Facebook and Small-d Democracy

The internet can be a bit, shall we say, free wheeling, so Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s Facebook page often finds itself awash in ill-co...

Nuclear Software Off the Shelf

Looking around for software that helps greenify your life, we ran across this . Announced Monday, one of IBM's new partnerships is...

Hans Blix, Psychological Tricks, Editorial Picks

Here’s a story we certainly had no reason to expect: The United Arab Emirates said Monday it had appointed former United Nations chie...

Some Monday Morning Nuclear Blog Clips to Read

The two big posts everyone was raving about over the weekend come from Depleted Cranium’s Steve Packard and Brave New Climate’s Barry Brook....

Vermont Yankee Advertising Campaigns Heat up

With a vote by the state Senate on the future of Vermont Yankee scheduled for this Wednesday , residents of the Green Mountain State have s...

Rasmussen Tracks Nuclear Energy

Rasmussen Reports has released a new poll on nuclear energy in the wake of President Obama’s loan guarantee announcement. Bottom line: ...

Concerns From the Left and Right

In what we might call a bid for equal time, we roamed around looking for some stories that took a more critical view of the Vogtle loan guar...

Hot Off the Presses: Editorial Feedback on Loan Guarantees

How has the editorial response to President Barack Obama’s announcement of loan guarantees been? Good – really good . Now, let’s acknowle...

Bipartisan Loan Guarantees and Who Vogtle Was

So how did Barack Obama’s announcement of the first loan guarantee go with the nabobs of the media world? Well – really well. But let’s ...

ABC News - A Nuclear America

Last night, ABC's World News with Diane Sawyer led the broadcast with a 3-minute " A Nuclear America: The President is Promoting N...

DOE’s Response to the 50% Default Rate Myth for Nuclear Plants

Here’s an interesting update to a post at Mother Jones on nuclear’s supposed 50% default rate : Stephanie Mueller, Press Secretary for ...

NEI’s VP Alex Flint Debated Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps on C-SPAN

This morning NEI’s VP Alex Flint debated Kevin Kamps (pdf) from Beyond Nuclear for about 45 minutes. Besides disagreeing with every issu...

Finally – Loan Guarantees

We’ve been discussing loan guarantees for what now seems like years – about five of them in fact, as they were established as part of the E...

Murkowski Demurs, Obama Concurs

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who is ranking member of the Energy and Natural Resources committee gave a speech on the Senate floor the ...

Oddities and Counterintuitive Snow Fall

This comment from President Barack Obama struck us as a little odd: He said Congress needs to pass a bill that includes Republican pr...

TVA and Crossing the T on Yucca Mountain

The other day, we listened to the hearings for the NRC commissioners - there are three open slots - but did not follow up with the TVA candi...

Tritium, Tritium, Come and Get It

Besides last week being a busy week on budget proposals, loan guarantees, etc., there was quite a bit of discussion on the Vermont Yankee tr...

Turkey, India, NYC

Enough about the DOE budget, the blue ribbon commission and government stuff! – for today anyway. --- We weren’t quite sure what this m...

The Nuclear Energy Budget Redux: The Republican Plan

The Republicans in Congress have put together their own budget plan for nuclear energy for 2011. Here’s what they don’t like about the Oba...

NEI Executives on Clean Skies TV

Last night, our CEO Marv Fertel discussed a number of nuclear topics with Clean Skies TV's Tyler Suiters . Several of the topics mention...

Small Reactors and Closed Minds

Here’s a novel suggestion from Stephen Bainbridge: President Obama has a ready source of nuclear knowledge in the government that could t...

A Comparison of Loan Guarantee Volume by Energy Technology

Since the President’s support for nuclear was made clear at the State of the Union, our nuclear critics have dramatically ramped up their o...

The Department of Energy 2011 Budget Request

Or the nuclear elements thereof, anyway. This was written for NEI’s member newsletter, Nuclear Energy Overview, and provides a fairly thorou...

The Energy Budget Request 2011: Prelude

The Department of Energy’s 2011 budget request is excellent in recognizing the value of nuclear energy, mostly by simply shifting sums arou...