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Japan’s U-Turn on Nuclear Power: Reaction
Yesterday, Japan’s prime minister, Naoto Kan, announced that the government was scrapping a planned expansion of nuclear power, which currently provides about a third of Japanese electricity. Instead, the...
Ethics Commission Recommends Swift German Nuclear Phaseout
BERLIN—Germany should phase out nuclear power by 2021, according to a leaked draft of a report from the "Ethics Commission on Safe Energy Supply" created by Chancellor Angela Merkel in...
U.S. Nuclear Watchdog Says Fukushima Safety Guidance Was Meant 'for U.S. Citizens'
The chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) today defended his advice that Americans living within 80 km of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi plant should leave their homes...
Indian Scientists Plan to Delve Deep for Earthquake Precursors
NEW DELHI—Indian scientists are about to embark on an ambitious effort to drill into the Indian plate to monitor tremors and other seismic signatures of impending earthquakes. Indian science...
Government Adviser Quits Post to Protest Japan's Policy on Radiation Exposure for Fukushima Schools
TOKYO—A prominent Japanese radiation safety specialist has resigned his governmental advisory post in protest over what he calls "inexcusable" standards for school children in Fukushima Prefecture. The Yomiuri Online...
April 26, 2011 12:01 AM
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Fukushima Crisis Shouldn't Blunt Long-Term Investment in Nuclear Power, Says MIT Report
A long-awaited report by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) sees nuclear power as an important component of the U.S. energy supply, a message not affected by last month's...
Italy Puts Nuclear Power on Indefinite Hold
Plans to build a new generation of nuclear reactors in Italy have run aground following the accident at the Fukushima plant in Japan last month. The center-right government of...
April 13, 2011 12:53 PM
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Report: Current European Biofuel Policies 'Unethical'
A report from the influential British think tank the Nuffield Council on Bioethics has concluded that current U.K. and European policies on biofuel use are encouraging unethical practices, including...
Energy Department's National Labs Avoid Major Disruptions
Since early February, scientists supported by the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Science have been bracing for massive layoffs at the department's 10 national laboratories and the temporary...
Live Chat: Bill Burnett Talks About Radiation in Japan's Seas (Transcript)
At 3 p.m. on Thursday, join Florida State University geochemist William Burnett to chat about how radiation can affect ocean chemistry and its possible effects on marine ecology.
April 6, 2011 5:47 PM
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Q&A With Richard Muller: A Physicist and His Surprising Climate Data
Richard Muller of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California has gained a solid scientific reputation for his work in astrophysics and particle physics. He's waded into policy debates over...
March 31, 2011 1:52 PM
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Energy Expert Annotates Obama's Energy Speech
President Barack Obama's speech to Georgetown University on energy policy, delivered yesterday, forges a new direction on energy policy after big failures in his first two years to cut U.S....
India's Prime Minister Seeks More Nuclear Transparency
NEW DELHI—In a speech here today, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh exhorted his government to strive for "accountability and transparency in the functioning of our nuclear power plants." The...
March 23, 2011 4:51 PM
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Wanted: Out-of-the-Box Ideas on Clean Energy From Postdocs
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is soliciting applications for a new postdoctoral fellowship program that comes with a novel twist:...
Quake Question #12: Can Nuclear Reactors Survive Blackouts?
Readers ask: Are there any commercial nuclear plants that, when deprived of all electric power for a day, don't self-destruct and blow radiation? Science answers: All of the most...
Quake Question #11: How Is Japan's Energy System Affected?
Readers ask: I see reference to natural gas explosions, a refinery fire (now out), a hydroelectric break washing away hundreds of homes, etc. What other energy problems, besides the...
Radiation Plume Modelers Chafe at Scarcity of Data
Atmospheric modelers are still warily watching the spread of radionuclides from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant as workers there struggle to bring the situation under control. "The wind is...
Three Questions About Japan's Nuclear Plants
Japanese officials are weighing a set of difficult challenges in trying to contain the nuclear crisis within the Fukushima power complex. In addition to the extremely powerful earthquake, the...
Roundup: Global Reaction to Nuclear Crisis in Japan
The ongoing nuclear crisis in Japan is causing political effects around the world, particularly in Europe, with several countries putting on hold plans to build new reactors or let...
March 1, 2011 5:39 PM
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Clean Energy Research Summit Has a Shortage of Green …
… and the dearth of funding for the rest of 2011 threatens to cripple the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy's massive program. But it's been rare for any session at...
February 24, 2011 5:56 PM
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Chu Asks Energy Maverick to Plug a Big Hole in the Department
From Tuesday’s The Hill: In a memo to staff Tuesday, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said that Acting Under Secretary of Energy Cathy Zoi will leave the agency next month...
DOE's Chu Says Proposed House Cuts Could Trigger Brain Drain
Energy Secretary Steven Chu warned today that proposed cuts to energy research as part of a spending plan by House of Representatives Republicans for the rest of 2011 could...
February 15, 2011 8:10 AM
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Will Obama's SunShot Initiative See the Light of Day?
Applied and basic energy research was proposed to receive big increases in the 2012 budget released today. Underscoring the nearly exalted status of energy research in a budget that...
Energy Budget Slashes Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Research
What one hand giveth, the other taketh away. In the president's 2012 budget proposal released today, the Administration recommends spending $8 billion on "clean energy and technology programs." But...
February 8, 2011 6:03 PM
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When Wind Is Reliable: Turbines Help Texans Avoid the Dark
Last Wednesday morning, rolling blackouts left nearly a million Texans in the dark after abnormally cold temperatures crippled 50 coal and natural gas plants. But without wind power, it...
January 26, 2011 4:05 PM
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Obama Proposes Big Boost for Blue-Sky Energy Research Agency
Following last night's declaration by President Barack Obama of a "Sputnik Moment" on competitiveness and energy innovation , the Department of Energy will request big increases on two signature...
Joint U.S.-China Energy Research Takes Shape
Bilateral talks this week between the two superpowers have pinpointed three areas of collaboration for the newly established U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center. Those are efficient buildings, clean vehicles,...
January 13, 2011 1:19 PM
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New Schedule Seen to Improve/Strengthen Impacts Portion of IPCC Report
Climate scientists hope to improve the most contentious section of the next report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) by changing how they deal with uncertain data,...
January 11, 2011 3:25 PM
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Oil Spill Commission Calls for Larger Role for Science
The final report of the presidential oil spill commission released today calls for more science in order to better protect the environment. It details plenty of oil industry hubris...
Meet Jordan's New Greenhouse-Power Plant Hybrid
A novel combination of technologies that has the potential to turn large areas of desert green, producing commercial quantities of food and energy crops, fresh water, and electricity, looks...
Energy Officials: Science Law Obama Signed Bolsters Research
The America COMPETES Act, signed on Tuesday by President Barack Obama, is light on specifics about the Department of Energy (DOE), but officials at that agency are grateful that...
December 30, 2010 3:02 PM
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On Eve of New Climate Regs, A Primer, Part II: Lawsuits
Yesterday ScienceInsider went through the implications of new federal rules on greenhouse gases for industries which pollute the air with these pollutants. But legal challenges could complicate an already...
December 16, 2010 3:42 PM
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DOE Issues Plan to Ensure Access to Critical Materials
Ensuring the availability of rare earths and other strategic materials to the industries that need them would require giving the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) powers that it does...
November 29, 2010 10:51 AM
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White House Science Panel Wants Quadrennial Energy Review
A new report to the White House by its committee of scientific advisers calls for a new mechanism to improve federal energy research: a quadrennial review of energy science...
November 17, 2010 3:54 PM
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Update: Expert Report Deplores Poor Decisions Leading to Gulf Oil Spill
A series of ill-advised decisions by operators that saved time and money likely contributed to the eventual blowout and explosion that oiled the Gulf of Mexico this year. That's...
November 17, 2010 9:06 AM
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NRC: Gulf Spill Resulted From 'Insufficient Consideration of Risk'
In an interim report on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill released this morning, a committee of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the National Research Council finds that...
November 16, 2010 4:26 PM
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Report: Energy Grid Insufficient for Green Power
Thirty states and the District of Columbia now mandate minimum levels of electricity be generated from renewable sources such as wind and solar. These so-called renewable energy standards are...
November 15, 2010 11:34 AM
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OPEC on the Road to World Oil Dominance
Experts can't agree just when the world's production of precious oil will stop growing, but the authoritative International Energy Agency (IEA) based in Paris has made an ominous forecast....
November 9, 2010 5:30 PM
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Could Luring Manchin Boost Coal to Liquid Plant?
In exchange for switching to the Republican party, FoxNews reports, Republicans are reportedly offering Senator-elect Joe Manchin, current West Virginia governor, support for a plant to convert coal to...
November 3, 2010 4:20 PM
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Reid Victory Likely to Keep Yucca Mountain Sealed
Senator Harry Reid of Nevada won reelection yesterday in a race with major ramifications for nuclear power politics. Reid's victory over Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle not only helped...
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