NEI Interview with Mike McGough, COO, NuScale

Mike McGough, Chief Commercial Officer, NuScale Power

By Heba Hashem on Mar 6, 2013

We speak to the company that claims to be behind the first small modular reactor design proposed for commercialization. NuScale's Mike McGough speaks on safety and design features, what could speed up the NRC licensing process and market interest for their plants in the US and abroad.

http://analysis.nuclearenergyinsider.com/small-modular-reactors/mike-mcgough-chief-commercial-officer-nuscale-power

Coal exports Asia’s gain is America’s loss

Coal exports

Asia’s gain is America’s loss

http://bdtonline.com/editorials/x273862801/Coal-exports

Reconstruction of Earth climate history shows significance of recent temperature rise

Reconstruction of Earth climate history shows significance of recent temperature rise
from ScienceDaily: Latest Science News
Using data from 73 sites around the world, scientists have been able to reconstruct Earth's temperature history back to the end of the last Ice Age, revealing that the planet today is warmer than it has been during 70 to 80 percent of the time over the last 11,300 years.http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130307145303.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

CERAWEEK-Gates favors nuclear power to help limit climate change

CERAWEEK-Gates favors nuclear power to help limit climate change .Microsoft Corp co-founder and Chairman Bill Gates said that expanding nuclear power and making it safer was the most economic way to ward off climate change.http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/08/ceraweek-gates-nuclear-idUSL1N0C01HV20130308

PennEnergy's Top Oil & Gas News 3/8

Top Oil & Gas News
	Hugo Chavez's death leaves oil uncertainty in Venezuela Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the popular socialist who won 4 terms and overcame an attempted coup, has died from complications to cancer. He will be succeeded by Vice President Nicolas Maduro until a new election can be held, constitutionally required within 30 days. Full Article Share:
	PennEnergy Video News Update From the death of Hugo Chavez, to the latest on Keystone XL, to a small oil spill off the coast of Brazil, all of the week's biggest headlines are in the PennEnergy Video News Update. Full Article Share:

This Week's Most Popular Oil & Gas News
• Minor oil spill contained off Brazil's coast
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• Canadian oil sands bitumen refinery gets GE help
• Shell to develop two additional LNG transport corridors in North America
• Japex purchases stake in Canadian LNG facility
• GE wins extension for Sakhalin-2 LNG Plant contract
• Hess announces transformation into pure play E&P company
• Shell considers shutting down Nigerian oil pipeline
• Petrobras announces new offshore production record

Jordan set to commission nuclear reactors

By Michael Peel in Abu Dhabi and Geoff Dyer in Washingtonhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b4ba7adc-819c-11e2-ae78-00144feabdc0.html?goback=.gde_2056821_member_220550150#axzz2Mwxnjw6W

• 30 Under 30: Energy

http://www.forbes.com/pictures/em45hdik/leslie-dewan-27/

Japan's Economic Troubles Spur a Return to Nuclear

Japan's Economic Troubles Spur a Return to Nuclear

from Technology Review Feed - Tech Review Top Stories

Some of the nuclear power plants shut down after the Fukushima disaster could restart soon.
As the second anniversary of the nuclear disaster at Fukushima nears, Japan is considering restarting nuclear reactors across the country in an effort to ease a recession that began at the end of 2012 after years of economic stagnation.http://www.technologyreview.com/news/512151/japans-economic-troubles-spur-a-return-to-nuclear/

Fukushima lags in Japan tsunami recovery: official

Fukushima lags in Japan tsunami recovery: official

from Nuclear Power Technology, Science And Industry News

Tokyo (AFP) March 5, 2013
Recovery in nuclear disaster-hit Fukushima is lagging behind other parts of Japan that suffered during the tsunami, an official said Tuesday, adding mental health provision there was insufficient. "What I'm concerned about most is that there is a disparity in the pace of reconstruction and in support" among disaster-hit areas, Hiroshi Suzuki, head of the reconstruction advisory panel for Fukhttp://www.terradaily.com/reports/Fukushima_lags_in_Japan_tsunami_recovery_official_999.html

Oil Sands, Keystone XL, and the New Politics of Fossil Fuel Infrastructure

Oil Sands, Keystone XL, and the New Politics of Fossil Fuel Infrastructure

from The Energy Collective - The world's best thinkers on energy & climate by mark.e.caine

There’s no use talking about new energy sources without assessing the social, political, and economic contexts into which they might emerge. For unless a nascent technology can command broad stakeholder assent within a given socio-political context, the technology is likely to remain marginal within it. The Canadian oil sands, which I discussed here previously, provide a case in point. And, perhaps, a harbinger of things to come.http://theenergycollective.com/markecaine/195076/oil-sands-and-keystone-xl-new-politics-infrastructure?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=The+Energy+Collective+%28all+posts%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Reality of Fukushima cleanup hits Japan

Reality of Fukushima cleanup hits Japan

from Asia Times Online

The overturned cars still littering the coastline by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and scars there from the fight workers put up in failed attempts to prevent its post-tsunami meltdown underline that the task of decommissioning is just beginning. With isolating the remaining nuclear fuel alone expected to take 40 years, it's unlikely the tragedy has claimed its last victim. - Daniel Leussink (Mar 8, '13)http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/JAP-01-080313.html

Fukushima Two Years Later

Fukushima Two Years Later

from The Energy Collective - The world's best thinkers on energy & climate by ans_org

While no deaths have been attributed to the nuclear accident itself, or to radioactive contamination released from the plant, the story of the nuclear accident continues to dominate press worldwide.http://theenergycollective.com/ansorg/196056/fukushima-two-years-later?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=The+Energy+Collective+%28all+posts%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Review

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Reviewhttp://nuclearstreet.com/nuclear_power_industry_news/b/nuclear_power_news/archive/2013/03/08/fukushima-daiichi-nuclear-plant-weekly-review-030802.aspx

Gov't to address conflicting info on nuclear power in Taiwan

Gov't to address conflicting info on nuclear power in Taiwan

Focus Taiwan News Channel -

Taipei, March 7 (CNA) The Ministry of Economic Affairs will set up a task force to avoid giving conflicting information related to a controversial nuclear power plant, said economics minister Chang Chia-juch Thursday. Ministry officials estimated the office for the ...http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?Type=aALL&ID=201303070038

Taiwan Faces Meltdown Over Nuclear Referendum

http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2013/03/07/taiwan-faces-meltdown-over-nuclear-referendum/

SMR Investment Does NOT Waste Taxes

SMR Investment Does NOT Waste Taxes

from RealClearEnergy - Homepage by Joseph Koblich, EC

Joseph Koblich, EC
As a general statement, at this juncture in world history, it is almost impossible to overstate the critical importance of developing clean, versatile, energy-dense, and low-carbon-emission energy technologies for our future. SMRs show great promise to help achieve this vitally important goal.http://theenergycollective.com/ansorg/194051/federal-investment-small-modular-reactor-technology

Measuring the Footprint of Grid-Scale Batteries

Measuring the Footprint of Grid-Scale Batteries

from RealClearEnergy - Homepage by Mark Schwarz, Phys.org

Mark Schwarz, Phys.org
A key problem is that the U.S. electrical grid has virtually no storage capacity, so grid operators can't stockpile surplus clean energy and deliver it at night, or when the wind isn't blowing. To provide more flexibility in managing the grid, researchers have begun developing new batteries and other large-scale storage devices. But the fossil fuel required to build these technologies could negate some of the environmental benefits of installing new solar and wind farms, according to Stanford University scientists.http://phys.org/news/2013-03-scientists-carbon-footprint-grid-scale-battery.html

Moniz Is Pro-Nuclear AND Pro-Fracking

Moniz Is Pro-Nuclear AND Pro-Fracking

from RealClearEnergy - Homepage by Karl Grossman, Huff Post

Karl Grossman, Huff Post
With the nomination of Ernest Moniz to be the next U.S. secretary of energy, President Barack Obama has selected a man who is not only a booster of nuclear power but a big proponent of fracking, too. What happened to Obama's call for "clean" energy in his 2013 State of the Union address?http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karl-grossman/moniz-a-pronuclear-profra_b_2810280.html?utm_hp_ref=green

Will Moniz Be Good For DOE?

Will Moniz Be Good For DOE?

from RealClearEnergy - Homepage by Hank Campbell, Science 2.0

Hank Campbell, Science 2.0
President Obama may have a thing for northeast academics but he at least stepped out of Harvard and Yale this time, tapping MIT Professor Ernie Moniz Monday to run the Department of Energy.http://www.science20.com/science_20/blog/will_prof_ernie_moniz_be_good_energy_secretary-105657

NRC issues report card to U.S. nuclear power plants

NRC issues report card to U.S. nuclear power plants

from Power Engineering Latest News

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued its annual assessment letters to the 104 power plants in operation in the US in 2012, 99 of which scored in the two highest performance categories.http://www.power-eng.com/articles/2013/03/nrc-issues-report-card-to-u-s--nuclear-power-plants.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+power-engineering-latest-news-rss+%28Power+Engineering+Latest+News%29&utm_content=Google+Reader