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• A Snapshot in Nuclear Time

  Let’s take a snapshot of the legislative landscape as it relates to nuclear energy: Last week, Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Jim Webb (D-Va.) introduced a climate change bill that includes a strong nuclear title, something missing from the initial draft of the Kerry-Boxer bill. Take-away phrase: mini-Manhattan projects, which they use to refer to research initiatives such as nuclear reprocessing... Posted Nov 24 2009, 11:32 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: New Nuclear Plant, Nuclear, Lamar Alexander, boxer, kerry, domestic, jim webb

• As Said by Boxer to Alexander

  To give a sense of the impact of Sen. Lamar Alexander’s (R-Tenn.)insistence on nuclear energy, as noted below, consider the response of Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) in our Twitter feed to your right. Here’s the whole quote – it ran longer than 140 characters: You are suggesting a command and control: We order you to build 100 nuclear power plants. $700 billion cost to the ratepayers. No tax credits... Posted Jul 14 2009, 03:28 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Politics and Nuclear Power, New Nuclear Plant, alexander

• Britain: Renewables No, Nuclear Yes

  "The CBI's report is a very good piece of work," said Steve Holliday, the National Grid chief executive. "There is no difference in the cost of implementing its model, but its carbon reduction is greater and there's a better energy mix." That comes from the Telegraph , reporting on a report issued by the Confederation of British Industries (CBI), which looks to us like that... Posted Jul 14 2009, 02:38 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: New Nuclear Plant, UK, Renewable Energy

• Lamar Alexander’s Nuclear Blueprint

  Yesterday, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) announced at the National Press Club a document he entitled Blueprint for 100 New Nuclear Power Plants in 20 Years. It’s as full an explication of Alexander’s ideas as you could want to see. Here’s the gist of it : Republican United States Senators offer a different solution, a low-cost plan for clean energy based upon these four steps: building 100 nuclear... Posted Jul 14 2009, 11:15 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Politics and Nuclear Power, New Nuclear Plant, alexander

• Panic Button

  We’ve done a fair number of stories about the actions of several states to overturn bans. These state actions are delightful to us but must be alarming to those who genuinely if irrationally fear nuclear energy . We choose not to identify one from another – we could always be wrong, after all. While researching a story about legislative moves in Oklahoma, we ran into some arguments we hadn’t heard... Posted Feb 18 2009, 05:28 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: New Nuclear Plant, safety, opinion

• No Friends of Champagne

  We had a little fun with the Heritage Foundation earlier today, but at least it was in the context of some good ideas they’re putting forward. We thought we’d try a little balance and see what’s up in the environmental activist sphere – an inexact match, since environmentalism is hardly the sole province of liberals. But while the Heritage Foundation couches their arguments in a comfy cocoon of ideological... Posted Jan 30 2009, 05:33 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: New Nuclear Plant Design, New Nuclear Plant, New Nuclear Plants, New Nuclear Plant Costs, Nuclear Fuel, new technology, nuclear power industry

• Shovel Ready Projects: Investor's Business Daily

  Thanks to NNN reader Aaron for passing along this Investor's Business Daily editorial from Friday, Shovel-Ready Nukes . Stimulus : So-called "shovel-ready" infrastructure jobs are said to be the key to economic recovery. But rather than just roads and bridges, between work and home, why not nuke plants to power our lives at both ends? Amazingly, with all the talk of shoveling money into... Posted Jan 27 2009, 03:10 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: New Nuclear Plant

• Show Me the Nuclear Plant

  AmerenUE plans to build a second unit at its Callaway plant in, appropriately enough, Callaway county, Missouri. So far, the reaction is pretty good : AmerenUE says the plant would provide 2,500 new jobs with an annual payroll of $400 million for about five years during construction. The second reactor also would create at least 400 well-paying permanent Callaway County jobs with an annual payroll... Posted Jan 26 2009, 04:39 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: New Nuclear Plant, Callaway, Ameren

• Thinking Twice in Scotland

  Nuclear energy supplies about 40% of the energy in Scotland, but its two plants are due to be retired in 15 years. What then? The Scots have been looking at wind energy, and that's still on course : A new independent report has found SNP [Scottish National Party - the liberals in the Scots' political mix] ministers' target of generating half Scotland's electricity from renewable sources... Posted Dec 09 2008, 11:41 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: New Nuclear Plant, Scotland

• Colorado Considering Nuclear Power

  Back in April, we first wrote about the possibility of Tri-State Generation building a new nuclear plant in Colorado. In today's Denver Post there's more encouraging news : More than half of Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association's customers support the use of nuclear power, a company official told a state legislative panel Tuesday. Colorado's second-largest utility is studying... Posted Sep 17 2008, 02:43 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: New Nuclear Plant, Colorado

• Time for Nuclear: Gresham Barrett's Energy Plan

  Representative Gresham Barrett from South Carolina has put forward an energy plan that greatly favors nuclear energy. The Greenville News' Anna Simon reports : The legislation will seek to resolve what Barrett called “hindrances” to nuclear development by amending several national energy policies to help with nuclear plant construction, nuclear work force education and the management... Posted Sep 16 2008, 10:49 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: New Nuclear Plant

• TVA, Chattanooga Economic Choo Choo

  Quite a media coup today for the TVA , with an A1 above the fold story in the Chattanooga Times on the nuclear industry's impact on the local economy: Beyond the temporary plant construction jobs, Tennessee is eager to land new manufacturers to supply the nuclear industry, state Economic and Community Development Commissioner Matt Kisber said. “One of the goals that the governor has established... Posted Jun 11 2008, 11:04 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: TVA, New Nuclear Plant

• SCANA to Build Two New Nuclear Reactors

  SCANA ( SCG ) subsidiary, South Carolina Electric & Gas , announced Tuesday that they had reached a contractual agreement with Westinghouse and the Shaw Group ( SGR ) to design and build two 1,117-megawatt nuclear power plants at the Virgil C. Summer Station near Jenkinsville, SC. The AP 1000 reactors are slated to become operational in 2016. After-hours trading for SCG and SGR was up on Tuesday... Posted May 28 2008, 04:39 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: New Nuclear Plant, SCANA, AP1000, VC Summer, Shaw Group

• Toshiba Expects 33 Reactor Orders by 2015

  From the World Nuclear News : Japan's Toshiba Corporation expects orders for at least 33 nuclear power reactors by 2015, and plans to expand all its nuclear businesses over the period to 2020, according to the company's president. The predictions were made earlier this month in Strategies for Growth 2008 , the company's outline of the business directions planned for all its divisions. In... Posted May 22 2008, 02:11 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Toshiba, New Nuclear Plant

• Mambo Italiano: Nuclear Energy in Italy?

  It certainly seems likely : Enel SpA. plans to build a nuclear power plant in Italy to take advantage of a possible legislative shift in Italy making nuclear power production legal, Financial Times Deutschland reported, citing chief executive Fulvio Conti. This would be a big change: nuclear energy has been banned in Italy since 1987. The reason for the change would apparently be the mandate voters... Posted Apr 22 2008, 11:01 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: New Nuclear Plant, Italy