Editor's Note: Cleaning Up the Blogroll

At the behest of one of our friends from AREVA, we took a quick inventory of the links in our blogroll and got to business cleaning things up. Over the years, we've been pretty liberal about who we included in that list, especially when it came to extended periods of inactivity.

There are a number of reasons for this, not the least of which was the fact that a number of blogs listed here played an important part in online conversation about the industry during the early days of NEI Nuclear Notes. If an when any of our friends online take a break, we generally like to let them know that we haven't forgotten about them, and if and when they ever decide to come back, we'd be happy to see them return to the conversation.

Still, in checking over the links, things had clearly gotten a bit overgrown. In general, if a blog hadn't been updated in six months or more, we pruned it from the list. That of course begs the next question: are there any new blogs that we ought to be following now that aren't currently on our list? If there are, drop off the URLs in the comment box below.

Comments

NuclearStreet.com said…

http://nuclearstreet.com/pro_nuclear_power_blogs/b/science-history-nuclear/default.aspx

August 22, 2013 at 9:34 AM

Meredith Angwin said…

How about Progressives for Nuclear Progress, the blog you welcomed yesterday.

http://nuclearprogress.org/

Also, I am not sure, but I think the Nuclear Literacy Project has a blog. Hmm...I went to the site, but there are posts in several areas, not a place I can point to and say: "This is the blog." Maybe Suzy can help with this.

August 22, 2013 at 1:13 PM

Ernest said…

The Nuclear Townhall has an opinions blog: http://www.nucleartownhall.com/blog/

August 22, 2013 at 1:32 PM

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