Move Over Waxman-Markey, Here Comes Boxer-Kerry

Or, The Senate Moves on Climate Change. Senators Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) have presented the Senate’s version of th...

Nuclear Energy to Power the Washington Capitals

If you've been to Verizon Center to see a Caps preseason game or visited the Kettler Iceplex practice facility in Arlington, VA recentl...

Green Shoots in Autumn: Small Reactors on the Ascent

If you’re passing through the mid-Atlantic the first part of October to see the magnificent foliage points west and north you may consider d...

Serious Topics, Dry Wit

In a comprehensive, fascinating interview Thursday in sunny Idaho Falls with Idaho Samizdat , Dr. Dale Klein, longtime NRC commissioner and...

NEI's Energy Markets Report - September 14 - 18, 2009

The latest is up , below are two tidbits you may find useful: Uranium prices continued their trend downward as prices fell to $42-$42.50/lb ...

Iran Cracks Open the Door

Yesterday, we noted that Libyan President Muammar el-Qaddafi followed President Obama’s speech at the United Nations with a speech that ran...

Rhetoric and Action at the U.N.

As you may have heard, President Barack Obama gave a speech at the United Nations about climate change yesterday. Now, just to get it out o...

E. Coli and Recovering Uranium

We thought to call this post “Diseased Waste,” but decided it wasn’t only inaccurate but sounded like a death metal band. When we hear E. c...

Nuclear Utility Moves Up in Credit Ratings, Bank is "Comfortable with Nuclear Strategy"

Some positive signs that nuclear utilities can continue to receive positive ratings even while they finance new nuclear plants for the firs...

Sen. Lieberman Wants More Nuclear

Sen. Joe Lieberman [I-Conn.] wants you to know : “I don’t think we’re going to [pass a bill] without bipartisan support,” Lieberman to...

Barry Brook (and Co.) on Dr. Caldicott's Latest Claims on Radiation From Nuclear Plants

The debate on the effects of radiation from nuclear plants is alive and kicking at Barry Brook's blog Brave New Climate . In his latest ...

Happiness and the Pursuit of Energy

Now, here’s the thing: if you go to a conference about some topic in your field, you’re likely to eat some bad food, catch up with colleagu...

DOE to Announce Details About the Blue-Ribbon Commission on Used Nuclear Fuel "Soon"

Via Nasdaq : As part of a long-running rift over how to deal with the nation's nuclear power waste, the Obama administration announced p...

NEI's Energy Markets Report - September 7 - 11, 2009

The latest is up , here's an interesting nugget from our report: “Year-to-date [through June], total net generation was down 5.0 percent...

The What Where When of Used Nuclear Fuel

Ever since Yucca Mountain succumbed – well, almost succumbed – to the Obama administration’s uncertainties about it, the question of  used ...

Band of Green Brothers

And Sisters, too, of course. Darn that Shakespeare. During AFL-CIO Convention proceedings yesterday in Pittsburgh, delegates adopted Reso...

Things to Come in Iran and Indiana

A fair number of news stories are not about what happened but what might happen soon. The story below about California concerns an as-yet u...

FPL Testimony Rebutting Southern Alliance for Clean Energy's Claims on New Nuclear Plants

It's been two years since Florida Power & Light petitioned (pdf) their public service commission to receive approval to build two ...

The Governor and the Red Heat of Nuclear Energy

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted a bill that would ensure that 33% of the state’s energy would be powered by renewable ener...

Yukiya Amano Takes Over at IAEA

And here we had just gotten used to Mohamed ElBaradei – we were almost fans: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Monday ...

Food for Thought: Belgian Publisher Says Nuclear Industry Should Engage Public on a More Emotional Level

From WNA's World Nuclear News : A nuclear plant as the setting for a new hit TV series? Popular entertainment media could prove to be mo...

NEI's Energy Markets Report - August 31 - September 4, 2009

It's been a year and a half since I last highlighted NEI's Energy Markets Report on our blog. We've still been writing the rep...

Looking for a Few Good Anti-Nuclear Arguments

We’re always on the lookout for interesting anti-nuclear editorials. These days, the arguments have thinned out considerably – perhaps the ...

Waiting for Coal’s Next Act

Even if one allows that the coal industry solves outstanding issues with carbon capture and sequestration – and it might - the rising tide...

News Video of Three Mile Island's Steam Generator Replacement Project

WGAL Channel 8 caught the video and pictures of one of two 510 ton steam generators crawling off the barge in Maryland. Here's TMI...

From a Position of Strength: NEI on the Energy Bill

We’d be remiss not to note an exceptionally good op-ed from NEI’s President and CEO, Marv Fertel, over at the Hill . He actually returns fo...

The Money Trap

If we didn’t like nuclear power very much and our arguments against it were running a little thin, we might consider using current events a...

Some Labor Day Weekend Reading: Blogroll Updates and "Unique Reactors"

It's been awhile since we've updated our blogroll and we have quite a few new blogs to add. In alphabetical order we have Brave New ...

NEI's Field Trip to the PJM Interconnection Hub

Last week about 30 of us from NEI took a field trip to the PJM Interconnection hub in Valley Forge, PA to learn how the electric grid opera...

Rod Adams Takes On NIRS' Scorecard on the Nuclear Industry's Recent Failures

Last week, the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) issued a myopic press release dismissing the recent successes of the nuclear ...