in the Sarasota Herald Tribune a...

And The Wind Cries Nimby

After you've read the John McCain quote in the post below, you may  wonder if, by proposing to put used nuclear fuel, including that of ...

McCain Proposes Alternative to Yucca Mountain

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has just completed delivering a major foreign policy speech on Nuclear Security at the University of Denver. (The fu...

Bridging the Gulf with Nuclear Energy

Even if we were a little more, um, self-centered, we probably  wouldn't try out a sentence like this : Nuclear power rather than re...

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

Check out Worlds Apart .

A History of California's Energy "Policies"

Over at the City Journal , Max Schulz - a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and director of its Center for Energy Policy and the Env...

Nuclear Green Added to Our Blogroll

Be sure to check out Mr. Barton's blog . "One of the roles of educated people in society is to help other people overcome irrationa...

Diaries on Nuclear Energy at DailyKos

David Walters stirred up the debate with Charles Barton by discussing California's wind energy problems while adding in the benefits o...

DOE to File for Yucca Mountain License this June

According to Energy Secretary Bodman, it looks like the DOE is still on track to submit Yucca's license application to the NRC early nex...

Italy Reverses Nuclear Policy

In a move intended to bring an end to being the world's biggest net importer of electricity, the Italian government today announced that...

NEI's Energy Markets Report - May 12-16, 2008

Here's a summary of what went on in the energy markets last week: Electricity peak prices at the Western hubs increased $3-23/MWh and d...

NEI's Nuclear Performance - April 2008

Here's a summary of U.S. nuclear plant performances last month: For April 2008, the average net capacity factor was 79.0 percent. This f...

Toshiba Expects 33 Reactor Orders by 2015

From the World Nuclear News : Japan's Toshiba Corporation expects orders for at least 33 nuclear power reactors by 2015, and plans to ex...

Lieberman-Warner Climate Bill and Nuclear Energy

Sen. Barbara Boxer's (D-CA) much-anticipated " Boxer substitute " to the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act has just been ...

Here Comes the Czech Republic

It does sometimes seem as though we have a scoreboard around here to tote up the countries that are warming up (or rewarming up) to nuclea...

Web Site Siting: Radiation Answers

One of the scarier things one can contemplate happening is being irradiated, and anything so scary is going to be riven with taboo and fear...

Exelon and Watchdog Group Cooperate on TMI

From Pennsylvania's Business Journal : Exelon Corp. agreed to help a nuclear watchdog group keep tabs on Three Mile Island for the nex...

Wired Magazine's Green Issue: Go Nuclear

Wired magazine marks its 15-year anniversary with the cover story, " Inconvenient Truths: Cutting Carbon Is the Only Thing That Matter...

The Big Bear of Two Continents: Russia in Vietnam

It's a synchronicity kind of thing: Just as Vietnam revs up its interest  in nuclear energy, here come the Russians, continuing to lum...

Monday Morning Breakfast

...nuclear energy news you may have missed this weekend. The Wall Street Journal looks at the impact that cap-and-trade would have on the ...

Simona De Silvestro, Off and On the Track

Simona De Silvestro —and the industry—gets some nice pub with the lead story on today's ClimateWire , A stunning Swiss blonde parked her...

Au Revoir, EDF?: British Energy Rounds Up Some More Bidders

We wrote a couple of days ago we may have jumped the gun on the British Energy story by declaring Electricité de France (EDF) the last com...

This Island Earth: Following Up on Some Recent Stories

One thing journalist types like to do is follow up on previous stories to see where they've gotten to, if anywhere. It provides continu...

AFL-CIO Backs "Clean Energy Bank"

Add Mark Ayers, President of the Building & Construction Trades Department , AFL-CIO, to those supporting the creation of a " Clean...

Bon Jour, EDF: British Energy Finds a Bidder

Well, maybe. The British Government solicited bids for its 35% share of British Energy, which runs eight of the ten nuclear energy plants i...

The Choreographers of Nature: Michio Kaku on Nuclear Energy

Michio Kaku , co-founder of string field theory and professor of theoretical physics at City University in New York City, makes some intere...

New York Times Endorses Nuclear Energy

In a New York Times Editorial running this morning, The Post-Bush Climate , we find this nugget, His [McCain] plan differs in other respect...

Bush Sends U.S.-Russia Civilian Nuclear Energy Pact to Congress

President George W. Bush has sent the agreement called Cooperation in the Field of Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy to Congress for approval....

Explaining the Costs of Nuclear Power Plants

Conferences, campaign speeches, and media all contributed to an especially busy NEI Monday. At Brookings , Sen. Lamar Alexander (R) called f...

Let the Battle Begin: The Wall Street Journal on the Expense of New Plants

The argument that building new nuclear energy plants will represent ruinous expense for anyone to undertake has percolated among nuclear opp...

Monday Morning Breakfast

...nuclear energy news you may have missed this weekend. The Washington Post reports that at least 40 developing countries have approached...

The Rise of Carly Fiorina

It's been a good few months for Carly Fiorina ; the once- embattled former president and CEO of Hewlett-Packard is now an advisor and ...

Everything Old Is New Again: Westinghouse Steps Forward

For a lot of folks, Westinghouse is a name associated with the  washing machines, TV sets and vacuum machines that graced their suburban tr...

Pennies from Heaven: A Nuclear Stock Fund

For those of you more engaged with your financial portfolios than we are, take a look at this, courtesy of Kiplinger : Investors who w...

The CBO Study on Nuclear Energy

Your rainy weekend reading suggestion: the Congressional Budget Office's just released study," Nuclear Power's Role in Generati...