The West and the Wind

The Western Governors Association surprised a lot of people last year when it issued strong support for nuclear energy among its energy pro...

12th Carnival of Nuclear Energy Is Up

Dan Yurman at Idaho Samizdat has the helm this week. For the past few carnivals that we missed, be sure to check out #9 at Atomic Insights...

Yucca Mountain, Urenco, a New Energy Bill

A few quick hits: A US appeals court said Wednesday it would wait until the Nuclear Regulatory Commission rules on the Yucca Mountain ...

What Happens at 150 Million Degrees

One of the more exciting developments in the nuclear realm over the last couple of years have been been small reactors, those that generat...

Seeing Red: What a New Mining Report Says About The Rebirth of an Industry

For those of you who tend a bit more to the wonkish end of things, a new joint study from the OECD and IAEA on the world’s supply of urani...

The British Way Forward on Energy

The current British government is a coalition between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, an awkward marriage considering that the Con...

Normal and Abnormal Occurrences

Vietnam has become something like a cheerleader for nuclear energy, having committed itself to a plant there. But it wants everyone to sha...

Enabling the Nuclear Renaissance Act

Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) this week introduced the Enabling the Nuclear Renaissance Act ( S. 3618 ), which gathers into a single bill ...

Blogging and Twittering and Writing Columns

Apparently pleased with the result of his Facebook page , Energy Secretary has now moved on to blogging and twittering . At the new blog, ...

The Post on Yucca and Our New Favorite Tower

The Washington Post weighs in on Yucca Mountain on the editorial page: Technology might temper some opposition; recycling or reprocess...

Loan Guarantees and Desperation

We’ve seen surprisingly little news for it, but maybe it’s a little too inside nuclear baseball. That doesn’t mean the news isn’t good, th...

Honey That’s Sticky but Not Sweet

This is fun:   USA Today’s Greenhouse blog has the story: The ad campaign, which has included TV spots aired in New Mexico and e...

Panels on the Roof

Good news for solar energy : President Barack Obama today announced that a US government agency is awarding nearly USD 2 billion from ...

Thermometers Ever Rising

Late last year, we made it clear that we were going to ignore Climategate, the release of emails from the University of East Anglia. Some i...

Another Letter on Yucca Mountain

Yesterday, we told you about a letter sent by 91 legislators to Energy Secretary Steven Chu. In this story about the letter, writer Steve T...

Yucca Mountain And Political Will

Ever since Energy Secretary Steven Chu set about closing Yucca Mountain, Congress members have been handing DOE staff – and Chu – considera...

Out Nevada Way: Yucca Mountain and Sharron Angle

So how has the news about Yucca Mountain springing back to life gone over? Pretty well. Here’s Rep. Doc Hastings (R-Wash.): Today’s...

Friends of the Wretched Child

Our opinion about Friends of the Earth swings a bit between annoyance and amusement – the former because the environmental group plays so l...

Loan Guarantees

It has been an exciting week in loan guarantees. Last Thursday, the U.S. Export-Import Bank decided not to provide loan guarantees to suppor...