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Depleted uranium and a castle in the sky are in the news The Salt Lake City Tribune reported Oct 6 that Utah politicians are up to their usual tricks of thumping the stump about disposal of depleted uranium (DU) at the Energy Solutions site 80 miles west of town.  This is a great tactic for raising...

Energy advocates must talk to each other and to decision makers and not be cheese heads about baseload demand Over at the Energy Collective , Robin Carey , the CEO of the group  that backs it and other online social media forums, has some advice for the nuclear energy industry.  She writes...

Two nuclear fuel banks are needed – one in Russia’s sphere of influence and another in the West.  Is Saskatchewan it? When President Barak Obama made a proposal in Prague on April 5 to establish an international nuclear fuel bank in Kazakhstan, what he was talking about was putting non-commercial...

If the US turns them down, other countries will supply the reactors The United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) is getting ready to make its case with Congress to acquire nuclear reactor technologies according to a report by the Associated Press.  At the heart of the debate is whether a country that counts...

Ameren calls it quits in Missouri and a top federal energy regulator says baseload power is dead The U.S. nuclear industry had good reason to be spooked this  week even though Halloween is still on the other side of the equinox. Two unrelated events that represent significant setbacks for the nuclear...

From the UK and Scotland, where people are realizing nuclear energy must be part of the energy mix A forum for discussion of all things nuclear with a stunning button  that I hope you will share with others. Nuclear Power – Yes Please Access is free but registration is required.  Don’t forget...

by: Idaho Falls Post Register Readers of this blog are no strangers to the issues surrounding  loan guarantees for Areva's planned Eagle Rock uranium enrichment plant. The Idaho Falls Post Register ran a lead editorial on Sunday March 22, 2009, on the subject. Normally, the newspaper's editorials...

Dale Klein’s recent speech could use some help from Yogi Berra rather than Alan Greenspan In a speech March 10, 2009, to NRC employees Chairman Dale Klein  (left) diverged from a largely operational perspective to wax rhetorically about “excessive exuberance” in the nuclear industry.  This...

Building bypasses to blind spots one legislator at a time Anyone waiting for the federal government to come up with a  rational policy that quickly swaps out greenhouse gas producing coal-fired power plants for nuclear energy had better have a time machine handy.  The reasons are two fold. ...

Wind and solar are not reliable energy sources for base load demand It is becoming clear the Obama administration and the Democratic majority in Congress have a major blind spot when it comes to nuclear energy.  The almost casual defeat of $50 billion additional loan guarantees for nuclear energy...

Congress kicks loan guarantees to the curb Green groups scored a significant victory this week convincing a House-Senate Conference Committee not to include $50 billion in federal loan guarantees in the giant Economic Stimulus bill. The legislation, without support for nuclear energy, subsequently passed...

It is a 30 GWe increase over previous targets According to World Nuclear News and the Guardian in London,  China plans to spend $85 billion to increase the share of its energy mix to 5% nuclear in just 12 years.  China is reported have have plans to break ground for 16 new reactors in the next...

Former Missouri environmental lobbyist leads pro-nuclear group The St. Louis Post Dispatch reports that a pro-nuclear group has  begun operations in Missouri “to carry a statewide message that clean and renewable energy must power the state’s economic development engines.”  The group, to be...

They can sing but can they dance? President-elect Obama has picked a sterling team to head up the federal government's energy  and environmental agencies.  The group as a whole has outstanding credentials and all of them can sing from the same hymn book on the urgent need for change in...

The 24-hour cable news channel has the answers CNN Fact check : Does Obama think nuclear power is unsafe?  McCain has pushed for more nuclear power – and claimed Obama is completely opposed to it. The Statement : Sen. John McCain, speaking at a rally in Newport News, Virginia, on November...

Candidate comes out for nuclear power in Denver speech For some time Democratic presidential candidate Barak  Obama has stepped around the issue of nuclear energy so as not to offend the party's "green" base of votes and campaign donations. Thursday night in his acceptance speech in...

John McCain's visit to DTE Energy generates some heat and light Republican presidential candidate John McCain (right) toured the  Fermi II reactor in Michigan August 5th to promote his plan to build 45 new nuclear plants by 2030.  In doing so he forced Democratic presidential candidate...

We hold these truths to be self-evident . . . John Trumbell's painting "Declaration of Independence" was placed in the Capitol Rotunda in 1826.  The original Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776.  Here are the opening lines of text. When in the Course of human...

Right now the answer is "not hardly likely" In a campaign speech last week republican presidential candidate John McCain (left) said that if elected he would build 45 nuclear reactors by 2030 and up to 100 over a longer period of time.  For advocates of nuclear energy, that's really...

Nevada is the place to go if you want an anti-nuclear  crowd Republican presidential candidate John McCain made lots of news last week in an speech about energy policy in which he called for the construction of 45 new nuclear reactors by 2030.  Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama...