Obama Finds a Place at the Table for Nuclear Power

"As President, I will tap our natural gas reserves, invest in clean coal technology, and find ways to safely harness nuclear power. I...

Nuclear Energy to Power the Future

Shannon Love over at Chicago Boyz sums it up nicely on why nuclear energy will power the future : ... We need to grow up and accept reality....

"Energy Killers" Watch Out

Below are some provocative statements from Roy Innis' latest book Energy Keepers-Energy Killers: The New Civil Rights Battle . RedOrbit ...

First U.S. Nuclear Components Facility to Be Built in Louisiana

The economic ripples of the nuclear renaissance become a bit more tidal today as Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal announced a joint ventur...

Australia's Big Coal Ad Against Nuclear Power

Rod Adams received this ad from a fellow blogger the other day and posted about it . It is a very straightforward effort by the coal industr...

Where the Chips Fall

  We sometimes say here that the viability of nuclear energy from a public opinion perspective is ever improving. The reason we say that is ...

How Does Food Irradiation Work?

Ever since the FDA approved the use of irradiation on leafy greens last week , I've been curious to find out how irradiation works as we...

Black Is the New Green

We don't read USA Today as much as we might - too colorful, ink doesn't adhere to our hands - but a story on coal and Peabody Energy...

Some NEI Goodness for Your Reading Pleasure

We here at Nuclear Notes don't link a lot to the massive resources created by NEI because our purpose is to explore the world of nuclear...

Joe Biden on Nuclear Energy

The nice thing about Barack Obama's choice of Joe Biden as his running mate is that the latter ran for president himself this cycle and...

Depleted Cranium: Pictures of Nuclear Turbines and Coal Turbines

Check out which are cleaner.

Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter Here

Sometimes, you just have to do for yourself, so if you want nuclear power, you build a reactor. The Wall Street Journal's Sam Schnecter...

Bees Descend Upon a Nuclear Plant in Britain

Here's something you don't ever read about : Nuclear sites are often havens for wildlife, but Britain's Sellafield proved too po...

Fox News on Nuclear Plant Security

Here's the link to the 3.5 minute video Scott Peterson was referring to in yesterday's post .

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

Meet SRI at Good Read .

CBS: FDA OKs Radiation To Kill Germs In Leafy Greens

How cool is this? The government will allow food producers to start zapping fresh spinach and iceberg lettuce with just enough radiation to ...

T. Boone Pickens and the Politics of Wind: What Texas Wants

Recommendation 1: Recognizing that the combination of incentives and competitive market forces in place in Texas resulted in more rapid ...

Safe, Secure and Vital: Securing America’s Nuclear Power Plants

FOX News, on this evening’s Special Report with Brit Hume, is expected to examine the security of America’s commercial nuclear power plants...

Should Nuclear Plants be Owned by the State?

Jerome a Paris has published the same post at several locations making a case that nuclear plants should be financed and owned by the gov...

The Favor Jane Fonda Did Nuclear Energy

About as counterintuitive as can be, William Tucker over at the New York Times' Freakonomics blog argues that The China Syndrome was a...

Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Plant on MPT's "State Circle"

The Maryland Public Television's State Circle program aired a debate last Friday over building a third reactor at the Calvert Cliffs nu...

Nuclear Plant Workers Averaged the Lowest Radiation Dose Ever in a Year in 2007

From the Nuclear Regulatory Commission : The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s compilation of 2007 nuclear power plant worker doses at U.S. re...

"This Nuclear Energy" - Welcome, Malaysia

We've welcomed a good number of countries to the nuclear family, enough by now to think we've filled in our entire stamp book (well...

Nuclear Power for Journalists with a Bias

The Society of Environmental Journalists (or SEJ) is an organization whose members "envision an informed society through excellence in...

Pawlenty, Obama Surrogate Spar Over Energy

The Wheeler News Service, a Wisconsin-based wire service, reports on Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty's appearance at U Dub in Madison o...

The Economist Hosts a Debate on the "Global Energy Crisis"

I don't know about calling it a crisis but over the next ten days, The Economist will be hosting a debate on whether "we can solve...

The Plan for Nuclear Energy by the Senate's "Gang of Ten"

American Thinker lays out the Gang of Ten's initiatives for developing nuclear energy in the US: A new faction within the US Senate, th...

T. Boone Pickens and the Politics of Wind

The reason to pay attention to T. Boone Pickens and his plan to replace natural gas with wind energy so as to divert the natural gas to aut...

Next Big Future: How Long Can Uranium Last for Nuclear Power?

If we use breeder reactors, uranium can last for 5 billion years at double current world electricity usage .

"Wind Power Brings Prosperity, Anger"

Let me put up my usual disclaimer first: I am not against developing and installing wind power or any other renewable source of energy. That...

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

Meet 12 Degrees of Freedom . Update: Also check out lardbeetle .

Let the Sun Shine In

While we wouldn’t mind having a few fuel rods in the basement to fulfill all our electricity needs, the likelihood of that happening in the...

Is it Safe? More on Obama, McCain and Yucca Mountain

One of our astute readers noticed that the Obama ad we posted the other day unfairly dinged McCain for not supporting transport of used n...

5th Anniversary of the 2003 Northeast Blackout

Some reflections from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) : On August 14, 2003, the North American electric grid expe...

The Long Haul

In establishing a tripartite national government, the Founding Fathers bequeathed us a very inefficient form of government. Friction betwee...

Do Wind Turbines Cause Adverse Health Effects?

This claim is a bit bogus in my opinion but Dr. Nina Pierpont in NY is set to publish a book next month that claims "living close to w...

Judd Gregg Calls for Expansion of Nuclear Power

In a meeting with editors from the Keene Sentinel , New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg (R) had some interesting things to say about nuclear e...

Tim Kaine Promotes Energy Plan

Addressing the Southern Governors' Association on Monday, Virginia Governor Tim Kaine called for southern states to develop a regional...

Nuclear Cheese from Wisconsin

Well, cheese, yes, and delicious cheese at that, perhaps created with help from electricity generated by the Dominion-owned Kewaunee nuclea...

Obama on Yucca Mountain

We already knew from the Democratic debate in Nevada that Barack Obama had no use for Yucca Mountain, but despite this, and John McCain’s su...