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• Senate approves India's nuclear deal

  The House voted for it earlier this week Congress approved a landmark deal ending the three-decade ban on U.S. nuclear trade with India. Reuters reports final approval came as the Senate voted to ratify the deal 86-13, sending the legislation to President Bush to sign into law. The Senate's move was taken just prior to an expected trip to India by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The House... Posted Oct 01 2008, 10:03 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: India, Nuclear energy

• Nuclear energy discussion group at WSJ

  I've created a nuclear energy discussion group at the new community pages of the Wall Street Journal. You must be a subscriber to the online edition and register with your real name. I hope to see you there. Blogging will continue here free to all as always. Wall Street Journal community page on nuclear energy Idaho Samizdat ~ http://djysrv.blogspot.com Read More... Posted Sep 16 2008, 09:18 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Nuclear energy, Wall Street Journal

• Idaho Samizdat on the Radio

  Rod Adams Atomic Podcast has an online discussion about small reactors Atomic Show #101 - Small nuclear power plants  round table with Dan Yurman, Charles Barton, Kirk Sorensen (MP3 - 26.2 MB - 02:15:53 M)  Click here to listen Rod writes in the introduction to the podcast . . . Show 101 is a bit longer than normal, but I think you will want to listen carefully to every word. I invited some... Posted Aug 03 2008, 11:36 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Nuclear energy

• Russian nuclear energy program seeks investors

  Kiriyenko needs money and brains to drive the nation's nuclear initiatives Reuters reports that in an extraordinary reversal Russia's nuclear energy internal new build and export program is now opening itself up to foreign investors.  Previously, the Kremlin had decreed that the effort, which was touted to be as large as $25 billion over the next two decades, would be self-financed by... Posted Jun 28 2008, 09:10 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Nuclear energy, Russia

• Fear of nuclear energy

  Stanford professor says we need to get over it. Hat tip to Mark Lazen at the Energy Collective Paul Kruger, professor emeritus (right) at Stanford, believes  that we need to get over our fear of nuclear energy. With nuclear energy, Paul says, we can relatively quickly move away from fossil fuel based transport to electric or hydrogen transport. In fact, Paul is a big proponent of hydrogen as is... Posted Jun 24 2008, 10:17 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Nuclear energy

• The piece about the future of the Partnership for Science & Technology is here . There were some problems on the server side of blog which scrambled the order of posts. If you have problems finding any posts just scroll down. They're all here. This piece was posted earlier this week, but was recovered thanks to Newsgator's FeedDemon RSS reader which retains everything not just feed links... Posted Jun 05 2008, 11:12 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Nuclear energy, Idaho Power

• Rethinking nuclear power ~ Class 6 is up

  It wraps up with a review of energy policies Bob Hargraves has wrapped up his online class on nuclear enegy with Class Six of his online course from Dartmouth titled Rethinking Nuclear Power . In this section he considers various energy policy issues and advises students how to look into the economic efficiency of various energy subsidies, assess the effective use of carbon taxes, and to understand... Posted May 10 2008, 05:53 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Nuclear energy

• Italy returns to nuclear energy

  A densely populated country needs a lot of electricity Enel SpA. plans to build a nuclear power plant in Italy to take advantage of an expected legislative shift that will put the nation back on a path to using nuclear power. Italy has banned the construction and operation of nuclear power plants within its borders in 1987. However, it isn't shy about buying electricity from France generated from... Posted Apr 25 2008, 05:18 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Nuclear energy, Italy

• New Jersey may think nuclear

  And then again maybe not if it sinks the relicensing of Oyster Creek The Star-Ledger reports New Jersey should develop new power generation that does not contribute to global warming, a step that should explore the prospect of building another nuclear power plant in New Jersey, according to a draft energy master plan released by the Corzine administration yesterday. Now Texas is currently the center... Posted Apr 17 2008, 03:03 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Nuclear energy, New Jersey Energy Plan

• Nuclear energy blog roundup

  An occasional survey of what other nuclear blogs are saying.  Every nuclear blog has a blog roll, which lists the blogs the publisher thinks would be interesting to readers. I'm starting a new occasional series to survey some highlights of my blog roll. Over at Atomic Insights Rod Adams has a continuing interest in nuclear energy in Texas especially Amarillo Power headed up by entrepreneur... Posted Mar 16 2008, 09:52 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Nuclear energy

• State legislators craft nuclear energy policy

  Efforts underway to embrace new nuclear power plants While California, the most energy intensive state in the country, continues its 30-year ban on new nuclear power plants, and New York engages in an economically self-destructive attack on the Indian Point nuclear plant, efforts in Midwestern three states to embrace nuclear energy have met with mixed results according to several AP wire service reports... Posted Mar 02 2008, 12:10 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Nuclear energy, Iow, University of Wisconsin, Kentucky

• Italy may lift ban on nuclear energy

  Expectations vary whether Italy have a change of heart? Right-wing leader Silvio Berlusconi, whose coalition is seen winning a general election in April, is pushing to reintroduce nuclear power in Italy, according to a report in the daily La Repubblica . Italy banned the use of nuclear power after a referendum held in 1987. The country seems headed for a change of heart on the issue, but caution is... Posted Mar 01 2008, 06:43 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Nuclear energy, Italy, Enel SpA

• Energy advice for the next President

  Former USGS Director says nuclear is the way to go The former head of the U.S. Geological Survey ( USGS ) has written an opinion essay in the Houston Chronicle with advice on energy policy for the next president. Publishing his views in the heart of the Texas oil industry, Charles Groat writes, "The next president of the United States can strike an early blow for sound energy policy by actively... Posted Feb 24 2008, 09:58 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Nuclear energy, Charles Groat

• Eskom's cash woes may slow nuclear build

  The company can't raise the cash fast enough -- The government is reluctant to help out Engineering News of South Africa reports that the country's electric dreams of an end to rolling blackouts may take more time to come true. The reason is a lack of cold, hard cash. Eskom, which supplies 95% of the country's electricity, and almost all of it from coal, is trying to figure out where the... Posted Feb 22 2008, 05:31 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Nuclear energy, Eskom

• India gets deadline on U.S. nuclear deal

  Three senators tell PM Singh to sign by July or kiss it goodbye Three U.S. Senators, none of whom is running for President, sent a message to India this week it must sign a nuclear deal by July. Sen Joseph Biden (D-DE), Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), and Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NB), who were in New Dehli, told Prime Minister Singh the deal is running out of time because of the tight legislative agenda for 2008... Posted Feb 22 2008, 08:19 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: India, Nuclear energy, 123 agreement