Tag Archives: Nuclear

A recent article in The Economist (see here) discussed the idea of building floating nuclear power plants.  (Maybe even submarines.)  The idea of having mobile power plants is not new, and obviously have been nuclear powered military ships for years.  This is certainly a way to deal with many of

I discovered a new visualization on Tableau Public recently.  It shows historic electricity generation by fuel type for all fifty states from 1990 to 2014. (The website says energy production, but after doing some digging I confirmed it is actually electricity production.) Below is a screenshot

Bloomberg came out with an article this week saying half of US nuclear plants are losing money. (see here)  This blog has discussed the issue in the past. (See here)  The announced closing of Three Mile Island a few weeks ago is obviously consistent with the new Bloomberg article. One thing tha

Page B1 of yesterday’s Wall Street Journal (online version here) and page 28 of the December 26 issue of Bloomberg Businessweek (online version here) contained articles discussing the difficulties US nuclear generators are having in today's low cost natural gas environment.  The WSJ article shows