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• Center for American Progress Distorts the Loan Guarantee Program

  On Monday, CAP attempted to provide some facts about DOE’s loan guarantee program that needless to say completely distorted the picture. After spending a few days dissecting their analysis, NEI came out with a 13 page response that rebuts CAP and clarifies the facts . Below the rest of this post are just a few snippets from our response. The Center for American Progress is openly and determinedly anti... Posted Mar 11 2010, 11:30 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Loan Guarantees, DOE, opinion, activists, Nuclear, department of energy

• CBO Director on Loan Guarantees for New Nuclear Plants

  The Congressional Budget Office’s Director, Douglas Elmendorf , provided some important insight into how loan guarantees are assessed in the US government’s budget . For those who have been following the 50 percent default rate argument that nuclear critics have been making , CBO makes clear that the assumption of the rate in their 2003 report was for a piece of legislation that was never enacted.... Posted Mar 04 2010, 02:50 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Loan Guarantees, DOE, Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, Congressional Budget Office, cbo

• The Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future Arrives

  And that’s what they’re calling it: The Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future. Announced today during a telephone conference with Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Presidential Advisor Carol Browner, the commission’s charge is to provide recommendations for developing a safe, long-term solution to managing the nation’s used nuclear fuel. The commission will be headed by former House member... Posted Jan 29 2010, 02:26 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: DOE, Nuclear Waste, Steven Chu, Nuclear, commission, storage, blue ribbon, reprocessing

• NEI's Energy Markets Report - November 30 - December 4, 2009

  The latest is up , below are some tidbits from EIA’s latest short term forecast for your consumption: According to EIA’s latest Short Term Energy Outlook, “retail sales of electricity to the industrial sector from January through September 2009 were down by about 12 percent compared with the same period last year, similar to the decline in the U.S. manufacturing production index. EIA's assumption... Posted Dec 10 2009, 09:55 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: DOE, NEI, report, eia, results, sales, Short Term Energy Outlook, consumption

• NEI's Energy Markets Report - November 23 - 27, 2009

  The latest is up , below are three tidbits you may find useful: From January 2009 to August 2009, US primary energy consumption fell by 5.7 percent compared to the same time period in 2008. For the first eight months of 2009, petroleum provided 31.7% of US energy consumption, natural gas provided 24.6% of US energy consumption, coal provided 21.0%, nuclear 9.0%, biomass 4.1%, hydro 2.9%, wind 0.7%... Posted Dec 02 2009, 09:30 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: DOE, NEI, eia, statistics, capacity, demand, 2009, energy consumption

• Meanwhile, in the World of Thorium

  The Thorium Energy Alliance had its first annual conference in Washington earlier this week, so The New York Times decided to take a look at the potential of Thorium as a fuel for nuclear energy plants. Rajendran Raja, a physicist at Fermilab — the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois — said by telephone that the benefit of adding thorium to the fuel... Posted Oct 23 2009, 02:14 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: DOE, energygy, thorium energy alliance, conference, throium, washington, Fermi

• A Few Word from Steven Chu

  While President Obama pulled duty in New Orleans the other day, as we reported in the post below, Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu is in Paris speaking to a meeting of the International Energy Agency. You can decide who pulled the better duty. Chu and the energy ministers are all jockeying for position during the run up to Copenhagen. But this Bloomberg article shows him pushing nuclear energy... Posted Oct 16 2009, 05:03 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: DOE, IAEA, Nuclear Energy, Steven Chu, department of energy, paris, international atomic energy agency, copenhagen

• Explaining It All for You

  Let’s get the long weekend going with some good reading: The Energy Information Administration, the statistics arm of the Department of Energy, has launched a new portal called Energy Explained , which, um, explains energy. All the usual suspects are accounted for and nuclear energy has a nice set of pages. It really does start at the beginning: Nuclear energy is energy in the nucleus (core) of an... Posted Oct 09 2009, 02:58 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: DOE, Nuclear Energy, Energy Information Administration, eia, department of energy, information, statistics, energy explained

• DOE to Announce Details About the Blue-Ribbon Commission on Used Nuclear Fuel "Soon"

  Via Nasdaq : As part of a long-running rift over how to deal with the nation's nuclear power waste, the Obama administration announced plans this year to cancel the Yucca Mountain waste repository site 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Although Energy Secretary Steven Chu said in April he would appoint a panel to determine the country's future nuclear waste policy, there's been no news since... Posted Sep 17 2009, 01:35 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Yucca, DOE, waste, obama administration, department of energy

• USEC Gets a Reprieve

  Or even wins. Note the two posts about USEC below – it’s all about the company’s American Centrifuge project and DOE’s rejection of its loan guarantee application to move it to the next stage – and USEC’s almost ferocious response to that rejection. And now, DOE issues a press release : The Department of Energy and USEC Inc. today announced an agreement to delay a final review on the company’s loan... Posted Aug 05 2009, 11:54 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Loan Guarantees, DOE, Steven Chu, usec, centrifuge

• Levelized Costs of New Electric Generating Technologies - EIA

  Just wanted to bring to your attention probably one of the best, most complete, and credible sets of data on new power plant costs I've come across so far. The data comes from the Energy Information Administration's Annual Energy Outlook 2009 and the chart and table below were created by the Institute for Energy Research . The only other source I've seen that comes close to a credible comparison... Posted Jun 26 2009, 01:50 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: DOE, eia, generation

• Meet the Governors: Dr. Chu Goes West

  Well, actually, he came from the west, so this isn’t a case of a Washington tenderfoot having to adapt to the rough-and-ready ways of our cowboy politicians out west – not that we don’t enjoy the cliche-laden image of it anyway. In fact, Energy Secretary Steven Chu is visiting the Western Governors Association annual meeting in Park City Utah. It’s running from the 14th to the 16th, and you can watch... Posted Jun 15 2009, 05:44 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: DOE, Steven Chu

• The Voice of Yucca Mountain

  If you cover the nuclear news world during the later years of the Bush administration, there was no missing Ward Sproat, who turned up at virtually every Congressional hearing having anything to do with nuclear energy. He was Director of the Department of Energy’s Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management and essentially the voice of Yucca Mountain from 2006 until last year. Despite expressing... Posted May 29 2009, 04:33 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Yucca, DOE, waste

• No Plans From Chu to Stop Progress on Yucca Mountain

  From the Las Vegas Review Journal : Energy Secretary Steven Chu told a group of state officials Wednesday he favors moving toward licensing a nuclear waste repository in Nevada, although whether it would ever be built is another thing altogether. ... The proceedings would continue for the government to work through issues associated with licensing a first-of-its-kind nuclear waste site, according to... Posted Feb 19 2009, 07:10 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Yucca, DOE, Steven Chu

• Steven Chu's Nuclear Support: Daily Kos, Mother Jones Respond

  At the risk of engaging in omphaloskepsis (?!), Daily Kos and Mother Jones (?!) have picked up our post on Steven Chu's confirmation hearing for Secretary of Energy. The posts by Markos Moulitsas and Kevin Drum have led to a spirited debate; eliciting supportive comments in two of the least likely, until now, corners of the blogosphere. Just one of the many comments, via Drum : "I should perhaps... Posted Jan 15 2009, 02:50 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: DOE, Energy Secretary, Steven Chu