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As we close out 2010, we believe that the significant events are the ones still to come. Over on Idaho Samizdat, Dan Yurman has already provided his 2011 outlook. We want to hear what you think or would like to see as the big news in 2011. Please post your thoughts and comments on the [...] ...read more

From Dan Yurman’s blog, he asks some good questions about Copenhagen, climate change issues, and nuclear power: “If you want to pursue a strategy of decarbonization, and you don’t want to sacrifice economic development goals, then the nations of the world have only one form of electricity...

Nice to see a description from Idaho Samizdat’s Dan Yurman of the blogger event last week. Here’s a snippet: While the mainstream news media panel was dissecting their coverage of the nuclear energy industry, a group of 45 people met Tuesday Nov 17 to discuss how social media is making an impact...

As we’ve mentioned before, the American Nuclear Society’s Winter Meeting is going to be held right here in Washington, DC, just a stone’s throw away from AREVA North America’s offices in Bethesda, Maryland. We’re pleased to join Cool Hand Nuke in hosting an informal dialogue...

The news out of the United Kingdom on Monday was that they’re going to be giving the go-ahead to start the process of building 10 new nuclear power plants in England and Wales.  According to the BBC, most of the new plants will be built on sites where there are already nuclear power plants in ...

Dan Yurman of Idaho Samizdat is putting together an informal social event on Tuesday, November 17th for nuclear energy bloggers attending the winter meeting of the American Nuclear Society. This winter’s meeting is right in our backyard (AREVA’s North America headquarters is in Bethesda,...

We missed this last week because of the excitement of the Ohio announcement, but we wanted to make sure we highlighted a panel discussion of nuclear bloggers at the American Nuclear Society meeting in Atlanta that happened last week. Several of our colleagues in the nuclear energy blogging community...

While we’re glad the newspapers are sitting up and taking notice of nuclear power’s place in our 21st-century energy mix, we’ve also seen a lot of attention on the new Piketon project from the nuclear energy blogging and news community. We’re proud to present a round-up of some...

Dan Yurman of Idaho Samizdat did a write-up about our most recent conference call with a group of nuclear energy bloggers. Thanks for the shout-out! In the just over two months since we started this blog, we’ve received a warm welcome from the nuclear energy blogging community. We’re really...

We’ve seen some questions floating around recently – most notably by Idaho Samizdat – about AREVA Enrichment Services’ recent submission for a revision of its license application to the Nuclear Regulation Commission for the possibility to increase facility capacity. As noted yesterday, AES has requested...

We’ve seen some questions floating around recently – most notably by Idaho Samizdat – about AREVA Enrichment Services’ recent submission for a revision of its license application to the Nuclear Regulation Commission for the possibility to increase facility capacity.  As noted yesterday, AES has requested...

Dan Yurman at Idaho Samizdat reprints an excellent editorial from Sunday’s Idaho Falls Post Register. The long and short of it is that it’s silly to pit one company against another when we’re talking about loan guarantees for future enrichment plants in the US… we need as many...

Following our launch yesterday, we were quite pleased to see welcome messages from several of our colleagues at other nuclear blogs… From Steve Aplin at Canadian Energy Issues: No sooner do I get off a post about the challenges the “nuclear industry” faces when it comes to strategic communication...