Japan and The Summer Heat

Germany is exhibit A for the economic havoc that turning off nuclear facilities can wreak if care and planning aren’t taken. No energy sourc...

94th Carnival of Nuclear Energy – Old Battles, New Technologies and One Scandal

Last week was another busy week in social media. Today we’re hosting the 94th carnival and highlighting 21 posts from 14 blogs. To start, ...

Taking It to the Fuel Bank

There’s a nuclear fuel bank open for business. And to think, it was approved by the IAEA just the other day. The 35-nation board of t...

Iran Cracks Open the Door

Yesterday, we noted that Libyan President Muammar el-Qaddafi followed President Obama’s speech at the United Nations with a speech that ran...

Things to Come in Iran and Indiana

A fair number of news stories are not about what happened but what might happen soon. The story below about California concerns an as-yet u...

What the IAEA Knows

Here’s a story that started off making us upset at the IAEA and then made us rather more upset at the international players trying strong 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...

Russia and America – Nuclear BFFs?

Well, that’s going a little far – and silly, to boot. But the Russians have actually found a way to do a little nuclear business on this si...

National Nuclear Day in Iran

I think they mean “We certainly have a right to use atomic energy.'” Wasn’t Sally Field stuck in Iran ? Surely she could have helped ...

What To Do with Your Windows 95 Licenses

Run a nuclear power plant: Yes, this is alarming – from Iran’s Bushehr plant – at least on sight. First, that they’d use Windows for th...

Global Nuclear News: Vietnam, Algeria, Iran

Vietnam is making determined steps toward joining the nuclear family: The Vietnam Nuclear Energy Institute and the US’ Westinghouse P...

ElBaradei Brews Tea: The IAEA on Iran

The International Atomic Energy Agency has been in the news a fair amount lately, especially as it tries to stake out a position vis a vis...

Pigeons Arrested at Iranian Enrichment Facility

Yes I mean real pigeons - the ones that have wings and fly. This is hilarious : Iranian security forces have arrested two "spy pigeons...

The I Edition of Global Nuclear Notes: India, Iran, Italy

Some updates of stories we've been following here: Italy has found a partner for its nuclear ambitions. The winner: Great Britain. He...

How Not to Be Helpful: Iranian Edition

Somehow, the very real seriousness of what the United States may or may not do as regards Iraq's Persian neighbor pales when one conside...

The OPEC of Natural Gas

More bad news for American and its allies from the WSJ Energy Blog : OPEC, meet Opegasur. That’s the name of a new natural-gas cartel estab...

The New Seven Sisters and the Implications for Energy Security

After the breakup of Standard Oil, the seven companies that dominated global oil production became known as the " Seven Sisters "....