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- Spinning the atom: "environmentalists" are key to the industry's PR push
- Patrick Moore sits in a dark mahogany booth at the Off the Record bar across from the White House. Clad in a conservative navy blue suit, he blends comfortably with the crowd of lobbyists and politicians--a far cry from his former identity as a scruffy-faced Greenpeace leader battling nuclear power....
- Research articles 2008-05-01
- 'No Nukes' rockers renew fight three decades later
- WASHINGTON -- Jackson Browne says he thought his group of politically active musicians "really dealt the nuclear industry a blow" with a series of 1979 concerts opposing nuclear power. Nearly three decades later, Browne and fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Bonnie Raitt and Graham...
- Research articles 2007-10-23
- Nuclear power plant construction returns
- Tending to the instrumentation and control issues for plant deployment is underway The U.S. nuclear industry is making significant progress toward overcoming financial, regulatory, and technical barriers to deployment of new nuclear power plants. Progress toward overcoming financial barriers is happening by reducing the uncertainties around capital costs...
- Research articles 2007-02-01
- Nuke Biz Seeks Extended Wireless Headset Use
- With their special-authority licenses due to expire later this year, two Washington, D.C.-based groups representing nuclear plants and related businesses have asked the FCC for permission to deploy and use experimental wireless headsets at nuclear facilities for at least five more years. A joint petition to...
- Research articles 2005-07-25
- Two Industry Luminaries Join Silver Spring Networks' Board of Directors
- SAN MATEO, Calif. -- Silver Spring Networks, innovators of open, standards-based utility networking technology, announced today that two industry luminaries, Thomas R. Kuhn, President of the Edison Electric Institute and Corbin A. McNeill, Jr., retired Chairman and co-CEO of Exelon Corporation, have joined the company's Board of Directors. Silver...
- Research articles 2005-04-26
- Three Key Imperatives
- 1. Regulatory FrameworkWe must finish the job of building a safety-focused regulatory framework.We have achieved remarkable results over the past five years since implementation of the regulatory oversight process.We have seen great strides in applying risk-informed concepts.We soon hope to have a new safetyfocused rule dealing with how we procure...
- Research articles 2004-05-01
- NEI Reorganization Focuses Expertise, Resources on Public Policy Priorities
- Business Editors/Energy Writers WASHINGTON--BUSINESS WIRE--March 12, 2003 The Nuclear Energy Institute NEI today announced broad organizational changes that focus NEI and industry expertise and resources on the public policy issues that most impact the industry. "The changes made today, along with management changes made in February, are...
- Research articles 2003-03-12
- Advocacy Group Questions Electric Industry Study on Nuclear Reactor Safety.
- By Deborah Circelli, The Palm Beach Post, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 24--An advocacy group is questioning a new electric industry report that shows nuclear reactors could withstand a crash from a commercial airliner. Edwin Lyman, president of...
- Research articles 2002-12-24
- NEI: Nuclear plants operating better. (News in Brief).(Nuclear Energy Institute )(Brief Article)
- The average U.S. nuclear plant capacity factor was about 91% in 2001, an all-time high and the fourth straight year of performance improvements, the Nuclear Energy Institute NEI said last Monday, based on preliminary estimates. Electricity production increased 1%-2%, NEI said. Final figures are...
- Research articles 2002-02-11
- Nuclear generation 2000
- In 2000, the U.S. nuclear power industry generated a record 753.9 billion kilowatt-hours of power, which was 3.5 percent above its previous record set in 1999. According to the Energy Information Administration, the increase in nuclear generation over the past two years would have been enough to meet the power...
- Research articles 2001-09-01
- TOPCO LOOKS TO FILL THE BREACH OPENED UP BY PRESIDENT BUSH.
- Topco, the future French nuclear industry giant, is planning an acquisition or an alliance in the United States to fill the breach opened up by American President George W. Bush's decision to re-launch the civil nuclear programme. Anne Lauvergeon, President-designate of the Topco Board, who attended...
- Research articles 2001-06-15
- U.S. Nuclear Power Plant Builders Turn to Asia. (Originated from Philadelphia Inquirer)
- Mar. 27--Robert C. Iotti couldn't sell a nuclear reactor in the United States these days if his life depended on it. That's why you'll find him in China. "Nuclear power is somewhat controversial no matter where you go, but here it's seen as more of an...
- Research articles 1994-03-27
- Indus International Joins Nuclear Energy Institute
- Indus International Inc. (NASDAQ: IINT), the leading global supplier of enterprise asset management EAM software and services(1), today announced the company has joined the Nuclear Energy Institute NEI, the policy organization of the nuclear energy and technologies industry. As the first EAM software vendor to join the NEI, Indus...
- Research articles 1970-01-01
- Electricity and the Nation's Future Prosperity
- As electricity is the backbone of the nation's economy and national security, the nuclear energy industry in 2001 set forth a long-term vision of the industry's future. The cornerstone of that vision is adding 50,000 megawatts of new nuclear electric generating capacity to the national grid by 2020. The industry...
- White papers 2002-04-30
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- News items 2009-10-19
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- News items 2009-11-09
- Nuclear Power: Climate Fix or Folly?
- Image Source: Wikimedia Commons Can nuclear-generated electricity lead us off fossil fuels?After years of sitting in the energy dustbin, nuclear power is enjoying a renaissance. Countries such as France, Germany, Japan and China are furiously building nuclear plants to deliver cheap electricity and help combat climate change. Yet in the...
- News items 2009-10-08
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- News items 2009-11-02
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- News items 2009-10-26
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