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• Apathy in Canada, Catering to Nuclear

  Alberta doesn’t care about nuclear energy; it doesn’t care at all. But if someone has a plant they might like to put up… "We're not in the debate on one side or the other that the nuclear energy industry needs to be supported or needs to face a moratorium," said Mel Knight, minister of energy. "We are not proponents of nuclear energy, we're not working with any company to build... Posted Dec 16 2009, 04:53 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Canada, forecast, Nuclear, power, energy, industry, support

• Programming Notes

  NPR's Richard Harris talks to former NRC Chairman *** Meserve, EPRI's Tom TerBush and Union of Concerned Scientists' Ellen Vanko in his balanced piece on nuclear energy on this morning's Morning Edition program. And here is an excellent interview with Exelon CEO and Chairman John Rowe on CNBC this morning discussing, in part, how Exelon's investment in nuclear energy has the company... Posted Dec 11 2009, 02:08 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: NPR, NRC, Exelon, Nuclear, chairman, energy, ceo, john rowe

• Framework for Climate Change and Energy Independence Legislation

  A bipartisan trio of Senators presented a framework on climate change. The framework is focused on energy security and job creation and is admirably broad based in its energy approach. Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) aim to create legislation that can find a broad coalition for support. Time will tell how that works, but the start can only be considered... Posted Dec 10 2009, 05:20 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: politics, kerry, Climate Change, energy, graham, lieberman, nuclear blogs, global warming

• Amory Lovins vs. Stewart Brand - Part Four (The “Role of Government Myth” and Final Thoughts)

  This is the fourth and final post from us that looks critically at the bogus claims in Amory Lovins’ latest study. “Role of Government Myth” In his new book , Stewart Brand states (p. 84) : …Energy policy is a matter of such scale, scope, speed, and patient follow-through that only a government can embrace it all. You can’t get decent grid power without decent government power. In reply, Amory Lovins... Posted Nov 16 2009, 10:50 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Amory Lovins, study, government, policy, energy, stewart brand, role of government myth

• The Kerry-Boxer Hearings: Day 3

  And day last. We’re going to focus today on John Rowe, Exelon CEO. As we said over the last two days, the focus of the hearings has been general in nature, alighting on nuclear energy and other energy generators only occasionally. But Rowe dove straight into provisions that should be considered if the bill is to be responsive to the nuclear industry. Now, there were also representatives from the coal... Posted Oct 30 2009, 10:29 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: legislation, outreach, congress, boxer, kerry, Climate Change, energy

• The Kerry-Boxer Hearings: Day 2

  As you might expect, the second of three days of the hearings on the climate change bill saw some themes emerge. First, the tenor more-or-less avoids talking about specific energy generators even when representatives of relevant companies are present. Natural gas probably picked up the most traction and even that was fairly muted. Second, many of the participants worry that Congress will not act and... Posted Oct 29 2009, 11:10 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: legislation, outreach, congress, boxer, kerry, Climate Change, energy

• The Nuclear Title and the Fourth Estate

  The industry’s release of the nuclear title has multiple goals. One, of course, is to provide information to Congress as it considers the Kerry-Boxer climate change legislation, to indicate how the industry can help government achieve its goals. But that information is fully public, so it has a role in the public discourse, too. As important as the other estates is the fourth estate, those outlets... Posted Oct 28 2009, 05:06 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: legislation, outreach, congress, boxer, kerry, Climate Change, energy

• The Kerry-Boxer Hearings: Day One

  The first of three days of hearings about the Boxer-Kerry climate change bill in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (chaired by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.)) went the way opening days often do. The Senators kicked things off with what were essentially position papers, with Sen. Boxer highly favorable to the bill and ranking member Sen. James Inhofe (R. Okla.) highly unfavorable. (Inhofe... Posted Oct 27 2009, 04:48 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Nuclear Energy, legislation, outreach, congress, boxer, kerry, energy

• NEI’s Nuclear Policy Initiative

  We gave you a heads up the other day with some fact sheets that outline what the industry - and NEI – has been doing as hearings on the energy bill get underway today (Look at the Twitter feed on your right for some quotes coming out of the hearings. We’ll see about fleshing them out later). Toward this end, NEI has released a detailed nuclear policy initiative outlining where nuclear energy fits into... Posted Oct 27 2009, 12:25 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: NEI, legislation, outreach, congress, energy, nuclear energy institute

• President Obama at MIT

  President Barack Obama’s energy speech at MIT could have focused a bit more on nuclear energy. But he intended to cover a lot of bases and clearly did that. He noted the green jobs created by the stimulus bill, he called for bipartisanship in crafting the climate change bill in the Senate, he paid appropriate homage to the innovation and accomplishments of schools like MIT. So the actual energy portion... Posted Oct 23 2009, 05:36 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: speech, obama, politics, bill, policy, obama administration, energy, MIT

• Closing A Deal in Idaho – or Maybe China

  The difficulties of identifying and exploiting a market – whether to provide nuclear energy or to market a new food product – is never easy and, for a start-up, notably difficult. To wit: A company called Alternate Energy Holdings has a pretty good idea : A small company that's pushing a billion-dollar nuclear power plant in Idaho now says it wants to build another one at a different location.... Posted Oct 20 2009, 05:00 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: China, New Nuclear Plants, new plants, Nuclear, power, energy, aehi, Don Gillispie, Alternate Energy Holdings

• 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