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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...

Bad News: “Global emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil-fuel burning jumped by the largest amount on record last year, upending the notion that the brief decline during the recession might persist through the recovery….Emissions rose 5.9 percent in 2010, according to an analysis released...

There’s a new name championing the cause for climate change solutions, aptly named: The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions. At first glance, such a promissory name could easily be dismissed as audacious brand marketing, but the “C2ES” (as they call themselves) is the fresh face and successor of...

Author, professor and blogger Barry Brook runs the numbers on “Germany’s Grand Energy Experiment” on his blog today. After a detailed look at the math, he concludes: Germany will have to initiative a range of aggressive measures, focused on energy efficiency, smart metering, car taxation...

Another great article, this time written by author and environmental activist Mark Lynas. He describes the current discussion over nuclear power choices in the UK and offers his view: Atomic energy, while far from perfect, is an essential option to combat two looming problems: climate change, caused...

Watch Jacques Besnainou (video) speak at a recent Climate One event in California. It makes for an interesting discussion on nuclear energy. ...read more

For a realistic vision and opinion on climate change legislation, check out the post today on the Atlantic by David Roberts. 
 He describes how “cap-and-trade’s defeat owes less to policy—the particular balance of penalties and incentives in the legislation—than to the simple fact that climate hawks...

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...

Progressive Think-Tank Thinking Positively about New Nuclear Energy The Third Way, an organization that describes itself as the “leading think tank of the moderate wing of the progressive movement,” recently released a brief on the role of small, modular nuclear reactors.  While AREVA’s portfolio of...

We noticed in the latest Rolling Stone interview, President Obama made this statement on his priorities for next year: “One of my top priorities next year is to have an energy policy that begins to address all facets of our overreliance on fossil fuels. We may end up having to do it in chunks,...

By Jarret Adams The United Kingdom plans to build a fleet of new nuclear power plants to replace their aging reactors and meet the nation’s climate change goals, William Hague, U.K. Foreign Minister said Monday in New York. “We have decided in Britain to build a new generation of nuclear power stations...

“Future Demand” The U.S. will need 25% more electricity by 2030, how? Americans plan to reduce automobile emission with electric cars, but what will power them? President of the Nuclear Energy Institute, Marv Fertel, Theodore Roosevelt IV, Pew Center for Global Climate Change, and others raise these...

“Considering New Nuclear” House Minority Leader Steny H. Hoyer, Stewart Brand, AREVA nuclear engineer Ben Grambeau, and Christine Todd Whitman are part of the discussion on new nuclear reactors construction for the U.S. and what it means to be a leader in nuclear innovation and construction again. ...

We would like to highlight the “Energy on Trial” project. This is a documentary that “tackles a subject as dear and essential to us as the air we breathe and the nourishment we require. Without energy, we are doomed. But the way much of it is produced is terminally damaging to our environment, and to...

From The Hill.com, we are now starting to hear of a possible summer timeframe for the Energy-Climate Bill to reach the floor of Congress: “Authors of an energy and climate bill are hoping to bring it to the Senate floor in June or July, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Tuesday. Lieberman, the...

It is often said that “as California goes, so goes the nation.” Yet many Californians have some preconceptions about how to meet our nation’s energy demand while dramatically cutting emissions, we may be headed to a stalemate in the battle against climate change. In fact, a significant number of residents...

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Yesterday, New Yorker senior editor and staff writer, Hendrik Hertzberg held a live chat with Elizabeth Kolbert to follow-up with his piece “Some Nukes,” definitely worth a read. However, the Live Chat was an incredible open-forum, no-holds bar discussion about nuclear energy that included questions...

We would like to spotlight a post from the blog “Into the Breach” about recent presentation by Jacques Besanainou, CEO of AREVA North America. The blog’s author Kendall Miller writes: “Reviving the nuclear power industry is key to true energy security. When France faced the problem of energy security...

This speech has been getting noticed ever since literally the moment it occurred, being tweeted and covered by various press…but the TED folks just put the video up. Here is a key quote (with bolding being from us): “So let’s look at this fourth factor — this is going to...

By Jarret Adams Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) told a packed audience Feb. 23 at conference held by The New Republic that he was working with a group of leading senators and the Obama administration on renewed push for a climate bill. “We’re on a short track here in terms of piecing together...

CNN has posted online two juxtaposed opinion pieces that argue nuclear energy issues. In the first op-ed, “Nuclear Power’s Time has come,” CNN interviews author and environmentalist, Stuart Brand, on his support of nuclear energy. Looking for a surefire way to cut greenhouse gases, Brand said the...

There are two items to highlight from the Washington Post today. First, here is this quote from an op ed piece we like a lot: “The merits of nuclear power have been debated for years. Such power has drawbacks, not least the waste that reactors produce and that the government cannot decide where...

By Mike McMahon My name is Mike McMahon, and I am an American living in the south of France on an expatriate assignment at AREVA’s MELOX mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel fabrication facility in the Rhône family. My family and I moved from Bethesda, Maryland to France in July 2008 to begin a multi-year assignment...

Think you know a lot about clean energy? Challenge yourself and try for the top score on AREVA’s Clean Energy Quiz. ...read more