Wednesday Update

From the new NEI Japan site. Plant Status Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has repaired faulty hoses and restarted the new cooling sy...

The Water Around Fort Calhoun

Last night, I saw a “Be afraid. Be very afraid.” segment of a chat show that focused on Nebraska’s Fort Calhoun station, which is sitting i...

NEI; Japan; France; Cars or No Cars?

We’ll continue to bring you Japan updates on this page, but you may also want to take a look at NEI’s new site dedicated to Japan and Fukus...

Friday Update

From NEI’s Japan Earthquake launch page : Update as of 5 p.m. EDT, Friday, June 24 Plant Status Tokyo Electric Power Co. is continu...

Polling Nuclear in California and Japan

Looking at recent stories from the AP and Al-Jazeera, as we’ve done over the last week, may make one think that the media has the knives ou...

Wednesday Update

From NEI’s Japan Earthquake launch page : Pillars Installed To Support Used Fuel Pool Update as of 5 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, June 22 P...

The IAEA As Meta-Regulator?

You may have heard the International Atomic Energy Agency is having a ministerial conference in Vienna – ironic, of course, as Austria has ...

Scientific American Blog Uses Simple Math to Expose Flawed Radiation Essay by Joseph Mangano and Janette Sherman

Michael Moyer over at SciAm’s Observations blog made the easy calculations to discover how “physician Janette Sherman MD and epidemiologist...

The AP Trawls for Nuclear Wickedness

It’s reasonable for journalists to beaver around the nuclear energy industry to find evidence that the industry is a nest of vipers plotting...

Tuesday Update

From NEI’s Japan Earthquake launch page : Fukushima Daiichi Water Filtration System Testing Continues Plant Status Tokyo Electric Power Co. ...

A Story Much Worse Than You Think

An article at Al-Jazeera is called Fukushima: It’s Much Worse Than You Think. Generally, I find Al-Jazeera worth a look, especially for ne...

Friday Update

From NEI’s Japan Earthquake launch page : Updated as of noon EDT, Friday, June 17 Plant Status The Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff said ...

SCANA’s Analyst Day - “New nuclear continues to be the low cost alternative for customers”

Yesterday, SCANA held an Analyst Day that mostly talked about the construction of the two nuclear units at their Summer station. Here’s the...

Grist’s Anti-Nuclear Campaign Distorts Reality (Part 3 of 3)

This last part discusses Paul Gipe’s analysis of nuclear’s costs and risks which was based on questionable assumptions from a California En...

Wednesday Update

From NEI’s Japan Earthquake launch page : New Filters Remove Radiation from Seawater Updated as of 3 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, June 15 Plan...

“30 percent higher than it would otherwise be”

One of the points that is made again and again about nuclear energy – on this blog, certainly, but really, in many places – is that if the ...

Great Picture of Fort Calhoun and the Missouri River

From St. Louis today : The NRC sent out a notice (pdf) last week saying a fire had occurred in a switchgear room and was extinguished ...

Tuesday Update

From NEI’s Japan Earthquake launch page : TEPCO To Test Water Filtration System Update as of 5 p.m. EDT, Monday, June 13 Plant Status ...

Grist’s Anti-Nuclear Campaign Distorts Reality (Part 2 of 3)

Continuing on with our analysis of Grist’s anti-nuclear campaign, the following is what we think about Mr. Jungjohann’s third and fourth pi...