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Nuclear Matinee: ‘Cosmos’ Returns By ansnuclearcafe on Mar 07, 2014 01:00 am “It is time to make the case for science,” says host Neil deGrasse Tyson of the upcoming relaunch of the classic 1980 series Cosmos.  The new Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey premieres this Sunday, March 9 on FOX and Monday, March … Continue reading → Read in browser » More to read: Moving Forward and Living Well ANS Young Members Group Slogan Contest Nuclear Energy Blogger Carnival 198 Nuclear Matinee: NASA Artificial Intelligence Unit on Fission vs. Fusion Is St. Lucie next on the antinuclear movement target list?

Penn Energy's Top Oil & Gas News 3/7

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	U.S. Court declares Ecuador judgment against Chevron fraudulent The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York today ruled that the $9.5 billion judgment against Chevron Corporation in Ecuador was the product of fraud and racketeering activity, finding it unenforceable. Full Article Share:
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Energy Insights

All Energy, All the Time: The Future is Now Right now, sitting gingerly in a faux-leather holder a few inches in front of my computer screen, is my cell phone. A glorious piece of technology, it gives me information at the push of a button. Actually, buttons are going out of style; my phone gives me information at the slide of a fingertip. Full Article Share:

Governing Energy: Nonlinear We humans embrace change and we have made this point in these virtual pages several times. However, we struggle with disruptive transformations. For example, natural disasters force change upon unwilling and sometimes unsuspecting participants. Yet most overcome and when interviewed later many actually see the positive in life changing incidents. Full Article Share:

NRC releases annual nuclear power plant assessments

http://www.power-eng.com/articles/2014/03/nrc-releases-annual-nuclear-power-plant-assessments.html

Why is Warren Buffett investing in utilities in the death spiral era?

The Oracle of Omaha stares down the utility death spiral.

By Ethan Howland
http://www.utilitydive.com/news/why-is-warren-buffett-investing-in-utilities-in-the-death-spiral-era/236004/

WIPP – DOE update on Feb 14 airborne contamination event

http://atomicinsights.com/wipp-doe-update-feb-14-airborne-contamination-event/

Bottom line - follow-up biological samples for the 13 employees with potential internal contamination showed no plutonium or americium. All environmental surface and water samples have measured as background.

The first external probes should be inserted into the mine either today or during the weekend.

AMERICA’S INNOVATORS believe in NUCLEAR ENERGY’S FUTURE. Do you?

AMERICA’S INNOVATORS believe in
NUCLEAR ENERGY’S FUTURE.
Do you?

http://campaign.nei.org/futureofenergy#.UxnTQIWGeVo

Mini-nuclear plants safe as windmills, says Urenco boss

Helmut Engelbrecht believes there is a growing case for small-scale, modular nuclear plants - particularly in developing countries

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/10681948/Mini-nuclear-plants-safe-as-windmills-says-Urenco-boss.html

Liquid metal from MIT stores solar power

http://www.telegram.com/article/20140306/NEWS/303069798/1002/business

New battery shows promise

http://news.investors.com/030614-692401-new-battery-shows-promise.htm

Extracting spent fuel rods

http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0001090570

This energy source could solve all of our problems — so why is no one talking about it?

This energy source could solve all of our problems — so why is no one talking about it? http://theweek.com/article/index/257268/this-energy-source-could-solve-all-of-our-problems-mdash-so-why-is-no-one-talking-about-it

Bribes, Bureaucracies, and Blackouts

http://breakingenergy.com/2014/03/05/bribes-bureaucracies-and-blackouts/?utm_source=Breaking+Energy&utm_campaign=10d7856b44-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f852427a4b-10d7856b44-407304281

• Oil & Gas, Technology

Energy Quote of the Day: ‘This Stupid Word we are Using, Which is ‘Fracturing’’

http://breakingenergy.com/2014/03/05/energy-quote-of-the-day-this-stupid-word-we-are-using-which-is-fracturing/?utm_source=Breaking+Energy&utm_campaign=10d7856b44-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f852427a4b-10d7856b44-407304281

• Department of Energy, Innovation, Nuclear

The History of Nuclear Power in Space

http://breakingenergy.com/2014/03/05/the-history-of-nuclear-power-in-space/?utm_source=Breaking+Energy&utm_campaign=10d7856b44-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f852427a4b-10d7856b44-407304281

Louisiana’s coastline is disappearing too quickly for mappers to keep up

http://grist.org/climate-energy/louisianas-coastline-is-disappearing-too-quickly-for-mappers-to-keep-up/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Daily%2520March%25206&utm_campaign=daily

Are energy execs turning green? CERAWeek comments indicate they are

http://seekingalpha.com/news/1613633-are-energy-execs-turning-green-ceraweek-comments-indicate-they-are?isDirectRoadblock=false&source=email_rt_mc_readmore

Harvey Wasserman on Radiation Then and Now "The USS Reagan Is Fukushima's Unlucky Dragon"

Harvey Wasserman on Radiation Then and Now
"The USS Reagan Is Fukushima's Unlucky Dragon" -- Fifty-seven years before the USS Ronald Reagan was swept with radiation from the Fukushima meltdown, a similar, terrible fate befell the crew of a small Japanese fishing boat called the "Lucky Dragon."
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_uss_reagan_is_fukushimas_unlucky_dragon_20140304

Nuclear Waste: Energy Department proposes to kill multi-billion dollar nuclear fuel plant

The costliest U.S. nonproliferation program has been undone by huge cost overruns

http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/03/04/14327/nuclear-waste-energy-department-proposes-kill-multi-billion-dollar-nuclear-fuel

Nuclear Waste Tanks May Be Flawed

http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2014/03/nuclear-waste-tanks-may-be-flawed

Li Says China Will Declare War on Pollution as Smog Spreads

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-05/china-to-declare-war-on-pollution-as-smog-spreads-across-country.html