Friday YouTube Fun

First, the spinach: NEI's 2009 financial briefing for Wall Street analysts is now available on NEI's YouTube channel . Part 1 can be...

The Obama Budget and Yucca Mountain

There's quite a spirited debate going on at WSJ's Environmental Capital about the proposed defunding of Yucca Mountain in Presiden...

A Simple Little Cap-and-Trade Tale

In a story about President Obama’s budget priorities, this popped out at us: As for cap-and-trade, the official said the administrati...

Commentary on President Obama's Speech Last Night

Jason Ribeiro at Pro-Nuclear Democrats wrote an excellent, fact-based piece on why President Obama should have included nuclear energy in h...

Barack Obama and Bobby Jindal on Energy: No Love, Love

Here is President Obama's paragraph on energy from last night's not-the-State-of-the-Union: But to truly transform our economy, prot...

Chris Goodall and The Greening of The Atom

We’ve been noting over many posts the exceptionally rapid embrace of nuclear energy by a growing number of European countries and even by t...

William Tucker Shares His Thoughts on Renewable Mandates

William Tucker, author of Terrestrial Energy (his latest book "about nuclear energy, global warming and the threat to the environment...

Experts Weigh In On How The U.S. Should Handle Its Commercial Nuclear "Waste"

The National Journal's energy blog is asking " How Should America Handle Its Commercial Nuclear Waste? " So far, four experts ...

Global Nuclear News: Vietnam, Algeria, Iran

Vietnam is making determined steps toward joining the nuclear family: The Vietnam Nuclear Energy Institute and the US’ Westinghouse P...

Another Greenpeace Executive for Nuclear Energy

First it was Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore seeing the light about the benefits of nuclear power , now another former director of the i...

Nuclear Energy R&D Strategy by EPRI and INL

Dan Yurman at Idaho Samizdat beat me to this story so I'm going to copy from him ;-): A new report co-authored by the Electric Power Re...

Thoughts and Criticisms of Secretary Clinton's Comments in Japan on Nuclear Energy

Yesterday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a speech to students at the University of Tokyo. Jason Ribeiro over at Pro Nuclear Democr...

Are We In An Era of Confusion?

Charles Barton at Nuclear Green thinks so and I think he's right.

Fruity Socialists Doing Yoga: The Perils of Namasté

Namasté ’s CEO, Blake Jones, is quite upfront about the benefits of the stimulus plan for his company , a solar panel supplier in Colorado:...

Moments of Dread: The EPA and Carbon Emissions

When a new administration takes over, there are always some moments of dread, even among those constituencies that might expect to benefit....

Another Environmentalist for Nuclear Energy

After hearing a presentation from Ariel Levite, the former Principal Deputy Director General for Policy at the Israeli Atomic Energy Commiss...

No Plans From Chu to Stop Progress on Yucca Mountain

From the Las Vegas Review Journal : Energy Secretary Steven Chu told a group of state officials Wednesday he favors moving toward licensing ...

Panic Button

We’ve done a fair number of stories about the actions of several states to overturn bans. These state actions are delightful to us but must...

Kentucky Ban Overturned in State Senate

The news is that Kentucky is en route to overturning its ban on building nuclear energy plants: Sen. Bob Leeper of Paducah said adop...

Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy

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Principles on How the Nuclear Industry Can Communicate More Effectively

Baruch Fischhoff wrote an informative piece at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists explaining how the nuclear industry can communicate bet...

Did You Know? "We are living in exponential times"

Check out this video that was shown at an American Nuclear Society Conference on Nuclear Training and Education. The numbers are astonishin...

Walking into a Windmill

We’ve sometimes read stories about people who misjudged where a helicopter rotor was or just how close is too close when in proximity to an...

So Where’s the Beef?

We’re all in favor of promoting nuclear energy in creative ways, but we have to admit to mixed feelings about the Miss Atom contest (in Ru...

Peaches But No Cream? Nuclear Plant Funding in Georgia

We were pleasantly surprised that Georgia has done what Missouri is edging toward doing: Wednesday the Senate took great strides in ...

ElBaradei Brews Tea: The IAEA on Iran

The International Atomic Energy Agency has been in the news a fair amount lately, especially as it tries to stake out a position vis a vis...

Loan Guarantees in the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act" of 2009

Today might be the day we find out if $50B in loan volume for the existing loan guarantee clean energy program makes it into the final ...

Stimulus Bill Conference Committee Members Announced

After passing the economic stimulus plan by a vote of 61-37 earlier today, the Senate conference committee members have been announced. Har...

Stimulus Bill Debate

An interesting segment earlier today on NPR 's Morning Edition : " What Kind Of Green Jobs Will Stimulus Spawn? " This exchang...

Japan's Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Plant to Restart a Reactor

From Power Engineering International : The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency of Japan has decided to approve Tokyo Electric Power Co....

Missouri and The Callaway Plant: An Update

The last time we checked in with Missouri, AmerenUE wanted to build another unit at Callaway, but needed a change in the law to allow it t...

And Then There Was Europe

We have to give our European friends points for ambition : Discussions regarding Europe's future energy policy this week has seen ...