The Nuclear Energy Leadership Act (NELA) a bipartisan proposal that currently has 13 sponsors in the House and 17 in the Senate, aims to reinvigorate the U.S. nuclear industry through investment in research, development, fuel security, workforce development, and public education. On September 20th of this year, the Three Mile Island nuclear generating station closed… Read more »
Tag: Nuclear Power Plants
Nuclear Energy Takes Another Step in Clean Energy Discussions
In 2018 the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) made a proclamation heard around the world: nuclear energy is a source of clean energy alongside solar and wind renewables. As a collective organization made up of twenty-six different nations and sponsored by the European Union as a whole, their pronouncements on clean energy carry a global weight…. Read more »
Nuclear Energy Russia – Set Sail
Nuclear Energy in Russia Sets Sail A nuclear power plant is churning through the dark cold waters of the Arctic. Bound for Russia’s Far East port city of Pevek, the Akademik Lomonosov is the first of its kind anywhere on planet Earth. Commissioned by Rosatom, the Russian State Nuclear Energy Corporation in 2007 and strapped… Read more »
UK Nuclear Sees Business Leaders Rally
Business leaders rally around UK Nuclear. The tangled blight of nuclear energy and carbon emissions is not only an American inferno—the United Kingdom feels the flames as well, albeit with much less of the jejune political self-possession. Their citizens, their communities, and their ideologies seem much less blinded from scientific truth and common sense than… Read more »
Will the American Nuclear Industry Lose Footing?
The U.S. soil continues to be a sensational battleground for a rabidly politicized energy debate. Resting for decades on the laurels of being the planet’s leading nuclear authority, a new wave has cascaded from the shores of California to Rockport, Maine, embroiling the United States in murky questions over its nuclear future. Will the American… Read more »
Last Thoughts on Analog Obsolescence in the Nuclear Industry
Concluding our blog series on analog replacements in the nuclear industry, we come full circle with analog obsolescence. We know the players, the history, the finances, the politics, and above all else we know this—analog obsolescence is not going away. It has been growing like an unruly vine since the first digital panel meter emerged… Read more »
With an Eye Beyond Obsolescence
In February of 2013 executives at Duke Energy announced the closure of the Crystal River Nuclear Power Plant in Florida. This was due to engineering issues uncovered during the tendon detension process that resulted in large gaps within the concrete walls of the containment building. Originally commissioned in 1977, the powers that be decided that… Read more »