Apparently Russia did not get the memo. According to a 7 September 2006 article in the Russian News and Information Service, Rosenergoatom is planning to start building nine nuclear power units in 2007
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After spending a couple of days at the Reactor and Fuel Cycle Subcommittee of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future, I had a sense of deja vu that I could not shake. I kept telling myself that I had heard many of the ideas about used fuel management before. I did some looking…
I have been in several forums where Nuclear Regulatory Commission leaders have cautioned the nuclear industry about recruiting its employees. Their pitch is that such actions could cause a logjam where license applications and other regulatory actions will be slowed due to a lack of reviewing capacity. Apparently, regulatory capacity constraints are not limited to…
The Wall Street Journal has published several letter responses to Bob Metcalfe’s June 24, 2009 opinion piece titled The New Nuclear Revolution: Safe fission power is our future — if regulators allow it. You can find them under the title of It’s Time to Take Another Look at Nuclear Energy. I liked the first two…
There is excitement and optimism about using improved hydraulic fracturing technology to stimulate natural gas production from shale rock formations that have been known for many years to contain methane. Until horizontal drilling and fracking technology became more available, that energy resource was considered to be inaccessible. In 2008, the U. S. Energy Information Agency…
I just have to get this off of my chest. There is a meme that is going around – particularly in the conservative press and from the lips of wealthy people being interviewed – that there are a large portion of workers in America who do not pay taxes on their income. The example of…
The Nuclear Energy Institute, the American Nuclear Society and the North American Young Generation in Nuclear have been investing time and money into focused workforce development programs for several years. The people leading the effort are taking the action to ensure that there are educated and trained people who are ready to meet the challenge…