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Middle East Countries Race for Nuclear Power

(Sept. 24) -- Nations in the Middle East, rich in oil, natural gas and volatile politics, are pursuing nuclear power with a headlong vigor that gives some analysts pause. As Iran finally loads radioactive fuel into its long-stalled plant in the port city of Bushehr, 12 other countries in the region are taking steps...

Opinion: Avoid the Temptation to Bash 'Big Oil'

(June 14) -- "You won't lose votes bashing ... Big Oil." That's how equity analyst David Hart put it recently. And on Tuesday, lawmakers will get a chance to test that proposition, as the heads of all the big oil companies get set "for grilling" at a congressional hearing. But tempting as it is to bash "Big Oil,"...

Nuclear Offer Kindles GOP Interest but Doesn't Thaw Debate

WASHINGTON (Feb. 17) -- President Obama may have thought $8.3 billion in federal loan guarantees for the nuclear power industry would warm Republicans to his climate change agenda, but it doesn't seem enough yet to defrost work on energy legislation that has been frozen all winter. "We're not selling votes here," said...

Obama Backs Nuclear Plants With Billions in Loans

WASHINGTON (Feb. 16) -- President Barack Obama stepped forward as a major champion of nuclear power today with the announcement of $8.3 billion in federal loan guarantees for two new reactors in Georgia proposed by Southern Company, a giant -- and controversial -- step in a nation where no new nuclear units have been...

Opinion: The 5 Worst Expert Predictions About the Future

(Nov. 18) -- Here are the five worst expert predictions made in the past about how the world would look today. Plankton on the Menu Experts in the 1950s, '60s and '70s believed that runaway population growth would lead, at worst, to mass starvation, with not just millions but billions of people dying. To cope, several...

Background on nuclear energy

Nuclear power is the use of sustained nuclear fission to generate heat and electricity. Nuclear power plants provide about 6% of the world's energy and 13–14% of the world's electricity, with the U.S., France, and Japan together accounting for about 50% of nuclear generated electricity.

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