A Princely Endorsement

Who said it? “It’s a great pleasure to be back here again and a real pleasure to open something that’s going to have serious and import...

Nuclear Energy, The Wheat and The Green

The British Green Party tried something interesting this weekend: About 200 anti-GM activists have protested outside an agricultural r...

The British Energy Plan: Nuclear and Renewables

The U.K. government Tuesday published its long-awaited draft energy bill, which contains mechanisms and incentives designed to encourage ...

“We cannot keep the lights on without nuclear energy.”

From Mohamed ElBaradei , the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency: "There will be, in the short term, a slowdown in so...

Nuclear Energy Is Go in Britain

The other day, we ran a bit noting that the British government issued a report that cleared the way for new nuclear build in the United King...

Not Speeding But Not Stopping

The analysts at the Commonwealth of Australia Bank want you to know : "But it is a case of one step backward, two steps forward,...

It’s Good to Be the Queen

Because you get to do fun things like this: Ground was broken yesterday on the UK's Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centr...

The British Way Forward on Energy

The current British government is a coalition between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, an awkward marriage considering that the Con...

The British Present An Energy Plan

Great Britain released last week its analogue of the Obama administration’s energy bill, called the UK Low Carbon Transition Plan. It’s goa...

The Wind Out of Britain

We always wish our windy friends well, since we like the aesthetics of windmills and they answer to the need for renewable energy sources, ...

The Bat and the Windmill

Nuclear energy is nothing – nuclear energy is everything. --- University of Greenwich Professor of Energy Studies Stephen Thomas would ...

Carbon Capture Caprice

The value of carbon capture and clean coal as an alternative to nuclear energy proved to be a winning argument for the Dutch, but the Guardi...

UK Joins Global Nuclear Energy Partnership

More here .

IBD on America and Nuclear Energy

From Investor's Business Daily : Most of France's electricity has been generated by nuclear power for years, and now Great Britain i...

Britain Inches Closer to New Nuclear Build

Details from the BBC .

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On Ireland and Uranium Mining

Ireland's minister of energy and natural resources is working to shut down potential uranium mining there , saying it would be hypocriti...

British Energy CEO: Operational Life of U.K. Power Stations Must Be Extended

From Reuters : The lives of Britain's nuclear power stations must be extended where possible to meet the country's needs for CO2-fre...

EDF Shutters Coal Capacity to Make Way for Nuclear

In Britain, EDF has decided to shutter some coal capacity to make way for natural gas and nuclear. Ruth Sponsler has some thoughts.

U.K. Energy White Paper Calls for More Nuclear Energy

From the BBC : Nuclear power is needed to help reduce carbon emissions and to ensure secure energy supplies, Tony Blair has said. He spoke a...