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• Some Monday Morning Nuclear Blog Clips to Read

  The two big posts everyone was raving about over the weekend come from Depleted Cranium’s Steve Packard and Brave New Climate’s Barry Brook. Steve clearly spent a great deal of man-hours providing a number of reasons Why You Can’t Build a Bomb From Spent Fuel . As well, Barry Brook always gets a heavy conversation going, this time by asking if climate sceptics and anti-nukes matter . There’s also been... Posted Feb 22 2010, 10:40 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: opinion, spent fuel, fuel, Climate Change, nuclear blogs, op-ed, sceptic, anti-nuke

• Lord Love a Nuclear Plant

  Now, we admit we can be a little provincial when it comes to viewing the activities. We’ve travelled and had longer than vacation-length stays in other countries – still, a little provincial. So whenever we read a story about a British Lord, we inevitably think of a twit or a criminal rotter hiding under robes and a wig. But consider Lord Hunt: “We have some fantastically skilled people and in terms... Posted Jan 28 2010, 09:43 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: NEI, opinion, editorial, nuclear energy institute, nuclear blogs, op-ed

• Daily Kos Diarist Tells What Life is Like Working in a Nuclear Plant

  Blubba , an occasional contributor at Daily Kos , began an entertaining series of posts describing the unique experiences that occur at a nuclear plant. Story #4, my favorite, highlights the interesting situations nuclear workers can find themselves in when changing in and out of anti-contamination suits (aka Anti-C): Around 1987, just a few years out of college, I was given the job of Containment... Posted Jan 21 2010, 01:30 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: NEI, opinion, editorial, nuclear energy institute, daily kos, contamination

• Anti-Nuke Hypocrisies

  Barry Brook published a great piece on the contradictory thinking of anti-nuclear environmentalists . It was posted a few days ago and is now up to almost 100 comments. He’s found 32 hypocrisies so far (with the help of others) and below is a taste of a few: 1. They claim renewables can replace fossil fuels, then can’t see the problem with leaning on fossil fuel gas to back them up when they fail to... Posted Jan 19 2010, 07:00 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: NEI, opinion, activists, anti-nuclear, antinuclear, op-ed, hypocrisies

• Anyone Listening to Dr. Caldicott Anymore?

  Doesn’t look like it . Apparently she’s trying to create controversy with many in the environmental community over nuclear. Maybe nuclear really isn’t as bad as she believes . . . Read More... Posted Jan 12 2010, 03:08 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: NEI, opinion, Nuclear, nuclear blogs, controversy

• A Nuclear Tussle in Minnesota

  The Duluth News tries a pro-con pair of op-eds on nuclear energy that would have benefitted considerably from a more direct match-up. John LaForge of Nukewatch takes the con and Rolf Westgard, a professional member of the Geological Society of America and of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, takes the pro. Both writers make points well worth arguing, but since they don’t engage each... Posted Jan 12 2010, 02:28 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: NEI, opinion, editorial, Nuclear, nuclear blogs, op-ed, minnesota

• The Whole Shocking Truth About Nuclear Energy

  Nuclear Energy is never going to get an awful lot of love from Mother Jones magazine – unless the tide of support it’s seen from more progressives that way. But not yet. In a small piece, Mariah Blake shows that the nuclear energy industry would really like nuclear energy to be considered amongst other technologies in the energy bills going through Congress – shocking, we know, but true enough – and... Posted Jan 11 2010, 03:01 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: NEI, opinion, editorial, technology, nuclear blogs, op-ed, bills

• Way Out West with Nuclear Energy

  Make no bones about it : "Let there be no doubt. Let there be no mistake. Let there be no mischaracterization: I'm a strong advocate for the development of more nuclear energy in Arizona," [Gov. Jan] Brewer told the conference of elected officials and business leaders at the Arizona Biltmore Resort and Spa. " Nuclear power is at the cornerstone of our clean-energy future." That's... Posted Jan 06 2010, 10:55 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: opinion, column, new plants, Nuclear, policy, arizona, governor, jan brewer

• The Lives at the Plants

  A little while ago, we noted a effort by a West Virginia artist to put force behind the work and lives of coal miners through photography, a very worthy project. Less directly aesthetic in nature but interesting in its own way is the I Am Vermont Yankee project, which aims to show nuclear workers in a similar light. This is the kind of thing that really brings home the fact that nuclear energy has... Posted Jan 05 2010, 02:10 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: workers, opinion, column, perspective, nuclear blog, labor

• Someone Else’s Top Ten

  We know it’s getting to be top ten time of the year (and decade), but we’ve never really enjoyed these summary wrap-ups. After all, time like the tide is rather fluid and what seemed most important in the short term of a year fades before much more time has passed. Even the top ten movies or albums seem vagrant, the results of a passing fancy. So, speaking for ourselves, we’ll probably bypass the mania... Posted Dec 23 2009, 11:56 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: NEI, opinion, column, perspective, nuclear blogs, ten

• Do ‘The Simpsons’ Distort People’s Perceptions of Nuclear Power?

  I’ve watched ‘The Simpsons’ cartoon since their inception and have never been fazed about their misleading depictions of nuclear power. Interestingly enough, others may have. Here’s what a philosophy professor says about the show : Dr. Bill Irwin, a philosophy professor at King's College in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., says Homer - the bumbling main character in The Simpsons who works at a nuclear power... Posted Dec 22 2009, 10:15 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: NEI, safety, opinion, Nuclear, tv, simpsons, public perception, publice relations

• Studies, Studies and Mo' Studies with Nuclear

  Actually, there are only just three recent studies/reports I'd like to bring to your attention. The first comes from Ted Rockwell (pdf) at Learning About Energy . Colleagues: Attached is a list of purported facts about the use of nuclear energy for generating electricity, and purported facts about the principal, post-fossil alternatives: wind, solar and biofuels. There are no conclusions or recommendations... Posted Dec 18 2009, 09:30 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: NEI, opinion, study, nuclear blogs, alternatives, fossil fuels, findings

• Linking Electricity To Human Life

  Paul Genoa, NEI’s Director of Policy Development, has posted to The National Journal’s Copenhagen Insider blog. This is the entire post, but do pay a visit over to The National Journal for all the latest at COP15. Here is Mr. Genoa’s post: Reducing poverty and human suffering in the least developed countries is the right thing to do from an ethical/moral perspective, and it is in everyone’s own strategic... Posted Dec 15 2009, 11:45 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: opinion, Nuclear, Climate Change, blog, copenhagen, cop15, denmark, global warming

• COP15: A Draft Proposal, A Walk-Out, Detainment

  On the fourth day of the COP15 conference, it entered what we might call its melodramatic phase, with various parties wanting to make points as strongly as possible. If you follow anything day-to-day – like, say, the health care bill – you know that up can become down very quickly and then back to up just as quickly. (Soap operas, speaking of melodrama, rest on this principle, but even they have a... Posted Dec 11 2009, 02:28 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: NEI, opinion, perspective, copenhagen, co2, cop15, denmark

• COP15: Leaks, AREVA and Tree People

  Our impression reading the daily news wrap-ups about COP15 is that everyone is holding their breaths over the arrival of the world leaders next week and that this first week has more the trappings of a, um, conventional convention – that is, trade show displays, break-out meetings on different topics, people dressed in Styrofoam tree costumes giving out flyers – that kind of thing. --- Probably the... Posted Dec 09 2009, 01:30 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: NEI, AREVA, opinion, perspective, nuclear blogs, leak, tree, cop15, Conference of the Parties