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U.K. newspaper the Guardian, recently asked its online readers to put together their toughest questions on energy to be answered by nine of the world’s leading energy scientists. The paper posted the ten best questions and the scientists’ responses. The underlying context in every question is about energy...

A recent report from the National Center for Policy Analysis examines the growing demand for U.S. energy needs and the requirements that this energy comes from a renewable or carbon-free source.  The National Center for Policy Analysis finds in its report that “to meet this growing demand nuclear energy...

by Laura Clise Going into the last day of the conference in Copenhagen, AREVA Vice President of Sustainable Development and Chair of the International Chamber of Commerce Environment and Energy Committee Laurent Corbier chatted with Kai Ryssdal of the Marketplace program produced by American Public...

We’ve said it before, but we’ll let someone else say it this time, “with 10 percent unemployment and a government determined to stimulate economic growth and put people back to work, what better use for our stimulus programs than building a series of nuclear facilities around the country?” This astute...

by Mary Douglas Reprinted from AREVA Energy Business, Issue 8 Other Carbon-Free Energies Nuclear is only one option, albeit a key one, among AREVA’s range of carbon-free energy choices. The group is developing synergistic solutions including a range of renewable energies that make sense in a balanced...

by Mary Douglas Reprinted from AREVA Energy Business, Issue 8 Climate change is a reality and some of its impacts may already be irreversible. The Catlin Arctic Survey team has found out that most of the ice in the region is first-year ice that will melt next summer. Within a decade, the North Pole...

Germany’s Der Spiegel has a chart on their website that we think best illustrates the key role nuclear energy has to play in any climate change plan. Not only is nuclear energy baseload and reliable, but it’s also much, much less expensive: Using AREVA’s own EPR as a baseline for the...

As the important climate change dialogue continues in Copenhagen and throughout the world, the Washington Post has launched Post Carbon, a blog providing up-to-the-minute information about the climate change crisis and what we’re doing to combat it. This week, unsurprisingly, they’re in Copenhagen...

A number of voices online have been watching the Copenhagen conference and are bringing up the role of nuclear. We’ve rounded up a few to highlight, let us know as you see more by adding comments here, and we’ll highlight those as well. Michael Avari looks at the Copenhagen convention and...

Here’s a online form to send your greetings to the Copenhagen-15 Climate Change event. Messages sent through here will be projected onto the walls of the conference. We encourage our friends in the nuclear blogger community to send good wishes to those participating at Copenhagen and perhaps include...

Starting today (Dec. 7-18), senior representatives from over 192 nations, thousands of NGO’s, hundreds of scientists, and thousands of activists are gathering for the historic 15th annual Conference of the Parties for its Framework Convention on Climate Change, or as it’s known in short,...

Mark Flanagan of NEI is highlighting a CFR interview with Duke Energy’s CEO, James E. Rogers, in which he talks about the future of the energy industry – and the importance of nuclear energy not only for our CO2-free energy future, but also for our economy: But the difference in the jobs...

by Jarret Adams As the U.S. Congress gears up to address climate legislation, it’s hard to know what the best proposal is to address the daunting issue of climate change. There seem to be about as many proposals as there are organizations with a stake in energy and climate issues. But, here in one word...

Jason Ribeiro has a great post up over at Pro-Nuclear Democrats highlighting a CNN-Money poll showing that fully 76% of those polled believe that nuclear power is a “safe, clean alternative right now” for our nation’s energy needs.     Now, being a web poll it’s unscientific...

John Wheeler of This Week in Nuclear, in his an excellent post up on The Energy Collective, pointed us to a recent study from the Nature Conservancy on the “Land Use Intensity” of nuclear energy versus other forms of energy.  The study, “Energy Sprawl or Energy Efficiency,” looks...

by Katherine Berezowskyj Today in the Washington Post, the focus was on the role of nuclear energy in the climate bill. “The elements of a nuclear package under discussion include investment tax credits, a doubling or more of the existing $18.5 billion in federal loan guarantees for new plants, giving...

by Katherine Berezowskyj 350─it’s the number that has been estimated by scientists as the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide in our atmosphere (measured in parts per million, or ppm). Until 200 years ago, the CO2 in our atmosphere measured at 275 parts per million, and now our carbon-emitting technologies...

Yesterday at his town hall in New Orleans, the President was asked about climate change, and he responded by reiterating his commitment to push for climate change legislation as soon as the health care debate is over. One of his main points was that we need to increase our domestic energy production...

We’ve added our blog to the over 5,600+ others that are taking part in Blog Action Day on Climate Change. This is a distributed effort where bloggers worldwide commit to writing about the climate change issue on October 15th. This outreach should touch at least ten million readers around the planet...

Democratic Senator John Kerry and Republican Senator Lindsey Graham co-wrote a very important Op-Ed in the New York Times this weekend. You should definitely read the whole thing but some key snippets: …We refuse to accept the argument that the United States cannot lead the world in addressing...

by Jarret Adams After the unveiling of the proposed Boxer-Kerry climate legislation last week, it was politics as usual in Washington, with each side criticizing what it saw as deficiencies in the other side’s position. While the bill includes some excellent measures for helping to combat climate change...

by Katherine Berezowskyj In his speech to the United Nations, Chinese president Hu Jintao discussed the goals that China has for reducing its CO2 emissions. Proclaiming that China “will further integrate our actions on climate change into our economic and social development tasks,” including actions...

by Jarret Adams Antinuclear activists lately have been trotting out that old chestnut that nuclear energy is not really CO2-free and that this claim is some type of deception. Here’s the short version: nuclear power plants do not produce CO2 while they are producing electricity. For each new AREVA EPR...

by Katherine Berezowskyj Jeffery Sachs, renowned economist and Columbia University professor, recently published an article in Scientific American about the need for a clear U.S. energy strategy as the crucial and highly debated climate legislation comes into the picture. Sachs’ piece outlines what he...

Beginning this week, as part of our mission to expand CO2-free energy in the United States, AREVA has launched a six-week campaign that highlights our American job creation and contribution to clean-air energy generation in the U.S. The ad points out that we have 6,000 employees currently working throughout...