A Holisitic View

In the world of Washington politics, one man's incentive may be another man's subsidy or boondoggle. A Wednesday afternoon posting o...

The Republican Mistake

We don’t always find ourselves agreeing with Thomas Friedman at the NYT, but that’s the job of a columnist, isn’t it? – sometimes he’s on...

Russia's Nuclear Energy Investment

The English-language news site Russia Today is reporting that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will invest $40 billion (US) in the country...

Xcel Energy Plans for Monticello Expansion

Media's raison d'etre —especially television—is to document events; answering the whowhatwherewhywhen of something happening, somewh...

And How Are Things in Lithuania?

Swimmingly, as it happens, since, like France, Lithuania gets almost three-quarters of its electricity from nuclear energy. Slovakia gets...

T. Boone Pickens Energy Plan

The Washington Times editorial board weighs in on the Pickens Plan , At minimum, it is good to see an oil magnate thinking big thoughts abo...

Energy 101 Quiz on Oil and Gas

Check out this quiz over at the American Petroleum Institute to see how well you know nuclear's competitors. I scored nine out of ten. ...

Best Analogy for the Linear No-Threshold Theory

Many NEI NN readers here know that there are two competing theories on radiation: linear no-threshold (LNT) and hormesis . For those who do...

India Comes in from the Cold

India has been suffering as a nuclear rogue state over the last several years, as it has not signed the non-proliferation agreements and ...

Patrick Moore Interviewed on CNN

In case you were watching The Wheel and missed it, Patrick Moore , co-Chair of the CASEnergy Coalition and co-founder of Greenpeace , app...

Indian Government Receives Vote of Confidence

Indian state television, Doordarshan , is now reporting that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government has received a vote of confidenc...

Nuclear Energy, Terrestrial Energy: WSJ

In the Op-Ed pages of The Wall Street Journal today, William Tucker provides as normalizing an explanation about nuclear energy production...

Friday Funny

From NY Newsday , a political cartoon by the Pulitzer Prize-winning , nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist Walt Handelsman.

Al Gore, the Vexatious One

At the risk of inflaming everyone who visits this blog, we have to say that Al Gore has proven to be an extraordinarily impressive politica...

Apollo, Manhattan Project A Marshall Plan for Energy

Working in the online space, rarely do I find myself printing up a document that can be read on the Web. (What is thing you call paper ?) It...

Waste Wanted

No, we're not talking about chambers of commerce pitching for the building of temporary storage facilities in their districts; we're...

What Becomes a Morlock Most?

A fascinating article in the Guardian by sociology professor Ulrich Beck points up an interesting tidbit about the future risk of Yucca Mo...

The NRC Licensing Process

In case you missed it: NEI's Sr. Director of New Plant Deployment, Adrian Heymer, appeared this afternoon on CNBC's Street Signs to...

Californians Becoming More Favorable to Nuclear Energy

That's according to the San Francisco Chronicle : In a sign that record-high gas prices are changing the way Californians think and live...

Great Discussion about Nuclear Energy Over at NewTalk

What's NewTalk ? Well, according to their About page: NewTalk presents focused discussions by experts on the most important domestic to...

Nuclear Power On the Hill, Day 2

On Tuesday it was the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources holding a nuclear energy-related hearing , yesterday the Committee on...

A Little Lesson in Public Relations

Now, many nuclear power plants sit off in the middle of nowhere-in-particular creating those little jolts of electric goodness in relative p...

Tell It on the Mountain

Yucca Mountain, that is, which has been getting something of a rough treatment lately. Fears about storing tons of used nuclear fuel there ...

New Nuclear Plants Okayed in Florida

A Florida regulatory agency, the Public Service Commission , has unanimously endorsed Progress Energy's proposal to build two new nucle...

Simple By Comparison

As the Electric Power Research Institute ( EPRI ) and others have documented, solving the energy-environment challenge today requires contri...

Nuclear Power On the Hill

Who says DC is sleepy in the summertime? With two nuclear energy-related hearings scheduled for 10:00 am, the Hill is a busy place this morn...

Great Britain Okays Nuclear Energy

Once, it was dead. A White Paper on energy, released in 2003, described nuclear power as an "unattractive option" and inclu...

Nuclear Makes A Worldwide Comeback: Der Spiegel

[Intentional?] Typo aside, a great package on nuclear energy, The Atomic Age Enters a New Dawn , has just gone online over at Der Spiegel. O...

Shaw Group Announces Record Q3 Earnings

Shaw Group shares popped nearly 10% yesterday after the company announced record third quarter earnings - $53.9 million for the quarter e...

RNC TV Ad on Energy Gets Factchecked

On Monday I posted on the RNC's first TV ad to be released during this presidential campaign. Today, Factcheck.org , the nonpartisan g...

Amory Lovins and His Nuclear Illusion - Final Thoughts

This is my final post (and the longest) in the series that discredits Amory Lovins’ and the Rocky Mountain Institute’s “Nuclear Illusion” pa...

Blog Traffic

A big thank you to NEI Notes readers for making June a record setting month for traffic. Compared to May, Unique Visitors were up 42% and Pa...

Pro-Nuclear vs. Anti-Nuclear Websites: Who's Getting More Traffic?

Check out the answer at Depleted Cranium !

Obama Surrogates on Nuclear Power

Obama surrogates Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D-MI), and Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-PA) discussed the RNC's "Ba...