The View from Mecklenburg

The South Hill Enterprise says that it has the “largest paid circulation of any Mecklenburg County newspaper,”  which we take to mean it ge...

Barack Obama on Nuclear Energy

We quoted a bit of President Barack Obama’s discussion of the energy bill in the post below, but he had more to say, with nuclear getting a...

The Energy Bill Passes the House

Not by much – 219-212 – with a fair number of Democrats voting against it and all but eight Republicans likewise. But it passed. The Senate...

The Waxman-Markey Bill Faces Congress

Today sees the vote in the House on the Clean Energy and Security Act, aka Waxman-Markey aka the climate change bill, likely to be a very n...

Levelized Costs of New Electric Generating Technologies - EIA

Just wanted to bring to your attention probably one of the best, most complete, and credible sets of data on new power plant costs I've ...

The Future, The Shifting Ground, and Bachmann

Bob Metcalfe has an interesting futurist editorial in the Wall Street Journal: The good news is that the big names in nuclear energy ...

The Wind Out of Britain

We always wish our windy friends well, since we like the aesthetics of windmills and they answer to the need for renewable energy sources, ...

Bob Bennett and The 100 Nuclear Plants

A couple of weeks ago, we noted that Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) had called for building 100 new nuclear plants. What Alexander created ...

Pennies in the Fuel Bank

The idea of a fuel bank to control the flow of uranium to countries contemplating domestic nuclear energy production has stumbled a bit. ...

Friday YouTube Fun

For those unable to attend the Nuclear Energy Assembly a few weeks back, video clips of the events are now up on NEI's YouTube channel ...

From Germany to Maryland – with Love

We can’t help but think that Die Welt, the German magazine, has an ulterior motive for looking at Maryland’s Calvert Cliffs plant. If they ...

Questions Worth Asking?

Triplepundit asks the following question: At some point you just have to ask yourself, what is it that these politicians are getting ...

The Last Time I Saw – Concrete

Not much thought about by energy types, but exceptionally important in the construction of a nuclear power plant, concrete would seem an un...

Sarkozy: Nuclear is dead (?!)

We tip our hats to the savvy marketing peeps at Greenpeace for generating lots of internet buzz this morning about their spoofed edition of ...

Nuclear Loan Guarantees Expand

The nuclear good news express has – seemingly – pulled into the station for an extended stay. We’ll see what we can do about reviving our n...

In the Nuclear Sphere: Good News All Around

Lots of strikingly good news in the nuclear sphere today: Let’s take them one at a time. The Department of Energy has introduced a schola...

Nuclear By Name, Nuclear in Fact

We haven’t been the happiest persons on our increasingly watery planet with the Waxman-Markey energy bill, but neither have we been the unha...

Meet the Governors: Dr. Chu Goes West

Well, actually, he came from the west, so this isn’t a case of a Washington tenderfoot having to adapt to the rough-and-ready ways of our c...

Is Nuclear the Green Solution?

Not our question – because we know the answer – but that of the The National Journal, which has set up a forum for invited parties to grap...

Friday Follow-Ups

On Babcock and Wilcox’s announcement of new, smaller nuclear reactors: Our friends at the Heritage Foundation like what they see : O...

What Is Art?: A Debate Down Under

" What is art? " A long-time favorite answer of mine to this unanswerable question comes from the venerable English philosopher Ke...

The American Energy Act

The Republicans have released the full text of their American Energy Act. You can read the whole thing here . We’ll note that it includes so...

A Nuclear Game Changer?

That’s how Babcock & Wilcox described their scaled down nuclear reactor, intended to top out at 125 megawatts. Cost has been an issue w...

The National Summit

With NEI's President & CEO Marv Fertel set to address the Detroit Economic Club at next week's National Summit , this New Yor...

The Republican Energy Bill

The Republicans will today introduce an energy bill intended as a replacement for the Waxman-Markey legislation now wending its way through ...

Going Out Guide

If you happen to live in the neighborhood of Asbury Park New Jersey next Thursday, take the opportunity to learn about nuclear energy issue...

The Nuclear Fuel Bank and Iran

Last week, President Obama said during his speech in Cairo that he wanted Iran to be able to pursue nuclear energy while not pursuing nucle...