GE Chief Slams U.S. on Energy

General Electric Chief Executive Officer Jeff Immelt warned that the lack of a comprehensive U.S. energy policy and the "stupid" current structure of the industry are causing America to fall behind in new energy fields...
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Meeting Unlikely to Break Disarmament Impasse, Diplomats Say

A meeting set for Friday of Cabinet-level delegates from U.N. member nations has little chance breaking a stalemate at the international Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Switzerland, diplomats told Reuters yesterday...
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Scientist, Wife Busted in Nuclear Spy Sting

U.S. authorities on Friday detained two married former nuclear weapons laboratory employees accused of providing classified bomb data to an FBI operative posing as a Venezuelan spy, the New York Times reported...
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Obama Pushes for Arms Treaty Ratification

U.S. President Barack Obama last week commended Senate Foreign Relations Committee lawmakers for endorsing a resolution to ratify a new nuclear arms control treaty with Russia. He urged the full Senate to promptly follow suit in approving the document, the White House said...
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Nuclear power is the solution

Sen. Voinovich of Ohio calls for a “Second Declaration of Independence” from foreign sources of energy. He has pushed hard for the development of a comprehensive national energy policy...
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South Texas Project sees accomplishments in 2010, waits for loan guarantees

South Texas Project, one of the nation's largest nuclear power plants, saw several significant milestones this year. Its most recent milestone was in June as the nuclear power plant began preparations for addition of units 3 and 4.
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U.S. generation from renewables, coal up in June, nuclear drops

Net generation in the United States rose 8 percent from June 2009 to June 2010, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, and the Federal Reserve reported that industrial production was 8.2 percent higher in June 2010 than it was in June 2009, the sixth consecutive month that industrial production was higher than it had been in the same month the year before...
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MIT finds plentiful uranium for nuclear power plants

Plenty of uranium exists for nuclear power plants for decades, but more research is needed to develop a better way to dispose of the spent fuel, says a new report by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
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New nuclear technology 'could benefit developing countries'

In a study published in Science this month (12 August) British researchers outlined a vision for flexible and more user-friendly nuclear technologies, as worries over the climate change, energy supply security, and depletion of fossil fuels, are overturning decades of hesitancy over the safety of nuclear power plants...
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National oil spill commission using nuclear power industry as model

The national oil spill commission is looking to the nuclear power industry as a model in developing some of its recommendations of how the oil industry and government agencies should move forward after the BP oil well blowout in the Gulf, commission co-chairman Sen. Bob Graham said Tuesday...
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Nation's nuclear power plants prepare for cyberattacks

The threat to digital systems at the country's nuclear power plants is considerable, but the sector is better prepared to defend against potentially devastating cyberattacks than most other utilities, according to government and industry officials and experts...
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Recycling a viable option, US commission told

There could be "significant benefits" in the implementation of reprocessing and recycling technology under a new waste management strategy, industry executives have told the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future...
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