HOW MUCH IS TOO MUCH FOR NUCLEAR ENERGY?
Progress Energy’s recent decision to proceed with the Levy project – two AP1000 reactors on a single site – has set off a debate in the pages of the Tampa Tribune. The utility has already lost a bid to...
View ArticleTURNING JAPANESE? Tokyo Electric to buy 9.2% of South Texas nuclear project
One of the most common criticisms of the Nuclear Renaissance these days is that “we can’t afford it.” “Wall Street won’t invest,” the argument goes. “It’s too risky and expensive. That’s why it needs...
View ArticleTHE RUSSIANS ARE COMING
There’s a worldwide gold rush in the global nuclear energy technology market going on right now and if American "policymakers" don’t know it, the Russians do. Sergei Kiriyenko,CEO of Rosatom, the...
View ArticleHARRIS POLL FINDS PUBLIC SPLIT ON NUCLEAR ENERGY
A Harris Poll finds the public is split about evenly on nuclear energy in the United States , Britain , and France . Majorities in Spain and Italy are opposed, though, and the hotbed of opposition is...
View ArticleNRC ADVISORY COMMITTEE SAYS WESTINGHOUSE AP1000 CAN RESIST AIR ATTACK
Nuclear Townhall January 21, 2011 The Advisory Committee on Reactor Safety confirmed yesterday what the Department of Energy thought it had proved in the 1990s – that the containment structure of the...
View ArticleSAVANNAH MOX FACILITY: HELP WANTED FOR QUALIFIED WORKERS
February 17, 2011 Nuclear Townhall Still showing the affects of a 30-year plateau, the American nuclear industry is coping with the hurdle of producing enough qualified employees to work at the Mixed...
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