June, 2011

We noted with interest this recent poll on the U.S. attitudes on nuclear power: A June survey of private and public sector public policy elites in energy policy shows that the Fukushima nuclear accident has had little effect on the level of support for nuclear power in the United Sates. The survey, conducted...

Iberdrola Renewables and AREVA have signed a preliminary agreement to develop offshore wind projects in France following the government’s announcement of a plan to reach a 6 GW target by 2020. The partners will compete for two of the country’s five offshore zones offered in a first phase of bidding....

By Katherine Berezowskyj Safety, Transparency, and Improvement…right now, it is reasonable that some do not associate these words with nuclear energy. Following a devastating natural disaster and subsequent nuclear event, there is plenty of attention on the safety of nuclear energy. Americans are questioning...

The context has changed, but tensions in the marketplace may remain between fuel cycle supply and demand. For utilities, that means that securing fuel supply is more than ever a daunting challenge. This goal is reachable with AREVA’s unique investments in a diversified supply chain of uranium and fuel...

Shaw AREVA MOX Services, LLC, today announced that it has surpassed 4 million consecutive work hours without a lost-time accident during the construction of the Mixed Oxide (MOX) Fuel Fabrication Facility at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C. The safety milestone was achieved on June 23. More than...

by Katherine Berezowskyj The results of a new national survey are out today. While some figures may have dipped, the overall feeling remains the same –more than 80 percent of residents near nuclear power plants favor the use of nuclear energy. The study conducted just a few weeks ago surveyed nearly...

On a wide ranging and excellent interview, the environmental site Treehugger interviews NASA’s James Hansen, who is the head of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies. The interview covers a variety of energy and climate science-related questions. But then they ask this: TreeHugger: Has the Fukushima...

Fukushima has highlighted the need to improve preparedness for extraordinary events at nuclear power plants, but nuclear energy will still see growth in some key markets, according to a recent report published by Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. “The accident...

By Jarret Adams Amid the many benefits that America’s 104 nuclear power plants provide, increased energy security is rarely mentioned. It is perhaps obscured by the fact that nuclear energy is by far the nation’s largest source of low-carbon electricity. People often talk about the reliability of U.S...

Marrying zero-carbon solar energy and low-emission gas will be critical to meeting our growing energy demands in a sustainable and economical way. Today, this application got a shot in the arm with the green lighting of the world’s largest solar-gas hybrid plant. As part of its Solar Flagships Program...

As we have blogged about a number of times before, the choice to shut down or phase out nuclear power has in practice one outcome: more fossil fuel-based energy, with its result in a deep cost to the environment, and oftentimes to the economy. A new study by Carnegie Mellon University and the National...

Yesterday on All Things Considered, Richard Harris covered the progress that is being made at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. As the main effort to keep the damaged reactors cool, workers have been continuously pumping water into the plants. While this has been a positive effort to mitigate the current...

In an exclusive interview with the French economic daily, Les Echos, AREVA CEO Anne Lauvergeon shares her outlook following the Fukushima disaster on the nuclear energy industry. Lauvergeon discusses the effects on the industry, attention on increased safety and security, political outlook, and how AREVA...

By Steven Cuevas, Director of Business Development – Offshore Wind AREVA Renewables Inc. It’s more than just jobs – though thousands of manufacturing jobs per installed gigawatt is a powerful incentive. And it’s more than powering hundreds of thousands of American homes with a carbon-free renewable resource...

The United States continues to face many energy challenges. The country has a growing demand for electricity coupled with a need to reduce carbon emissions as well as its dependency on imported energy sources. We must also ensure the availability of supplies and contribute to economic growth by providing...

Meredith Angwin of Yes Vermont Yankee wrote a great piece on the anniversary of her trip to France to tour AREVA’s nuclear facilities in La Hague. ...read more

Dr. Finis Southworth, CTO of AREVA Inc., is featured in SmartPlanet’s post on America’s Nuclear Future. The article covers many key topics about the future of US nuclear power; here are some excerpts: SmartPlanet begins by discussing with Southworth the relatively close future, already informed...

Worth highlighting: Leaders of some of the world’s top electricity companies met this past week and released a New York Summit Statement on energy and the ongoing need for nuclear power: Today the 13 Chairmen of the Global Sustainable Electricity Partnership met to discuss the need for clean energy...

Interest is growing on for the development of recycling in the United States, AREVA Inc. CEO Jacques Besnainou told a roomful of reporters yesterday at a breakfast sponsored by the Energy Daily in Washington, D.C. Besnainou said that talks with U.S. utilities have “accelerated” during the past few months...

By Laura Clise, Director of Sustainable Development and Continuous Improvement, AREVA To take the pulse of the Future of Nuclear Energy following the nuclear crisis in Fukushima, the Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Center for Transatlantic Relations and the Atlantic...

By Katherine Berezowskyj Following the events in Japan, many have begun to reexamine their support for nuclear energy. A logical reaction to the images and press coverage of the Fukushima Daiichi plant is to question—how safe is nuclear energy? Moving forward, we must use the same sense of logic and...

A number of voices have joined the chorus describing the same issue we’d blogged about this week: that Germany’s draw down on nuclear power illustrates how the “theory” that less nuclear could be offset by renewables does not meet with actual reality. Most recently from the Washington...

On Monday, May 30, Germany became the first major industrial power to announce its intention of phasing out nuclear power by 2022 in the aftermath of the Fukushima power plant accident in Japan. This is seen by many as a political decision, and the situation may change by 2022, when the last German power...