This past week, a court panel in Tokyo rejected a criminal suit against former PM Naoto Kan concerning his actions during the first week of the Fukushima accident. However, I strongly feel he should have criminal charges filed for decisions he made just after midnight of March 12, 2012. These decisions may be viewed as the reason for the severity of the meltdowns, possibly being the cause of one of them, and the reason for the three hydrogen explosions. Kan should be criminally indicted for executive malfeasance, interfering in the emergency actions at F. Daiichi, placing the station’s entire staff in an un-necessary state of danger, and causing completely avoidable anguish to be inflicted on the people of Japan.

http://www.hiroshimasyndrome.com/fukushima-commentary.html

FUDS?

Nuclear Expert: “Half of the Reactors Operating Today In The United States Do Not Meet The NRC’s Fire Protection Regulations … a Third Of The Reactors In The United States Aren’t Protected Against Flooding If An Upstream Dam Were To Fail … Another 27 Reactors Are Not Protected Against Earthquake Hazards”

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/03/u-s-nuclear-plants.html

Surge in U.S. Natural Gas Prices Deflates Hopes in Asia

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304709904579408400351274242

13 Workers Exposed To Radiation At N.M. Nuclear Waste Dump

NPR, Feb. 28, 2014 (emphasis added): CAPTION: A piece of salt is believed to have fallen from a cavern ceiling and crushed drums of waste [...] the most likely scenario is that a huge chunk of salt fell from the ceiling and ruptured a drum or multiple drums of waste.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/02/28/283773449/13-workers-exposed-to-radiation-at-n-m-nuclear-waste-dump

New Mexico radiation leak raises concerns

AP, Feb. 28, 2014: Government officials, politicians, the contractors [...] emphasize that all the safety systems designed to react to worst-case scenarios like a ceiling collapse worked.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/energy-environment/nuclear-dump-leak-raises-questions-about-cleanup/2014/02/28/11091436-a043-11e3-878c-65222df220eb_story.html

Major Nuclear Dump Has Leaked, But Does US Gov't Have a Plan B?

Major Nuclear Dump Has Leaked, But Does US Gov't Have a Plan B?
by Sarah Lazare
"It's like buying a house and having the carpenter promise to put in a toilet in 100 years. This has been the American policy approach."http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/28-3

Straight Talk on the RFS, Ethanol Mandates

By Energy Tomorrow Blog

Ethanol Industry Threatened By Midwest Drought

In recent years we’ve regularly disagreed with the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) on the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) because its ethanol mandates could harm consumers and the broader economy. The conversation with Big Ethanol has been, well, spirited. That said, hats off to RFA for including an oil and natural gas industry executive as one of the keynote

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Gazprom’s Revamped Natural Gas Export Strategy in Europe No Fait Accompli

By Roman Kilisek

Merkel And Medvedev Inaugurate Nord Stream Gas Pipeline

This concluding article in a 3-part series details Gazprom’s changing European natural gas export strategy as it bumps up against EU regulations designed to promote market liberalization by unbundling energy production, transmission, delivery and storage from single-company ownership. The new Gazprom-designed gas transit system outlined earlier in this series – here and here – is not

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When Renewables Destroy Nature By Michael Shellenberger and Ted Norhaus

When Renewables Destroy Nature

By Michael Shellenberger and Ted Norhaus

Originally published at TheBreakthrough.org and syndicated in partnership with TheEnergyCollective.com The case against using trees and crops as fuel for cars and power plants has grown stronger in recent years. The expansion of corn for ethanol in the American Midwest has worsened water pollution and soil erosion, and has had no benefit in terms of reduced emissions. Europe’s

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Day 3 at the 2014 ARPA-E Innovation Summit

By US Department of Energy

As the Energy Department’s Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) Innovation Summit came to a close, energy leaders were challenged to take innovation to the next level. Innovation shouldn’t just be about inventing new technologies, it should also involve bringing ideas from the lab to the market. This message about the need to commercialize new energy technologies was

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Should Sierra Club Endorse Coal Rush/Fracking Gov. Quinn -- Or Call Out Environmental Disaster?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-biggers/should-sierra-club-endors_b_4876560.html

Anti-nuclear novel by bureaucrat exposes chummy relationship between politicians, industry

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201402280061

Finland rejection deals blow to Areva's nuclear export ambitions

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/25/areva-nuclear-idUSL6N0BPK4820130225

If Pakistan Needs 32 New Nuclear Reactors, What Does That Say? Uranium Supply Won’t Keep Up!

http://www.au-wire.com/pakistan-in-process-of-selecting-8-sites-for-32-nuclear-reactors/

Vietnam plans to operate ten nuclear power plants by 2030

Vietnam plans to operate ten nuclear power plants by 2030
http://www.thanhniennews.com/business/vietnam-plans-to-operate-ten-nuclear-power-plants-by-2030-24250.html

Serious Rules for Nuclear Power Without Proliferation

Abstract

The authors propose five principles for addressing the major deficiencies of the current treaty-based approach to nonproliferation. These involve: effectively closing the door to withdrawals from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT); defining which nuclear technologies fall within the NPT's “inalienable right” provision, so as to maintain a reasonable safety margin against possible military application; expansion of International Atomic Energy Agency inspections to include greater readiness to use its “special” inspection authority; creation of an NPT enforcement regime, to include a secretariat; and universalizing the NPT so as to apply to all states, while creating a path for current non-parties to come into compliance. There is no illusion here about the prospects for the adoption of this approach. At a minimum, the world needs to be frank about the gap between nuclear programs and current nonproliferation protection. Encouragement of greater use of nuclear power should be predicated on closing that gap.http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10736700.2014.880268#.UxHt4oWGeVo

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10736700.2014.880268#.UxHtkoWGeVo

Hydrogen Fuel Cells Might Clean Up Ports

Hawaii has become a hotbed of renewable energy projects, including a fuel cell to power refrigeration in port

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hydrogen-fuel-cells-might-clean-up-ports/

Our Retail Electricity Bill Just Killed Our Summer Vacation

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterdetwiler/2014/02/28/our-retail-electricity-bill-just-killed-our-summer-vacation/

Global Energy News Roundup: February 27

Global Energy News Roundup: February 27
http://forumonenergy.com/2014/02/27/global-energy-news-roundup-february-27/

Global Precipitation Measurement GPM Status Update

GPM Status Update

Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
GPM Status Update for 2/28/14
Fri, 2014-02-28 5:00 p.m. EST
The GPM Core Observatory is performing normally.
The GPS system has been switched on. This tells the satellite the time and its location with respect to the Earth's surface.
The team is readying the spacecraft to use its High Gain Antenna for high data-rate communication through the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System.
› Additional GPM mission updates

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GPM/main/index.html#.UxHsXYWGeVo

NASA Science Solves Real-World Problems

Posted on February 28, 2014 by David Weaver.

http://blogs.nasa.gov/weaverblog/2014/02/28/nasa-science-solves-real-world-problems/

New Mexico radiation leak raises concerns

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/02/28/new-mexico-radiation-leak/5909389/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+UsatodaycomNation-TopStories+%28USATODAY+-+Nation+Top+Stories%29

Energy Northwest to move reactor fuel to dry storage

Read more here: http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2014/02/27/2850812/energy-northwest-to-move-reactor.html#storylink=cpy

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2014/02/27/2850812/energy-northwest-to-move-reactor.html

Friday, February 28, 2014

NRC Licensing Board Rebuffs Challenge to Shaw Areva MOX Services License to Operate South Carolina MOX Facility Despite Security Risks

Statement by Edwin Lyman, Union Of Concerned Scientists

http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/nrc-board-rejects-challenge.html

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Review

http://nuclearstreet.com/nuclear_power_industry_news/b/nuclear_power_news/archive/2014/02/28/fukushima-daiichi-nuclear-plant-weekly-review-022802.aspx#.UxEnLxlXBDQ

To Fast Track Nuclear Electricity

http://neinuclearnotes.blogspot.com/2014/02/to-fast-track-nuclear-electricity.html

Why the Tubes in the Steam Generator at St. Lucie Are Safe and Reliable

http://neinuclearnotes.blogspot.com/2014/02/why-tubes-in-steam-generator-at-st.html

Nuclear News Round Up (24th – 28th March 14)

24th Mar 2014 Nuclear power is largest generator of electrical energy in Scotland 25th Mar 2014 Labour vows not to renegotiate EDF nuclear power station deal Japan’s first energy plan since Fukushima crisis say nuclear power important energy source 27th Mar 2014 UK wind energy output grew 38% last year 28th Mar 2014 Chapelcross nuclear submarine waste storage discussed

by assystem admin / 7h http://energyandnuclear.com/2014/02/28/nuclear-news-round-up-24th-28th-march-14/

Global Warming or Not, Methane Is A Bad Plan

Last year at the end of January, spring was already beginning to be felt in my little corner of the world and I was writing about my spring flowers. This year the scene is quite different. As I sit and write this column, we are hunkering down for a storm of nearly epic proportions for my part of the world: six inches of snow (15 centimeters for those of you with a metric bent). That storm will sta

by Margaret Harding / 4h http://www.4factorconsulting.com/global-warming-methane-bad-plan/

U.S.Nuclear Authorities Were Extremely Worried About West Coast Getting Hit By Fukushima Radiation … But Publicly Said It Was Safe

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/02/u-s-nuclear-authorities-worried-west-coast-residents-publicly-said-nothing-worry.html

Nuclear energy to 'power Africa?'

https://www.devex.com/en/news/nuclear-energy-to-power-africa/82943

High-Level Nuclear Waste Could One Day Come to Texas, But It’s a Long Road

http://stateimpact.npr.org/texas/2014/02/27/high-level-nuclear-waste-could-one-day-come-to-texas-but-its-a-long-road/

32 nuclear plants to produce 40,000MW: PAEC

32 nuclear plants to produce 40,000MW: PAEC
http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-3-235039-32-nuclear-plants-to-produce-40,000MW:-PAEC

Lingering Problems At Fukushima Raise Questions About Nuclear Power Safety At Home

Nuclear expert David Lochbaum and award-winning journalist Susan Stranahan discuss the weaknesses in nuclear regulation and whether the United States has the proper safeguards to protect its citizens from a similar disaster
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=767&Itemid=74&jumival=11512

No sale: Babcock & Wilcox can’t find buyer for Generation mPower

http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/blog/power_city/2014/02/no-sale-babcock-wilcox-can-t-find-buyer-for.html?page=all

Advanced Heavy Water Reactor is the latest Indian design for a next-generation nuclear reactor that will burn thorium as its fuel

Advanced Heavy Water Reactor is the latest Indian design for a next-generation nuclear reactor that will burn thorium as its fuel
http://m.indiatoday.in//story/advanced-heavy-water-reactor-ahwr-thorium-reactor-bhabha-atomic-research-centre-mumbai-india/1/345888.html

Japanese nuclear cooperation with UAE

27 February 2014

Japan's ongoing commitment to nuclear energy has been underlined by an agreement on cooperation to develop the technology with the United Arab Emirates.

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NP-Japanese-nuclear-cooperation-with-UAE-2702141.html

Bill passed by Va. legislature may help Dominion Power avoid rebates or rate cuts

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/bill-passed-by-va-legislature-may-help-dominion-power-avoid-rebates-or-rate-cuts/2014/02/27/9b04f42a-9d9b-11e3-b8d8-94577ff66b28_story.html

Entergy St. Francisville radioactive leak from late 2012 could have posed bigger risk, NRC says

http://www.nola.com/business/baton-rouge/index.ssf/2014/02/entergy_st_francisville_radioa.html

NRC: Fort Calhoun can't let up on safety effort

NRC: Fort Calhoun can't let up on safety effort
http://www.omaha.com/article/20140228/NEWS/140228669/1707

EIA's Coal Data Browser

EIA's Coal Data Browser
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has launched what it calls an interactive, online Coal Data Browser that brings together comprehensive government information, statistics, and visualizations about the U.S. coal sector in a single tool. Articlehttp://www.fierceenergy.com/story/eias-coal-data-browser/2014-02-26?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal

Letter from Joseph Jensen, site vice president, St. Lucie nuclear power plant, Juno Beach

FPL submitted a letter to the Tampa Bay Times in response. Text follows:

Steam generators are safe

The steam generators at the St. Lucie nuclear plant are safe. Since their replacement in 2007, our team of experienced engineers, with validation from independent experts and oversight from federal regulators, has inspected 100 percent of the tubes every 18 months during planned refueling outages. These inspections have shown that there are no tube integrity issues that would cause failure.

Steam generator tube wear is not a new issue in the nuclear industry. In fact, there is significant data and operating experience detailing how to safely monitor and manage this issue. Like belts in a car engine, a certain amount of wear is expected over time. But, with regular monitoring and inspection, the belt will be removed well before it causes any mechanical issue. The same is true for steam generator tubes.

While engineering analyses have shown that steam generator tubes can function with over 60 percent wear, no U.S. nuclear plant would ever come close to that level. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission requires that tubes with 40 percent wear be removed from service. Florida Power & Light's threshold, however, is even lower and more conservative than federal requirements.

The Times article also pays considerable attention to the number of wear "indications" on the St. Lucie generator tubes. In reality, there is a significant difference between an indication of wear, which could be anything from a scratch to a rub mark, and the potential for failure. Again using the car analogy, it's like having a dent in your car door — you can see it, but it does not make the vehicle unsafe.

With respect to how these components would perform given the plant's power uprate, the safety performance of the steam generators was both verified and validated by independent experts and then again by the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission — all of whom have detailed specific experience with the systems at St. Lucie. Given this fact, it is highly disturbing that the reporter chose to all but bury the perspective of our federal regulator, the NRC, while giving significant attention to the comments of two antinuclear activists.

Finally, some have implied that St. Lucie is similar to the now-closed San Onofre plant in California. Nothing could be further from the truth. The steam generators at San Onofre were a different design, made by a different manufacturer and operated at a higher power level. In fact, the type of wear evident at San Onofre is not present at St. Lucie.

Joseph Jensen, site vice president, St. Lucie nuclear power plant, Juno Beach

Workers at Nuclear Waste Site in New Mexico Inhaled Radioactive Materials

By MATTHEW L. WALD
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/28/us/workers-at-nuclear-waste-site-in-new-mexico-inhaled-radioactive-materials.html?_r=0

PennEnergy's Top Oil & Gas News 2/28

Top Oil & Gas News

Cost of oil production per barrel to rise in UK
"This relentless rise in costs is unsustainable and will result in yet more fields being shut-in and prematurely decommissioned if it is not addressed," the Oil and Gas UK report said.
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PennEnergy Video News Update
From another delay for Keystone XL, to Nebraska's record-setting year, to BP's new offshore production, all of the week's biggest headlines are in the PennEnergy Video News Update.
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This Week's Most Popular Oil & Gas News
• TransCanada stands by Keystone XL oil pipeline route while awaiting pending appeal
• Nebraska oil production reaches 2.8 million in 2013
• Petrobras announces new offshore production record
• BP starts offshore oil production at Na Kika Phase 3 in Gulf of Mexico
• Texas Railroad chairman applauds Gulf Coast oil pipeline
• Verdande COO talks factory drilling with PennEnergy.com
• ONRR issues civil penalty to Chesapeake over royalty reports
• Sterling Global clears unexploded mines for new oil and gas exploration project
• Tata: European offshore pipeline industry strong in 2014
• United oil and gas industry behind joint seismic acquisition
• Lukoil begins oil production drilling at Imilorsko-Istochniy ahead of schedule
• Chesapeake considering sale of Oilfield Services division
• Saipem awarded offshore production construction contracts in Indonesia and Republic of Congo
• Santos expects production to rise with new gas export projects
• Offshore oil and gas drilling contract extension for Odfjell Drilling

Survey Report: The Effects of Employee Fatigue And Its Management in the Energy Industry

http://www.pennenergy.com/whitepapers/pennenergy-white-papers/2013/dec/survey-report-the-effects-of-employee-fatigue-and-its-management-in-the-energy-industry.html

13 workers exposed to radiation at nuclear waste dump

http://www.currentargus.com/ci_25238348/13-workers-exposed-radiation-at-nuclear-waste-dump

http://www.currentargus.com/carlsbad-news/ci_25232120/breaking-13-wipp-employees-exposed-radiation

Obama Administration may open up the Atlantic for Seismic Testing

http://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Obama-Admin-May-Open-Up-Atlantic-to-Seismic-Testing.html

PennEnergy's Top Power Headlines 2/28

Top Power Headlines

Shell to progress Peterhead Carbon Capture and Storage project
Shell has signed an agreement with the UK Government to progress the Peterhead Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project to the next phase of design.
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DOE confirms $6.5B in financing for new Vogtle nuclear reactors
U.S. Department of Energy to close on issuance of approximately $6.5 billion in loan guarantees to construct two new nuclear power plant reactors at the Vogtle site in Georgia.
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Most Popular Power News This Week
• Petition seeks$2.45B in penalties for San Bruno explosion
• GE launches distributed power business
• Yingli to supply solar modules for seven UK projects
• UK utility SSE halts two wind farm projects
• More megatons to megawatts
• Integrated Information Management for Power Projects
• Alstom to equip Shuakhevi hydropower plant in Georgia
• Iberdrola delays construction of $150MM wind farm
• DOI approves 550 MW of solar projects
• China smart grid investments outpaces U.S. in 2013
• SunEdison retains 127 MW of solar despite revenue loss
• Eskom wins award for innovation in power generation

Energy News Roundup: Volcanic Eruptions May Have Temporarily Slowed Climate Change

By Jared Anderson

Mount Sinabung Continues To Erupt As People Return To Their Villages

Scientists had been attempting to explain why climate change appeared to slow after 1998 and a new study suggests major volcanic eruptions could have played an important role in the trend. “Powerful volcanic eruptions send small sulphur droplets, or aerosols, high into the atmosphere where they act as a mirror to reflect the sun’s rays

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In a Chinese Kilowatt-hour: The Link Between Pollution, GDP and Power

By Kate Rosow Chrisman

Coal Shortage Causes Short Supply Of Power in China

Here’s a Chinese riddle: how does GDP growth slow, growth in oil consumption stutter to its lowest levels in a decade, pollution skyrocket and growth in electricity consumption pick up? Below, we break down two essential themes on the relationship between China’s electricity consumption, pollution and GDP growth. Electricity is Often Used as a Gauge

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US East Coast Oil & Gas Exploration Could Start in ‘Coming Months’ By Jared Anderson

US East Coast Oil & Gas Exploration Could Start in ‘Coming Months’

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All-of-the-Above is Making a Difference Across America By Dr. Ernest Moniz

All-of-the-Above is Making a Difference Across America

By Dr. Ernest Moniz

During his recent State of the Union address, President Obama reiterated the importance of American energy: “One of the biggest factors in bringing more jobs back is our commitment to American energy. The all-of-the-above energy strategy I announced a few years ago is working, and today, America is closer to energy independence than we’ve been in decades.”

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Power Engineering Top Stories 2/28

Top Stories

Pipeline approved for FutureGen carbon capture and storage project
Illinois regulators approved a 30-mile underground pipeline that would carry carbon dioxide (CO2) from the FutureGen 2.0 clean coal project to a storage site.
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SONGS equipment to be auctioned off
Non-radioactive equipment inside the shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in California is being auctioned off.
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Plans for wind power project on reservation canceled
A wind power project that would have generated up to 250-MW of power, with as many as 85 turbines on a California reservation, has been canceled.
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GE to invest $1.4B in on-site power, new distributed generation business
General Electric (NYSE: GE) has a new distributed generation business venture that combines three product lines—Aeroderivative Gas Turbines, Jenbacher Gas Engines and Waukesha Gas Engines.
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The Week's Most Read Articles

DOE finalizes $65B loan guarantee for new Plant Vogtle nuclear reactors
A $6.5 billion loan guarantee for two new nuclear reactors in Georgia has been finalized.
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Natural gas-fired power project to shut down by 2050
A planned natural gas-fired power plant must shut down by 2050 as part of a settlement over siting the plant in Massachusetts.
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A report on combined-cycle projects in North America
So far, the industry's best weapon is combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) technology. Combined cycle power plants are highly efficient, allowing power producers to ring much more power from the same amount of natural gas.
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EIA: 54 GW of coal to retire by 2016 due to MATS
A total of 60 GW of coal-fired generation is expected to retire by 2020, a number beyond that previously reported to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).
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Army awards additional contracts to renewable energy companies
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, working with the Army Energy Initiatives Task Force (EITF), awarded 20 base contracts to companies part of the $7 billion large-scale renewable energy production Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC).
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• Design study for Kawasaki Heavy Industries tidal turbine completed
• AEP appoints Beasley to board of directors
• Semens wind turbines to be used at Bison wind project
• Sol Systems closes financing on 940kW New Mexico solar project
• JCP&L announces new director, Operations Support
• Spent nuclear fuel removal temporarily halted at Fukushima plant
• Nuclear power plant's generator tubes showing signs of wear
• Oklahoma coal-fired power plant gets new name
• Combined-cycle natural gas-fired power plant in the works in NC
• TEPCO wants water samples from Fukushima nuclear plant retested
• 25 percent of the US coal fleet could retire by 2020
• NuScale completes testing of SMR design analysis software
• GE opens wind turbine repair innovation lab
• Northeast Utilities names new executives
• Cape Wind gets $600M boost
• Calpine completes purchase of Texas combined cycle power plant
• US coal export volumes increased since 2005
• Renewable energy builder Acciona reports $2.7B loss
• FP&L, NRC refute St. Lucie nuclear tube wear claims
• PG&E asks to buy output from planned solar PV project

Industry Trends

Henry Hub Average Natural Gas Spot Prices
The Henry Hub is the pricing point for natural gas futures contracts. Here's a look at how prices have changed up to Feb. 20, 2014.
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Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas' Economic Indicators
The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas offers a glimpse into how the markets are doing domestically and internationally.
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Study and Design Considerations of HRSG Evaporators in Fast Start Combined Cycle Plants
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Lean Duplex Stainless Steel Within the Oil & Gas Industry
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Michele Kearney's Nuclear Wire

Saturday, March 1, 2014

US needs to recognize value of nuclear power

Dolphin Illnesses Linked to Gulf Oil Spill

“I’ve never seen such a high prevalence” of ailments, says U.S. government researcher.

Third World America - The Big Fix: The Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill Coverup

Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster Warns It Could Happen Here

Dismantling Fukushima: The World's Toughest Demolition Project

Taking apart the shattered power station and its three melted nuclear cores will require advanced robotics

The impact of Asia on the changing global energy map

Obama's nuclear legacy on the line

FERC Affirms Support for Removing Market Barriers to Energy Storage, Other Clean Energy Resources

Tar Sands Crude Oil: Health Effects of a Dirty and Destructive Fuel

DOE Carlsbad Field Office Manager Joe Franco explains employees' radiation exposure

13 Workers Exposed To Radiation At N.M. Nuclear Waste Dump

New Mexico radiation leak raises concerns

Should Sierra Club Endorse Coal Rush/Fracking Gov. Quinn -- Or Call Out Environmental Disaster?

Anti-nuclear novel by bureaucrat exposes chummy relationship between politicians, industry

Finland rejection deals blow to Areva's nuclear export ambitions

Serious Rules for Nuclear Power Without Proliferation

Abstract

Hydrogen Fuel Cells Might Clean Up Ports

Our Retail Electricity Bill Just Killed Our Summer Vacation

GPM

GPM Status Update

New Mexico radiation leak raises concerns

Energy Northwest to move reactor fuel to dry storage

Friday, February 28, 2014

NRC Licensing Board Rebuffs Challenge to Shaw Areva MOX Services License to Operate South Carolina MOX Facility Despite Security Risks

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Review

U.S.Nuclear Authorities Were Extremely Worried About West Coast Getting Hit By Fukushima Radiation … But Publicly Said It Was Safe

High-Level Nuclear Waste Could One Day Come to Texas, But It’s a Long Road

Lingering Problems At Fukushima Raise Questions About Nuclear Power Safety At Home

No sale: Babcock & Wilcox can’t find buyer for Generation mPower

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Bill passed by Va. legislature may help Dominion Power avoid rebates or rate cuts

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