Turkey: Nuclear-Natural Gas Quid Pro Quo?

No argument here : One of the world’s fastest-growing economies, Turkey has significant energy needs. The majority Muslim nation’s ener...

Megatons to Megawatts Reaches Another Milestone

Yesterday brought some happy news from our friends at USEC : USEC Inc. announced today that the Megatons to Megawatts(TM) program has conve...

The Road to Visaginas

Consider this: when Lithuania closed its nuclear plant in 2009, it lost access to a whopping 70 percent of its total electricity generation...

The President of Thorium

Power from thorium : This is [Bob] Greene's first time running [for President], and he's not sure if it's his last, but he ...

Thoughtful Indian Columnists

This struck me as a little funny: The Dec. 14 hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will look at how well ...

Love Among the Cooling Towers

He’s young and scruffy, with puppy dog eyes: She’s fresh and vivacious, who likes to – do – something out front of the facility (must be...

Hokkaido, Repossession, Standardized Cars

There’s talk of turning one of the furloughed plants in Japan back on: The turning point could be the northernmost region of Hokkaido,...

Southern Co. Advances; Atomists and Their Games

For those who have been following nuclear energy issues for the last 10-15 years, this kind of news can cause a bit of a tingle: The ...

Pistols at Dawn – Ostendorff - 7 Ways

Rosatom has a beef with a Norwegian newspaper that said its nuclear facilities do not meet international safety standards. Its response, in...

A Certain Logic in Russia

There’s a certain logic here: Kiriyenko said the impact from the Fukushima plant disaster would not only increase safety concerns but...

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...

Who Doesn’t Love the Wind?

Russian President Vladimir Putin, that’s who . "You couldn't transfer large electric power stations to wind energy, however m...

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...

Bangladesh, Another Energy Bill, The Witless

We’ve been doing a number of posts about the Deepwater Horizon and how the experience of nuclear energy might act as a useful guide going f...

Russia Proposes Nuclear Cooperation with Ukraine

It’s funny how nuclear energy can sometimes be sucked into larger geopolitical considerations. Case in point, this week’s proposal by ...

Megatons to Megawatts: The Lowdown on the Blend Down

Last week, President Obama hosted a Nuclear Security Summit here in D.C. and now that we’ve recovered from the traffic jams, it’s time to t...

Around the World with Nuclear Energy

Around the world: France has made a deal with Kuwait: An agreement "to develop the peaceful use of nuclear energy" was si...

A Party in the Spider’s Web

If this article about the Czech Republic’s energy profile is correct, the number one goal of the country is to disentangle itself from Rus...

Playing Nuclear Games in Ecuador

We were happy to hear but also trepidatious about this news : Russia will help Ecuador develop a nuclear energy program for peaceful p...

The Bird the Cat Dragged In

Some Monday nuclear tastiness: Well, we don’t know : The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is willing to support Kenya in ex...