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• Winning Some, Losing Some

  This is the winning one: The Iowa Senate approved a bill that would allow an Iowa energy company to raise fees to pay for a study on the feasibility of building a nuclear power plant in the state. The bill is a stepping stone in what lawmakers called a scramble to turn to carbon-neutral energy sources. In other words, Iowa wants to have a plant if a plant makes sense there. It won handily, too: The... Posted Mar 11 2010, 04:40 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: study, Nuclear, senate, bill, construction, plant, state, iowa

• Lamar Alexander and Natural Nuclear Energy

  We always like to hear what Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) has to say about nuclear energy. Now, obviously, that has something to do with his all-in attitude – in fact, his call for 100 nuclear plants in 20 years shows him to be quite a fan – but does not pitch every other energy source our the window. Well, maybe he does a little, in this op-ed co-written with Health Physics Society’s Theodore Rockwell... Posted Mar 11 2010, 11:19 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Nuclear, Lamar Alexander, construction, future, 100 nuclear plants, senator

• Friday YouTube Fun: Giving Nuclear Power a Bad Name

  Nuclear Power Pants , a band from Baltimore, MD, has a uniquely awful video up on YouTube that might best be described as GWAR meets Ed Wood . (That's one heckuva high bar for this high camp.) Enjoy. Can the nuclear energy industry sue for defamation of character? Read More... Posted Mar 05 2010, 11:37 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: politics, activists, Nuclear, power, construction, youtube, new build, communication

• FOEs of the Truth

  Further to David’s post below, we thought we’d feature our old friends at FOE, that is, Friends of the Earth, using that discredited several year old default figure to gin up fear over loan guarantees. Frankly, the idea - to link them to bank bailouts - is a good way to make something rather abstract to the public seem really sinister – not to mention the use of music that seems to come from The Shining... Posted Mar 05 2010, 09:23 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: politics, Nuclear, power, construction, new build, communication

• A Comparison of Loan Guarantee Volume by Energy Technology

  Since the President’s support for nuclear was made clear at the State of the Union, our nuclear critics have dramatically ramped up their opposition to nuclear, particularly on loan guarantees. Besides continuously repeating the debunked 50 percent default rate for nuclear , one detail often neglected by our critics is how much loan volume is proposed as well as currently available for various technologies... Posted Feb 03 2010, 02:20 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Loan Guarantees, NEI, Nuclear, construction, state of the union, power plants

• The Department of Energy 2011 Budget Request

  Or the nuclear elements thereof, anyway. This was written for NEI’s member newsletter, Nuclear Energy Overview, and provides a fairly thorough overview of the nuclear elements of this year’s budget request. This is just the beginning of the annual process, with the House and Senate due to hold many hearings, grouse about this or that, and vote for more or less money requested by the administration... Posted Feb 02 2010, 05:39 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Loan Guarantees, Nuclear, construction, state of the union, power plants

• The Energy Budget Request 2011: Prelude

  The Department of Energy’s 2011 budget request is excellent in recognizing the value of nuclear energy, mostly by simply shifting sums around to favor research a little more and increasing the loan guarantee authority to ensure more plants can be built. We’ll have more details about the budget request a little later today. In the meantime, we thought we’d provide a little context for the nuclear good... Posted Feb 02 2010, 02:10 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Loan Guarantees, Nuclear, construction, state of the union, power plants

• Pro-Nuclear Bloggers Chat It Up About Last Week’s Major Announcements from the Obama Administration

  Last night, seven of us had the opportunity to chat amongst ourselves about President Obama’s State of the Union , the announcement of a blue-ribbon commission , the proposal to increase loan guarantees and Vermont Yankee’s tritium quagmire . Last week was quite an eventful week for the nuclear industry so for one of Rod Adams’s podcast shows , a number of us were asked by Rod if we could share our... Posted Feb 01 2010, 07:15 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Loan Guarantees, Nuclear, construction, state of the union, power plants

• The State of the Union: The Reaction

  President Barack Obama essentially led with nuclear energy while discussing energy last night, a move that surprised many, delighted us (and more besides us) and distressed a few. It may prove to be one of the “discussed” points of the speech. Take this bit from CNET’s coverage: "One surprise that few people would have anticipated only a few years ago: A mention of biofuels and clean coal received... Posted Jan 28 2010, 03:26 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Loan Guarantees, Nuclear, construction, state of the union, power plants

• The State of the Union

  Here’s the energy portion of President Barack Obama’s first State of the Union address. The third paragraph is the keeper: in discussing more jobs – the theme of this year – Obama led with nuclear energy: Next, we need to encourage American innovation. Last year, we made the largest investment in basic research funding in history, an investment -- an investment that could lead to the world's cheapest... Posted Jan 28 2010, 10:07 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Loan Guarantees, Nuclear, construction, state of the union, power plants

• Saving Money on Your Next Nuclear Plant

  You would be perfectly within your rights to give us the fishy eye if we said anything other than that nuclear energy plants are very expensive to build. Most power plants suffer this problem, because costs are so front-loaded: plants take time to build, introducing bank interest charges, changes in regulation that incur cost and fixed costs on commodities that refuse to stay fixed. But this can work... Posted Nov 12 2009, 04:42 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Economics, Nuclear, regulation, construction, bank, plant, investment