NEI Nuclear Notes: A Critique of Craig Severance's New Nuclear Cost Paper
When presenting cost results, it is necessary to show to the year in which dollars are spent. In Mr. Severance’s presentation, the levelized “low” cost for nuclear comes in at 25 cents/kWh (slide 26, pdf). Yet, the year the paper’s dollars are in...

The Uncertain Business of Building New Nuclear | BNET Energy Blog | BNET
A new study on Climate Progress has some surprising conclusions for nuclear power. Final costs for generating power at new plants, the study says, will be 25 to 30 cents per kilowatt-hour, which is some three times the cost of today’s energy. [...]...

The Nuclear Option | Mother Jones
The rest of the case for nukes relies on the unattractive alternatives. Coal is filthy. Natural gas isn't exactly clean, and its price is volatile. Solar and wind are intermittent. [...] But you can't disregard capital costs--they're out...

YouTube - Harvey Wasserman on Nuclear vs Green energy
Harvey Wasserman Talks to Amy Goodman about the Omnibus Energy bill with Loan Guarantees for the Nuclear industry.

Breaking: Toshiba tells San Antonio its new twin $13 billion nukes will cost $4 billion more! The city balks. This looks like a job for clean energy. « Climate Progress
Even before the latest jump price jump, the city was planning “a 9.5 percent base rate increase to cover the nuclear expansion and the utility’s other capital projects.” Such preemptive rate increases years before the plant would even deliver a...

Spread of Nuclear Capability Is Feared - washingtonpost.com
At least half a dozen countries have also said in the past four years that they are specifically planning to conduct enrichment or reprocessing of nuclear fuel, a prospect that could dramatically expand the global supply of plutonium and enriched...

Dr. Arjun Makhijani September 16 interview on Vimeo
Interview with Dr. Arjun Makhijani at the San Antonio Clean tech forumon the risks associated with the planned expansion of STP 3 & 4 and the alternatives that should be considered.

YouTube - Paul Gunter
Presentation at the "Environmental Justice and Nuclear Power" Roundtable, Howard University School of Law

How to build a nuclear power plant without captive ratepayers
Michael GibersonJonathon Fahey, at Forbes.com, explains “How NRG Energy Wants to Revive Nuclear Industry.”In the early part of the decade proponents talked breathlessly of a nuclear renaissance in the U.S. Natural gas prices were high, electricity...

Nuclear isn't necessary : article : Nature Reports Climate Change
The notion that nuclear power is necessary to address climate change does not reflect a close examination of the realities of the marketplace or rapid new developments in solar energy, wind energy and energy storage technologies. Indeed, current cost...

Few See Nuclear Power as the Answer to Global Warming - NYTimes.com
“We’re still in a situation where pretty much everybody wants to be second,” said Roger W. Gale, a former Energy Department official and now a consultant to utilities, of the first view. In 20 years, he said, someone will have gone first, and the...

Nuclear Power: Should the U.S. Emulate France? - Environmental Capital - WSJ
The two also went back and forth over some of the other questions vexing nuclear power’s comeback, especially costs. Dr. Makhijani reiterated that “if nuclear power were attractive, Wall Street would be lining up to finance it.” Dr. Moore countered...

It’s the Economics, Stupid: Nuclear Power’s Bogeyman - Environmental Capital - WSJ
Nuclear power’s ability to provide electricity at a competitive price compared to regular sources like coal and natural gas depends largely on those construction costs. Fuel costs for nuclear power are miniscule. The only way to handicap the field in...

Hyperion Power Generation Will Finally Reveal a Design for their Uranium Hydride Reactor on Wednesday Nnovember 18, 2009
At the highly anticipated Annual Winter Conference of the American Nuclear Society on November 18, Hyperion Power Generation Inc. will present the "launch" design for the Hyperion Power Module (HPM) to be deployed into the global market. Details will...

New Wave of Nuclear Plants Faces High Costs - WSJ.com
A new generation of nuclear power plants is on the drawing boards in the U.S., but the projected cost is causing some sticker shock: $5 billion to $12 billion a plant, double to quadruple earlier rough estimates.Nuclear power is regaining favor as an...

Studying Nuclear Astrophysics at NIF (Physics Today) | sciencestage.com
sciencestage.com Studying Nuclear Astrophysics at NIF (Physics Today) http://bit.ly/5eRsEN

Rochester Utility Sells Nuclear Power Station - The New York Times
Constellation is counting on increasing the power output of the plant by about 17 percent. Crucial components of the plant replaced in the 1990's were sized to allow more heat production in the reactor and more electricity production from the...

Firm Applies To Expand Nuclear Plant In Maryland - washingtonpost.com
Constellation Energy Group of Baltimore has filed a partial application with the NRC, asking the commission to review environmental plans for a 1,600-megawatt reactor at the Calvert Cliffs site in Lusby, Md., that could cost $4 billion.The filing...

Iran Announces Plans For 10 Industrial Scale Uranium Enrichment Facilities And A Gift Of $20 Million For Terrorist Groups Fighting The West
Iran is becoming bolder and more aggressive by the day as the U.S. government continues to show absolutely no willingness to do anything about either their nuclear program or their sponsorship of terrorism.  In a dramatic escalation, Iran has of

Cost Overruns at Finland Reactor Hold Lessons - NYTimes.com
While the American nuclear industry has predicted clear sailing after its first plants are built, the problems in Europe suggest these obstacles may be hard to avoid. A new fleet of reactors would be standardized down to “the carpeting and...

The Future of Nuclear Power
An interdisciplinary MIT faculty group decided to study the future of nuclear power because of a belief that this technology is an important option for the United States and the world to meet future energy needs without emitting carbon dioxide and other...

Nuclear costs pressure industry - thestar.com
It was reported last week that Progress Energy, a utility in Raleigh, N.C., expects to pay more than $9.3 billion (U.S.) for two nuclear reactors, more than double the previous $4.4 billion estimate disclosed as recently as February. Over in Finland,...

Stewart Brand’s nuclear enthusiasm falls short on facts and logic | Grist
The world in 2008 invested more in renewable power than in fossil-fueled power. Why? Because renewables are cheaper, faster, vaster, equally or more carbon-free, and more attractive to investors. Worldwide, distributed renewables in 2008 added 40 billion...

Theory that Civilization is a Heat Engine
A University of Utah scientist (Tim Garrett, an associate professor of atmospheric sciences) argues that rising carbon dioxide emissions - the major cause of global warming - cannot be stabilized unless the world's economy collapses or society builds...

Is Nuclear Power Viable? - TIME
To Amory Lovins — a veteran energy expert and chairman of the Rocky Mountain Institute — there's a much better green reason to be against nuclear power: economics. Lovins, an environmentalist who is unusually comfortable with numbers, argues in...

Radiation Leaked in Kaiga Nuclear Power Plant Karnataka
Kaiga is a Atomic power station situated at Kaiga in Uttar Kannada district in Karnataka, India. Recently, The radiation leakage in the plant in southern India is an "act of sabotage", a Top Official India's Atomic Energy Commission chief...

The Nuclear Green Revolution: A non-Idiots Guide to Arguments Against Nuclear Energy: Jacobson
Jacobson attributes both the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and probable future nuclear exchanges, to the "proliferation of nuclear energy facilities". We must ask why is this valid. It is certainly not because there is a demonstrated...

The Nuclear Green Revolution: A Review of Mark Z. Jacobson's Review
Unfortunately Professor Jacobson as committed so many errors in his review of issues associated with nuclear power, that the value of his entire assessment must be questioned. This study is simply a crock. For example the study assumed CO2 emissions...

Kaiga Nuclear Power Radiation Leak , Kaiga Nuclear Power Project | Recent News
Kaiga Radiation Leak | 55 Workers exposed to Radiation at Kaiga Nuclear Power Plant | Kaiga NPC Radiation Leak | Kaiga Nuclear Power Plant Tritium Leakage | Kaiga Nuclear Power Corporation | Kaiga Nuclear Power PlantThe radiation leakage in the...

A sampling of nuclear safety problems - USATODAY.com
Since the 1979 Three Mile Island accident, there have been 18 "significant precursors," or equipment failures, at U.S. nuclear plants that sharply raise the chance of a reactor core meltdown, says the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. There have...

Professor David MacKay: Britain ‘must go nuclear’ to control climate - Times Online
THE government’s chief scientific adviser on climate change has proposed a quadrupling of Britain’s nuclear power generation to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. Professor David MacKay believes nuclear power could be the only way Britain can meet its...

5 Most Colossal Nuclear Explosions Ever Captured On Camera
If ever there was a picture of beauty belying a deeper cruelty, if ever there was an image of our power to cause untold harm – the giant, rising mass of the mushroom cloud is it. Here we present the biggest ever nuclear explosions to tear across on the...

1958 Tybee Island B-47 crash - Wikipedia
On February 5, 1958 the US Air Force lost a 3,5 t hydrogen bomb in the waters off Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia. It was never found.