The Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future Arrives

And that’s what they’re calling it: The Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future. Announced today during a telephone conference w...

The State of the Union: The Reaction

President Barack Obama essentially led with nuclear energy while discussing energy last night, a move that surprised many, delighted us (an...

The State of the Union

Here’s the energy portion of President Barack Obama’s first State of the Union address. The third paragraph is the keeper: in discussing mo...

Lord Love a Nuclear Plant

Now, we admit we can be a little provincial when it comes to viewing the activities of other countries. We’ve travelled and had longer than...

The More Molybdenum the Merrier

Yesterday, we mentioned GE Hitachi is putting together a radioisotope reactor to cover the short fall from the temporary shuttering of Cana...

John Rowe and GE’s Radioisotopes

In an interesting story in today’s USA Today , Julie Schmit profiles Exelon’s chairman, John Rowe. He’s always worth attending to on nuclea...

Union of Concerned Scientists Needs to Do a Bit More Research on Their Nuclear Claims

Mr. Elliott Negin, media director for the Union of Concerned Scientists, published the same jaded piece at Seeking Alpha and Greentech Medi...

Steven Chu and The Senators

Secretary Steven Chu was on Capitol Hill yesterday talking to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee. The discussion was wide ra...

Daily Kos Diarist Tells What Life is Like Working in a Nuclear Plant

Blubba , an occasional contributor at Daily Kos , began an entertaining series of posts describing the unique experiences that occur at a nu...

Scott Brown on Nuclear Energy

Congratulations to Scott Brown (R-Mass.) on his election to the Senate yesterday. We were, as always, interested to know where he stands on...

Helping in Haiti

The USS Carl Vinson, a nuclear-powered supercarrier, steamed over to Haiti last week. It is providing considerable help: The Vinson h...

U.S. May Be Able to Produce Its Own Medical Isotopes at the Clinton Nuclear Power Station

The NRC just approved a license amendment at the Clinton nuclear plant in Illinois for a pilot program “to explore the production of Cobal...

Anti-Nuke Hypocrisies

Barry Brook published a great piece on the contradictory thinking of anti-nuclear environmentalists . It was posted a few days ago and is no...

The Wind and The Sound

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has promised Cape Cod a decision on a proposed wind farm off its coast: Calling the nearly decade-long...

YouTube Videos on Ionizing Radiation

Yesterday, a commenter by the name of Georg provided links to seven YouTube videos about ionizing radiation that he and Kansas State Unive...

Browner, Korea and the Chamber

Carol Browner, President Obama’s energy and climate advisor, said some nice things about nuclear energy: "We have not built a nu...

The Pope on COP15

In his role as Sovereign of Vatican City, the Pope gives a speech to ambassadors each year to indicate the positions the state holds on var...

Anyone Listening to Dr. Caldicott Anymore?

Doesn’t look like it . Apparently she’s trying to create controversy with many in the environmental community over nuclear. Maybe nuclear re...

A Nuclear Tussle in Minnesota

The Duluth News tries a pro-con pair of op-eds on nuclear energy that would have benefitted considerably from a more direct match-up. John L...

The Simpsons Turn 20. Happy Anniversary!

If you weren’t among the 13 million viewers who tuned in to watch the Simpsons 20th-anniversary special on Sunday night, here’s a clip cont...

The Whole Shocking Truth About Nuclear Energy

Nuclear Energy is never going to get an awful lot of love from Mother Jones magazine – unless the tide of support it’s seen from more progr...

2009 Was a Productive Year for Nuclear Energy

From a new administration in Washington, D.C., to the debate on climate change, 2009 was a busy year for the nuclear industry as the domesti...

2009 Was a Strong Year for Reactor Construction Worldwide

One of NEI’s knowledgeable writers, Chris Charles, tallied up some promising world nuclear numbers in NEI’s weekly member newsletter. Below...

Lindsey Graham: As Bold As The French

We were in the mood for cheese, so of course had to look in on Wisconsin, where the mood is cheddery smooth : A proposal that would relax Wi...