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I am still fascinated by the way that the World Wide Web opens up an entirely new way to understand the way the world works and thinks. Of course, my own view is limited by time and by the fact that I only speak English, but it is amazing that I can be rapidly made aware - through the use of scheduled...

At the risk of overloading you with new posts from Atomic Insights - three in one day is a bit much - I have to share one more story that kind of caught me by surprise. Apparently there is going to be a major announcement staged at Piketon, Ohio , the site of a former enrichment facility, on Thursday...

No matter what you might think about ExxonMobil's product, you should take a hard look at their business results and recognize that the company is very good at what it does. The people in charge there look far into the future and deep into the past. They know their product, they understand the market...

I love people who evaluate issues based on hard nosed facts and critical thinking. The Fulton Sun apparently hires writers who feel the same way. On Monday, January 26, 2009, Don Norfleet wrote an article for that publication titled Nuclear plant foes shift from environmentalists to consumer groups that...

As a former resident of the west coast of Florida, (and the father of a daughter who still lives there), I gave a silent cheer this week as I read the news that Progress Energy had signed a contract to build two new nuclear plants at a green field site in Levy County. Part of the reason for my enthusiasm...

Entergy and Dominion Resources have announced that they have been unable to reach an agreement with GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy on the details of building Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactors (ESBWR) as their next new nuclear power plants. Entergy had started the process of obtaining a Combined Construction...

China has announced the start of construction for 6 new nuclear reactors on a site in Yangjiang City, Guangdong province. Each plant will produce 1,000 MW of electrical power (1 GWe). The total cost for the 6 reactor project is expected to be $10.2 billion. The announcement, when added to others means...

I ran across a Reuters article that got me thinking. On December 4, 2008, Reuters reported that the World Bank had agreed to loan Eskom up to $5 Billion for a power capacity expansion program deemed crucial to the mining sector . On that same day, Eskom's board met and determined that it would no...

On Friday, December 5, 2008, Eskom, the giant South African utility, announced its decision to halt the bidding on a previously announced, 2 or 3 unit nuclear power station. The remaining bidders in the project were Toshiba's Westinghouse division with a proposal for a 3-unit AP-1000 based station...

On Tuesday September 9, 2008 Amarillo.com published an update on Amarillo Power's planned nuclear project in the Texas panhandle. For undisclosed reasons, the company - led by George Chapman - has notified the NRC that it will be filing its construction and operating license application in late 2009...

Switzerland has one of the cleanest electrical power systems in the world. It produces and consumes about 58 billion kilowatt-hours per year. Its five nuclear reactors (four power stations, one has two reactors) supply about 22 billion kilowatt-hours (38%), nearby French nuclear plants supply about 7...

In an interesting editorial in the Tri-City Herald (serving Kennewick, Pasco and Richland Washington) titled Slow resurrection of nuclear power the paper's editorial board bemoans the fact that there does not seem to be much progress visible in the Nuclear Renaissance. Of course, we all know that...

George Chapman at Amarillo Power continues to fascinate me, partially because he does not make much noise. Information about his project's progress only surfaces once in a while. I try to share it with you as soon as I have time to digest and verify my own understanding of the implications of what...

Marianne Lavelle writes Beyond the Barrel on the Money and Business section of the US News and World Report web site. She posted a blog on February 21, 2008 titled Nuclear Industry Eyes a Smaller Renaissance that reported on the NEI's recent brief of Wall Street investors . Her report included an...

The Houston Chronicle serves a reader base that includes a high percentage of people in the energy business. The city's prosperity has risen and fallen and risen again as the energy markets have fluctuated during the past 100 years. The primary focus of Houston's energy business has been oil...

According to a Saturday, January 19, 2008 article on the Belfast Telegraph web site titled Nuclear power plan for Ulster Robert Andrews, the founder of Andronics , a satellite communications and location tracking company, has stated his interest in building a new nuclear power plant in Northern Ireland...

According to an opinion piece titled The debate on Irish nuclear power should be fuelled by pragmatism the recent decision by the UK to include nuclear power in its future energy plans is causing an increased level of discussion about a domestic use of atomic power within Ireland. Another useful source...

There is no doubt that there will be some effort to fight against any new nuclear power plants here in the US. There are people nearing retirement age whose entire adult lives have been spent in the professional battle to slow the development of nuclear fission based power plants. There was an article...

Unistar Nuclear has plans to build the first of a series of nuclear power plants about 50 miles south of my home in Annapolis at a place called Calvert Cliffs. Right now, there are two 850 MWe PWR units originally supplied by Combustion Engineering operating at that site. Throughout its history, Calvert...

BillH over on freeinidaho.com posted a very interesting comment about recent interest by MidAmerican Nuclear Energy Co., a subsidiary of the Des Moines, Iowa-based MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co. in some land in Idaho. The holding company has electricity distribution companies in neighboring states and...