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• More Political Than Scientific

  We’re not going to say the cat’s out of the bag or anything like that, be we were surprised to read this in the Wall Street Journal, with the paper’s Robert Thompson listening to Energy Secretary Steven Chu: Well, it's fair to say that the whole history of Yucca Mountain was more political than scientific. But also very truthfully I can say that given what we know today, the repository looks less... Posted Mar 08 2010, 02:31 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Yucca, Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, politics, science, yucca mountain

• 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

• Why Not Yucca Mountain?

  That question reverberated through a couple of hearings about the  Department of Energy’s 2011 budget request and, up to now, has not received a very adequate answer. Energy Secretary Steven Chu has took a stab at it this week. At the House Science and Natural Resources committee yesterday and at the Senate Appropriate Committee’s Energy and Water subcommittee today, Chu faced some pretty insistent... Posted Mar 04 2010, 05:07 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Steven Chu, waste, politics, Nuclear, power, secretary of energy, yucca mountain

• The Pope on COP15

  In his role as Sovereign of Vatican City, the Pope gives a speech to ambassadors each year to indicate the positions the state holds on various topics. In this year’s speech, Pope Benedict made it clear he was unhappy with the result of COP15: Speaking in French, he said he shared "the growing concern caused by economic and political resistance to combating the degradation of the environment."... Posted Jan 12 2010, 04:47 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Economics, politics, cop15, pope, vatican, pope benedict

• 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

• 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 Cornucopia of Nuclear Notes

  One of the themes – or is that memes – we’ve been following here is the growing support for nuclear energy among Congressional Democrats. We might be expected to consider nuclear energy a post-partisan issue – that is, one where Republicans and Democrats more-or-less agree on its value generally if not always in detail – but this reality is beginning to penetrate the wider media world. Consider this... Posted Dec 01 2009, 03:51 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Politics and Nuclear Power, NEI, politics, Nuclear, republicans, democrats, congress, partisan

• Stories Like Inchworms

  If you’ve been following the health care or climate change debates, you know that your local newspaper will run a story each day whether or not anything significant happened that day because of the intense interest in the subjects. Some stories can roll on for a good long time before anything resembling resolution occurs – instead, the stories inch along, one detail at a time. For example: We wrote... Posted Nov 20 2009, 04:21 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: NEI, politics, Climate Change, nuclear blogs, bias, coverage, tv

• The Governors and Energy: Chris Christie

  As opposed to Bob McDonnell above, governor-elect Chris Christie of New Jersey tilts rather away from the national Republican party on energy issues. Might not mean anything: It may just be that he has a genuine desire to move New Jersey to solar energy and will clear away hurdles to make it happen. Why the push for solar? Well, the Garden State has an image problem, though one not not actually confirmed... Posted Nov 04 2009, 02:58 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Politics and Nuclear Power, Economics, Solar, politics, Nuclear, energygy

• 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

• A Party in the Spider’s Web

  If this article about the Czech Republic’s energy profile is correct, the number one goal of the country is to disentangle itself from Russia, with which it was of course deeply entangled for some fifty years. The number two goal, though, is to keep a fishy eye on President Vaclav Klaus, who appears to be quite friendly with the Russians (we can’t pretend to understand the ideological warp that exists... Posted Oct 23 2009, 01:45 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Russia, politics, agenda, energygy profile, independence, czech republic

• A Bipartisan Push on Nuclear Energy

  Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) co-wrote an op-ed for the New York Times demonstrating that distinguished gentlemen from opposite ends of the ideological spectrum can agree on a few things. Like what, for example? Second, while we invest in renewable energy sources like wind and solar, we must also take advantage of nuclear power, our single largest contributor of emissions-free... Posted Oct 14 2009, 03:58 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: opinion, Renewable Energy, editorial, politics, kerry, policy, energygy, graham

• Solar Power in Germany

  We mentioned in an earlier post that we didn’t think Germany was a notably good locale for solar power. This snap judgment came due to our visits to Germany, where the sun was, at best, a fickle friend. But let Germany’s Economics and Technology Ministry tell you. Maybe we were wrong : The solar industry is a new industrial sector in Germany which has seen enormous growth over the last number of years... Posted Oct 14 2009, 09:58 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Germany, Solar, opinion, politics, power, pv, photovoltaic, technology ministry

• Staffing Up the NRC

  As you may know, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has five commissioners. Currently, the count is three: Gregory Jaczko, who chairs, Kristine Svenicki and Dale Klein, the former chairman. Nils Diaz left in 2006 and Peter Lyons earlier this year. Terms run for five years, which keeps electoral politics from interfering overly, though of course, commissioners can and have left before their terms end... Posted Oct 13 2009, 02:36 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: NRC, politics, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Nils Diaz, gregory jaczko, jaczko, staffing, Dale Klein, Kristine Svenicki