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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

• AREVA to Build Facility for Medical Isotope Production

  AREVA Med, an AREVA subsidiary, announced today the future construction of a facility in France that will produce on a large-scale medical grade lead 212. Why Lead-212? Lead-212 is a rare radioactive isotope that lies at the heart of promising nuclear medical research to develop new cancer treatments. Over the past few years, AREVA Med and [...] Read More... Posted Mar 10 2010, 05:04 PM by AREVA North America: Next Energy Blog Filed under: Nuclear Energy, News, Nuclear Medicine, AREVA News

• From BusinessWeek, “Lauvergeon is ready for the fight”

  An in-depth report yesterday from Business Week profiled AREVA CEO Anne Lauvergeon and what she has been doing to build the world leader in nuclear energy, and importantly, what her plans are for the future as the prospects for new nuclear improve. Business Week’s Carol Matlack writes: “Anne Lauvergeon, chief executive of the French nuclear giant AREVA, [...] Read More... Posted Mar 05 2010, 01:42 PM by AREVA North America: Next Energy Blog Filed under: Nuclear Energy, News, Government & Policy, policy, AREVA News

• PopAtomic.org

  We really love the art work of PopAtomic Studios…. Thier effort is “a series of artistic experiments in my community to see if I can shift perception of atomic energy using only art and and creative input from some amazing artist friends!” Their mix of art and science is just fun. And check out their growing [...] Read More... Posted Mar 05 2010, 09:00 AM by AREVA North America: Next Energy Blog Filed under: Nuclear Energy, Renewables, Environment

• 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

• Local Newspapers Echo Obama’s Support for Nuclear Energy

  As major announcements roll out of the White House and Department of Energy in support of expanding nuclear energy in the United States, many regional and local newspapers have expressed positive opinions and support for this growth. An editorial from The Philadelphia Inquirer argued that: “The point is that increasing the nation’s reliance on nuclear power, or [...] Read More... Posted Mar 02 2010, 03:55 PM by AREVA North America: Next Energy Blog Filed under: Nuclear Energy, News, Government & Policy, policy

• 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

• Debate about the Future of Nuclear Energy in the U.S.

  Yesterday, Radio WHYY from Philadelphia, Pa., featured a conversation on nuclear power renaissance in the United States. Alan Hanson, AREVA Executive Vice-President for technologies and used fuel management, and Sharon Squassoni, Senior Fellow and Directors of the Proliferation Prevention Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, debated key nuclear energy issues and [...] Read... Posted Feb 26 2010, 11:42 AM by AREVA North America: Next Energy Blog Filed under: Nuclear Energy, News, Nuclear Power Plants, AREVA News

• AREVA’s Expertise Extends to Packaging and Transportation of Nuclear Material

  By Lisa Peterson, Marketing Specialist, AREVA Federal Services AREVA is the only company in the world to work in every stage of the nuclear fuel cycle, from mining uranium, enrichment and fuel fabrication to reactor construction and maintenance, and recycling used fuel. What’s more, AREVA’s expertise extends to developing solutions for safely and effectively packaging and [...] Read More... Posted Feb 25 2010, 02:58 PM by AREVA North America: Next Energy Blog Filed under: Used Fuel, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Power Plants, Uranium Mining

• 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

• AREVA Live Video Chat

  AREVA, which launched its new global website this month, will host its first Video Chat, live February 24 at 9:30 am (EST) on areva.com. The topic of discussion: “Is nuclear power a sustainable energy source?” Betrand Barré, the Scientific Advisor for AREVA and Professor Emeritus at the French National Institute for Nuclear Sciences and Technology, [...] Read More... Posted Feb 22 2010, 08:30 AM by AREVA North America: Next Energy Blog Filed under: Nuclear Energy, Site News, News, Sustainable Development, Environment, AREVA News

• Support for Nuclear Energy Grows

  By Katherine Berezowskyj President Obama’s recent support for nuclear energy has ignited a genuine discussion on the issue. No longer can nuclear energy’s benefits be ignored or scare tactics employed to shut down discussion, the American media is getting behind the facts. From the Boston Herald: “Absent nuclear power, any clean-energy policy is largely decorative since the [...] Read More... Posted Feb 19 2010, 10:55 AM by AREVA North America: Next Energy Blog Filed under: Nuclear Energy, News, Nuclear Power Plants, Sustainable Development, Uncategorized, Government & Policy, Quote of the Day, policy

• Moving Beyond the Politics of the Past

  President Obama’s announcement yesterday was a great boost for nuclear energy in the United States. The Obama Administration’s support of nuclear energy also represents his ability to move beyond traditional political divisions and work for a genuine solution. Obama said “even when we have differences, we cannot allow those differences to prevent us from making [...] Read More... Posted Feb 17 2010, 01:25 PM by AREVA North America: Next Energy Blog Filed under: Nuclear Energy, News, Nuclear Power Plants, Government & Policy, policy

• VIDEO OF THE DAY

  We welcome todays historic announcement from the President’s announcment of an initial 8.3 Billion dollars in nuclear loan guarantees. We agree that this decision is key both to the nuclear industry, and to the overall US economy. We also agree with the President that “to meet our growing energy needs and prevent the worst consequences of [...] Read More... Posted Feb 16 2010, 05:33 PM by AREVA North America: Next Energy Blog Filed under: Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Power Plants, Government & Policy, policy, Video of the Day