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• 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

• 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

• A Failed Experiment of the Past?

  The Los Angeles Times ran an editorial on nuclear energy this past weekend. It’s pretty weak tea. Senate Republicans and many moderate Democrats are seeking to lard up prospective climate and energy bills with billions of dollars in loan guarantees and other subsidies for nuclear power, even though it makes no sense as a solution to climate change and is a terrible option from an economic, environmental... Posted Dec 03 2009, 02:01 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Politics and Nuclear Power, opinion, politics, column, perspective

• A Discussion at The Energy Collective blog on Policies to Promote Nuclear Energy in the US

  Jesse Jenkins over at The Energy Collective asks : "How can policy help overcome hurdles to nuclear power in the United States?" ... As a policy wonk ... my job is to find policy levers to accelerate the transformation of the U.S. and global energy system to a low-carbon, prosperous energy system. So here’s what I want to do, and I need your help, dear reader, to do it: please lend your expertise... Posted Dec 01 2009, 11:40 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: NEI, discussion, perspective, policy, nuclear blogs, energy collective

• The Story Told by Failed Amendments

  As we’re sure you know from Schoolhouse Rock, when a bill goes through committee, members can propose amendments to enhance this aspect or that of the given legislation. In the House, amendments are sent to the Rules Committee and accepted or rejected there, not in committee or on the floor. The Senate does it in committee and again in the full chamber, where it can become a bit of a free-for-all.... Posted Jul 15 2009, 03:35 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: opinion, legislation, editorial, perspective

• From Germany to Maryland – with Love

  We can’t help but think that Die Welt, the German magazine, has an ulterior motive for looking at Maryland’s Calvert Cliffs plant. If they do – like knocking over Germany’s ban on new construction – they don’t reveal it. But we wonder . Members of the Maryland Chamber’s board visited the existing 1,735-megawatt nuclear power plant, which first went online in 1975, and which is recognized internationally... Posted Jun 19 2009, 03:33 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: opinion, editorial, perspective

• Questions Worth Asking?

  Triplepundit asks the following question: At some point you just have to ask yourself, what is it that these politicians are getting to push nuclear energy so hard? Answer: knowledge. It’s a powerful thing. You can read the rest of the post yourself, but we didn’t find it all that noteworthy. The opening question was just too easy. --- While Congress is contemplating a new energy policy, American women... Posted Jun 18 2009, 06:03 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: opinion, editorial, perspective

• The Last Time I Saw – Concrete

  Not much thought about by energy types, but exceptionally important in the construction of a nuclear power plant, concrete would seem an unchangeable item. After all, it’s been in use since Roman times. But that, as MIT demonstrates, is remarkably unimaginative thinking – the creation of cement, a component of concrete, accounts for 5 to 10 percent of the carbon emissions in the world (though that... Posted Jun 18 2009, 03:02 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: opinion, editorial, perspective

• Sarkozy: Nuclear is dead (?!)

  We tip our hats to the savvy marketing peeps at Greenpeace for generating lots of internet buzz this morning about their spoofed edition of the International Herald Tribune . From the AFP , Greenpeace supporters handed out mock copies of the International Herald Tribune in several countries Thursday to press world leaders to agree on ambitious efforts to tackle climate change. The eight-page mock-up... Posted Jun 18 2009, 11:40 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: opinion, editorial, perspective

• In the Nuclear Sphere: Good News All Around

  Lots of strikingly good news in the nuclear sphere today: Let’s take them one at a time. The Department of Energy has introduced a scholarship program : U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced nearly $9 million in awards to support the next generation of American nuclear energy development.  Under the Nuclear Energy Universities Program, the Department of Energy will provide $2.9 million... Posted Jun 16 2009, 05:36 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: opinion, editorial, perspective

• Nuclear By Name, Nuclear in Fact

  We haven’t been the happiest persons on our increasingly watery planet with the Waxman-Markey energy bill, but neither have we been the unhappiest. After all, the bill set ambitious targets on greenhouse gas emission reduction and nuclear energy is a sure, even the surest, way to meet those targets. But nuclear energy was a – little – perhaps a bit – unacknowledged in this obvious role. Steve Kirsh... Posted Jun 16 2009, 02:55 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: opinion, editorial, perspective

• Is Nuclear the Green Solution?

  Not our question – because we know the answer – but that of the The National Journal, which has set up a forum for invited parties to grapple with the question. When we checked, some of the pro-nuclear sources had weighed in - Paul Sullivan, Professor of Economics, National Defense University Elizabeth Moler, Executive Vice President for Government & Environmental Affairs & Public Policy, Exelon... Posted Jun 15 2009, 03:59 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: opinion, editorial, perspective

• Friday Follow-Ups

  On Babcock and Wilcox’s announcement of new, smaller nuclear reactors: Our friends at the Heritage Foundation like what they see : One of the most interesting things about B&W’s entrance into the reactor market is that unlike most other designers, they have the industrial infrastructure to start building these things right now. And what’s more, this is a company that builds reactors today, multiple... Posted Jun 12 2009, 03:17 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: opinion, editorial, perspective