A Blueprint for Securing America's Energy Future

The Institute for 21st Century Energy , an affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, released its Blueprint for Securing America's Ene...

Hat in Hand? The IAEA Talks Money Woes

If everything is timing, now was not the right time for the International Atomic Energy Agency to start a fundraising effort: The Inte...

Obama Campaigns in Nevada

At a speech to be delivered later this afternoon on the quad of the University of Nevada, Reno campus, Senator Obama has some things to say...

Indian-U.S. Deal Inches Forward

Inching, yes, but given that congress has been otherwise engaged during the last week, we'll take it : The US House of Representat...

Paul Newman (1925-2008)

People around my age picked up Paul Newman's career somewhere in the seventies, when he was lending his light gravitas to big bucks comm...

The First Presidential Debate

Senators Obama and McCain participated in the first of the Presidential debates on Friday night. Although planned to focus on foreign policy...

The Warp Effect: WSJ on Buffett, Constellation and the Fate of the EPR

The Wall Street Journal has a story about Warren Buffett's pending purchase of Constellation Energy and, particularly from our point...

Incentives or Investments?

Federal subsidies and their role in promoting our national interests have been debated since the earliest days of our nation . Earlier this ...

Go Slow or Go Fast?

A new article in the business section of the New York Times by Matthew L. Wald explores the expansion of nuclear power in the US. In this ...

Drill the Baby

The states still have to weigh in here, but the Congressional moratorium on offshore drilling is expiring before our eyes (to be more prec...

EDF To Buy British Energy for $23.2 Billion

We have a winner in the British Energy Stakes. Per the BBC , French energy firm EDF has agreed to buy British Energy, the firm which operate...

CERN's Particle Accelerator Shut Down Until Next Year

Well, when anyone operates a first-of-a-kind, multi-billion dollar machine, they're bound to have hiccups. Here's CERN : During comm...

New Study of Federal Energy Incentives

Dr. Roger Bezdek, President of Management Information Services Inc ( MISI ) and a noted expert on energy policy analysis, spoke at the Natio...

Yucca Yuks

Via Tom Toles in today's Washington Post .

US-India 123 Agreement Gains Support

With conversations in DC being dominated by the federal bailout of the financial industry, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit ...

Yucca is no "Dump"

For years, we have heard opponents of nuclear energy call the Yucca Mountain repository called a “dump”. The tactic of using inaccurate and...

Meet Clean Energy America

Sponsored by the Nuclear Energy Institute , this group of talented young speakers is set to debut their speaking and media tour next week in...

A Filter that Can Trap Radiation from Used Nuclear Fuel

I can't quite tell how practical this could be since the article makes no mention of the exact cost nor how much quantity is needed per ...

Warren Buffett Makes a Nuclear Play

Watching the movements of billionaires is the sport of business pages, and no billionaire is watched more closely than Warren Buffett - wel...

Fish Story: John McCain and the Oil Rigs

We really do pity politicians on the stump. They either offer endless iterations of the same points - Obama has recycled bits of his conve...

Patrick Moore on FBN

Dr. Patrick Moore, founder of Greenspirit Strategies and a founding member of Greenpeace , hits the cable airwaves today to talk nuclear po...

Must Be Something in the Water

"Well, who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?" Chico Marx as "Chicolini", in the 1933 Marx brothers classic, Duck S...

The Future Is Now

This made us laugh and we thought we'd share it with you. While reading through various commentary of the energy bill passed by the Hous...

Colorado Considering Nuclear Power

Back in April, we first wrote about the possibility of Tri-State Generation building a new nuclear plant in Colorado. In today's Denve...

National Geographic Films Turbine Replacement at PPL Susquehanna Nuclear Plant

National Geographic will debut its newest show "World's Toughest Fixes" with an excellent, in-depth look at how the PPL Susq...

NRC Throws a Punch in Massachusetts

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission tends to float a bit above the political fray - you could say it sticks to its knitting, keeps it head do...

NEI on WAMU

NEI's Senior Director of Media Relations, Steve Kerekes, will discuss the " Future of Nuclear Power " today at 12:00 ET on WAM...

Price Anderson Act Explained

Providing a corrective to an Op-ed that ran in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune , Marv Fertel, NEI's Executive VP and Chief Nuclea...

McCain and Obama Respond to Science Questionnaire

Actually, Obama got his questionnaire in a couple of weeks ago, with McCain following this week. But the Scientists and Engineers for Ameri...

Time for Nuclear: Gresham Barrett's Energy Plan

Representative Gresham Barrett from South Carolina has put forward an energy plan that greatly favors nuclear energy. The Greenville News...

Australian Frustration Over Nuclear Energy

Leslie Kemeny at the Canberra Times notes that Australia is badly lagging the G8 in its refusal to consider nuclear energy for its energy n...

Google to Launch Computer Navy

Nope, Google isn't moving into the online gaming space but they are looking to add a new page to a renewable energy portfolio. The Times...

Al Franken Endorses Nuclear Power

An article in this morning's Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune , " Nuclear energy is enjoying a renaissance ," looks at the ec...

Dueling Editorials: The USA-India Agreement

The New York Times and the Washington Post have both put up editorials on the pending agreement to allow the India and the United States to...

IAEA: Nuclear Power Worldwide Could Double by 2030

According to report from the IAEA. Per Reuters , Nuclear power production could as much as double by 2030 as countries seek relief from ris...

Wind a Boon(e?) for Gas

The Wall Street Journal's Environmental Capital blog today points to a WSJ op-ed by European writer Edgar Gärtner on the link between ...