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 ...

Minnesota Senate Passes Resolution Urging Federal Government to Act on Consolidated storage

Earlier today, the Minnesota State Senate passed a resolution urging President Obama and the U.S. Congress to carry out the recommendations ...

US Panel Recommends New Strategies for Managing Used Nuclear Fuel

The following article was published yesterday by Nuclear Energy Overview, NEI's member-only publication. Jan. 26, 2012 —Enumerating shor...

The Blue Ribbon Commission

The Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future was charged by President Barack Obama with recommending ways to move forward with us...

Eleven Bloggers Share Advice to the Blue Ribbon Commission on How to Manage Used Nuclear Fuel

The ANS Nuclear Cafe has put together short and sweet recommendations to the Blue Ribbon Commission from 11 pro-nuclear bloggers. One would...

Spent Fuel Storage In Pools At Nuclear Energy Plants

Nuclear Energy Institute's Everett Redmond, Director of Nonproliferation and Fuel Cycle Policy, describes the purpose and design of a sp...

Used Nuclear Fuel and Government Responsibility

ProPublica, an independent investigative journalism outlet, brings out an interesting point about used nuclear fuel: there's a lot of m...

Texas Opens Waste Disposal Facility to 36 States

Here’s the news : A Texas commission Tuesday set in motion the importation of low-level radioactive-waste from 36 other states, a move...

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 ...

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 ...

Hans Blix, Psychological Tricks, Editorial Picks

Here’s a story we certainly had no reason to expect: The United Arab Emirates said Monday it had appointed former United Nations chie...

Some Monday Morning Nuclear Blog Clips to Read

The two big posts everyone was raving about over the weekend come from Depleted Cranium’s Steve Packard and Brave New Climate’s Barry Brook....

The Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future Arrives

And that’s what they’re calling it: The Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future. Announced today during a telephone conference w...

DOE to Announce Details About the Blue-Ribbon Commission on Used Nuclear Fuel "Soon"

Via Nasdaq : As part of a long-running rift over how to deal with the nation's nuclear power waste, the Obama administration announced p...

Video of AREVA's Nuclear Recycling Facility in France

Check out this very descriptive video produced by the good folks at AREVA on how they recycle used nuclear fuel , it's definitely worth ...

Once More at Yucca Mountain

We’ve ramped down discussing Yucca Mountain – it gets to seem whiny after awhile – but that doesn’t mean the discussion is over. The New Yo...

The Chill at Yucca Mountain

So, if Yucca Mountain has been pushed onto a low-flame back burner, what then ? "Legally, it's a mess," explained Richar...

Used Fuel and Angry Yankees

What to do, what to do? We’d be remiss to say that Yucca Mountain is completely, absolutely dead, because it really isn’t, but the decision...

Experts Weigh In On How The U.S. Should Handle Its Commercial Nuclear "Waste"

The National Journal's energy blog is asking " How Should America Handle Its Commercial Nuclear Waste? " So far, four experts ...

Magnetic Nanoparticles to the Rescue ... Maybe

The Department of Energy is funding the University of Idaho with $732K to prove the feasibility of using highly magnetic nanoparticles to r...