NEI's Marv Fertel on Where the Industry Stands on Used Nuclear Fuel

Today at the National Journal 's Energy Experts Blog , the magazine is taking a closer look at how the nation will have to confront the ...

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...

Jumping Fences

Don’t try this at home : An emergency was declared at the McGuire nuclear plant in Huntersville early Sunday morning after a security b...

Dreaming About a Repository–Take 2

Monday, I wrote that that several Republican Presidential candidates did not support reactivating the Yucca Mountain used fuel repository on...

Dreaming About a Repository

Last week, I sat in on a House hearing about the Blue Ribbon Commission’s draft report . The hearing rapidly departed from the subject and ...

Incentivizing Energy

The American Security Project has put up an interesting podcast that asks whether recent events mark the end of the nuclear renaissance. An...

No Place for Nuclear Energy in Jeremy Rifkin’s “Third Industrial Revolution”

Last week, Jeremy Rifkin , president of the Foundation on Economic Trends and advisor to the European Union on climate change and energy se...

Ways Forward – Japan, Yucca Mountain, The Industry

The Japanese government has released its report on the Fukushima accident, with the start of a timeline of events, a categorization and pre...

The Return of Yucca Mountain

Color us surprised. The House Appropriations Committee unveiled yesterday its version of the Fiscal Year 2012 budget for the Energy Departm...

GAO Cites Missteps in DOE's Hasty Termination of Yucca Mountain Project

A report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the Department of Energy’s expedited termination of the Yucca Mounta...

The Hidden Cost of Yucca, The States of Nuclear

In the Congressional hearing report a few posts down, several House members turned the heat up on four NRC commissioners (including Chairma...

About that Showdown at Yucca Mountain

Issues in Science and Technology is a quarterly publication put out by the National Academy of Sciences , and in its newest issue, out this...

Yucca Mountain, Urenco, a New Energy Bill

A few quick hits: A US appeals court said Wednesday it would wait until the Nuclear Regulatory Commission rules on the Yucca Mountain ...

The Post on Yucca and Our New Favorite Tower

The Washington Post weighs in on Yucca Mountain on the editorial page: Technology might temper some opposition; recycling or reprocess...

Another Letter on Yucca Mountain

Yesterday, we told you about a letter sent by 91 legislators to Energy Secretary Steven Chu. In this story about the letter, writer Steve T...

Yucca Mountain And Political Will

Ever since Energy Secretary Steven Chu set about closing Yucca Mountain, Congress members have been handing DOE staff – and Chu – considera...

NRC Panel Denies Request To End Yucca Mountain

Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) has denied the request by the Department of Energy to withdraw ...

Sue Lowden and the Return (?) of Yucca Mountain

Here’s something we didn’t expect to read: At the meeting, Lowden said she is committed to amending and rewording the Nuclear Waste P...

Money for the Mountain

If the government has decided that Yucca Mountain is no longer a plausible storage facility for used nuclear fuel, then should you – and we ...

Debating, Constructing, Demanding

Discovery News poses a series of questions to Tom Kaufmann, NEI’s senior media relations manager and Edwin Lyman, senior scientist at the U...