USEC Takes It to the Streets

We generally think protests and protesting are good things. They are ways of getting a message out and trying to bring attention to issues....

NEI's 2009 Top Industry Practice Awards on Video - Number Four: "Robotic Inspectors"

Below is the last video of four videos NEI has released over the past month highlighting top industry practices. Hope everyone has found t...

"The Capacity Factor" Has Been Added to the Blogroll

Uvdiv, the author, writes some quality stuff . Never thought I'd see someone take a unit of measure and turn it into a blog but he's...

Environmentalists Among the Ruffians

Senate's Clean Energy Deployment Plan: A Nuclear Slush Fund in the Making? That’s the title of an article on Solve Climate.com. It ma...

Snafu: Situation Normal at DOE…

…but all fouled up at USEC, the company that enriches a lot of the uranium in the United States. The Department of Energy has turned down ...

Video of Areva's Jarret Adams at Olkiluoto 3

For those who may not remember, Jarret used to write with us last year until he began at Areva. Now he's traveling it up and spreading A...

A Critique of Craig Severance's New Nuclear Cost Paper

A couple of weeks ago the Foundation for Nuclear Studies hosted a debate on the Hill between NEI’s Leslie Kass and Colorado’s Craig Severan...

Vroom! It’s the The Nuclear Car!!

Today was picture perfect for Newman Wachs Racing at the Harrah’s Autobahn Grand Prix Presented by Mazda. Atlantic Championship drivers ...

The Bird the Cat Dragged In

Some Monday nuclear tastiness: Well, we don’t know : The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is willing to support Kenya in ex...

The Windmill Goes Round and Round

Here’s Greenpeace’s Executive Director John Sauven on the British energy plant: "If this plan becomes a reality, it will create ...

The British Present An Energy Plan

Great Britain released last week its analogue of the Obama administration’s energy bill, called the UK Low Carbon Transition Plan. It’s goa...

NEI's 2009 Top Industry Practice Awards on Video - Number Three: "The Secret Is Plastic"

Over the last two weeks NEI has released two videos out of four highlighting the top industry practice awards that were given out at our a...

Nuclear Energy in Australia? Someday – Maybe

Bloomberg reports on the growing realization in Australia that its ambitious carbon emission reduction goals may be hard to achieve without...

A Little More Nuclear, Please

And we really mean a little more, as a new set of flowcharts from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory suggest that folks used more ...

It’s Friday and the Mood Is Miscellaneous

Or maybe pusillanimous. --- Gizmodo takes a quick look at 1979: the Year We Wussed Out of Nuclear: The timing of the movie coming...

An Update on Two Competing Models of Radiation: Linear No-Threshold vs Hormesis

The author of one of my favorite nuclear blogs, Rod Adams , found a new and compelling document explaining the beneficial health effects of ...

Setting the Watts Bar Too High

The Sierra Club, the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, the Tennessee Environmental Council, the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense Leagu...

The Story Told by Failed Amendments

As we’re sure you know from Schoolhouse Rock, when a bill goes through committee, members can propose amendments to enhance this aspect or ...

NEI's 2009 Top Industry Practice Awards on Video - Number Two

Last week, NEI released the first of four videos highlighting the top industry practice awards that were given out at our annual nuclear co...

As Said by Boxer to Alexander

To give a sense of the impact of Sen. Lamar Alexander’s (R-Tenn.)insistence on nuclear energy, as noted below, consider the response of Sen....

Britain: Renewables No, Nuclear Yes

"The CBI's report is a very good piece of work," said Steve Holliday, the National Grid chief executive. "There is no...

Lamar Alexander’s Nuclear Blueprint

Yesterday, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) announced at the National Press Club a document he entitled Blueprint for 100 New Nuclear Power P...

James Inhofe Squares the Warming Circle

Politico is running a package of energy related articles in their current print edition and also on its Web site. While the articles as a g...

What do thorium reactors and girls who can cite the periodic table from memory have in common?

Answer: Kirk Sorensen. Kirk just got back from England where he gave a successful and compelling presentation on liquid fluoride thorium rea...

Life’s Little Ironies

A British wind utility, Ecotricity , and French nuclear company EDF are fighting for the rights to a “green” union jack to use at the 2012...