]> http://www.greenedia.com/tags/nuclear-energy Blog Articles Tagged with 'nuclear-energy' at http://www.greenedia.com en http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/150072?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy You don't get a very good result: Power suppliers are turning back the clock to use coal-fired plants as their main source of electricity in a bid to avert potential shortages this winter. Latest figures from the National Grid show that the f... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/150072?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:04:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/150001?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy My interview with journalist and author of Terrestrial Energy, William Tucker, is now up on NEI's YouTube Channel. Part one can be seen here. Part two, here.Favorite Q&A?Q. Have you ever convinced any friends to become supporters of nuclear energy?A.... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/150001?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:09:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/149783?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor is considered a chemists reactor. As such its operations will probably be evaluated by the so-called 12 principles of green chemistry. The Wikipedia describes the 12 principles of green chemistry. According to t... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/149783?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:54:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/149369?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy There's been a veritable flood of good press on nuclear energy coming out of Wisconsin. The goal, of course, is to get the state's ban on new plants overturned. Now, a few good editorials don't make a Spring or even bring the swallows back to Capist... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/149369?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:21:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/148916?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy We are in the middle of an energy paradigm shift about. Old assumptions are no longer true and even the outlines of the new world is not clear to most people. They were however, clear to a few far sighted people long ago. Both M. King Hubbard and ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/148916?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:13:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/148922?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy That's according to Black & Veatch's latest annual survey to electric utilities (pdf). Here are the highlights:Continuing the survey trend from past years, utility personnel believe strongly that nuclear energy is the best investment to meet environm... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/148922?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:50:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/148463?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy Wisconsin has been rethinking its ban on new nuclear energy plants for awhile now: Wisconsin's 24-year-old moratorium on nuclear power plant construction is wrong. The foundation for removing the moratorium has already been laid. Earlier this... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/148463?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:46:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/r-squared-energy-blog/148210?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy Listening When We DisagreeBarack Obama has said that energy is going to be one of his top priorities. I believe he is completely sincere about this and that energy will get a lot of attention early on in his administration. I believe he is committed ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/r-squared-energy-blog/148210?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy Sun, 09 Nov 2008 09:05:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/147959?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy One of the dangers of snooping around the internet for interesting stories is that we have to hope the reporting is accurate. That's tough, because journalistic standards differ between countries and the press elsewhere often has a different role in... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/147959?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:42:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-stock-blog/147749?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy Let me start by repeating what I said in an article in the journal Energy and Environment (2004): We do not know if global warming is the real deal, or just part of a cycle, but we have discovered that gas and oil can become extremely expensive in a ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-stock-blog/147749?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:08:05 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/147544?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy The Department of Energy is funding the University of Idaho with $732K to prove the feasibility of using highly magnetic nanoparticles to reprocess used nuclear fuel.If successful, scientists at the University of Idaho will kill three birds with one ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/147544?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:45:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/147437?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy Margaret Kriz at National Journal's energy blog asked this question to several energy industry leaders:How Will New Leadership Impact Policy?Executives from the wind, petroleum, and gas industries, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club and o... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/147437?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:20:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/147355?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy What does the election mean for climate change and energy policy?There's been a bit of chatter in recent weeks about whether an Obama victory would truly be as transformative as many progressives hope and expect. Some have quietly suggested that noth... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/147355?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:50:29 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/147054?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy Last week, the senior Senator from New York, Chuck Schumer, stopped by the Charlie Rose show and surveyed the Senate landscape under an Obama administration. A transcription follows, but mere text on a page does disservice to the actual exchange - oc... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/147054?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:02:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/147045?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy NEI Nuclear Notes pointed me to Angela Saihi, their most recent blogger for nuclear energy. The NEI post did not prepare me to find a professionally produced show titled People and Power with part one of an episode about how the greens went nuclear. ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/147045?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:43:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/146908?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy About every summer, nuclear energy opponents like to dust off their talking points by rehashing the claims that nuclear plants can't survive in the summer. This is due to the fact that droughts can possibly affect a plant's ability to cool themselves... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/146908?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:00:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/146909?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy Meet Angela Saini from the UK.Hat tip to Jim Muckerheide!... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/146909?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:05:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/146555?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy Nuclear power is a dead-end in California, and we shouldn't be wasting resources on such an expensive and problematic energy option, said Bill Magavern, director of Sierra Club California. We have far cleaner, cheaper and safer energy resource... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/146555?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:23:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/146467?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy Meet Neurovore:Although I am not pursuing nuclear physics as a formal field of research, I have always been an avid hobbyist of nuclear technology as well as other topics of scientific study. After following the blogs of several prominent nuclear adv... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/146467?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:30:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/146281?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy Dan Yurman at Idaho Samizdat has a post up that appeals to my vanity in which he introduces another blogger for nuclear energy. Dan's post sucked me right into to going to that new blog to have a look at what it is saying and where the author is comi... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/146281?rsstype=tag&tag=nuclear-energy Sun, 02 Nov 2008 05:45:00 -0500