The Who What Where Why of Yucca Mountain

A group of 17 Senators are puzzled : Over $7.7 billion has been spent researching Yucca Mountain as a potential repository site and ne...

Arlen Specter on Nuclear Energy

Why not? He’s much in the news and now that he’s with the majority party, we’d like to know where he tips the balance. As it turns out : ...

The Unbending Squirrel

Activism should be fun, pro- or anti-whatever, since the rewards of activism are often frustration, lost friends, and learning what it is t...

Toshiba Nuclear to the Tarheel State

The office of North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue (D) announced today that Toshiba Nuclear will open a project management and engineering c...

Hail to the Victors!

Congratulations to the wolverines from the University of Michigan Nuclear Engineering Department for outworking the MIT beavers ; being nam...

Moving Forward in Limbo

If a cap and a price are imposed on carbon dioxide emissions, [nuclear] plants could be among the biggest economic winners in the vast e...

FERC's Chairman Jon Wellinghoff on Baseload Capacity and Distributed/Centralized Generation

Jon Wellinghoff, Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission , made some interesting comments yesterday at a U.S. Energy Associatio...

Mr. Fertel Goes to Washington [Times]

Wednesday morning, NEI's president and CEO Marv Fertel sat down for a Newsmaker interview with Amanda DeBard, a reporter from The Washin...

Another Try at Nuclear Energy and Electric Cars

Below we have a quote from the BBC about nuclear energy and electric/hybrid cars. It almost makes the point we wanted, but not quite, and i...

No Earth Day for Nuclear Energy

We have to just let Earth Day go. This is a day for our wind and solar friends, who of course have a lock on clean energy: On this co...

Using More Energy + Growing Greater Wealth = A Cleaner Planet

Here's some brilliant logic from John Tierney at the NY Times on why using more energy and becoming more wealthy will "save the pla...

What Did James Clyburn Do During the House Recess?

Among other things (no doubt), House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) sat down with South Carolina Chamber of Commerce President and CEO...

When You Absolutely Need a Carbon Tax

We’ve mentioned here, as the cap-and-trade legislation heats up, that conservatives have had a problems with it despite it being the more c...

The Fast Lane to the Future with Electricity

EWeek has up a roundup of electric, hybrid or incredibly fuel efficient cars that will be shown at the 2009 New York Auto Show and, presuma...

First Concrete Pour of Westinghouse's AP1000 Completed at China's Sanmen Nuclear Site

From Westinghouse : Westinghouse Electric Company, its consortium partner The Shaw Group Inc. , China's State Nuclear Power Technology C...

Cows Doing What They Do: Boehner on Climate Change

So we understand that issues around cap-and-trade are complex and those trying to wrap their minds around it – we mean legislators – may no...

Greenhouse Gases Officially Hazardous

We wonder if industries will have to affix Surgeon General labels on their plants : Having received White House backing, the Environme...

The British Serve Up the Sites

The British Department of Energy and Climate Change (and boy, does that sound up-to-date) has released its list of 11 sites for new nuclear...

More Than 50 Nations Want to Build Nuclear Plants

That's according to IAEA's Hans-Holger Rogner : More than 50 nations are in talks with the UN atomic watchdog to build nuclear power...

Russia Commits to More Nuclear Energy

We have to admit that we know less than we might about Russian nuclear energy culture. We do know that it is a major player in the internat...

Spinning Around the Atom

Here’s a few tidbits of nuclear news to wonder about and inspire awe: The IAEA says that nuclear energy is an unstoppable runaway freight...

Nuclear Energy TV

Bob Geldof (you know, Live Aid organizer , frontman for The Boomtown Rats , and 2006 nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize ) raised a few eyebro...

Here Comes Tomorrow: Fission Into Electricity

As we know, nuclear energy creates electricity by generating heat that boils water that turns turbines – if you want to be really simple ab...

National Nuclear Day in Iran

I think they mean “We certainly have a right to use atomic energy.'” Wasn’t Sally Field stuck in Iran ? Surely she could have helped ...

When Newspapers Attack

We generally respect the work done at newspapers – pits of liberal iniquity that they are – because the effort at that first draft of histo...

Used Fuel and Angry Yankees

What to do, what to do? We’d be remiss to say that Yucca Mountain is completely, absolutely dead, because it really isn’t, but the decision...

Take a Seaweed Pill and Call the Police in the Morning

Hat tips to Stephen Dubner's Freakonmics blog post, When Scare Tactics Backfire , and TreeHugger for pointing us to this rather bizarre...