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• Areva to build medical isotope facility

  It will produce Lead-212 for anti-cancer treatments AREVA Med LLC, a subsidiary of the AREVA group, announced March 10 the future construction of a facility on its Bessines site in France (Limousin region) which will produce medical-grade Lead-212* for anticancer treatments. Relying on its experience in radiochemistry and nuclear engineering, AREVA has developed innovative processes to extract rare... Posted Mar 10 2010, 02:32 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Nuclear energy, news, AREVA News, Nuclear Medicine

• States grapple with nuclear energy

  Experience varies widely What’s a state legislature to do? The President earlier this month went to Maryland, which already had two nuclear reactors and is planning a third, to announce he’s granting an $8.3 billion loan guarantee to two more new nuclear reactors in Georgia. That’s two states down, 48 to go. Don’t hold your breath waiting for states that don’t already have nuclear reactors to sign... Posted Feb 28 2010, 06:08 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Nuclear energy, coal

• Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo at NEI Nuclear R&D Summit

  A view from the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee: The Effect of Climate Change on the Nuclear Energy R&D Portfolio Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) NEI Conference Agenda (Two video clips below) Full text of speech (16 min) Q&A session on federal support for next generation and small reactors NUCLEAR ENERGY IS THE FUTURE By Idaho Senator Mike Crapo For far too long, one of our most promising... Posted Feb 26 2010, 12:52 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Nuclear energy, Sen. Mike Crapo

• Support increasing for nuclear energy

  Kentucky scouts for nuclear plant sites State officials in the blue grass state, which is dominated by the coal industry, are scouting potential nuclear power plant sites around Kentucky as part of an effort to expand the state's electricity supply beyond coal-fired generators. One of the potential uses of nuclear energy is to provide process heat for coal gasification plants. The Louisville-Courier... Posted Feb 09 2010, 01:25 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Nuclear energy, Kentucky, Washington

• MOX & commercial nuclear updates from Japan

  Two reactors start using it. With these reports Idaho Samizdat is pleased to announce the start of posting selected dispatches via NucNet from the World Nuclear Organization. ( NucNet ) (Jan 18) The Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has given permission for the Tohoku Electric Power Company to use uranium-plutonium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel at Onagawa-3. The government approval,... Posted Jan 21 2010, 08:07 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: MOX fuel, Nuclear energy, Japan Atomic Industrial Forum, NucNet

• White House aide speaks up for nuclear energy

  Carol Browner says she is talking with the industry In an public live online chat ( video ) held Jan 12, Ms. Browner , a top energy and environmental aide to President Barack Obama, finally moved the pointer, relative to nuclear energy policy, on the ship-of-state’s telegraph from dead stop, past stand-by, to slow ahead. It is a remarkable change from what has looked for some time to be a message of... Posted Jan 12 2010, 11:51 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Nuclear energy, Carol Browner

• Nuclear Energy Twitter Feed & Group

  Join, read, post, put it on your blog or web site A new expression in the use of the social media tool Twitter is now available for people who support the use of nuclear energy as a carbon emission free source of energy. It is called a ‘Twibe’ which is a made up word that means a ‘tribe’ of twitter users. It involves people who post ‘Tweets’ about nuclear energy. You can see the nuclear energy Twibe... Posted Jan 09 2010, 10:52 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Nuclear energy, twitter, Twibe

• India’s climate change goals and nuclear energy

  A series of groundbreaking deals are part of a drive to build 20 GWe by 2020 The visit to the U.S. of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh the week before Thanksgiving was marked by a series of events related to India’s commitments to action on climate change and the use of nuclear energy to meet them. At the same time, Singh signed new cooperative agreements with Canada and Russia for trade in nuclear... Posted Dec 06 2009, 09:29 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: India, Nuclear energy, climate change

• Updates to the Blogroll

  Energy & environmental bloggers added The blogsphere expands rapidly albeit not like galaxies at the speed of  light in outer space though sometimes it feels that way.  This week I made some additions and changes to the blog roll. Additions are from the fields of environmental economics and climate change because what happens there affects the nuclear energy industry.  I am reading... Posted Oct 11 2009, 01:30 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Nuclear energy, Idaho Samizdat, American Nuclear Society, Nuclear Energy Bloggers, Site News, Dan Yurman, AREVA North America, Nuclear Power, AREVA Inc.

• Participate in blog action day

  Nuclear energy advocates can add their voice on the topic of climate change Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world's bloggers  in posting about the same issue on the same day on their own blogs with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. Blog Action Day 2009 will be the largest-ever social change event on the web. One day. One issue. Thousands... Posted Oct 09 2009, 08:47 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Nuclear energy, Idaho Samizdat, American Nuclear Society, Nuclear Energy Bloggers, Site News, Dan Yurman, AREVA North America, Nuclear Power, AREVA Inc.

• Nuclear bloggers achieve critical mass at ANS Atlanta

  A first-of-a-kind panel discussion explores the new media for the nuclear industry The nuclear energy industry is not the first place you would think of when it comes to new social media like blogs. That perception was shattered this week when four of the nation's most prolific bloggers about nuclear energy met in person for the first time in Atlanta, GA, at the annual conference of the American... Posted Jun 18 2009, 01:38 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Nuclear energy, blogs

• Murkowski steps up for nuclear energy

  The senator from one of the biggest oil states in the nation has become a leading advocate for nuclear energy Alaskan Sen. Lisa Murkowski is taking a leadership role advocating in Congress for nuclear energy to be supported in energy legislation now working its way through the Energy & Natural Resources Committee. On June 2 Senator Murkowski urged the Obama administration to expand the role of... Posted Jun 02 2009, 09:13 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Nuclear energy, Lisa Murkowski, Alaska

• Nuclear reactor new build roundup for May 3, 2009

  Who doesn’t want to build nuclear reactors? Russia to build 26 nuclear reactors The Nikkei Report, Tokyo, reports that Russia has announced it will build 26 new nuclear reactors with electricity generation capacities of 1,000-1,200 MWe each by 2030. Assuming the Russian pricing model, in constant dollars, prevails over the next two decades, the new build has a staggering cost of $78-to-$104 billion... Posted May 03 2009, 04:01 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Nuclear energy, nuclear reactors, Russia

• Greenpeace takes on Areva

  The anti-nuclear group wants to stop the next EPR to be built in France In a long article , over 800 words, the New York Times brought two  of its reporters to bear on the issue of whether the Areva 1,600 MW EPR reactor produces spent nuclear fuel that is literally too hot to handle.  The article is a perfect example of how an aggressive anti-nuclear activist organization can successfully... Posted Feb 01 2009, 04:44 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Areva, Nuclear energy, nuclear reactors, EPR, Greenpeace

• Charles Julian Barton, Sr

  Full obituary at Nuclear Green   highlights here A pioneer of molten salt reactor (MSR) chemistry ( large image ) Charles Julian Barton, Sr, a reactor chemistry pioneer, died of causes incident to age on January 31, 2009, in Oak Ridge, TN. He celebrated his 97th birthday on January 16, 2009.  His son Charles Barton, who also worked at Oak Ridge until his retirement, blogs on nuclear energy... Posted Feb 01 2009, 11:47 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: nuclear, Nuclear energy, nuclear reactor, nuclear reactors, nuclear power industry