Why Energy Is Technology's Next Big Thing

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregsatell/2014/05/10/why-energy-is-technologys-next-big-thing/

Microsoft Abandons Windows 8.1: Take Immediate Action Or Be Cut Off Like Windows XP

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2014/04/15/microsoft-abandons-windows-8-1-take-immediate-action-or-be-cut-off-like-windows-xp/

Nuclear Waste Leak Traced To --- Kitty Litter

Nuclear Waste Leak Traced To --- Kitty Litter

http://nuclearstreet.com/pro_nuclear_power_blogs/b/the_geopolitics_of_energy/archive/2014/05/10/nuclear-waste-leak-traced-to-kitty-litter.aspx#.U26zJBlXDgo

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2014/05/10/nuclear-waste-leak-traced-to-kitty-litter/

Everything You Wanted To Know About Global Oil Fundamentals (But Were Afraid To Ask)

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-10/everything-you-wanted-know-about-global-oil-fundamentals-were-afraid-ask

Remarks at Stanford on the Obama administration and the role of scientists as citizens

http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2014/05/10/remarks-at-stanford-e-iper/

Mexico Opens up Shale and Deepwater – Who Will Get There First?

http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Mexico-Opens-up-Shale-and-Deepwater-Who-Will-Get-There-First.html

Wave and Tidal Power Hit First in Remote Communities

The still nascent technology to generate electricity from the sea may find its first economical uses far from the grid

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/wave-and-tidal-power-hit-first-in-remote-communities/

World’s Largest Solar Array Set to Crank Out 290 Megawatts of Sunshine Power

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/world-s-largest-solar-array-set-to-crank-out-290-megawatts-of-sunshine-power/

Reactor Reax Top Stories - Media Calls Out Nuclear Industry Front Groups

http://www.salem-news.com/articles/may092014/reactor-reax.php

Arctic, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet

Russia trumpets victory in new ‘super modern’ nuclear icebreaker project

St. Petersburg’s Baltic Shipyard has won an uncontested tender to build the first three of Russia’s new generation of “super modern” universal-use nuclear icebreakers in a $2.3 billion windfall for the Unified Shipbuilding Corporation owned conglomerate.

http://bellona.org/news/arctic/russian-nuclear-icebreakers-fleet/2014-05-russia-trumpets-victory-new-super-modern-nuclear-icebreaker-project

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Regulators Worry Nuclear Plants Are Vulnerable to Quakes

NRC Asks Companies in 10 States East of Rockies to Submit Detailed Reports

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304655304579552272735767840?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304655304579552272735767840.html

NRC Prioritizes Detailed Earthquake Risk Analysis For Central and Eastern U.S. Reactors

NRC

Prioritizes Detailed Earthquake Risk Analysis

For Central and Eastern U.S. Reactors

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/news/2014/14-032.pdf

Chinese Engineers Are Designing A Massive High-Speed Railway To Connect China And The US

Read more: http://www.ibtimes.com/china-plans-high-speed-trans-pacific-railway-continental-us-1582302#ixzz31L1Usyzh

http://www.businessinsider.com/massive-high-speed-railway-that-connects-china-to-the-us-2014-5?utm_source=alerts&nr_email_referer=1

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Fukushima Radiation: None Detected Yet on California Coast

http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/05/07/fukushima-radiation-none-detected-yet-on-california-coast/

New Hollywood remake of ‘Godzilla’ questions nuclear power

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/cool_japan/movies/AJ201405100027

Nuclear-Powered Trans-Ocean Shipping – 3rd place in New York Advanced Energy contest

http://atomicinsights.com/nuclear-powered-trans-ocean-shipping-3rd-place-new-york-advance-energy-contest/

Agency Urges Quake Study for Indian Point

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/10/nyregion/agency-urges-quake-study-for-indian-point.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

California's Latest Climate Forecast: Hotter and Drier Days are Here to Stay

http://theenergycollective.com/nrdcswitchboard/378071/californias-latest-climate-forecast-hotter-and-drier-days-are-here-stay

Can India Convert to 100 Percent Renewable Energy by 2050?

Can India Convert to 100 Percent Renewable Energy by 2050? by Darshan Goswami, Contributor | May 9, 2014 | 1 Comment
	In the coming years, India will face seemingly insurmountable challenges to its economy, environment and energy security. To overcome these challenges India needs to shift to non-polluting sources of energy. As Jeremy Rifkin, an... Full Article
COMMENTARYhttp://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2014/05/can-india-convert-to-100-percent-renewable-energy-by-2050?cmpid=SolarNL-Saturday-May10-2014

Egypt Emerges as a Route for Israeli Natural Gas

Egypt Emerges as a Route for Israeli Natural Gas

By Simon Henderson

Piping Israeli gas to liquefaction plants in Egypt is the most commercially logical option but remains politically risky. The announcement of a letter of intent between the partners in Israel’s giant Tamar natural gas field and the Spanish owners of a liquefied natural gas plant on Egypt’s Nile Delta coast is a major breakthrough, one

Keep reading →http://breakingenergy.com/2014/05/09/egypt-emerges-as-a-route-for-israeli-natural-gas/?utm_source=Breaking+Energy&utm_campaign=ec48d47610-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f852427a4b-ec48d47610-407304281

Humanity's Destruction of Earth's Climate in Ninety Seconds

Humanity's Destruction of Earth's Climate in Ninety Seconds by Jon Queally "We continue to turn the dial up on this ‘electric blanket’ of ours without knowing what the resulting temperatures will be.

Data visualization that compresses thousands of years of historic atmospheric data presents frightening prospects for humanity's future

"http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/06

“Concentrations of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in the global atmosphere are surpassing 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time in human history”—Scripps Institution of Oceanography

http://canadianenergyissues.com/2014/05/06/concentrations-of-the-greenhouse-gas-carbon-dioxide-in-the-global-atmosphere-are-surpassing-400-parts-per-million-ppm-for-the-first-time-in-human-history-scripps-institutio/

Dominion wants nuclear safety exemptions for Kewaunee plant

http://www.power-eng.com/articles/2014/05/dominion-wants-nuclear-safety-exemptions-for-kewaunee-plant.html

NRC requests earthquake risk re-evaluations from 21 U.S. reactors

http://www.power-eng.com/articles/2014/05/nrc-requests-earthquake-risk-re-evaluations-from-21-u-s-reactors.html

Why Does More Scientific Literacy Seem to Make Liberals More Accepting of Nuclear Power?

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2011/06/24/why-does-more-scientific-literacy-seem-to-make-liberals-more-accepting-of-nuclear-power/#.U24znFfwqAg

WIPP could be closed for 3 years

http://www.abqjournal.com/397095/news/wipp-could-be-closed-3-years.html

WIPP: NM Environment Secretary Ryan Flynn calls for immediate closure of waste panels

http://www.currentargus.com/carlsbad-news/ci_25729464/flynn-calls-immediate-closure-waste-panels-tranparency

Wipp Town Hall 5/8/14

http://new.livestream.com/rrv/wipptownhall9

Nuclear Video Matinee Mother’s Day Double Feature By ansnuclearcafe

dates from ANS Nuclear Cafe Blog

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Nuclear Video Matinee Mother’s Day Double Feature By ansnuclearcafe on May 09, 2014 02:57 pm The second Sunday in May marks the celebration of Mother’s Day in the United States and many countries.  In honor of this wonderful tradition, the Nuclear Cafe Matinee is quite pleased to showcase interviews with nuclear engineer Julie Ezold, Californium-252 … Continue reading → Read in browser » More to read: ANS Supports US-Vietnam Nuclear Export Agreement Save Vermont Yankee. If not you, who? If not now, when? Nuclear Energy Blogger Carnival 207 Nuclear Video Matinee: Fukushima Health Effects in North America (?) Return to the 1970s

The Decline and Fall of America’s Last Great Fishery Oceans Without Fish

The Decline and Fall of America’s Last Great Fishery

Oceans Without Fish

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/05/09/oceans-without-fish/?utm_source=feedly&utm_reader=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=oceans-without-fish

Strengthen nuclear power safety measures

http://www.mcall.com/opinion/letters/mc-nuclear-power-plant-meltdown-nistor-20140509,0,1828133.story

Debating the Merits of Nuclear Power

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/09/opinion/debating-the-merits-of-nuclear-power.html?_r=0

DOE: Could be 3 years to fully reopen NM nuke dump

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/doe-could-be-3-years-fully-reopen-nm-nuke-dump

PennEnergy's Top Power Headlines 5/9

Top Power Headlines
	MIT: Floating nuclear plants could ride out tsunamis (Video) MIT presents a new design for nuclear plants built on floating platforms, modeled after those used for offshore oil drilling, that could provide enhanced safety, easier siting, and centralized construction Full Article Share:
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• Four alarm fire shuts down Martin Drake power plant
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• U.S. biomass-based diesel imports increase to record levels
• SunEdison completes 100 MW of solar power in the UK
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• AREVA, ATOX form Japanese nuclear decommissioning JV
• B&W, OSU awarded funding for clean coal technology development

Power Engineering's Top Stories 5/9

Top Stories
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	Georgia Power: Gov’t loans save $250mn in costs for Plant Vogtle Georgia Power said the loans from the U.S. government could save $250 million in costs over the life of the loans. Read More Share: