The three videos below all appear on NEI’s dedicated YouTube page, the NEI Network. More videos will be offered in the coming days to provide perspectives on events in Japan. I’ll post them here as they appear and, if you cast your eyes rightward, you will see that we are tweeting them, too. But they will all be housed at YouTube. It’s worth a visit, as there are a lot of other interesting videos there on a range of nuclear energy topics. By all means, explore the offerings and see what you think.
You know, it’s kind of sad that no one is willing to invest in nuclear energy anymore. Wait, what? NuScale Power celebrated the news of its company-saving $30 million investment from Fluor Corp. Thursday morning with a press conference in Washington, D.C. Fluor is a design, engineering and construction company involved with some 20 plants in the 70s and 80s, but it has not held interest in a nuclear energy company until now. Fluor, which has deep roots in the nuclear industry, is betting big on small-scale nuclear energy with its NuScale investment. "It's become a serious contender in the last decade or so," John Hopkins, [Fluor’s group president in charge of new ventures], said. And that brings us to NuScale, which had run into some dark days – maybe not as dark as, say, Solyndra, but dire enough : Earlier this year, the Securities Exchange Commission filed an action against NuScale's lead investor, The Michael Kenwood Group. The firm "misap...
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