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Reprocessing now Chic?

So is the logic of recycling uranium as straightforward as that for recycling an aluminum can?  Philosophy Professor Benham Taebi at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands has a

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Spray-on solar

EnSol, a Norwegian company, is developing a spray-on photovoltaic coatin

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Civilian power, nuclear fuel, and proliferation

A few useful resources on the potential links between civilian nuclear power and proliferation from NPEC.  Here's a couple of recent postings by Henry Sokolski on the http://npolicy.o

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DOE remains mum on multi-billion dollar loan guarantee risks; litigation has begun

It is hard to imagine the executives of a public company extending an $8.3 billion line of credit to a risky new venture, and then be unwilling to provide any detail to shareholders on how they eva

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How to speed up energy innovation

Professor Rebecca Henderson of Harvard Business School, with coauthor Richard Newell, is publishing a new book, Accelerating Innovati

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Bloomberg media promotes subsidy study by Bloomberg-owned consultancy, but doesn't provide access to the actual study

The internet has been aflutter with the findings by New Energy Finance that conventional fuels receive way more in subsidies than does renewable energy.  The press coverage generally refers to

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Manomet biomass study: ending biomass simplicity in MA?

I wanted to call attention to an important study released last month by the Manomet Center for Conservat

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Welcome back to Green Scissors

After a many-year hiatus, I'm happy to welcome back the Green Scissors report.  Green Scissors 2010 documents environmentally

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Liability reform and oil spills: Drawing the wrong lessons from Price-Anderson

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill clearly demonstrated that really bad accidents -- the ones that the industry (and too often the government as well) say never happen -- do actually happen sometimes.

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GE Hitachi Sr. VP: Government should sell our reactors for us

The July 8, 2010 edition of Nucleonics Week (not available on the web) included a fairly remarkable article by Ann MacLachlan on Danny Roderick, senior vice president of new projects for G

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Earth Track Publications

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Mapping the Characteristics of Producer Subsidies: A review of pilot country studies

The ability to undertake any meaningful subsidy reforms, either nationally or multilaterally, is hampered by a basic lack of knowledge about the extent of support to the sector and where informatio

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Review of selected nuclear tax subsidies in the American Power Act

This memo evaluates three tax subsidies to nuclear power contained in the American Power Act (APA): 5-year accelerated depreciation for reactors; a 10% investment tax credit; and an expansion of a

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EIA Energy Subsidy Estimates: A Review of Assumptions and Omissions

This Review provides the most detailed look to date at gaps in federal tracking of energy subsidies.  In addition to evaluating the research approach used by the US

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Resource Library

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Subsidy Estimation: A survey of current practice

This document is addressed primarily to those individuals who are interested in preparing estimat ...

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Wood-based bioenergy: the green lie

Adapted from the report's introduction:

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Biomass Sustainability and Carbon Policy Study

This study addresses a wide array of scientific, economic and technological issues related to the ...

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Nuclear Energy Loses Cost Advantage

Identifying the real costs of competing energy technologies is complicated by the wide range of ...

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