Nuclear Renaissance alive and well

Today, we find that the NRC has voted to allow construction of two new Westinghouse AP1000 reactor plants at the V.C. Summer site in South C...

Four new recurring features on APR

Tonight I'm very pleased to announce the launch of four new recurring features on APR. These features will help the pro-nuclear communi...

This is a test post only.

Blogger has decided to launch a new control panel; this appears to be right in line with Google's attempt to destroy everything it has c...

San Onofre S/G update 3/27

Thanks to a tip off from Dan Yurman, we have the following release from the NRC: NRC Confirmatory Letter / San Onofre restart preparations T...

Carnival 97 up now at Next Big Future

The 97th Carnival of Nuclear Bloggers is up very early this Sunday morning at Brian Wang's site "Next Big Future." Click here ...

Greenpeace: Really?

I just read the following quote in an article covering Greenpeace's attempt to get Mexico to drop plans for two new nuclear generating s...

Steam Generators: Design and details

A recent NRC blog post ( see here ) brings up a matter that has come into focus of late at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in Californ...

NEI - New Nuclear Ad Campaign

Following is a Nuclear Energy Institute press release from this morning. Nuclear Energy Institute FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE •Contact:202.739.800...

ANS Nuclear Cafe hosts 96th Carnival today

The 96th weekly installment of the rotating Carnival of Nuclear Energy Bloggers is now up for everyone's review at the American Nuclear ...

Public attitudes toward nuclear energy from WASH-1250

Today I'd like to announce a very important addition to APR's permanent list of separate or "stand alone" pages, which you...

Carnival 95: Fukushima, one year later.

Atomic Power Review finds itself hosting the Carnival of Nuclear Bloggers at the time of the first anniversary of the Great East Japan (Toho...

Reactor Pressure Vessels: Metallurgy and Fabrication

I have received a number of comments on the information I've provided over time on reactor pressure vessels and have also received reque...

Carnival 94 at NEI Nuclear Notes

NEI is hosting a blockbuster-sized Carnival of Nuclear Bloggers at its NEI NUCLEAR NOTES blog today. This is one of the weightiest (if that ...

Palisades post-hearing, and more on embrittlement

As we all probably expected, the NRC hearing on Palisades went off last night with the NRC assuring the attendees that while there are signi...