Are Fast-Breeder Reactors A Nuclear Power Panacea? Yale Environment 360

Are Fast-Breeder Reactors A Nuclear Power Panacea?

Yale Environment 360-Jul 30, 2012

But as the battle over a major fast-breeder reactor in the UK ..... superior neutron economy of a fast neutron reactor makes it possible to build a ...

Nucs Must Not be Prematurely Closed: Non-Operation Of Japan's Nuke Plants Push Up CO2 Emission RTT News

Non-Operation Of Japan's Nuke Plants Push Up CO2 Emission

RTT News - ‎15 hours ago‎

(RTTNews) - Japan's power companies are turning to thermal power to compensate for their offline nuclear plants that have pushed up carbon dioxide emissions greatly contributing to global warming. Nine Japanese power companies say their generators ...

1GW - Output of a Nuclear Plant - data

http://trackingplanb.blogspot.com/2012/08/solar-wind-power-get-pentagon-boost-san.html

US Power Generation - Coal, Nat Gas, Nuc, Renew

The decline of US coal, in three charts

Washington Post (blog) - ‎20 minutes ago‎

Coal has been the most popular way to generate electricity in America for as long as electricity has been around. For decades, coal's top spot seemed unassailable. But that's all changing, incredibly rapidly. For a variety of reasons - from the advent

Nuclear power hard to justify in cheap gas world: GE Reuters

Nuclear power hard to justify in cheap gas world: GE

Reuters - ‎4 hours ago‎

LONDON (Reuters) - Nuclear power has become hard to justify as the shale gas revolution creates an abundance of natural gas that makes it the fuel of choice to back up renewables, the chief executive of General Electric told the Financial Times on Monday.

GE Chief: Nuclear 'hard to justify' CNN

GE Chief: Nuclear 'hard to justify'

CNN - ‎4 hours ago‎

Mr Immelt played down the impact of changing energy trends on a company as large as GE, which reported annual profits of $13bn for 2011 (on revenues of $142bn) and sells products for every leading source of energy, from gas and wind turbines nuclear ...

The Fight For Our Future Woodstock Times

The Fight For Our Future

Woodstock Times - ‎39 minutes ago‎

Fracking for natural gas, mountaintop removal coal mining, nuclear power plants, deep sea drilling, tar sands- all examples of “extreme energies” which are not only destroying communities across the country, polluting the air and water, ...

Cost puts nuclear plants in doubt Utility Products

http://www.utilityproducts.com/news/2012/03/25/cost-puts-nuclear-plants-in-doubt.html