April, 2012

As seen in the Charlotte Business Journal this week, AREVA Inc. CEO Mike Rencheck described the company’s vision and activities in the North American energy market. Areva stakes out place in range of nuclear solutions by Mike Rencheck As the chief executive of Areva Inc., I have the privilege to lead...

The Washington Post Editorial Board asks a great question today: CAN THE WORLD fight global warming without nuclear power? The article then notes that, “One major industrialized country — Germany — is determined to find out, and another — Japan — is debating whether to try. Both illustrate how...

  It’s a simple idea: More power, less carbon emissions. For example: One AREVA solar thermal booster attached to a coal-fired power plant will reduce emissions by 36,000 tons of carbon every year. A single, modern AREVA EPR nuclear power facility will generate massive amounts of electricity 24...

AREVA commended the Harper Government for its plan presented this week to reform oversight of proposed natural resource projects that would improve project economics and spur new investments in Canada. The federal government plan would streamline review of proposed projects, and has received broad support...

We want to highlight a new and excellent online nuclear energy resource: The Nuclear Literacy Project. As they describe on their site, it’s “a new website and outreach initiative geared towards reaching young, non-technical audiences with information about nuclear energy.” Energy education...

We enjoy reading Steve Skutnik’s blog, Neutron Economy, and thought the post there today on culture, perception and discussion around nuclear energy issues was especially insightful. Have you considered this line of thinking before? Steve makes the observation that we are all culturally bound in...

We value our AREVA North America social network followers everywhere we are – our Facebook fans, our new Google Plus followers and our LinkedIn community. But we wanted to make a special note of crossing a milestone with our Twitter community. We just exceeded 4,500 Twitter followers this week...

About five days ago, the Maryland House of Delegates passed a key bill supporting and incentivizing the creation of approximately 40 large wind turbines off the coast of Ocean City, Maryland. The House bill passed by 88 to 47. Now this bill is in the Maryland Senate Finance Committee. At AREVA we are...