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• NRC FY2011 Budget Request is $13.3 Million LESS Than The 2010 Budget Appropriation

  I was happy to hear President Obama's positive statement during the State of the Union Address about building new nuclear power plants. I was also encouraged when that statement was seemingly followed up with an expansion of the DOE's authority to provide loan guarantees for new nuclear energy production facilities. I was even pleased to hear that the Administration had decided to stop wasting... Posted Feb 05 2010, 10:04 PM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: NRC

• Christian Parenti Believes That Established Nuclear Plants Are "Zombies" - Don't Tell The Customers, Who Seem To Love Using The 800 Billion Kilowatt Hours Per Year That Those Plants Produce

  CBSNews.com - a company whose lineage includes a period when its corporate name was Westinghouse and its basic nuclear plant design was the basis for approximately 2/3 of the plants built in the United States - has published an opinion piece by Chrisian Parenti titled What To Do With Zombie Nuke Plants . The piece originally appeared in The Nation under the title of Zombie Nuke Plants . The basic premise... Posted Nov 25 2009, 08:51 PM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: NRC, Parenti, Democracy Now

• Living the Renaissance - NRC License Review Budget Constraints

  During day 2 of the American Nuclear Society annual meeting, there was a well attended session titled Living the Nuclear Renaissance. It included four speakers with detailed, day to day knowledge of the issues associated with getting a new plant through the very important step of obtaining a US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) combined Construction and Operating License (COL). Dave Matthews, Director... Posted Jun 17 2009, 04:41 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: NRC, license, COL

• For Reliable Information About Radiation Go to RadiationAnswers.org

  One of the important action items from yesterday's American Nuclear Society plenary sessions was provided by NRC Commissioner Dale Klein. During his talk, he pointed out the need for an increased focus on education and information sharing. He talked about various ways of getting information to the new workers who will be needed to make the important technological decisions that will be required... Posted Jun 16 2009, 03:59 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: ANS, NRC, answers

• Toshiba 4S and Its NRC Queue Hurdle

  Bill Conlon writes Knowledge and Thoroughness: Musings on Energy, Technology, Music and Politics . Bill has a degree in Nuclear Engineering and is a licensed Professional Engineer (Mechanical) in California. About 8 months ago, I discovered Bill's blog because it included a post about his mentor, John Tully, who was a former Chief Mechanical Engineer for ALCO Products , the builder of several small... Posted Apr 29 2009, 06:22 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: NRC, Toshiba, Technology

• NRC Commissioner Peter Lyons Discussing Small Reactor Review Challenges at the 21st Annual Regulatory Information Conference

  I came across an article a publication called Energy Washington Week about small reactors that troubled me a bit. Unfortunately, I cannot link to that article because the source is a subscription only publication. Tthe article gave me the impression that the NRC is not terribly interested in licensing small reactors because its funding came from fees paid by existing licensees and those entities had... Posted Apr 08 2009, 05:05 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: NRC, Conference, Washington

• NRC public meeting re: North Anna Unit 3 Entertainment, lies, and videotape

  I have to learn better prep skills - my video camera battery ran dry before the entertainment really started at last night's public meeting regarding the environmental impact statement and construction and operating license application for Dominion Resource's North Anna Unit 3. After leaving my Arlington, VA office just after 5, it took me a while to get to the meeting - Mineral, VA is about... Posted Feb 04 2009, 07:14 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: NRC, license, meeting

• Amarillo Power Update - License Application Will be Filed In 2009 vice 2008

  On Tuesday September 9, 2008 Amarillo.com published an update on Amarillo Power's planned nuclear project in the Texas panhandle. For undisclosed reasons, the company - led by George Chapman - has notified the NRC that it will be filing its construction and operating license application in late 2009 vice late 2008. At least part of the reason for the delay is the engineering site evaluation to... Posted Sep 10 2008, 02:44 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: new nuclear plants, NRC, Amarillo Power

• Smart people party

  After the award ceremony for the presenters and engineering challenge, after the speech by Mr. Luis Reyes, the Chief Operating Officer of the NRC, and after a fine Texas dinner of steak and potatoes, the American Nuclear Society Student Conference concluded with one last group event - the party. Luminant, the company that recently purchased TXU, and the owner of the Commanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant... Posted Mar 02 2008, 06:08 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: ANS, NRC, Luminant

• It's time for a change in the Atomic Energy Act!

  The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is one of the best places to work in the federal government. It is staffed with dedicated professionals who provide technical expertise and work very hard. It is a fair, but tough regulator that goes by the book. However, it is not providing Americans with the service that they deserve from the government, mainly because the law that the NRC is required to follow is... Posted Feb 28 2008, 02:15 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: NRC, Atomic Energy Act

• Warren Buffett's interest in nuclear power confirmed by Wall Street Journal and Nuclear Regulatory Commission

  A couple of days ago, I shared a link to a comment from an Idaho blogger about how MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co., a company controlled by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, is investigating the possibility of building a new nuclear power plant on some pasture land located outside of Boise, Idaho. On Friday, December 7, 2007, the Wall Street Journal picked up the story and and published an article... Posted Dec 08 2007, 06:33 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: MidAmerican Nuclear Energy Co., Warren Buffet, NRC