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• A Real Debate on Nuclear Energy

  Yesterday, New Yorker senior editor and staff writer, Hendrik Hertzberg held a live chat with Elizabeth Kolbert to follow-up with his piece “Some Nukes,” definitely worth a read. However, the Live Chat was an incredible open-forum, no-holds bar discussion about nuclear energy that included questions like: QUESTION FROM PATRICK: Interesting piece. Has your position on nuclear power [...] Read More.... Posted Mar 16 2010, 08:47 PM by AREVA North America: Next Energy Blog Filed under: Nuclear Energy, News, Nuclear Power Plants, Climate Change, Renewables, Environment, policy

• Thoughts & Opinions on AREVA North America CEO

  We would like to spotlight a post from the blog “Into the Breach” about recent presentation by Jacques Besanainou, CEO of AREVA North America. The blog’s author Kendall Miller writes: “Reviving the nuclear power industry is key to true energy security. When France faced the problem of energy security they decided to go nuclear as fast [...] Read More... Posted Mar 03 2010, 05:26 PM by AREVA North America: Next Energy Blog Filed under: Nuclear Energy, News, Nuclear Power Plants, Climate Change, Environment, AREVA News

• TED Video: BIll Gates and Energy Miracles

  This speech has been getting noticed ever since literally the moment it occurred, being tweeted and covered by various press…but the TED folks just put the video up. Here is a key quote (with bolding being from us): “So let’s look at this fourth factor — this is going to be a key one — and [...] Read More... Posted Mar 01 2010, 10:28 AM by AREVA North America: Next Energy Blog Filed under: Nuclear Energy, Climate Change, Renewables, Sustainable Development, Environment, Biomass, Video, CO2, Bill Gates, TED

• Sen. Kerry vows to lead renewed push for climate bill

  By Jarret Adams Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) told a packed audience Feb. 23 at conference held by The New Republic that he was working with a group of leading senators and the Obama administration on renewed push for a climate bill. “We’re on a short track here in terms of piecing together legislation we intend to [...] Read More... Posted Feb 26 2010, 04:00 PM by AREVA North America: Next Energy Blog Filed under: News, Climate Change, Environment, Government & Policy, policy, AREVA News

• Nuclear Energy Debate Front & Center on CNN

  CNN has posted online two juxtaposed opinion pieces that argue nuclear energy issues. In the first op-ed, “Nuclear Power’s Time has come,” CNN interviews author and environmentalist, Stuart Brand, on his support of nuclear energy. Looking for a surefire way to cut greenhouse gases, Brand said the alternative to burning coal became clear: “We already [...] Read More... Posted Feb 23 2010, 03:29 PM by AREVA North America: Next Energy Blog Filed under: Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Power Plants, Climate Change, Sustainable Development, Environment

• Two Items from Washington Post Today

  There are two items to highlight from the Washington Post today. First, here is this quote from an op ed piece we like a lot: “The merits of nuclear power have been debated for years. Such power has drawbacks, not least the waste that reactors produce and that the government cannot decide where to store. But [...] Read More... Posted Feb 22 2010, 06:10 PM by AREVA North America: Next Energy Blog Filed under: Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Power Plants, Climate Change, Environment, Government & Policy, Quote of the Day, policy

• An American in MELOX: Observations of an AREVA expatriate in the south of France

  By Mike McMahon My name is Mike McMahon, and I am an American living in the south of France on an expatriate assignment at AREVA’s MELOX mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel fabrication facility in the Rhône family. My family and I moved from Bethesda, Maryland to France in July 2008 to begin a multi-year assignment learning [...] Read More... Posted Feb 12 2010, 04:42 PM by AREVA North America: Next Energy Blog Filed under: Used Fuel, Recycling, Nuclear Energy, Climate Change, Renewables, Uncategorized

• AREVA’s Clean Energy Quiz

  Think you know a lot about clean energy? Challenge yourself and try for the top score on AREVA’s Clean Energy Quiz. Read More... Posted Feb 11 2010, 11:54 AM by AREVA North America: Next Energy Blog Filed under: Nuclear Energy, Site News, News, Climate Change, Renewables, Sustainable Development, Environment, Biomass, AREVA News

• New Nuclear Energy Is Old News, and New Projects Are Already Under Way, Benefitting Economies and Creating Jobs

  By Jarret Adams Right now, nuclear energy is expanding around the world. According to the World Nuclear Association, there are 50 reactors under construction across the globe and another 130 (and counting) scheduled to come online over the next decade. The nuclear renaissance is happening. Today the world demands clean, low-carbon energy sources to prevent [...] Read More... Posted Feb 05 2010, 04:13 PM by AREVA North America: Next Energy Blog Filed under: Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Power Plants, Climate Change, Renewables, Sustainable Development, Environment, opinion, op-ed

• Global Warming’s Solution: Copenhagen Is Just the Beginning

  By Anne Lauvergeon, CEO of AREVA and Jim Rogers, CEO of Duke Energy This originally appeared in today’s issue of The Energy Daily. A "meaningful agreement." President Obama refused to take no for an answer as he negotiated with world leaders during the recent UN climate conference in Copenhagen to set a new course for battling climate change. Read More... Posted Jan 27 2010, 11:34 AM by AREVA Blog - North America Filed under: News, Climate Change, Government & Policy

• A QUESTION OF AMERICAN LEADERSHIP

  We think these are a very good series of questions… and are proud to among the companies and organizations asking them. Read More... Posted Jan 22 2010, 04:02 PM by AREVA Blog - North America Filed under: News, Climate Change, Energy Security, Renewables, Sustainable Development, Government & Policy

• Corbier Discusses Signals for Businesses from Copenhagen

  by Laura Clise Going into the last day of the conference in Copenhagen, AREVA Vice President of Sustainable Development and Chair of the International Chamber of Commerce Environment and Energy Committee Laurent Corbier chatted with Kai Ryssdal of the Marketplace program produced by American Public Media (their conversation aired yesterday on NPR). Laurent emphasizes that [...] Read More... Posted Dec 18 2009, 09:36 AM by AREVA Blog - North America Filed under: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Energy, AREVA North America, AREVA Inc., Climate Change, Sustainable Development, Carbon Emissions, Copenhagen, COP-15, International Chamber of Commerce, NPR, United Nations Gobal Compact, Kai Rysdaal, Marketplace, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Laurent Corbier

• Huffington Post: “Nuclear Energy is Essential to a Green Future and our Economic Competitiveness.”

  We’ve said it before, but we’ll let someone else say it this time, “with 10 percent unemployment and a government determined to stimulate economic growth and put people back to work, what better use for our stimulus programs than building a series of nuclear facilities around the country?” This astute statement is from a piece by [...] Read More... Posted Dec 17 2009, 02:58 PM by AREVA Blog - North America Filed under: Recycling, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Energy, AREVA North America, AREVA Inc., Climate Change, Carbon Emissions, The Huffington Post, Used Fuel Recycling

• California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s complete speech in Copenhagen

  So history tells us that movements began with the people, not with government and then, when they became powerful enough, government responds…So there’s a lesson in this for our cause…. Government clearly has a major role, there are no two ways about that. But I also believe in the power of the iconoclast and the entrepreneur... Posted Dec 16 2009, 11:37 AM by AREVA Blog - North America Filed under: News, Climate Change, Copenhagen, COP-15, Arnold Schwarzenegger, California

• AREVA Leads the Way in Tackling Climate Change, Part II

  by Mary Douglas Reprinted from AREVA Energy Business, Issue 8 Other Carbon-Free Energies Nuclear is only one option, albeit a key one, among AREVA’s range of carbon-free energy choices. The group is developing synergistic solutions including a range of renewable energies that make sense in a balanced energy mix. Renewable energy use is increasing worldwide. In emerging countries [...] Read More... Posted Dec 16 2009, 08:29 AM by AREVA Blog - North America Filed under: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Energy, AREVA North America, AREVA Inc., AREVA EPR Reactor, Nuclear Power Plants, Climate Change, Renewable Energy, Renewables, Carbon Emissions, AREVA M5000 Multibrid Wind Turbine, Copenhagen, COP-15, Mary Douglas, AREVA Energy Business