G8 Gives Nuclear a Nudge

Some interesting movements at the G8 Energy Ministers’ Meeting this week in Rome. The energy ministers of the G8 countries offered their ...

The Voice of Yucca Mountain

If you cover the nuclear news world during the later years of the Bush administration, there was no missing Ward Sproat, who turned up at v...

The End of Nuclear Waste?

We’re pretty sure this is how we got The Incredible Hulk: The NIF [National Ignition Facility] team will fire nearly 200 individual l...

Lamar Alexander Goes for an Even Hundred

Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander called Wednesday for doubling the number of nuclear reactors nationwide, a potentially $700 billion propos...

Bullets Fly at Calvert Cliffs – Yawns Ensue

Does nobody care ? One might think the NRC would be concerned about this. It's not. Is Constellation Energy Group, which runs ...

CTW on MSNBC's Morning Joe

CASEnergy Co-Chair and former EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman is making the media rounds in NYC today, with appearances scheduled...

Russia and America – Nuclear BFFs?

Well, that’s going a little far – and silly, to boot. But the Russians have actually found a way to do a little nuclear business on this si...

The Energy Bill at Triple Speed

As you may have heard, the climate change bill, your gateway to the world of cap-and-trade, successfully made its way out of the House Energ...

Once More at Yucca Mountain

We’ve ramped down discussing Yucca Mountain – it gets to seem whiny after awhile – but that doesn’t mean the discussion is over. The New Yo...

Renewable and Nuclear Industries Team Up to Ask Obama to Get the Loan Guarantee Program Moving

Via the Green Inc blog : Worried that an important loan-guarantee program has ground to a standstill, renewable energy industry associations...

Something in the Freezer

This should thrill the natural science world: On Tuesday morning, researchers will unveil a 47-million-year-old fossil they say could...

Taking the Quotes One at a Time

We’ve sometimes focus on silly politician quotes, but not really their context. When people hear something they think is stupid, they have ...

Jon Wellinghoff Light and Dark

One of the speakers at this year’s Nuclear Energy Assembly was Jon Wellinghoff, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. He ha...

Overheard at the Nuclear Energy Assembly

The Nuclear Energy Assembly is the annual conference of the Nuclear Energy Institute. It brings together all the bigwigs of the industry, p...

It’s Energy Bill Week!

Okay, we know that’s not going to cause as much excitement in some quarters as it does ours, but it does look, at least in the House, like ...

2009 Update to MIT's 2003 Future of Nuclear Power Study

Back in 2003, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology released a study on nuclear power because they believed "this technology, desp...

Where Your Vote Can Count

This image was created by Jadon Mann, a seventh grader in Georgetown, Texas.  Here’s what he says about his entry: “I believe that we all s...

Jobs Beget Jobs: Siemens in North Carolina

When we say that new nuclear plants are engines of job creation, we don’t just mean the new jobs created to construct and run the plants, b...

21st Century Energy Policymaking

We’ve been focusing so much on the politics of cap-and-trade and the miseries of Nevada mountains that we’ve forgotten to bring you some nu...

Friday YouTube Fun

A couple of weeks back, we pointed readers to "the unlikeliest beach book of the year:" David MacKay's Sustainable Energy - w...

Gregory Jaczko Named NRC Chairman

Along with a bunch of other personnel announcements, Gregory Jaczko, who has been an NRC commissioner, now assumes the post of Chairman, re...

Building a Building: Nuclear Plant Component Makers See Growth

A company called Report Linker has released a, well, report called “Nuclear Energy Technologies Worldwide: Components and Manufacturing.” It...

Rep. Joe Barton on Cap-and-Trade and the U.S. As Haiti

We had a bit of fun with Rep. Joe Barton yesterday, but politicians say all kinds of things and a good amount of it leads to fun. But fair’...

The Long-Awaited Future of Fusion May Have Gotten a Little Bit Closer

At least that's what scientists at the University of Gothenburg may have determined. Science Daily has the story : Ultra-dense deuteriu...

The Carbon Emissions of the Long Distance Runner

We’ve noticed several times an argument against regulating carbon emissions without actually noticing that it’s the same argument with diff...

An Inside Look at the Palo Verde Nuclear Plant

Phoenix, Arizona's Channel 3 crew had the opportunity to record a few minutes of video of the inside of containment at one of the three ...

The Chill at Yucca Mountain

So, if Yucca Mountain has been pushed onto a low-flame back burner, what then ? "Legally, it's a mess," explained Richar...

Dallas Morning News on the Waxman-Markey Bill

Hat tip to NNN reader Walker for passing along this Dallas Morning News Editorial that somehow didn't make it into our media clips. Fr...

Friday YouTube Fun

Adhering to Friday YouTube Fun precedent , we serve up the vegetables before the ice cream sundae. Two new ad campaigns caught our eye this ...

Sovietologist on Climate Progress' Nuclear Critic Joe Romm

This is definitely worth reading !

Depleted Cranium on Nuclear Desalination Plants

Here are some interesting facts on the potential of nuclear desalination plants : Assuming that the same efficiency as the BN350 [reactor] s...

To Harvey Wasserman: "Why should I trust anything you say?"

Wasserman asks: Who Will Pay for America's Chernobyl? Answer: No one – Because it can’t happen here. The premise of Wasserman's a...

NEI's CEO Marv Fertel on Nuclear Jobs

National Journal's Blog asked a group of experts if the Obama Administration is focusing too much on the jobs created by renewable ener...