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We would like to a highlight a thoughtful new blog to join the energy discussion. UniStar Nuclear Energy has recently launched a blog that hits on topics like their activities, accomplishments and the nuclear energy industry. We should note that UniStar, a joint venture of Constellation and EDF, has...

On Tuesday, Jacques Besnainou, CEO of AREVA North America, was a contributor on the Marketplace radio program, “French fight for Nuclear in California.” Text of story is available below: California has had a staunch resistance to nuclear power since 1976, but that hasn’t stopped French company...

Starting today, the AREVA North America Next Energy Blog will host a week of posts exploring the topic of recycling used nuclear fuel. To kick off our “Recycling Week” we have two great videos about AREVA’s recycling activities.  The first clip is from the Discovery Channel Program, “The Green Room...

AREVA, which launched its new global website this month, will host its first Video Chat, live February 24 at 9:30 am (EST) on areva.com. The topic of discussion: “Is nuclear power a sustainable energy source?” Betrand Barré, the Scientific Advisor for AREVA and Professor Emeritus at the French National...

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

Welcome to the upgraded new AREVA North America blog, Next Energy. In addition to the upgrade of the look and feel of the site, to match the new overall graphical revamp of our main site, we have a few new features to point out: Firstly we have upgraded the whole site to Wordpress 2.9, which offers...

A Quick Survey of What’s in the Works for AREVA’s Advanced Reactor Technologies Today as part of an on-going dialogue with bloggers and other parties also very interested in nuclear, the AREVA North America Blog had a very informative chat with Finis Southworth, chief technology officer of AREVA’s U...

If you aren’t familiar with the new feature of Twitter lists, see this good explanation of them here…. For our Twitter community we are expermienting with a few lists, including AREVA People on Twitter, and Nuclear Bloggers as our first lists. You can see the beginning of those lists: http...

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...

Thanks again to our Facebook uses who have joined our official Facebook Page. FB.init("73104e68577f800cdb911f792d1ba99e"); AREVA Inc. on Facebook If you are a Facebook user, we’d welcome you becoming a Fan and joining the community there… ...read more

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 want from time to time to focus on some of our different social network outreach efforts… Today we’d thank our Facebook users who have become fans of our Facebook fan page… FB.init("73104e68577f800cdb911f792d1ba99e"); AREVA Inc. on Facebook If you are a Facebook user,...

We’d like to give a warm welcome to some newcomers to the neighborhood!  Adding to a blogosphere already diverse in background and discussion, they bring opinions on the subject that shake up the conversation on nuclear energy. It’s really great to see the dialogue on nuclear energy growing.  There’s...

As a complement to our blogging efforts, we want to highlight our new AREVA North America presence on several major social networks… These sites include Linked-In, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube – and are part of the rapidly growing online communities of people sharing interests and information...

We’ve collected some of the highlights from last Friday’s first “Jacques Talk” conference call with AREVA North America President Jacques Besnainou. The conversation was wide-ranging and open, and we’re really glad Jacques had the opportunity to talk directly with the nuclear...

We do appreciate the review of our recent blogger conference call. From Dan Yurman: “Areva North American President Jacques Besnainou is like a starship captain. This past week he went where no reactor vendor CEO has gone before by opening up, unfiltered by corporate PR, to a group of nuclear energy...

Similar to before, when we commented about Dan’s Post, we’d also want to highlight and thank Steve for his comments at Canadian Energy Issues Blog, and Rod over at Atomic Insights. We’re truly glad and lucky to have such good company in our efforts at being a constructive part of the...

AREVA has launched a new U.S. Web site focused on its products and services in the United States that reinforces the company’s leadership position in providing CO2-free energy technology. AREVA North America President Jacques Besnainou said, “This new Web site offers something for everyone, from bloggers...

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...

Click here for a special message from Jacques Besnainou, President of AREVA, Inc. ...read more

by Jacques Besnainou, President of AREVA Inc. It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to AREVA’s blog for North America. We hope this blog will offer a forum on energy issues and our activities in North America. We also hope to foster discussions about energy issues and foster discussions about combating...