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• Did You Know? "We are living in exponential times"

  Check out this video that was shown at an American Nuclear Society Conference on Nuclear Training and Education. The numbers are astonishing. The video asks at the end: So what does it all mean? To me, if humans are growing at an exponential pace then we're going to need a lot of new nuclear plants. :-) Read More... Posted Feb 18 2009, 07:00 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: ANS, Nuclear Energy, Energy Plan

• Ahh, That Heritage Foundation: Nuclear Ideas & Partisan Hectoring

  The Heritage Foundation’s Stuart Butler offered up some nuclear prescriptions to the new administration in yesterday’s Washington Times: First, Washington should create a level playing field for energy ideas. That means no longer artificially favoring one new energy source over another and instead creating a strong, market-oriented approach to energy so that the best sources can expand. It's time... Posted Jan 30 2009, 12:18 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Politics and Nuclear Power, Nuclear Myths, Energy Plan, Nuclear Energy Outlook, Business Risks and Costs of New Nuclear Power, Energy Crisis, energy subsidies

• Stimulating the Nuclear Industry

  We don’t logroll much for NEI’s advertising activities – it can take care of itself – but we liked this newspaper ad that ran in The Washington Times’ 111th Congress special section: Click on the picture to see the whole thing. Basically, it makes the case that the nuclear industry represents an engine of employment, much of it union-based (the ad is co-sponsored by the Building Trades Department of... Posted Jan 15 2009, 12:04 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Energy Plan, new technology, nuclear power industry

• T. Boone Pickens Energy Plan

  The Washington Times editorial board weighs in on the Pickens Plan , At minimum, it is good to see an oil magnate thinking big thoughts about petroleum overdependency. All the real alternatives - nuclear, natural gas, wind and more - should be on the table. For that reason it is disappointing that Mr. Pickens is not beating the drum more loudly on nuclear energy. Mr. Pickens says he is for all the... Posted Jul 28 2008, 07:16 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Energy Plan, T. Bonne Pickens