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Potential nuclear plant closures and what could be done to stop them
By Jim Hopf Owners of the (556 MW) Kewaunee nuclear plant in Wisconsin recently announced that they will be closing the plant, because it was losing money and they were unable to find another company...
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Update and Perspective on Small Modular Reactor Development
By Jim Hopf The US Department of Energy has a $452 million program to share development and licensing costs for selected small modular reactor (SMR) designs. The DOE’s goal is to have an operating SMR...
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New EPA Guidelines for Response to Radioactivity Releases
By Jim Hopf The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency just released a draft Protective Action Guideline (PAG) that sets standards and makes recommendations for the response to a large release of...
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Environmental Impact Evaluations – Seeing the Bigger (Nuclear vs. Fossil)...
By Jim Hopf As I discussed last fall, a federal appeals court ordered the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to perform more thorough evaluations in support of its new Waste Confidence Rule, particularly...
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Cost/Benefit Analyses of Nuclear Requirements
By Jim Hopf In this post I will expand on some of the themes I’ve been discussing in several previous posts—concerning what’s really needed to bring down nuclear’s costs, allow it to grow in the...
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Are Nuclear Plant Closures Due to Market Manipulation and Decommissioning...
By Jim Hopf Most of you are well aware that Entergy recently announced it will permanently close its Vermont Yankee (VY) nuclear plant. The primary reasons given were continued low natural gas prices,...
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Europe: A Textbook Case of How NOT to Go About Emissions Reductions
By Jim Hopf Rod Adams posted a good article on this site about the situation in Europe with respect to CO2 emissions reductions and the electricity market in general. Here, I’ll share my own,...
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A reason for holiday cheer–Significant court victories on nuclear waste
By Jim Hopf A United States appellate court recently handed down two long-awaited rulings with respect to Yucca Mountain. As most observers expected, both decisions were decidedly in nuclear’s favor....
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Persistent Prejudice Against Nuclear – Can Anything Be Done? Part I
By Jim Hopf Last month I reported on court victories on the nuclear waste issue. While such victories are welcome, in my view things are not going well overall for the industry, and it’s not clear the...
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Persistent Prejudice Against Nuclear – Can Anything Be Done? Part 2
By Jim Hopf In last month’s post, I made the case that there is substantial prejudice against nuclear power among much of the public in most of the world. As a result, nuclear is held to requirements...
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Persistent Prejudice Against Nuclear—Can Anything Be Done? Part 3
By Jim Hopf At this site in January, I made the case that there is significant and persistent prejudice against nuclear power among both the public and policymakers. In February, I discussed several...
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The Fight to Prevent Nuclear Plant Closures Gathers Steam
By Jim Hopf With the recent shutdown of four reactors and another scheduled closure later this year, there is increasing concern over nuclear plant shutdowns in the United States, and the idea of...
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Vogtle Loan Guarantee Finally Approved
By Jim Hopf In February, the U.S. Department of Energy finally announced the approval of a federal loan guarantee for the Vogtle-3 and -4 reactor project under construction near Waynesboro, Ga. The...
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EPA Proposes Power Sector CO2 Emissions Reduction Plan
By Jim Hopf With cap-and-trade and carbon tax proposals going nowhere in congress, the Obama administration is tackling the global warming issue through the administrative branch, using U.S....
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Proposed Revisions to Nuclear Plant Release/Public Exposure Regulations: ANS...
By Jim Hopf In January, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) concerning 40 CFR 190—the regulations that govern public exposure and release of...
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