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• NRC Commissioner Takes a Stand on Obama’s Yucca Decision

  Posted March 10th, 2010 at 4:31pm in Energy and Environment with 16 comments

  Dale Klein, Commissioner and former chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) challenged the premise on which President Obama based his move to withdraw the application to permit the geologic repository at Yucca Mountain. At a conference in Bethesda, Maryland yesterday Commissioner Klein emphasized that it was politics, not science, which led to this [...] More

• The Science IS Settled…On Yucca Mountain

  Posted March 4th, 2010 at 3:51pm in Energy and Environment with 7 comments

  Lost in President Obama’s rhetoric that the science is settled on climate change, the president is willing to shut down Yucca Mountain without scientific justification. Today, the Department of Energy (DOE) filed to withdraw the application for the geologic repository Yucca Mountain that was supposed to begin collecting used fuel in 1998. The Nuclear Waste [...] More

• Want More Green Energy? Roll Back the Red Tape on Nuclear

  Posted August 19th, 2009 at 3:22pm in Energy and Environment with 12 comments

  Despite the growing rhetoric in favor of affordable and clean energy in the United States, the regulatory trend is moving in the opposite direction. A recent article from Platts emphasizes the increasing regulatory costs for the nuclear industry: “Benjamin Fowke, Xcel’s CFO, said in a second-quarter earnings conference call in late July that nuclear operating costs [...] More

• Let’s Reduce Carbon Dioxide, but Let’s Not Include Nuclear Energy

  Posted July 16th, 2009 at 4:18pm in Energy and Environment with 10 comments

  We take you to Knoxville, Tennessee: Several environmental groups are banding together in petitioning the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to stop TVA from operating a second reactor at Watts Bar nuclear plant. The Sierra Club, the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, the Tennessee Environmental Council, the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League and We the People Inc. on Wednesday [...] More

• In the Green Room: NRC Chairman Jaczko

  Posted July 8th, 2009 at 1:35pm in Energy and Environment with 1 comments

  Yesterday, Dr. Gregory Jaczko, Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), delivered at The Heritage Foundation his first major address since being appointed six weeks ago. Read more on his visit and what needs to be done about clean, renewable energy here. More

• Our New NRC Chairman

  Posted July 7th, 2009 at 4:51pm in Energy and Environment with 3 comments

  Dr. Gregory Jaczko, Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), delivered his first major address since being appointed six weeks ago this morning at the Heritage Foundation. Jaczko’s talk was encouraging for its discussion of the need to enhance agency decisiveness and regulatory preparedness for dealing with new challenges, such as waste management and other [...] More

• NRC Chairman to Speak at Heritage

  Posted July 6th, 2009 at 5:30pm in Energy and Environment with 2 comments

  Tomorrow, July 7th, new Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko, appointed by President Obama, will speak in The Heritage Foundation’s Allison Auditorium. As momentum builds behind new nuclear power in the United States, questions remain about whether the nation is truly at the threshold of a nuclear renaissance. Of critical importance is how the nuclear industry [...] More

• Inhofe’s Road to Clean, Affordable Energy

  Posted June 4th, 2009 at 4:43pm in Energy and Environment with 7 comments

  U.S. Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) has been among the most effective opposition voices against cap-and-trade global warming legislation in recent years, and his rebuttal to Al Gore’s global warming assertions are spot on. Yet, the Senator from Oklahoma is an advocate for a clean environment. It just so happens that he recognizes that nuclear energy [...] More

• Jaczko’s NRC

  Posted May 14th, 2009 at 11:45am in Energy and Environment with 1 comments

  Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) member Gregory Jaczko has been chosen by President Obama to be the next Chairman of the NRC. Before joining the NRC’s commission, he served as Senator Reid’s science policy advisor and also served as congressional science fellow for House Member Edward Markey. When first appointed to the commission in 2004, Reid [...] More

• Nuclear Waste is an Opportunity, Not a Problem

  Posted April 15th, 2009 at 11:50am in Energy and Environment with 4 comments

  What’s one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. When it comes to nuclear waste, where the government sees a problem, Salt Lake City-based EnergySolutions sees a dollar sign. And what’s best is that the government can’t stop them: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says it doesn’t have the authority to prevent foreign radioactive waste from being imported into [...] More