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• Financing the “Nuclear Renaissance” and Why California Should Be More In the Game

  Expert attorneys in the finance field at the law firm Latham and Watkins in California have been chewing on ways that advance the thinking and research of how to finance the construction of new nuclear plants in restructured markets (pdf). For the finance nerds out there (me being one of them), the document is definitely worth thumbing through to find some of the latest ideas on how to use project... Posted Dec 14 2009, 10:55 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: finance, demand, support, pollicy, nuclear renaissance, calofornia

• 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

• In Small Packages

  The plausibility of using small nuclear reactors in situations where a full-scale reactor might be seen as overkill is an idea pushed, as you would imagine, by vendors with such reactors in their portfolios. In fact, a group of those vendors travelled around Washington during the early fall months scaring up as much interest in their wares to anyone who wanted to listen. Not just think tanks, but the... Posted Nov 03 2009, 04:49 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: small reactors, reactors, designs, demand, small and medium sized reactors

• Upside Down Down Under

  Nuclear power, based on existing technologies, still has all its original problems: proliferation of nuclear weapons, terrorism, lack of long-term waste management, rare but catastrophic accidents and huge economic costs. All except the risk of accidents are worse now than in the 1970s. In several decades, as high-grade uranium is used up, nuclear power will also become a substantial emitter of carbon... Posted Oct 14 2009, 04:00 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Uranium, Australia, Nuclear, reliability, capacity, demand, power, energy

• Small Reactor Week

  Last Wednesday, CSIS hosted Scaling Down Reactors: A Different Model for Nuclear Energy , and has made available the speaker bios and presentations along with audio of the event. Their brief overview of this new & growing field: Several companies and research teams are now pioneering smaller reactor designs that could present a unique set of characteristics and benefits desirable to domestic utilities... Posted Oct 13 2009, 03:30 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: small reactors, safety, reactor, reliability, designs, csis, capacity, demand