The State of Play

Harvard professor David Ropeik takes a look at radiation and the concept of risk and find a number of linkages that inculcate a fear of radi...

Reporting on the BRC Report

The NEI coverage of the Blue Ribbon Commission final report is below this post and gives a good summary of industry response. We’d thought w...

Having a Future

Even after the Fukushima Daiichi facility achieves a cold shutdown and even if no one becomes sick or dies as a result of the accident – no ...

“Many Stood Up and Yelled” for Millstone

The New York Times has put up a very well implemented – and interactive – map that provides a lot of data about the Japan earthquake and a...

Quick Hits: IAEA, Safety Codes, Whitman

The International Atomic Energy Agency starts a mission : Starting Monday, they will hold meetings with the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Ag...

News Coverage: The Post and the Times (NYC and LA)

How are our major newspapers reporting on the situation in Japan today?  The New York Times still has it at the front of its site, but Libya...

Quick Hits – The NRC, NYT and NRC Again

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has posted an extremely useful FAQ about the Japan earthquake. The very first question answers a big one:...

Nuclear Plant Workers Don’t Flee

One of the more disturbing memes we’ve seen in the last few days occurred when plant workers at Fukushima Daiichi fell back when it seemed t...

What's Small Is Big to TVA

The New York Times has come around to nuclear energy slowly, ever so slowly. There have been some very nice editorials and some that almo...

Billions and Billions of Fish

A number of environmental groups have put together a petition to close down New Jersey’s Salem nuclear plant. Norm Cohen of the Stop the Sa...

Is Solar Really Cheaper Than Nuclear?

Based on an anti-nuclear group’s report, the New York Times and its global edition, the International Herald Tribune , published a piece l...

Normal and Abnormal Occurrences

Vietnam has become something like a cheerleader for nuclear energy, having committed itself to a plant there. But it wants everyone to sha...

Blogging and Twittering and Writing Columns

Apparently pleased with the result of his Facebook page , Energy Secretary has now moved on to blogging and twittering . At the new blog, ...

The End of Cap-and-Trade

The New York Times sounds the death knell on cap-and-trade as a method for regulating carbon emissions: Mr. Obama dropped all mention ...

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...

Hot Off the Presses: Editorial Feedback on Loan Guarantees

How has the editorial response to President Barack Obama’s announcement of loan guarantees been? Good – really good . Now, let’s acknowle...

Apathy in Canada, Catering to Nuclear

Alberta doesn’t care about nuclear energy; it doesn’t care at all. But if someone has a plant they might like to put up… "We...

The National Summit

With NEI's President & CEO Marv Fertel set to address the Detroit Economic Club at next week's National Summit , this New Yor...