No Public Health Concern From Radiation Levels in Blue Fin Tuna

Over the Holiday weekend here in the U.S., the news wires were humming with reports that Blue Fin tuna caught off the coast of California h...

A Princely Endorsement

Who said it? “It’s a great pleasure to be back here again and a real pleasure to open something that’s going to have serious and import...

Nuclear Energy, The Wheat and The Green

The British Green Party tried something interesting this weekend: About 200 anti-GM activists have protested outside an agricultural r...

Photos From NEA 2012

As promised, we've got additional content from NEA 2012 that I wanted to share with you before we started the Holiday weekend. NEI'...

Looking Back at NEA 2012

After a whirlwind three days in Charlotte at NEA 2012, I'm back in Washington. And while I'm done unpacking my suitcase at home, we&...

Penn. Polls High on Nuclear Energy

We don’t see a lot of polls on nuclear energy taken in individual states. Support nationally is usually above 50 and sometimes 60 percent in...

Your Chance to Ask Questions of Industry Executives at NEA 2012

This morning at around 10:00 a.m. U.S. EDT, NEI's Chief Nuclear Officer, Tony Pietrangelo, will chair a panel session at the 2012 Nuclea...

Nuclear Industry’s Emergency Preparedness Programs Fully and Adequately Test Response Capabilities

The Associated Press published a misleading article in newspapers across the country last week in which it largely calls into question som...

The British Energy Plan: Nuclear and Renewables

The U.K. government Tuesday published its long-awaited draft energy bill, which contains mechanisms and incentives designed to encourage ...

Welcome to Charlotte for NEA 2012

Greetings from Charlotte, North Carolina, where I've decamped to attend the 2012 Nuclear Energy Assembly at The Westin Charlotte Hotel. ...

NEI Gears Up for Nuclear Energy Assembly 2012

NEI will be hosting its annual nuclear industry conference and supplier expo, Nuclear Energy Assembly (NEA), May 21-23 in Charlotte, N.C. T...

The Ex-Im Bank and Nuclear Energy

The Senate approved reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank this week. This made the first page of the Washington Post, but largely becau...

Green Party to Go Nuclear?

As you may know, most European countries have a Green Party as part of the political mix. In most countries, they may pick up a few seats, b...

Setting the Record Straight on the Spent Fuel Pool at Fukushima Daiichi Unit #4

At the end of April, former Department of Energy official Robert Alvarez sounded the alarm about the safety of the spent fuel pool at Fukush...

Ironies in Germany and Japan – and Reopening Ohi

A little irony – and a touch of tunnel vision: With audacious hypocrisy, American pro-nuclear pundits have been indulging in the famil...

600 Acres and a Solar Project

A posting on the Nevada Wilderness Project blog about the Silver State North Solar Project: In the case of Silver State North, we dubb...

What Gets Done with $47 Million – DOE’s Educational Grants

Here comes tomorrow : Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced, The Department of Energy will be giving more than $47 million in schola...

What Happens During a Refueling Outage?

You may have noticed over the past few weeks that a number of nuclear plants are shut down for refueling outages or are resuming operations ...

Nuclear Energy Goes Dark in Japan

For now, anyway, Japan is doing without nuclear energy: Over the weekend, Japan's last remaining nuclear reactor shut down for reg...

Simona De Silvestro Donates Signed Wing of Her Car to Children's Burn Foundation

NEI's favorite race car driver, Simona De Silvestro, has just debuted a brand new Web page. We urge you to stop by and check out simonad...

Choisis le Nucleaire

Cute and only somewhat cringe worthy, this anthemic pro-nuclear song by a French group called ACDC (les Artistes Chanteurs de la Droit...

Patrick Moore’s Economic Justice

Patrick Moore, ex-Greenpeace, sees in nuclear energy an interesting argument for what he terms “environmental justice,” which is true enough...

Wanted: New Stunt Men for Greenpeace

The French arm of Greenpeace is probably searching for a few new recruits after two of its activists were arrested today by French authorit...