Coal power plant developers scouting Wiscasset (site of the former Maine Yankee nuclear plant)

One of the mantras that some people in the nuclear industry have repeated to themselves so often that it has become a fundamental part of their belief system is that “the media” bears a lot of responsibility for the 30 year hiatus in building new nuclear power plants. That could be the subject for many…

Part 1 of 2 – CBS News correspondent Lesley Stahl and the 60 minutes crew provide a look inside Saudi Aramco, the world’s most profitable company and its largest oil supplier – by far. It is incumbent on any good nuclear proponent to understand as much as possible about the overall market in which our…

An article titled Alstom opens largest rotor balancing facility in Tennessee appealed to both my inner manufacturing geek and my patriotism. It described, in glowing terms, a tour of a factory that recently opened on the Tennessee river in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The facility includes an impressive rotor balancing tunnel that allows the manufacturer to spin…

Peter Behr has written a thoughtful piece about the somewhat confusing – to outsiders – legislative battle royale over climate change/energy legislation that is working its way through the US Senate after squeaking through the US House of Representatives. You can find the report on the New York Times web site in the Energy and…

One of you – my loyal and fascinating readers – sent in the following question – So what is the burnup limit, and do operators currently burn fuel all the way to the limit? The question follows along with the previous post about the quantity of waste produced by pebble bed reactors and the subsequent…

As I perused the net for new material to talk about with you, I found a stark contrast of the type that makes for good article fodder. This week, the US State Department published an article by James Lake, associate laboratory director for nuclear programs at the Idaho National Laboratory, titled The Renaissance of Nuclear…