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LETTER: Renewable energy will exhaust economy Fossil fuels still the answer, not renewables pushed by Dems trying to limit opportunity Check out this story on mycentraljersey.com: http://mycj.co/1rCCybE Wind-powered turbines spin at the Atlantic County Utilities Authority headquarters in Atlantic City.

To reach one of the world's most secretive nuclear-fusion companies, visitors must wind their way through a suburban office park at the foot of the Santa Ana Mountains, just east of Irvine, California, until they pull up outside the large but unmarked headquarters of Tri Alpha Energy.

A lone nuclear power plant, Columbia Generating Station , near Richland, Wash., generated a record 9.7 billion kilowatt hours of electricity for the fiscal year that ended June 30. The reactor has been operating since 1984 and has produced well over 200 billion kWhrs of electricity averaging between 4 and 5 per kWhr.

U.S. nuclear regulators may need to shuffle staff as fewer nuclear plants are built and financial pressures prompt utilities to shutter existing plants, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chair Allison Macfarlane said Monday.

The offtake component of the agreement allows CNNC to purchase its pro-rata share of product from Langer Heinrich at the prevailing market spot price.

Kenneth Miller is taking over the job at the Southern Nuclear Operating plant near Columbia.

ABC 666's Genevieve Jacobs will talk with three of the nation's most compelling experts on an issue we cannot continue to ignore.

A November 15, 2007 Heritage backgrounder " Competitive Nuclear Energy Investment: Avoiding Past Policy Mistakes " provides a brief history of anti-nuclear activists and regulatory turbulence, counseling that, this time around, we must act to avoid those enormous costs.

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership has multinational companies and transnational law firms on both sides of the Atlantic foaming at their mouths.

HESCO's deployable barrier system is pictured protecting the inner harbor naval canal in New Orleans during Hurricane Gustav.

The Environmental Protection Agency is considering a review of its 1977 rule that limits the amount of whole-body radiation that any member of the public can be exposed to as a result of the uranium fuel cycle.

Asia-Pacific is the most prominent emerging nuclear region in the world, with 13.8 Gigawatts of planned and proposed nuclear power until 2030.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Monday that the Nebraska and Omaha Public Power Districts will now have until next Feb. 4 to complete their review.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Monday that the Nebraska and Omaha Public Power Districts will now have until next Feb. 4 to complete their review.

The proposal for a housing development on a site off Roes Lane, Crich, was put forward by Gladman Developments in May this year.

When is South Africa's nuclear programme going to get out of the starting blocks? Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson had a lot to say in her budget vote speech yesterday, but the presentation lacked specifics and time frames.

We all need to march to our state capitols on one day and say, 'Enough soldiers dying for people who hate us.

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor is an experimental fusion reactor being constructed at Cadarache in the south of France.

Following the loss of the Malaysian airliner last week, European leaders are once again wrestling with the question of how to respond to Russia over its role in the Ukraine crisis.

Macfarlane said NRC officials are in the early stages of researching how to reposition its roughly 3,800-member workforce as the industry's outlook changes.