No Friends of Champagne

We had a little fun with the Heritage Foundation earlier today, but at least it was in the context of some good ideas they’re putting forwa...

Ahh, That Heritage Foundation: Nuclear Ideas & Partisan Hectoring

The Heritage Foundation’s Stuart Butler offered up some nuclear prescriptions to the new administration in yesterday’s Washington Times: ...

Shovel Ready Projects: Investor's Business Daily

Thanks to NNN reader Aaron for passing along this Investor's Business Daily editorial from Friday, Shovel-Ready Nukes . Stimulus : So-c...

They Call the Wind Uneconomic

Honestly, we come not to ding wind power : One of the firms participating in the London Array project, under which the world's bi...

For A Soft, Glowing Complexion

We’d like to think this is a good idea, but somehow we can’t see using a Geiger counter as part of our morning routine. An alarming classic ...

Washington Monthly: Rethinking Your Opposition to Nuclear Power?

Over at Washington Monthly 's Political Animal , Steve Benen has a robust discussion going on about Mariah Blake 's feature story ...

Show Me the Nuclear Plant

AmerenUE plans to build a second unit at its Callaway plant in, appropriately enough, Callaway county, Missouri. So far, the reaction is p...

Scientific American on Nuclear Energy

And a lot of interesting information on uranium, too. When I worked at Scientific American during the late eighties, the rule for the magaz...

Happy Chinese New Year!

2009 is the year of the Ox ; an animal that symbolizes hard work and tenacity.* And while I resolve to be more diligent in studying my Manda...

Biography of Robert Oppenheimer on PBS Tonight

PBS' American Experience show will air a two-hour biography tonight of Robert Oppenheimer , "Father of the Atomic Bomb." Rob...

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

Meet Sean Grabbe : How long do we have to wait for nuclear power? Its the cleanest non-poluting energy source we have. ... In the future I w...

Friday Flash Fun

With apologies to MetaFilter for blatantly ripping off their Friday Flash Fun idea, we offer up AE4RV 's Nuclear Plant Operator game ....

The Energy Center of the Balkans

We’re probably edging close to beating this story to death, but we admit we’re fascinated by Bulgaria’s attempts to rouse its nuclear indus...

Nuclear Plants Are Going Wireless

Here's something enticing for us nuclear geeks. In InTech's January edition , two software engineers, a software developer and two ...

Riding the Rails with Nuclear Energy

Trains that travel via electric power are “green,”  as we currently accept the the term, because they do not use (much) diesel fuel. And, i...

In the Best Interests of a Crisis

We’re always highly suspicious of government policy that erupts out of crisis rather than as the logical result of a governing philosophy. ...

Charles Barton at The Oil Drum blog

Charles Barton, author of the Nuclear Green blog , just began a series at The Oil Drum blog about liquid fluoride thorium reactors . Be sure...

Snuggle Up to the Warmth of Nuclear Power

We empathize with the citizens of central Europe suffering during the current interruption in gas deliveries from Russia. A January 16 head...

Energy Subsidies - A European View

Steve Kidd from the World Nuclear Association, writing in Nuclear Engineering International magazine, discusses energy subsidies in the U.S...

Into Every Life Some Gas Must Fall

And some days must be dark and dreary – like when your behemoth neighbor to the east decides to cut off the natural gas spigot – so you mus...

Inauguration Parade Route News

If you're one of the estimated 2 million people expected to brave the cold and descend upon Washington, D.C. this weekend for the inaug...

ironies and Little Failures

In rummaging around the radiant news of the day, we often run into stories that not only don’t quite fit any particular theme that interest...

Steven Chu's Nuclear Support: Daily Kos, Mother Jones Respond

At the risk of engaging in omphaloskepsis (?!), Daily Kos and Mother Jones (?!) have picked up our post on Steven Chu's confirmation...

Stimulating the Nuclear Industry

We don’t logroll much for NEI’s advertising activities – it can take care of itself – but we liked this newspaper ad that ran in The Washing...

Steven Chu and The Perfect Storm

First, consider that Steven Chu’s confirmation hearing yesterday (you can watch the whole thing at this link – it’s a little over two hours...

Steven Chu Energy Secretary Confirmation Hearing

If you're a proponent of nuclear energy in the United States, I'm not sure that Steven Chu 's testimony from today's Senate ...

Barron’s on Nuclear Energy

See, this is what we’re talking about: President-elect Barack Obama has put forth a goal to reduce carbon emissions in the U.S. by 80...

Nuclear Engineer: A Manly (?) Kind of Job

It is no secret that energy is the life blood of this country. Energy holds the key to the environment, the economy, and national securi...

Edward Markey to Energy and Environment

Here’s some news from The Boston Globe that might cause, well, mixed feelings: Representative Edward Markey today will be awarded a ...

The Chamber of Commerce Makes the Case for Nuclear Energy

One of the developing themes in the new Congress might well be a new openness in discussing nuclear energy as a way forward if the A-1 prio...