Japan: Energy Plants All in A Row

An interesting article at the Mainichi Daily News suggests a series of problems with nuclear energy in Japan – or its management, anyway. ...

Quick Hits: At Indian Point, Three Plants, The German Psyche

CNN’s Alan Chernoff goes into a nuclear plant – New York’s Indian Point, in this case – and nothing falls over on him and he doesn’t toppl...

Appeal of Small Reactors May Grow Following Fukushima Accident

Small, scalable reactors have captured the interest of industry and government alike. Their diverse uses, ease of deployment and relatively ...

What the Poll Shows

We’ve looked at a few polls over the last couple of weeks and will reiterate about the new poll from Harris Interactive that I made about ...

Afternoon Update

From NEI’s Japan Earthquake launch page UPDATE AS OF 11:30 A.M. EDT, THURSDAY, MARCH 31: A minuscule amount of radioactive iodine was ...

Safety Is a Process, Not a Recipe

ABC News tried a story on its Nightline program to suggest that the NRC finding a problem at a nuclear problem and the plant operator then ...

Lively Debate Between George Monbiot and Helen Caldicott

Democracy Now hosted a debate between pro-nuclear convert, George Monbiot, and anti-nuclear activist, Helen Caldicott. Text can be found her...

The German Nuclear Freak-Out

Germany had an election this past weekend. How did that go ? The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has pledged to press ahead with a r...

Quick hits: IAEA Confab, AREVA in Japan

This speaks for itself : The International Atomic Energy Agency will host a high-level conference on nuclear safety from June 20 to 24...

Shelter from the Storm

When you need it, you need it : As a massive tsunami ravaged this Japanese fishing town, hundreds of residents fled for the safest pla...

President Obama: A Secure Energy Future

President Barack Obama gave a major address today at Washington’s Georgetown University on energy issues. The full transcript is here . ...

Afternoon Report

From NEI’s Japan Earthquake launch page: UPDATE AS OF 12 P.M. EDT, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30: Operators of nuclear power stations in Japan h...

Rep. Markey Proposes a Bill

Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) proposes a bill : Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., introduced a new bill Tuesday that would overhaul U.S. nuclear...

Editorial Round-Up

From The Macomb (Mich.) Daily: The agonizing restatement of Murphy's law at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in northern Japan th...

Evening Update

UPDATE AS OF 5:00 P.M. EDT, TUESDAY, MARCH 29: From NEI's Japan Earthquake Launch page : Tokyo Electric Power Co. said that cooling wa...

Lessons Learned from Japan

Constellation Energy Nuclear Group's Chief Nuclear Officer Maria Korsnick discusses lessons learned for the industry following the recen...

When You Don't Have Bad News...

... make some up. From The Guardian (U.K.), our old friend in nuclear alarmism: The radioactive core in a reactor at the crippled Fukushima ...

Concerns and Then There Are Concerns

And the Premier of New Brunswick, Canada  doesn't have any : The premier of New Brunswick says he has no concerns about resuming nuclear...

Tuesday Afternoon Update

From NEI's Japan Earthquake launch page : UPDATE AS OF 3 PM EDT, TUESDAY, MARCH 29: Plutonium found in five soil samples at the Fuku...

Former NRC Commissioner - “Keep calm and carry on with nuclear energy”

Jeff Merrifield, former NRC commissioner, has a post in The Hill’s Congress Blog reflecting on the reactions of anti-nuclear folks after 9...

Tuesday Morning Update

From NEI's Japan Earthquake launch page : UPDATE AS OF 11 A.M. EDT, TUESDAY, MARCH 29: Japan's nuclear regulatory agency says ...

Blog Recommendation for Latest Updates on Fukushima Daiichi

Will Davis, blogger at atomic power review , has been providing excellent and timely updates on the nuclear accident in Japan. For a taste, ...

Senate Meeting Update on the Fukushima Daiichi Plant

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee is currently holding a meeting this morning that started at 10 AM EDT and can be watched o...

Monday Evening Update

From NEI's Japan Earthquake launch page : UPDATE AS OF 7 P.M. EDT, MONDAY, MARCH 28: The International Atomic Energy Agency said ...

Monday Afternoon Report

From NEI's Japan Earthquake launch page : UPDATE AS OF 1:30 P.M. EDT, MONDAY, MARCH 28 Tokyo Electric Power has detected isolated,...

The Design and Safe Operation of a Nuclear Reactor

Last week we highlighted NEI’s Everett Redmond in a video on spent fuel pools, today he’s explaining how a nuclear reactor works and the f...

32 Years Later, A Look Back at Three Mile Island

National Public Radio has a short bit on the lessons learned from the Three Mile Island accident that happened this day back in 1979, here’...

Monday Morning Report

From NEI's Japan Earthquake launch page: UPDATE AS OF 11:30 A.M. EDT, MONDAY, MARCH 28: Radiation levels in the seawater near the ...

Oxford Physicist - “We should stop running away from radiation”

Over at the BBC , Wade Allison, nuclear and medical physicist at the University of Oxford, helps put radiation in perspective: More tha...

Evening Report

From NEI's Japan Earthquake launch page UPDATE AS OF 7:30 P.M. EDT, SUNDAY MARCH 27   The International Atomic Energy Agency , Tokyo Ele...

NEI’s Resources on Japan

If you haven’t visited NEI’s Japan Earthquake page , well, you really ought to. It’s grown – enormous – in the last three weeks and provides...

Thinking About Safety in India and Nigeria

Like the United States, India wants to take a look at the relative safety of its nuclear plants. The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (...

They Write Letters (or Emails)

The Syracuse (N.Y.) Post-Standard introduces us to the NRC inspectors who oversee the two plants in that part of the world – Nine Mile and...

Sunday Afternoon Report

From NEI’s Japan earthquake launch page: UPDATE AS OF 1:30 P.M. EDT, MARCH 27: U.S. Navy barges carrying 500,000 gallons of fresh water...

TEPCO Begins Removing the Water

From NucNet : Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) has begun work to remove contaminated water that has accumulated in the turbine buil...

Thinking Out Loud

This is the kind of editorial that pops up more frequently, from the Lexington Herald-Leader (actually, an op-ed in this case): Shoul...