BP Spill Commission Recommends Self-Regulator for Oil Industry Based on Nuclear Model

The National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling has released its final report . For those of you with e...

Safety Culture on the Frontline

Last week the PBS series Frontline took on the safety culture of BP. Although titled, " The Spill ", and ostensibly focused on th...

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, ...

Undue Panic, APEC On Board, Nuclear Subsidies (?)

Here’s an interesting article from Fortune Magazine: Allan Sloan on why overreacting to the Deepwater Horizon spill is counterproductive, ...

Nuclear Graduates and Safety Rockers

Salem Community College in Carneys Point Township in New Jersey has graduated its first class of nuclear energy technology (or NET) student...

Nobelist Suggests an NRC for Big Oil

The other day, we suggested that the Price-Anderson Act might provide a model for similar legislation for the oil industry in light of the ...

Liabilities Both Oily and Atomic

One of the issues of the oil spill in the gulf has been the issue of liability – that is, how much on the hook should BP, in this case, be ...

'Big Oil' Must Go Nuclear

From ThisIsMoney : Shell and BP will have to go nuclear if they want to remain 'supermajor' leaders of the global energy industry....