]> http://www.greenedia.com/latest Nuclear Energy Sector - Latest Blog Articles at http://www.greenedia.com en http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/189218?rsstype=latest&cid=37 Thanks Rod Adams! It's good to see the national director of the Sierra Club exhibiting rank hypocrisy by pushing the same natural-gas that killed six workers and destroyed a $1B facility only four weeks ago. The same national director of the Sierra... Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:11:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/189218?rsstype=latest&cid=37 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/189219?rsstype=latest&cid=37 Dr. Robert Hargraves has some substantial improvements on the Thorium Energy Security Act of 2010 and I encourage everyone to read his suggested changes to the bill:(3) the growth of nuclear power in the United States and many foreign countries has f... Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:54:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/189219?rsstype=latest&cid=37 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/the-green-skeptic/189658?rsstype=latest&cid=37 When Duke Energy and ENN Group announced their partnership to accelerate development of low-carbon and clean energy technologies at the Clinton Global Initiative last September, Duke CEO Jim Rogers explained that We must move at 'China speed' to com... Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:29:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/the-green-skeptic/189658?rsstype=latest&cid=37 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/189107?rsstype=latest&cid=37 On Friday, March 5, 2010, NPR's Science Friday with Ira Flatow focused on new nuclear technologies. The guest list included, John (Grizz) Deal, CEO of Hyperion Power Generation, Scott Burnell, public affairs officer of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commi... Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:55:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/189107?rsstype=latest&cid=37 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/189540?rsstype=latest&cid=37 Despite some recent U.S. press reports to the contrary, China is not sitting still when it comes to addressing climate change. A number of high-level statements and reports released in China over the last week have sent this message loud and clear.To... Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:21:37 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/189540?rsstype=latest&cid=37 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/189305?rsstype=latest&cid=37 Nuclear Power Pants, a band from Baltimore, MD, has a uniquely awful video up on YouTube that might best be described as GWAR meets Ed Wood. (That's one heckuva high bar for this high camp.) Enjoy.Can the nuclear energy industry sue for defamation of... Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:37:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/189305?rsstype=latest&cid=37 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/189306?rsstype=latest&cid=37 Further to David's post below, we thought we'd feature our old friends at FOE, that is, Friends of the Earth, using that discredited several year old default figure to gin up fear over loan guarantees. Frankly, the idea - to link them to bank bailout... Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:23:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/189306?rsstype=latest&cid=37 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/189545?rsstype=latest&cid=37 NRDC has been working in China for over twelve years on such issues as energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy technologies, environmental governance and public participation, and green supply chain issues. This China Environmental News Aler... Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:38:03 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/189545?rsstype=latest&cid=37 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/189108?rsstype=latest&cid=37 On September 23, 2009, John Felmy, the chief economist of the American Petroleum Institute (API) spoke at the Pennsylvania College of Technology in Williamsport, PA about the vast opportunities that the API sees for developing the shale gas that is b... Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:38:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/189108?rsstype=latest&cid=37 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/r-squared-energy-blog/189440?rsstype=latest&cid=37 I usually scan the energy headlines each morning, but had somehow missed the stories on the recently introduced bills to electrify the U.S. Postal Service fleet:U.S. Postal Service to test a repurposed electric vehicle fleetRep. Gerald E. Connolly (D... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:55:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/r-squared-energy-blog/189440?rsstype=latest&cid=37 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/189222?rsstype=latest&cid=37 111TH CONGRESS, 2D SESSIONTo amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to provide for thorium fuel cycle nuclear power generation.IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATESMr. HATCH (for himself and Mr. REID) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:04:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/189222?rsstype=latest&cid=37 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/189307?rsstype=latest&cid=37 That question reverberated through a couple of hearings about the Department of Energy's 2011 budget request and, up to now, has not received a very adequate answer. Energy Secretary Steven Chu has took a stab at it this week. At the House Science... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:07:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/189307?rsstype=latest&cid=37 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/189308?rsstype=latest&cid=37 The Congressional Budget Office's Director, Douglas Elmendorf, provided some important insight into how loan guarantees are assessed in the US government's budget. For those who have been following the 50 percent default rate argument that nuclear cr... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:50:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/189308?rsstype=latest&cid=37 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/189223?rsstype=latest&cid=37 This is all I know right now--still trying to find out more:Hatch, Reid Introduce New Thorium Nuclear Fuel Bill to Promote Energy IndependenceThe language in the press release definitely makes it sound like the bill is focused on solid-fueled reactor... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:11:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/189223?rsstype=latest&cid=37 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/189109?rsstype=latest&cid=37 Please help me welcome NuclearFissionary.com into the growing world of pro-nuclear bloggers. This new site is a polished team effort with an eye-pleasing layout. It includes several articles on economics, history, policy and technology right out of t... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:50:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/189109?rsstype=latest&cid=37 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/189110?rsstype=latest&cid=37 Decision makers in the regulated part of the business of producing electricity have short memories when it comes to the behavior of natural gas prices, but long memories when it comes to the potential for nuclear power plant construction costs to get... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:52:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/189110?rsstype=latest&cid=37 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/189224?rsstype=latest&cid=37 An essay that I began for my nuclear engineering class last semester and plan to update with graphics:Thorium and the Liquid-Fluoride Reactor: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle... Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:47:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/189224?rsstype=latest&cid=37 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/189225?rsstype=latest&cid=37 Fourth generation' nuclear power a buzz phrase with little behind it Fourth-generation nuclear power is another buzzword that has little success behind it. The idea is that these new reactors will close the loop for fuel and waste; that is, repro... Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:46:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/189225?rsstype=latest&cid=37 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/189262?rsstype=latest&cid=37 President Barack Obama's 2011 budget calls for an array of regulations, subsidies and taxes aimed at cutting emissions of greenhouse gases, even as a sweeping climate bill sits on ice in the Senate.Mr. Obama's budget calls for $39 billion in tax incr... Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:24:28 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/189262?rsstype=latest&cid=37 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/189111?rsstype=latest&cid=37 PowerGenWorldWide.com has published a fascinating interview with Chris Mowry, President and CEO, Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) Modular Nuclear Energy titled The mPowerTM Modular Reactor. The conversation goes into significant detail about B&W's design decis... 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