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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

• Scott Peterson, VP of Communications for Nuclear Energy Institute, Discusses Used Fuel Commission

  Scott Peterson, the Vice President of Communications for the Nuclear Energy Institute visited with Clean Skies News to talk about his organization's reactions to the formation of the blue ribbon commission on used nuclear fuel policy. It is heartening to hear an industry spokesman so clearly stating that the industry has accepted the responsibility for storing used fuel for a very long time, that... Posted Feb 01 2010, 04:38 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: NEI, Clean Skies News, used fuel

• "Cleaner, Smarter Energy" - At Least That is What The American Natural Gas Alliance Says

  A friend of mine who has been a professional nuclear engineer for a couple of decades sent me a link to a mid September 2009 blog post at AdWeek.com titled Grey Energizes America's Natural Gas Alliance: WPP Group shop fires up first salvo this weekend . Here is a quote from the advertising trade press publication: NGA, a group of independent natural gas exploration and production companies, was... Posted Oct 23 2009, 03:43 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: NEI, FTC, clean natural gas, BBB, AdWeek

• US Electricity Production Cost Graph From 1995 - 2008

  One thing that continues to befuddle me is the consistently repeated myth that nuclear energy is expensive energy. I want you to take a hard look at the above graph. It is a slightly modified version of the original which can be found buried several layers down at the NEI web site under the heading of Resources and Stats. The major change that I made was to alter the background to make the lines show... Posted Jul 05 2009, 02:13 PM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: NEI, production, costs

• Energy Northwest Considers New Nuclear - NuScale May be on Their Short List

  NEI Nuclear Notes recently published an intriguing blog titled Walking Toward Nuclear on Tip Toe about Energy Northwest's interest in new nuclear power development. Energy Northwest has an interesting history - it used to be called the Washington Public Power Supply System (WPPSS) and it once got involved in a massive project to build 5 nuclear plants on a single site. The project fizzled financially... Posted Jun 04 2009, 05:11 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: NEI, NuScale, northwest

• One of the Best TV Specials I've Seen - How The Greens Went Nuclear

  NEI Nuclear Notes pointed me to Angela Saihi, their most recent blogger for nuclear energy . The NEI post did not prepare me to find a professionally produced show titled People and Power with part one of an episode about how the greens went nuclear. You really need to see this. I am looking forward to seeing part two. Angela has asked for people to comment ; please take her up on her request and let... Posted Nov 04 2008, 10:43 PM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: NEI

• Lester Brown's Flawed Economic Logic At Grist

  I just read Lester Brown's guest post at Grist titled Waste of Energy: The Flawed Economics of Nuclear Power . Considering the fact that one of Lester's primary sources is Amory Lovins's "The Nuclear Illusion" (4.2 MB PDF), I was not at all surprised to recognize some substantial holes in Lester's logic and data. David Bradish from NEI Nuclear Notes has already beaten me to... Posted Oct 30 2008, 04:13 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: NEI, Lester Brown

• NEI's rebuttal to the No-Nukes Quint

  Right after my last post, I realized that the magic of YouTube was showing me that there was already a rebuttal posted to "Stop the nuclear bailout". Elizabeth King, a well spoken young woman from the NEI, shares her thoughts in a short, well written video titled For What It's Worth - A Rebuttal . Way to go, NEI! Something tells me that my buddy, Eric McErlain from NEI Nuclear Notes Read... Posted Oct 13 2007, 03:08 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: NEI