Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Jim Webb (D-Va.) today introduced the The Clean Energy Act of 2009, a bipartisan bill to promote further investment and development of the nation’s clean energy technologies, including nuclear power and other resources. The Alexander-Webb bill is designed to invigorate the economy, create jobs, and move the United States toward [...]
By Mary Beth Sheridan
The White House said today that President Obama has approved an agreement to help build a nuclear-energy program in the United Arab Emirates, setting up a congressional review of the controversial accord.
The agreement was reached at the end of the administration of President George W. Bush, and left for Obama to shepherd [...]
TOKYO (AFP)–Japan and Russia have signed a nuclear energy pact that will pave the way for contracts worth billions of dollars, the head of Russia’s state nuclear agency said Tuesday.
The accord, which was inked during Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to Tokyo, will allow for the transfer of Japanese technology to Russia and the [...]
TOKYO (AFP)–Japan and Russia have signed a nuclear energy pact that will pave the way for contracts worth billions of dollars, the head of Russia’s state nuclear agency said Tuesday.
The accord, which was inked during Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to Tokyo, will allow for the transfer of Japanese technology to Russia and the [...]
It was a tale of two budgets.
For many environmentalists and the renewable power sector, President Obama’s $3.6 trillion blueprint released yesterday would provide a flush of new cash to spur the development of energy-efficient buildings and carbon-free wind and solar farms. It also would add new money to ready U.S. EPA for the global warming [...]
LONDON, May 6 /PRNewswire/ — The nuclear power generation sector is experiencing a surge of interest, leading to a variety of partnerships and collaborations which are changing the face of the industry. With as many as 250 nuclear projects in the global pipeline, component and equipment manufacturers are collaborating to meet the increased global demand; [...]
BEIJING, May 4 (Xinhua) — China plans to finish 100 gigawatts of wind power capacity by 2020 and expand its renewable energy consumption to 40 percent of the energy market by 2050.
The goal for wind power capacity was more than three times of the 30 gigawatts target that the government set [...]
By Tom Doggett
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican lawmakers in the U.S. Senate are demanding the Obama administration provide scientific and legal evidence to support its decision not to store nuclear waste at the long-planned Yucca Mountain depository in Nevada.
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu testified at a congressional hearing in March that Yucca Mountain was no longer [...]
SOFIA, April 29 (Reuters) - Funding for Bulgaria’s planned nuclear power plant at Belene must be secured soon, or the multi-billion euro project will be delayed, a consultant to the scheme said on Wednesday.
The Socialist-led government and German utility RWE (RWEG.DE) have signed a deal to build Bulgaria’s second nuclear power plant by 2014-2015 [...]
The president, chairman and CEO of Progress Energy weighs in on the hurdles facing his industry.
Editor’s note: This Q&A is a part of a survey conducted by Scientific American of executives at companies engaged in developing and implementing non–fossil fuel energy technologies.
What technical obstacles currently most curtail the growth of nuclear fission? What are the [...]
