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Lawmaker: Trip to France dissuaded him on uranium mining
Feb 7 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Bill Sizemore The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va. - A Hampton Roads lawmaker was the leading recipient of gifts and free trips from private interests last year among the 140 members of the Virginia General Assembly. More...
San Onofre nuclear power plant incidents draw attention
Feb 6 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Esmeralda Bermudez Los Angeles Times - The San Onofre nuclear power plant came under renewed scrutiny last week after a small radiation leak and the discovery of extensive tube damage. More...
Domenici Defends Nuclear Waste Crisis Study
Feb 3 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Michael Coleman Albuquerque Journal, N.M. - A landmark study of America's nuclear waste crisis received widespread praise upon its release last week, but on Thursday a pair of Republicans on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee had harsh words for the study. More...
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Nuke worker falls into reactor pool
SAN ONOFRE, Calif., Feb 3, 2012 -- UPI - A worker at a Southern California nuclear power plant fell into a reactor pool but did not suffer significant radiation exposure, plant officials said. More...
Sand sets meeting on his proposal to build nuclear plant in Red River Valley
Feb 1 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Grand Forks Herald, N.D. - North Dakota Republican U.S. Senate candidate Duane Sand will hold two press conferences and a town hall meeting this month to discuss his energy plan and proposal to build a nuclear power plant in the Red River Valley. More...
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Disruption – Where Art Thou? Notes from Distributech

Blogger Photo By Martin Rosenberg - There is all the glitter – the gleaming transmission widgets, the towering consultants’ tents. Tons of wall-to-wall eye candy for more...

POST FUKUSHIMA DISASTER; THE FATE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY

Blogger Photo By Shehu Khaleel - Why the heated attack between the pro-nuclear and pro-renewable energy experts intensifies after the Fukushima incidence? The two groups had more...

2012 U.S. Energy Sector Outlook Shows U.S. Energy Execs Believes Independence Achievable in 15 Years

By Matt Klein - U.S.ENERGY EXECUTIVES BELIEVE ENERGY INDEPENDENCE IS ACHIEVABLE WITHIN 15 YEARS – OVERWHELMING MAJORITY SUPPORT FRACKING 70% of Energy Executives Believe more...

Does Your (Sub) Contractor Selection Process Withstand Scrutiny?

Blogger Photo By Peter Hessler - A recent article in ENR, “Contracting – Sub Prequalification is Tougher but Needed More”, got me to thinking about the more...

A bit mystified about this article

By Mark Wooldridge - DOE official looking at expanding research of small nuclear reactors - Research will be moving forward this year toward development more...
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Is it Time for California to Phase Out Nuclear Power?

By Tam Hunt
Italy recently became the fourth nation to pledge to phase out nuclear power since Japan's Fukushima disaster. Italy accomplished this feat by a popular referendum, soon after Germany did the same in its legislature (Bundestag). more...
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Nuclear-Based Electricity and Economic Theory

By Ferdinand E. Banks
The purpose of this article is to extend the short paper I presented as part of an energy 'debate' at the recent 'Singapore Energy Week'. What I attempted to do in that talk was to more...
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Chancellor's 'Atomausstig': Implications of Nuclear Abandonment for German (and European) Economy. Will Renewables Help Out In It?

By Karol Mazur
Three weeks ago on Friday night in Hamburg, while having a pint of German beer in world-famous St. Pauli district, I met a friend, Michael, an engineer working for one of Germany's leading onshore windmills more...
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Will France Also Play the Nuclear Fool?

By Ferdinand E. Banks
Many years ago, although it seems like centuries, I was sitting in a small bar-disco in a town near Stuttgart Germany, talking to an Ivy League type from the same brigade in the U.S. Army more...
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Germany and the Nuclear Future

By Ferdinand E. Banks
While Germany might temporarily abandon nuclear facilities located in Germany, they will never abandon electricity generated in nuclear reactors -- at least as long as German voters prefer a higher to a lower standard of more...
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