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• NEI/DOE Small Reactor Workshop - Innovation, Optimism and Get 'er Done

  Perhaps it was the President's expression of strong support when he announced that Southern Company would be the first company offered the opportunity to pay the federal government hundreds of millions of dollars in loan guarantee fees to support its well-vetted investment in 2 major electrical power factories in a jobs challenged rural area in northeast Georgia. Perhaps it was the front page article... Posted Feb 24 2010, 04:44 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: NEI, DOE, small reactors

• Ontario and Exelon Both Delay Nuclear Projects

  The Associated Press is reporting that Exelon will be delaying its proposed two unit nuclear reactor development near Victoria, Texas. The company attributed the decision to the difficult financial markets and its failure to make the cut for the first round of US Department of Energy loan guarantees. People who have been following this project for some time will remember that Exelon initially proposed... Posted Jul 01 2009, 04:25 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Exelon, DOE, ontario

• Prime Example on Why The US Department of Energy Rarely Produces Any Energy

  Discover Magazine recently published an article with interesting information about next generation nuclear power plants that contains all of the information that you need to know about why the US Department of Energy is one of the largest employers of scientists in the country yet rarely succeeds in its title mission of providing tools that produce useful energy. The article starts off with a brief... Posted Jun 09 2009, 02:13 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: DOE, opinion, editorial

• After Listening to Dr. Chu's Testimony, I have Concerns - He Thinks California Energy Policies Are a Positive Example

  I have been spending the last couple of hours digesting Chu's responses to some very interesting questioning in preparation for an Atomic Show that I will be putting together this weekend. Though I have a great deal of respect and hope for what Chu should be able to accomplish, I am now less enthusiastic than I was before I started listening carefully, watching the body language and parsing the... Posted Jan 16 2009, 04:38 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: DOE, Steven Chu

• Senators Focus on Chu's Nuclear Positions

  Senators Lisa Murkowski, Jeff Sessions, Richard Burr, and Mary Landrieu all asked pointed, pro-nuclear questions during Steven Chu's confirmation hearing yesterday. Warms my heart to think that the message is finally getting across - there is NO supportable logic in a position that states that energy security is vital, protecting the climate is vital and economic development is vital, but please... Posted Jan 14 2009, 03:18 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: DOE, Steven Chu

• Job creation effects of loan guarantee program

  Dan Yurman of Idaho Samizdat has posted a comment provoking blog entry describing potential job creation effects of an expansion of the DOE nuclear power plant loan guarantee program initially authorized by the Energy Policy Act of 2005. One important point for all decision makers to understand is that the program could and should cost the taxpayers - NOTHING. The key to success is consistent standards... Posted Nov 30 2008, 11:47 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: DOE, Jobs, Loan Guarantees

• Executive branch power grab

  While reading an article in the Morris Daily Herald titled Recycling decision delayed, not dead: DOE needs to study more before making decisions on nuclear recycling site I ran across the following passage that includes some troubling statements from Brian Quirke, of the U.S. Department of Energy The environmental statement has a multitude of decisions to be made within it, in addition to whether to... Posted Jan 05 2008, 03:10 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: DOE