"Cancelling the Yucca Mountain repository will throw the entire nuclear waste management program into doubt"

15 Jun, 2009 09:33 pm Following the Obama administration's decision to end the planning for Yucca Mountain, Nev., as the final repository for high-level radioactive material...

The Nuclear Comeback

14 Mar, 2009 06:03 pm The natural gas crisis caused by the cutoff of supplies from Russia earlier in the year crystallized for many nations the threat of being overly dependent...

The security consequences of the nuclear renaissance

11 Nov, 2008 11:03 am On 30 October 2008, the Royal Society, the British academy of science, announced the launch of a major new study looking at whether planetary scale geoengineering...

How Much Will New Nuclear Power Plants Cost?

2 Nov, 2008 03:03 pm The costs of building new American nuclear reactors may be much higher than quoted by the industry.

A military attack on Iran would be a serious blunder

28 Oct, 2008 04:04 pm The coming American Presidential election has again focussed attention on Iran?s nuclear activities. Will the new President order the bombing of Iran?...

My Top 10 Energy Stories of 2007

3 Jan, 2008 11:53 am On his blog, R-Squared Energy Blog, Robert Rapier shares his top 10 energy stories of 2007.

What's Really Wrong With Nuclear Power?

30 Nov, 2007 01:30 pm In terms of its achievable potential, financial and social cost, and even carbon dioxide emissions, nuclear power is not an optimal solution.

Nuclear 'Green', Renewables Not?

31 Jul, 2007 04:27 pm I'm not sure what to make of this: Renewable does not mean green. That is the claim of Jesse Ausubel of the Rockefeller University in New York....

?The Moment Has Passed to Compare the Merits of Wind or Nuclear Technology?

28 Jun, 2007 04:27 pm With an increase of 80 million inhabitants per year, the planet needs all the energy possible: nuclear, wind, solar, hydraulic?The fight ?...