USEC Inc. (NYSE: USU) is soaring on news that it may have a bit of a reprieve on its capital needs for the construction of the American Centrifuge Plant in ... Read Full Story »
No US politician ever lost an election by opposing a nuclear waste dump. That's why the latest report on from a US Department of Energy commission will end up in ... Read Full Story »
Vale SA (NYSE: VALE), one of the world's leading producers of iron ore posted record profit in the first quarter of $6.8 billion. Even discounting a one-time gain on the ... Read Full Story »
Today's alternative energy news includes recent changes to Italian solar subsidies, restrictions on biomass electricity generation, and comments by Bill Gates on energy innovation. After 10 years of booming growth, ... Read Full Story »
Alternative energy news for today takes a look at the merger of Exelon Corp. (NYSE: EXC) and Constellation Energy Group, Inc. (NYSE: CEG), the piling up of new woes at ... Read Full Story »
Today's alt energy news leads off with the latest developments for two nuclear power plants. The Cape Wind project also got the go-ahead from the federal government, and a new ... Read Full Story »
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 ... Read Full Story »
Nuclear energy has gone out of vogue. The price of gasoline has risen quickly. And, now, the price of ethanol is about to soar. Corn prices have doubled to nearly ... Read Full Story »
It's time for our "Alternative Energy Daily" report covering solar, nukes, utilities and more. Utilities with large nuclear power generation assets are also seeing pressure as more concerns surface related ... Read Full Story »
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 ... Read Full Story »
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 ... Read Full Story »
If Germany, where most of the public hates nuclear power, plans to extend the life of its nuclear reactors, the world has entered a new atomic age. In fact, more ... Read Full Story »