Niigata governor tells TEPCO nuclear plant to stay shut

Niigata governor tells TEPCO nuclear plant to stay shut

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Exclusive: U.S. plans to name nuclear reactors using potentially flawed Areva parts

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Tales of Russian Ascendancy in the Middle East Are Overblown

by Perry Cammack and Richard Sokolsky

The selling of Rick Perry’s smarts

He's no MIT physicist, but the ex-Texas governor’s supporters are pitching him as a serious policymaker who has the chops to lead the department.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/rick-perry-energy-232929

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz says would-be successor Rick Perry has much to learn

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2016/12/21/energy-secretary-ernest-moniz-says-successor-rick-perry-much-learn

Sendai nuclear reactor resumes commercial operation

Sendai nuclear reactor resumes commercial operation

CGN Power's 2016 on-grid nuclear power generation up 30.8% - 經濟通 ET Net

CGN Power's 2016 on-grid nuclear power generation up 30.8% - 經濟通 ET Net

Lockheed Martin : China's Nuclear Reactor Protection System Certified by NRC | 4-Traders

Lockheed Martin : China's Nuclear Reactor Protection System Certified by NRC | 4-Traders

US Pipeline Economics Study - PennEnergy Research

US Pipeline Economics Study - PennEnergy Research

Is wood a green source of energy? Scientists are divided | Science | AAAS

Is wood a green source of energy? Scientists are divided | Science | AAAS

Webinar: Future of Nuclear Power – December 2016

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US Gen's Florida power generation projects 15-20 years later

FPL to acquire, retire coal-fired power plant

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Quick analysis saves plant construction schedule

http://www.power-eng.com/articles/print/volume-99/issue-11/features/quick-analysis-saves-plant-construction-schedule.html

FPL to Buy Coal-Fired Power Plant Before Shutting it Down

http://www.power-eng.com/articles/2016/06/fpl-to-buy-coal-fired-power-plant-before-shutting-it-down.html

Florida Power & Light to Shut Down Cedar Bay Coal Plant

http://www.power-eng.com/articles/2016/12/florida-power-light-to-shut-down-cedar-bay-coal-plant.html?cmpid=enl-poe-weekly-january-06-2017&cmpid=enl_PE_PowerEngineeringE-Newsletter_2017-01-06&email_address=micheletkearney@gmail.com&eid=288118515&bid=1628342

Trump's picks for TVA board could reshape federal agency | Times Free Press

Trump's picks for TVA board could reshape federal agency | Times Free Press

JEREMY J. STONE, 1935-2017

SECRECY NEWS From the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Volume 2017, Issue No. 2 January 5, 2017 Secrecy News Blog:  https://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/ **     JEREMY J. STONE, 1935-2017 JEREMY J. STONE, 1935-2017 Jeremy J. Stone, a pioneering arms control advocate who served as president of the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) from 1970 to 2000, passed away on January 1, 2017 at his home in Carlsbad, California. A mathematician by training, he turned to nuclear arms control in the early 1960s with a focus on preventing the development and deployment of anti-ballistic missile (ABM) systems due to their destabilizing potential. The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, signed by the US and the USSR in 1972, was shaped in large part by Jeremy and his scientific colleagues, who collectively created the foundation for nuclear arms control in the last decades of the Cold War. Jeremy jump-started the process of scientific exchange with China in the early 1970s. He was a prominent defender of dissident Soviet scientist Andrei Sakharov, and he instituted new mechanisms for monitoring and upholding the human rights of scientists around the globe. He discovered and helped terminate a CIA program to open U.S. mail. All of these episodes, and many more, were vividly and insightfully described in his 1999 memoir "Every Man Should Try: Adventures of a Public Interest Activist". Jeremy was a chess-player, on and off the chess board. He took a strategic approach to his work and his life. He did not drift. He was always on his way towards one goal or another. He might take you with him if you were lucky. He was a scintillating conversationalist who could successfully engage even the most tongue-tied staffer or physicist. He had a sophisticated sense of humor which he wielded skillfully -- perhaps following the example of his early Hudson Institute boss, the nuclear strategist Herman Kahn -- to disarm opponents and to make his own ideas more palatable to skeptical or hostile audiences. He was lucky in love, having been married for 58 years to BJ (Yannet) Stone, a brilliant, beautiful and kind mathematician , who passed away in 2015. He was an exceptionally capable talent-spotter, and he could see the latent potential in people that they could scarcely imagine in themselves. At the Federation of American Scientists, he gathered a group of scruffy young individuals of no particular academic pedigree or obvious distinction and he shined his peculiar light on them until they bloomed. He presented them (us) with enormously difficult problems -- ballistic missile defense, nuclear proliferation, global arms sales, government secrecy -- and challenged them to tackle those problems in creative new ways. Of course, he was not without flaws. His intuitive powers, which usually made him uncommonly perceptive, occasionally hardened prematurely into convictions that proved to be unfounded. In one particularly lamentable episode, he suggested mistakenly that MIT physicist Philip Morrison, a Manhattan Project veteran and FAS founder, had once spied for the Soviet Union. Making such a false allegation could have been an unforgivable offense. But Morrison, himself a person of awesome depth and distinction, forgave him, although with some sadness. More typically, Jeremy was a profoundly generous and thoughtful person. His intelligence and problem-solving abilities were often directed to meeting the needs of others -- not just friends or employees (he once directed poorly dressed staff to buy some new clothes at his expense), but also casual acquaintances, foreigners, children and strangers. He knew how to give a gift, and he usually anticipated exactly what gift a particular person wanted or needed. Above all, Jeremy was an institution builder, turning the Federation of American Scientists into a public interest platform of significant influence. "FAS is a legitimate and prestigious scientific association," wrote Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in a classified cable to the US Embassy in Japan in 1975. "Dr. Stone... is [a] highly regarded lobbyist on foreign policy and has wide contacts on the Hill. Embassy should have no reservations about facilitating his appointments in Japan," Kissinger wrote. By the time I showed up at FAS in 1989, the organization under Jeremy's leadership had become a powerhouse of intelligent and effective advocacy in arms control and quite a few other areas. My own cohort included figures like John Pike, David Albright, Lora Lumpe, and the late Tom Longstreth, to name just a few. Wandering the halls of our Capitol Hill headquarters, I would sometimes run into Carl Sagan, former CIA director Bill Colby, Philip Morrison, Paul Nitze, former JFK aide Carl Kaysen, Ted Taylor, Dick Garwin, former Senator Alan Cranston, and you could never be sure who else. One day I literally collided with Hans Bethe in the hallway outside Jeremy's office. (No particles were emitted.) Jeremy made all of that possible, providing a forum for scientists and others to participate in the national policy process and a strategic vision to guide them. After leaving FAS, Jeremy pursued further adventures in conflict resolution as president of Catalytic Diplomacy, created a website in honor of his father, I.F. Stone, and advocated for independent journalism.

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_______ Secrecy News is written by Steven Aftergood and published by the Federation of American Scientists. The Secrecy News Blog is at:      https://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/

Are We Dialing Down Nuclear Power at Precisely the Wrong Time?

Are We Dialing Down Nuclear Power at Precisely the Wrong Time?

The Energy Collective: Are We Dialing Down Nuclear Power at Precisely the Wrong Time

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Promise And Peril In Utilities Sector As Trump Prepares To Take Office

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News on Pilgrim

​Mass. officials worried about safety at 'overwhelmed' Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant Boston Business Journal - ‎8 hours ago‎ The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant, located on Cape Cod bay in Plymouth, became a point of controversy recently after an internal memo from the plant leaked that expressed concerns about maintenance issues and an “overwhelmed” staff. Now, a group of ... Top Massachusetts Leaders Call for Public Meeting on Pilgrim CapeCod.com News - ‎6 hours ago‎ BOSTON (AP) — The state's top political leaders are urging the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to hold a public meeting about the safety of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth. A letter sent by the leaders Wednesday pointed to a leaked email ... Officials want public meeting over Pilgrim Power Plant safety The Boston Globe - ‎19 hours ago‎ The state's top elected leaders are calling on the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission to hold a public meeting in Massachusetts to discuss safety concerns at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant. The officials, including US senators Elizabeth Warren and ... Elected officials call for public meeting on Pilgrim Nuke safety Cape Cod Today - ‎14 hours ago‎ Washington (January 4, 2017) – Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Congressman William Keating (MA-09), Governor Charlie Baker, the entire Massachusetts Congressional delegation, and numerous ... Federal and state officials call for meeting on Pilgrim The Patriot Ledger - ‎19 hours ago‎ Federal and state officials have sent a letter Wednesday to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission calling for a public meeting to answer questions on the safety of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant. By Fred Hanson The Patriot Ledger @Fhanson_Ledger. PILGRIM STATION: Massachusetts officials call on NRC to address nuclear plant concerns The Patriot Ledger - ‎21 hours ago‎ State and federal leaders called on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Wednesday to hold a public meeting in Massachusetts to answer questions about the safety of Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth. BOSTON - State and federal leaders called on ... State, federal officials press NRC on Pilgrim safety Cape Cod Times (subscription) - ‎18 hours ago‎ BOSTON - Gov. Charlie Baker, Attorney General Maura Healey, Senate President Stan Rosenberg, along with state and federal legislators representing Southeastern Massachusetts, are strongly urging the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to meet with them ... Protest Planned as Federal Inspectors Return to Pilgrim CapeCod.com News - ‎Jan 4, 2017‎ PLYMOUTH – Anti-nuclear activists will rally at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station next week as federal inspectors return to complete their review of the troubled plant. The Cape Downwinders will gather outside the gate to Pilgrim from 1 to 3 p.m. on ... Cape Downwinders rally on January 9th Cape Cod Today - ‎Jan 4, 2017‎ The Nuclear Regulatory Commission Special Inspection Team returns for the final phase of the three part special inspection of the Pilgrim reactor due to serious and repetitive problems. For a second year, Pilgrim is one step from federally mandated ...

A Change of Plans at Brookwood

A Change of Plans at Brookwood

By ansnuclearcafe on Jan 03, 2017 12:51 pm

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Gridwatch: What Just Happened Five Minutes Ago?

Gridwatch: What Just Happened Five Minutes Ago?

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By Priyarshini Ghosh Happy new year, my fellow carbon dioxide-emitter. Of course we do not contribute significantly by any measure to the carbon emissions plaguing our atmosphere. So, what does contribute Continue Reading →http://ansnuclearcafe.org/2017/01/05/gridwatch-what-just-happened-five-minutes-ago/#sthash.zjxALKxI.dpbs
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