President Barack Obama on the Japan Earthquake

President Obama has just finished his statement regarding the Japan earthquake. Here’s some of what he said: We are bringing all availa...

The State of the Union Address

Did President Barack Obama mention nuclear energy during last night's State of the Union Address? Why yes, yes he did . This is ou...

The New Millennium Nuclear Energy Summit

The Third Way, a policy organization in Washington, held a conference yesterday called the New Millennium Nuclear Energy Summit , which pro...

The Election and Nuclear Energy

There are many post-election news stories that try to explain what the new dynamic in Congress and between Congress and President Obama mea...

The START Treaty Gets a Push

The new START treaty between the United States and Russia (the previous one expired in December) has fallen off the radar a bit since Presi...

About Coal and Coal Miners

The Washington Post has an excellent, plangent photo gallery of the funeral for the 29 coal miners killed in West Virginia. The Post could...

A Thought, Security, Bad Logos?

Where non-proliferation and nuclear energy meet, from China’s Xinhua news service: Nuclear energy is one of the most important energie...

One Thing Not Like The Other

We admit we’re not that interested: President Obama … proposed allowing oil and gas drilling for the first time in large swaths of wa...

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...

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...

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...

The State of the Union: The Reaction

President Barack Obama essentially led with nuclear energy while discussing energy last night, a move that surprised many, delighted us (an...

Voices from Copenhagen: Obama and Jiabao

At the COP15 conference in Copenhagen, President Barack Obama did not seem very pleased: So America is going to continue on this cour...

President Obama at MIT

President Barack Obama’s energy speech at MIT could have focused a bit more on nuclear energy. But he intended to cover a lot of bases and ...

Explaining It All for You

Let’s get the long weekend going with some good reading: The Energy Information Administration, the statistics arm of the Department of E...

Rhetoric and Action at the U.N.

As you may have heard, President Barack Obama gave a speech at the United Nations about climate change yesterday. Now, just to get it out o...

Barack Obama on Nuclear Energy

We quoted a bit of President Barack Obama’s discussion of the energy bill in the post below, but he had more to say, with nuclear getting a...

The Nuclear Fuel Bank and Iran

Last week, President Obama said during his speech in Cairo that he wanted Iran to be able to pursue nuclear energy while not pursuing nucle...