Callaway Energy Center - one of the completed, historic SNUPPS nuclear plants. Photo courtesy AMEREN Missouri.

by Will Davis

Editor's Note: Josep Rey Cases is a new nuclear enthusiast writer from Spain. This is his first article on the ANS Nuclear Cafe. 

Editor's Note: The Department of Energy's Richard S. Goorevich answered questions posed by American Nuclear Society members to clarify details regarding the 10 CFR 810 rule: Assistance to Foreign Atomic Energy Activities, which goes into effect March 25, 2015. 

Tihange Nuclear Plant, Belgium. Courtesy Electrabel.

The years-long saga surrounding the reactor pressure vessels at the Doel-3 nuclear power plant and Tihange-2 NPP in Belgium has taken another turn, pushing these units back into the broader news cycle and renewing calls from some (uninformed) quarters for further worldwide action and/or permanent shutdowns.

The 248th Nuclear Energy Blogger Carnival is being held this week right here at ANS Nuclear Cafe!

The 247th edition of the Nuclear Energy Blog Carnival has posted at Neutron Bytes.

by Beth Kelly

The 246th edition of the Nuclear Energy Blog Carnival has posted at the Energy Reality Project.

Dresden Nuclear Generating Station; photo courtesy Exelon

By Will Davis

The 245th edition of the Nuclear Energy Blog Carnival has posted at the Hiroshima Syndrome's Fukushima Commentary.

This is the last of the three-part series presenting the opinions of nuclear industry experts on the closing of Vermont Yankee.  Thank you to Dan Yurman for helping to coordinate all of the authors/articles in this three-part series.

This is the second of three posts presenting the professional opinions of experts in the nuclear field on the Yankee Vermont closing.

Although the nuclear power station known as Vermont Yankee had another 18 years left on its license, it was shut down for economic reasons at the end of 2014. Entergy Corporation,the plant's owner, and others have cited the low price of natural gas in the region as deterministic, but the reality is that many other issues were also at play.

By Leslie Corrice

The 243rd Nuclear Energy Blog Carnival has been posted at Neutron Bytes.

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There was a time in our not too distant past when a brochure such as that above-entitled "Yankee Ingenuity," and published in 1982 by the Nuclear Information Committee of the Electric Council of New England-carried a message that rang true. The imagery of the mill house, as an early cornerstone of commerce employed widely across New England, was coupled with the image of a nuclear power plant. The Northeast had a tendency for doing what was necessary to advance commerce and break away from foreign control. In short, it was the "Yankee spirit."

by Jim Hopf