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Japan’s Oil Demand Could Rise — or Fall

Posted: April 20, 2011 at 9:11 am

There are seriously diverging views on the demand for oil in Japan as the country works to recover from the devastation caused by the earthquake and tsunami that struck the ...
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Shaw Group Confession, Trouble for Nuclear Power Players (SHAW, URS, BWC, FLR, ES)

Posted: April 11, 2011 at 11:20 am

It's not likely that earnings and revenues for The Shaw Group Inc. (NYSE: SHAW) took too great a hit from the nuclear disaster in Japan, but what happens for the ...
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Alternative Energy Watch: US Nukes Safe Americans Tell Gallup; Wind Installations Lag in 2010 (ARVCF, EXC, DE, AMAT, ASML, WFR, SPWRA, STP, YGE, XEL, GE, PCG)

Posted: April 5, 2011 at 11:18 am

It is time for our daily review of the alternative energy sector. The pollsters at Gallup asked US citizens in the last week of March if they thought US nuclear ...
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Alternative Energy Watch: Renewable Investment; No Vermont Yankee Buyer; Cloudy Days for Solar (RDS-A, CZZ, EXC, DE, SI, ETR)

Posted: March 31, 2011 at 11:45 am

Here's our daily report on developments in solar and wind power, alternative fuels, and other news related to the alternative energy sector. PricewaterhouseCoopers has released a report on M&A activity ...
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Alternative Energy Daily: Nukes Face Less Certain Future (CCJ, PALAF, ADM, VLO)

Posted: March 22, 2011 at 3:01 pm

It's time for the 3:00 PM "Alternative Energy Daily" for developments in solar and wind power, alternative fuels, and other news related to the sector.  As with so much in the past ...
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US Companies That Will Replace Japan’s Nuclear Generation Shortfall (BTU, ACI, ANR, CNX, XOM, CVX, COP, CHK)

Posted: March 17, 2011 at 1:11 pm

Japanese officials have confirmed 4,340 dead and 9,083 still missing as a result of the earthquake and tsunami that hit the country a week ago, according to London's Daily Mail ...
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Are U.S. Nuclear Power Plant Operators Really at Business Risk? (CCJ, USU, XLU, AEE, CEG, ETR, EXC, FE, PGN, SO)

Posted: March 16, 2011 at 4:35 pm

It goes without saying that nuclear power has hit skid row.  The damage to the industry that has been caused by the earthquake and the tsunami which followed in Japan ...
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Fukushima Reactors Same Age, Design as Vermont Yankee (ETR, GE)

Posted: March 15, 2011 at 12:10 pm

It's no surprise that the disaster at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power generating site is causing a re-thinking of global nuclear policy. It is not even surprising that it took a ...
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Nuclear Power Gets Killed All Over Again, Japan-Watch (PKN, NUCL, URA, USU, CCJ, SHAW, URRE, GE)

Posted: March 15, 2011 at 8:25 am

The second day sell-off and panic in Japan has gotten even worse than what was expected and is now far worse than the immediate reaction after the 1995 Kobe earthquake ...
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D.C. Policy: Keep Supporting Nuclear Power At Home (PKN, NUCL, USU, CCJ, SHAW)

Posted: March 14, 2011 at 8:52 pm

Nuclear power as a carbon-free movement and as a path to energy independence in America is not likely to get sidelined in the immediate aftermath of the Sendai, Japan earthquake.  ...
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The Eight ETFs Which Owe Japan (KOL, TAN, KWT, PBW, EWV, UNG, GAZ, NAGS)

Posted: March 14, 2011 at 2:35 pm

The news coming out of Japan for its nuclear reactors is sadly starting to now get more media coverage than the vast death toll.  The projected death toll is somewhere ...
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Japan’s Disaster Kills Nuclear Ambitions, Boost for Nat-Gas (BHP, RIO, CCJ, DNN, UEC, USU, URRE, URG, URZ, URA, GE, SHAW, XOM, CVX, RDS-A)

Posted: March 14, 2011 at 10:15 am

Following the disaster in Japan, and particularly the explosions in one one of the country's 53 nuclear power generating reactors, the reactions of other nations with nuclear power plants either ...
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Japan Nuclear Fallout’s Silver Lining: Solar Soars (FSLR, SPWRA, STP, LDK, JASO, CSIQ, SOLR, ENER, WFR, TAN)

Posted: March 14, 2011 at 9:42 am

The possible nuclear power reactor meltdown in Japan is killing anything tied to nuclear energy today.  As with most events, there is generally a silver lining elsewhere.  It just so ...
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Special Japan Coverage: The Financial Fallout–Nikkei Ends Up 5.7%%, DJIA Off 1.2% For The Day

Posted: March 14, 2011 at 8:41 am

3.20 AM The Nikkei ended up 5.7% higher as problems with leaking reactors appeared to be temporarily under control. 8.50 PM The Nikkei recovered some of its lost ground in ...
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Uranium, Nuclear Energy Moving Forward, But USEC is Not (USU, URRE, UEC, URG, URZ, GE, CCJ, HIT, URA)

Posted: February 23, 2011 at 12:40 pm

Uranium processor USEC Inc. (NYSE: USU) reported earnings this morning and offered some partial guidance for 2011. The company's fourth-quarter diluted EPS came to $0.05 on revenue $666.4 million, compared ...
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