The Who What Where Why of Yucca Mountain

A group of 17 Senators are puzzled : Over $7.7 billion has been spent researching Yucca Mountain as a potential repository site and ne...

When the Iceberg Thaws

We’ve been a little busy at the NEI Central portion of our, shall we call it, job, but we still want to share some interesting stories with ...

John McCain and Steven Chu on Yucca Mountain

Here is a transcript of the testimony from yesterday’s hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee. The intent of the hear...

The Third Presidential Debate

Or was it the 564th? Well, it was the last one anyway. Here are the nuclear quotes and we should note, this is three-for-three in which the...

Obama, McCain Voters Favor Nuclear Energy

And by an impressively wide margin, too. A new poll from Bisconti Research for NEI interviewed 1000 voters to determine the support for nuc...

The New York Times on the Candidates' Nuclear Views

Here's the opening paragraph of Larry Rohter's story : Contrary to what Democrats may think, there is more to John McCain’s ...

The Second Debate: McCain, Obama and Nuclear Energy

First, McCain: You're going to be examining our proposals tonight and in the future, and energy independence is a way to do that, ...

McCain on the U.S.-India Nuclear Agreement

The McCain campaign press office has just released this statement, "Yesterday, the U.S. Congress passed legislation clearing the way fo...

The First Presidential Debate

Senators Obama and McCain participated in the first of the Presidential debates on Friday night. Although planned to focus on foreign policy...

Drill the Baby

The states still have to weigh in here, but the Congressional moratorium on offshore drilling is expiring before our eyes (to be more prec...

McCain and Obama Respond to Science Questionnaire

Actually, Obama got his questionnaire in a couple of weeks ago, with McCain following this week. But the Scientists and Engineers for Ameri...

The Party (x 2) Is Over

Now that the Democrats and Republicans have wrapped up their party conventions, let's review, shall we? We heard from Senator McCain and...

John McCain on Nuclear Energy

Here's John McCain on nuclear energy: My fellow Americans, when I'm president, we're going to embark on the most ambitious natio...

Is it Safe? More on Obama, McCain and Yucca Mountain

One of our astute readers noticed that the Obama ad we posted the other day unfairly dinged McCain for not supporting transport of used n...

A New Era in Energy?

We’ve viewed somewhat nervously the seeming effort to strip away a forward-looking energy policy in favor of the sparkly but short-sighted ...

John McCain: Running From or To Nuclear Energy?

Because most of Washington’s television needs are served by local outlets and Washington is not a battleground for the presidential candidat...

John McCain’s Energy Speech

Here’s the whole transcript . You don’t have to filter it through our observations. As you might expect, McCain addressed the issue du ...

McCain on Cap-and-Trade

Senator John McCain, in response to a question, made a curious comment about cap-and-trade yesterday: Sure. I believe in the cap-and-t...

The WSJ on Obama's and McCain's Clean Energy Plans

To put it mildly, they differ - in some ways reflecting the general approach of their parties. First, McCain : Sen. McCain argues that ...

McCain to Miss Lieberman-Warner Vote

In yet another sign that Lieberman-Warner is DOA, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has announced that he will not be present when the Senate begins d...