Revisiting Nuclear Energy and Cooling Water

Earlier this week, the journal Nature Climate Change published a study concerning how warmer weather and reduced river flows might impact e...

Some Additional Context on the UCS Study on Power Plants and Water Use

Yesterday afternoon, the Union of Concerned Scientists released a study that suggested that thermoelectric power plants were contributing t...

Entergy Rejects Reports SR-90 Found In Connecticut River Is From Vermont Yankee

Late on Friday afternoon, Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) sent a letter to NRC Chairman Greg Jaczko accusing Entergy, the owner of the Vermont Yan...

Perceptions of Risk

Mathematically, risk is expressed as Probability times Consequences. Following a tragic accident, however, public discourse focuses only on ...

COP15: A Draft Proposal, A Walk-Out, Detainment

On the fourth day of the COP15 conference, it entered what we might call its melodramatic phase, with various parties wanting to make point...

Environmentalists Among the Ruffians

Senate's Clean Energy Deployment Plan: A Nuclear Slush Fund in the Making? That’s the title of an article on Solve Climate.com. It ma...

The Unbending Squirrel

Activism should be fun, pro- or anti-whatever, since the rewards of activism are often frustration, lost friends, and learning what it is t...

Another Environmentalist for Nuclear Energy

After hearing a presentation from Ariel Levite, the former Principal Deputy Director General for Policy at the Israeli Atomic Energy Commiss...

The Perils of Advocacy: Texas Edition

  A group called Nuclear Energy for Texans (NET) is protesting the actions of another group, Texans for a Sound Energy Policy Alliance (TS...

Dishwasher or No Dishwasher? That Is the Question.

Honestly, we like the folks in the environmental movement a lot, even if their more zealous activities can make some of them easy targets f...

It's a Green Kind of Planet, uh, Dude!

One of the complaints that those who like old movies have about newer specimens is that they suffer too much from visual ADD, unable to sett...

Latest Issue of Nuclear Energy Insight Now Available

The May issue of Nuclear Energy Insight is now available online. The cover story features the NEI-sponsored race car and driver Simona de S...

Latest Issue of Nuclear Energy Insight Available

The April issue of Nuclear Energy Insight is now available online. The cover story features the Florida Public Service Commission's app...

Laura Bush Touts Eco-Friendly House

Or ranch, I guess, as in the Crawford Ranch. Hosting the third hour of the Today Show yesterday, Mrs. Bush won a sandwich-making contest, li...

Old Friends and Foes

Christopher Paine, the Washington-based director of the nuclear program for the environmental group Natural Resources Defense Council, had s...

A Shout Out Over the Fence

Our neighbor here are Blogspot, Rod Adams of Atomic Insights - tops on our blog roll - is currently debating nuclear energy as a viable sol...

Moore Calls on Greenpeace to Support Nuclear

Co-founder of Greenpeace and leading environmentalist Patrick Moore encouraged his former organization to support nuclear energy at a speech...

NPR and Nuclear Today

The Diane Rehm show is not on all NPR stations, but if you can get it, Scott Peterson and Jim Riccio are on the show NOW talking about wha...

Latest Issue of Nuclear Energy Insight Available

The latest issue of Nuclear Energy Insight is now available online. In it, you'll find an article on congressional approval of an energ...

Saying Goodbye

I'm sure by now most of our regular readers will have noticed that my byline has been a little scarce around here lately. That isn't...