AREVA Blog - North America

By Laura Clise Director of Sustainable Development and Continuous Improvement AREVA Inc. (blogging live from Montreux, Switzerland) In the opening of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development meeting this week, President Bjorn Stigson talked about the world transition to sustainability. Stigson emphasized that the WBCSD vision of 9 billion people living well and within the limits of [...

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...

By Joseph DeVoe, Project Engineer, AREVA Federal Services LLC Have you ever stumbled upon an opportunity that changes your life and career in ways you never would have imagined? For many of my colleagues and I, that change took place the moment we were selected for the College of Engineering Leadership Academy at UNC Charlotte. The Leadership [...] Read More...

As part of Wall Street Journal conference, Energy Secretary Steven Chu discusses the work involved in the development of clean energy technology for American industry saying, “it is so much easier to spread fear than it is to spread a vision of opportunity in the future and part of my job is to help people [...] Read More...

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...

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...

Jacques Besnainou is the CEO of AREVA in North America. Part of his leadership is to continue the dialogue on nuclear energy. He shares his vision for the U.S. nuclear energy industry and how AREVA is going to “light the world with nuclear energy” in the video below. Read More...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Join the online chat today “Is nuclear energy a sustainable energy source” with Bertrand Barré today at 9:30am. Participate in the dialog and ask your questions on areva.com Read More...

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...