Unbuilding a Building - and Obama Dissents

Despite our pre-Thanksgiving prep-for-bloat kind of lethargic mood, we thought we point you to a couple of interesting videos. Here's on...

Getting Right Side Up Down Under

Watching Australia come to grips with nuclear energy is like watching Mr. Hyde fighting not to become Dr. Jekyll - the struggle is intense ...

President Obama on Nuclear Energy

Over at The Huffington Post , Greenpeace 's Jim Riccio offers up some red meat in his provocatively titled guest post, President Obama ...

Gov. Beshear and the Nuclear Imperative

Interestingly, Kentucky's Governor Steve Beshear pursued an energy policy during his campaign but was notably silent about nuclear ener...

Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Plants Explained

In looking for videos to include on NEI's newly created YouTube channel ( NEI Network ), we came across an excellent online resource t...

Thorium at Google's Tech Talk

Dr. Joe Bonometti, with the help of thorium expert Kirk Sorensen , gave about an hour long "tech talk" at Google discussing liqui...

Obama's Cabinet Picks: Energy Secretary

Time to scratch a name off your Energy Secretary candidate list? ABC 's Jake Tapper and Martha Raddatz are reporting that retired Marine...

Romania Expanding Nuclear Fleet

Romania has pulled together a pretty impressive group of energy suppiers - including ArcelorMittal, CEZ, GDF Suez, Enel, Iberdrola and RWE...

Who Are You? - The Silicon Knows

The internet, as you may have heard, is jam packed with pages that purport to determine your perfect mate , your personality , your life sp...

50th U.S. Nuclear Plant License Renewed!

The Wolf Creek nuclear plant in Kansas just became the 50th reactor unit to receive a 20 year license renewal from the Nuclear Regulatory C...

A Nuclear Plant That Uses Wastewater - News Video Style

Arizona's Fox News must have read my previous post . ;-) Here's a link to the video clip of the news channel discussing how the Pal...

Dingell, Waxman in Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Challenge

Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA) has emerged victorious from the Cannon Caucus Room this morning, defeating John Dingell (D-MI) in a 137-122...

Recycling Gets a Hearing

Annette Carey does a good job in the TriCity Herald of covering a  public meeting that occurred there covering the possibility of recyclin...

Obama Addresses Governors at Global Climate Summit

Some interesting comments coming from President-elect Obama in his address to the bipartisan Governors' Global Climate Summit , schedul...

When Nuclear Fades

You don't get a very good result: Power suppliers are turning back the clock to use coal-fired plants as their main source of ele...

William Tucker Interview

My interview with journalist and author of Terrestrial Energy , William Tucker, is now up on NEI's YouTube Channel . Part one can be see...

Is "Clean" Coal Real? Physical Insights has the Skinny

If you're ready to think deeply and able to absorb a lot of info on a Monday morning, check out Luke Weston on "clean" coal at...

Obama's Cabinet Picks: Energy Secretary

The Hillary to State speculation drew most of the attention this weekend, but there was some Energy news. The AP is reporting that New Jer...

One for the Money in Wisconsin

There's been a veritable flood of good press on nuclear energy coming out of Wisconsin. The goal, of course, is to get the state's ...

Obama's Cabinet Picks: Energy Secretary

Add a new name to the list: the AP offers up former Indiana Congressman Philip Sharp . Sharp is currently serving as president of the nonpa...

Former Secretaries of Energy on the Next Energy Secretary

We're still waiting on a copy of the transcript, but Katie Fehrenbacher over at earth2tech is reporting on an interesting exchange bet...

Utilities Voted: "Nuclear Energy Best Investment to Meet Environmental Requirements"

That's according to Black & Veatch's latest annual survey to electric utilities (pdf). Here are the highlights: Continuing the ...

What Did the Voters Intend on Energy?

In a November 7 posting , the Wall Street Journal's Environmental Capital blog provides an excellent summary of the various "messag...

That Darn Ban! Wisconsin Rethinks Nuclear Energy

Wisconsin has been rethinking its ban on new nuclear energy plants for awhile now : Wisconsin's 24-year-old moratorium on nuclear ...

Obama's Cabinet Picks: Energy Secretary

The parlor game of cabinet speculation continues... The Houston Chronicle lobbies for their hometown Mayor. The next secretary of energy ...

Lost in Translation: Vietnam Edition

One of the dangers of snooping around the internet for interesting stories is that we have to hope the reporting is accurate. That's to...

Perhaps Apple Could Design a Nuclear Power Plant?

One thing you can say about nuclear power plants - or any industrial structure - is that they are not inspiring pieces of architecture. Obv...

Steve Forbes on the Obama Administration

Forbes magazine editor-in chief and publisher, Steve Forbes, a former presidential candidate in 1996 and 2000 , looks at the future Obama ...

Magnetic Nanoparticles to the Rescue ... Maybe

The Department of Energy is funding the University of Idaho with $732K to prove the feasibility of using highly magnetic nanoparticles to r...

Calvert Cliffs Plant Tour

A great piece in The Washington Post today on the Calvert Cliffs Plant in Lusby, MD offering a plant tour to local residents. Once routin...

Obama's Cabinet Picks: EPA Administrator

Politico's Mike Allen reports that Robert F. Kennedy Jr . is being "strongly considered" to head the EPA. NBC's Politica...

Industry Execs Discuss Energy Policy at National Journal's Blog

Margaret Kriz at National Journal's energy blog asked this question to several energy industry leaders : How Will New Leadership Impact...

Obama's Cabinet Picks: Energy Secretary

With the possible exception of Redskins-Monday-Morning-Quarterbacking and the Veep stakes , few DC parlor games attract more interest than ...

President Obama on Energy: Chuck Schumer

Last week, the senior Senator from New York, Chuck Schumer , stopped by the Charlie Rose show and surveyed the Senate landscape under an Ob...

A Horse Walks Into a Bar

Should you ever find yourself in Lodz Poland, by all means stop by the Hotel Alicja. Here's some pictures of the hotel - and no, we don...

A Nuclear Plant that Uses Wastewater

About every summer, nuclear energy opponents like to dust off their talking points by rehashing the claims that nuclear plants can't sur...

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

Meet Angela Saini from the UK. Hat tip to Jim Muckerheide!

California Edges Toward Nuclear Power

"Nuclear power is a dead-end in California, and we shouldn't be wasting resources on such an expensive and problematic energy o...