 |
Louisiana Light • 2 days | 86.60 | -0.08 | -0.09% | ||
|
Bonny Light • 23 hours | 88.69 | -0.04 | -0.05% | ||
|
Opec Basket • 2 days | 87.35 | -2.29 | -2.55% | ||
|
Mars US • 168 days | 77.67 | -1.57 | -1.98% | ||
|
Gasoline • 7 hours | 2.710 | -0.003 | -0.13% |
|
Bonny Light • 23 hours | 88.69 | -0.04 | -0.05% | ||
|
Girassol • 23 hours | 89.20 | -0.10 | -0.11% | ||
|
Opec Basket • 2 days | 87.35 | -2.29 | -2.55% |
|
Peace Sour • 14 hours | 75.30 | -0.05 | -0.07% | ||
|
Light Sour Blend • 14 hours | 78.35 | -0.05 | -0.06% | ||
|
Syncrude Sweet Premium • 14 hours | 85.30 | -0.05 | -0.06% | ||
|
Central Alberta • 14 hours | 75.70 | -0.05 | -0.07% |
|
Eagle Ford • 2 days | 79.21 | +0.04 | +0.05% | ||
|
Oklahoma Sweet • 2 days | 79.25 | +0.00 | +0.00% | ||
|
Kansas Common • 3 days | 73.00 | -2.50 | -3.31% | ||
|
Buena Vista • 3 days | 86.86 | -2.40 | -2.69% |
Uranium Stocks Poised for Breakout As Nuclear Resurgence Gains Momentum
The world is witnessing a…
Deficit in Grid Capacity Threatens European Energy Policy Targets
Several European countries are facing…
Alternative Energy / Nuclear Power
Black Sea "Perfect Storm" Damages Romanian Nuke Plant, Wind Farm
Unprecedented storm wreaks havoc on Romania’s energy sector – yet another sign of changing global weather patterns?Ever since an earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011 effectively destroyed…
Clinton Shills for Westinghouse Nuclear Project in Czechoslovakia
One of the more problematic Soviet legacies of the USSR’s nearly five-decade domination of Eastern Europe is a series of nuclear power plants. The Soviet nuclear legacy includes two reactors…
Nuclear Companies Hope Small Is Beautiful
You can design a reactor in a hundred ways. It is like the French cheese dilemma; because there are some 500 cheeses in France, who is to say which are…
Thorium To Be Tested in a Working Nuclear Reactor
A Norwegian company led by Alf Bjørseth will start burning thorium fuel in a conventional test reactor owned by Norway’s government with help from U.S.-based nuclear giant Westinghouse.
What Happens IF Cold Fusion Does Become Reality?
Mark Gibbs recently wrote a very interesting article for Forbes titled “Cold Fusion and Unintended Consequences”, discussing the unintended side effects that could potentially occur if cold fusion really…
Obama's Nuclear Power Plans
This week in energy, let’s go nuclear for a change. And let’s start with the Obama administration’s plans for a new generation of nuclear power. This time around…
Duke Energy Downplays Flooding Risk at Oconee Nuclear Plant
Of the 34 nuclear facilities from South Carolina to Vermont in Hurricane Sandy's path, 24 continued to operate safely and generate electricity throughout the event. Seven were already shut…
South Korean Nuclear Plants Riddled with Substandard Parts
The Japanese nuclear disaster of 11 March 2011 occurred when an offshore earthquake, which measured 9.0 on the Richter scale, was followed by a tsunami that effectively destroyed Tokyo…
Iran's Nuclear Plant Entering Final Stages?
Iran’s controversial nuclear power plant at Bushehr is entering its final staging with a series of new tests due to be performed shortly, after which the site is expected to…
East Coast Nuclear Power Plants Dodge Hurricane Devastation - For Now
As the U.S. eastern seaboard begins the weary and expensive process of digging out from the devastating effects of Hurricane Sandy, nuclear power plant (NPP) operators are trumpeting their facilities’…
Boron: A New Nuclear Fuel Which Holds Far More Energy than Originally Thought
Tri-Alpha Energy has allowed a bit of its research out into the world with a 79 page pdf document rich in background, results of the efforts early research, and…
Despite Fukushima, China Embraces Nuclear Power
The 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami double disaster that destroyed Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s six reactor complex at Fukushima Daiichi was a startling reminder to the global community of…
Australian-Indian Uranium Deal Drives Another Stake into the NPT
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), which entered into force in 1970, was designed to prevent nuclear weapons proliferation while dangling the carrot of cooperation in the…
South Korea - Most Dangerous Nuclear Center on the Planet
While the world seems to have overlooked the consequences of the 11 March 2011 debacle at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi six reactor nuclear power plant (NPP) complex, the fact remains that…
Uranium Woes: No Relief for Prices Amid Low Demand
Spot prices for uranium hit a two-year low last week at $45.75 amid a pending decision over Japan’s nuclear future, excess uranium inventories and slowing growth in China.Japan…
Nuclear Waste: A Valuable Source of Energy
Next week in Toronto, nuclear scientists and government functionaries from around the world will gather to talk about different ways to bury nuclear waste deep underground, inaccessible to ordinary human…
Confidence in Nuclear Power is on the Rise Again
The Nuclear Energy Institute announced a September telephone survey in a press release suggesting almost two thirds of U.S. adults favor the use of nuclear energy as one of…
Nuclear Power Plants at Risk from a Tsunami
Researchers at the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) of the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium have completed and published their study on nuclear power…
A Giant Step Forward in Nuclear Fusion
Fusion reactors heat a plasma of the hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium under immense pressure until their nuclei overcome the natural force of repulsion and fuse together. Upon fusing they…
Three Mile Island NPP in the News Yet Again - but Nothing to Worry About
On 20 September the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant experienced an automatic shutdown at 2:20 p.m.According to TMI NPP spokesman Ralph DeSantis, "There's absolutely no danger…
