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Dangerous Precedent or Slippery Slope?
By Howard ShafferThe governor of Vermont last year established the “Energy Generating Siting Policy Commission” after citizens protested a proposed wind farm (meanwhile, the legislature proposed a wind farm moratorium bill). The main purpose...
The Bigger Picture: Nuclear Energy vs. Fossil Fuels
By Jim HopfAs I discussed last fall, a federal appeals court ordered the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to perform more thorough evaluations in support of its new Waste Confidence Rule, particularly with respect to the potential impacts of long-term...
San Onofre Nuclear Energy Station Shutting Down
Edison International, parent company of Southern California Edison, made an announcement that it had decided to permanently retire the two-unit San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in California. Later, it held a teleconference to expand upon the...
Nuclear Energy: What Does Kewaunee's Future Hold?
Shortly after 11 AM on Tuesday, May 8, 2013, the operators at Dominion Resources’ Kewaunee Power Station opened the plant’s output breaker, disconnecting the turbine generator from the grid for the last time after just under 40 years of operation....
Outrage Management: Calming Nuclear Energy Fears [VIDEO]
Dr. Peter Sandman is a communication specialist who has built a career teaching people in high value, complex industries ways to do a better job of telling their story to customers, stakeholders and the public. One of his key contributions to the...
Expanding Efforts to Attract Young Nuclear Energy Professionals
Groups such as the ANS Young Members Group and the North American Young Generation in Nuclear, which empower a new generation of nuclear students and professionals, were recently joined by a small new sister organization, the WMS Next...
New EPA Guidelines for Response to Radioactivity Releases
By Jim HopfThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency just released a draft Protective Action Guideline (PAG) that sets standards and makes recommendations for the response to a large release of radioactive material into the environment (e.g., from a...
Nuclear Energy Future: SMRs and Hook-Ons
by Will DavisThis week’s announcement by Babcock & Wilcox that it had signed the long awaited funding agreement with the Department of Energy has been taken by advocates of Small Modular Reactors (SMR’s) as just the latest good news on the...
Marriage and Nuclear Waste Management
What marriage can teach us about the nuclear waste problemBy Suzanne BakerI am married to an engineer. My husband, Ted, is amazingly brilliant and always has big new projects happening, both at work and at home. At work he is figuring out how to...
Update on Small Modular Reactor Development
By Jim HopfThe US Department of Energy has a $452 million program to share development and licensing costs for selected small modular reactor (SMR) designs. The DOE’s goal is to have an operating SMR by ~2022. Last November, the DOE awarded the...
Touring Nuclear Energy's Birthplace
Don Miley, Tour Guide at Idaho National Laboratory, takes viewers on a trip to the Experimental Breeder Reactor I (EBR-I). In 1951, the first electricity from nuclear power was generated at EBR-I – using a reactor which actually bred more fuel...
Fukushima Two Years Later
by Will DavisAt about a quarter to three in the afternoon on March 11, 2011, a gigantic and unprecedented earthquake struck just over 110 miles off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture in Japan. The quake was followed, just over 40 minutes later, by...
