Forget the Scots, Here Come the Welsh

Well, of course we want Scotland to see the error of their ways and keep their nuclear plants up and running. There seems to be a little pu...

Happy New Year!

Many thanks to all NNN readers who made 2008 such an electric year: records were set for visitors, page views, and visits. We look forward t...

The Dirty Energy Sector

We were expecting a little better from a story called U.S. Energy Industry Is Wary of Obama, although we think almost all industries are wa...

The Whole Energy Portfolio

Investors Business Daily has an interesting editorial touting nuclear energy in terms of interest to their readers: the pocketbook. U...

A Modest Request

Here is CNN’s Lou Dobbs’ intro to a discussion about the odd weather permeating the country: DOBBS: Welcome back. And let's talk ...

NuScale News

NuScale Power , the Oregon-based company that is developing small, modular light water nuclear reactors, has received a lot of positive medi...

2008 Nuclear Industry Summary of Events

Dan Yurman at Idaho Samizdat wrote about what did and didn't work for the nuclear industry in 2008. Plus here's his outlook for th...

Smart Meter. Art Meter?

Talk about suffering for your art. Or energy consumption. Swiss-born artist/inventor Annina Rüst has developed Project Thighmaster , a devi...

Scientific American: A Second Look at Nuclear

Matthew Wald , Energy reporter for The New York Times , has written the cover story for Scientific American 's special edition, Earth 3....

President Bush on Nuclear Energy's Revival

Making the rounds in his farewell tour , President Bush stopped by the American Enterprise Institute yesterday afternoon and was asked abou...

Shearon Harris Plant Receives License Renewal

The NRC has approved the Shearon Harris plant 's application for license renewal; extending plant operations for an additional 20 years,...

Keeping Your Toes Cool in Dubai

We’re not terribly critical of energy end users, though our father certainly could be if we let out the air conditioning by leaving the fro...

Used Nuclear Fuel and the Fission-Fusion Cycle

President-elect Obama often mentions the "safety" of used nuclear fuel as a block to a whole-hearted embrace of nuclear energy, s...

Arjun Makhijani and Nuclear Absolutism

The Wall Street Journal's Environmental Capital blog has an interesting post of a debate between two environmentalists with, shall we...

Turkey Point Nuclear Plant Home to One-Fifth of the Nation's Crocodiles

Florida Power & Light (operator of Turkey Point ) has the best idea when it comes to nuclear plant security: host hundreds of crocodile...

Legends and Facts: Steven Chu on Nuclear Energy

[Edit: Click here for coverage of Steven Chu's confirmation hearing .] So how is Steven Chu playing as the purported candidate for Dep...

NBC Reports Energy Secretary, EPA Chief

NBC's First Read has the story first: From NBC's Savannah Guthrie Obama will name Steven Chu his choice for Energy secr...

Spiraling Around Constellation Energy

CNN reports that Electricite de France is in discussions with Constellation Energy to take over half its nuclear business. Now, it should...

Thinking Twice in Scotland

Nuclear energy supplies about 40% of the energy in Scotland, but its two plants are due to be retired in 15 years. What then? The Scots hav...

France, America, Russia: India and the Nuclear Trifecta

You may be fairly sure that if a country expresses an interest in partnering with other countries to develop or enhance its nuclear industr...

Obama's Cabinet Picks: Energy Secretary

With the announcement of the new Secretary of Energy possibly occurring this week, two more names have been scratched off the shortlist. Per...

Don't Expect Energy Transitions to Come Soon

In The American magazine, Vaclav Smil (a Distinguished Professor at the University of Manitoba) wrote a "big idea" piece titled ...

Open discussion on Constellation situation and what it means for Nuclear

While this article in the Baltimore Sun initially focuses on job cuts, it later gives a good summary of the choices shareholders will have i...

San Francisco and The Electric Car

We've sort of figured that if electric cars get a full hearing that they will not be plugged into a house socket, even a specialized one...

Nuclear, Wind, Coal, Gas and Oil Footprints

Here's some food for thought ... copying from Pro Nuclear Democrats' post , check out how much one million barrels of oil looks like...

Nuclear Blog Highlights During Thanksgiving Week

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving last Thursday, at least those who celebrated! :-) For me, I was out all last week with the family enjo...