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• Nuclear energy news comes on Fridays

  It’s the slowest day in the weekly news cycle except Saturday The White House has announced a new nomination for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to replace outgoing former chairman Dale Klein. Bill Ostendorff is currently the Director of the Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy and Director of the Board on Global Science and Technology at the National Academies.  He came... Posted Dec 11 2009, 01:27 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: blog, nuclear, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Dale Klein, NRC, chairman

• On keeping up with the news

  Twitter is not a substitute for blogging Readers of this blog will note a few changes in recent weeks.  I’ve  been doing less “tweeting” and more in-depth reporting about the nuclear industry.  While Tweeting is important for breaking nuclear news, it is not a substitute for blogging.  Yet, the temptation is there to just tweet away and not do the skull work necessary to bring readers... Posted Nov 01 2009, 11:21 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: blog, nuclear blogs, power, ENERGY, Nuclear Power, teweeting, twitter

• Areva U.S. CEO talks with nuclear bloggers

  Jacques Besnainou sets up an open mike for questions Readers of this blog are invited to take a virtual trip to the EnergCollective where they will find an exclusive interview with Areva U.S. CEO Jacques Besnainou (right).  In the telephone discussion which took place June 5, he talks about Areva’s lessons learned from building new nuclear reactors in Finland and France and how these “first-of... Posted Jun 07 2009, 12:38 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: blog, Areva, CEO

• Travel - Blogging light next two weeks

  Blogging will be light for the next two weeks while I'm on travel. As this blog enters its 10th month of operation it seems useful to take a look at some readership statistics. Visitors (5/20/07-9/20/07) 3,850 unique visitors 5,813 page views 2,410 (63%) visitors came only one time searching for a specific topics via keywords, via link on other blogs and websites, or from links in email messages. 1... Posted Sep 23 2007, 11:04 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: blog, Idaho Samizdat

• Summer is here

  Posting will be light for the next month. August is here. There's a full moon this week over the Snake River Plain west of Idaho Falls and the temperature did not drop like a rock out on the desert last night despite clear skies. It was 70 F at 5 AM this morning which is way too warm for this time of year. Also, I've been ramping up my gig as a contributing reporter for Fuel Cycle Week . Unfortunately... Posted Jul 31 2007, 09:14 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: blog