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Tuesday, during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing, Senator John Barrasso criticized the Department of Energy's (DOE) management of its excess uranium stockpiles. He noted that DOE's policy of forcing too much of its uranium stockpile into the market will artificially drive down uranium prices, undercutting domestic uranium mining and hurting jobs in Wyoming. "There is a lot at stake for Wyoming jobs and the uranium industry's investment in Wyoming. The Department's short-sighted proposal promises temporary jobs in Ohio at the expense of long-term jobs in Wyoming," said Barrasso.

Tuesday, during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing, Senator John Barrasso criticized the Department of Energy's (DOE) management of its excess uranium stockpiles. He noted that DOE's policy of forcing too much of its uranium stockpile into the market will artificially drive down uranium prices, undercutting domestic uranium mining and hurting jobs in Wyoming. "There is a lot at stake for Wyoming jobs and the uranium industry's investment in Wyoming. The Department's short-sighted proposal promises temporary jobs in Ohio at the expense of long-term jobs in Wyoming," said Barrasso.

"Gov. Phil Bredesen said Tuesday that he would work with State Sen. Lowe Finney (D-Jackson) and other federal and state lawmakers to keep more than 500 ammunition production jobs at the Milan Arsenal. Bredesen has brought thousands of jobs to this state, and he told me today that he is just as intent in keeping them here, Finney said after wrapping up a Monday afternoon conference call with Governor Phil Bredesen and other state officials regarding the arsenal. An Army proposal would move the jobs to Iowa and replace them with depleted uranium to be stored at the Milan facility. "The exchange is an unfair one for Gibson and Carroll counties, which are already suffering with double-digit unemployment." "Here you have rural counties that could use some help, and now they re talking about taking away more jobs," Finney said. "I'm not going to sit back and let that happen. We need to show that we are serious about keeping these jobs." "

Thousands of people from some of South Carolina's most depressed counties are flocking to information sessions for new jobs cleaning up an old nuclear weapons complex. Some of the 2,000 people at a job fair in Barnwell this week say they don't mind that the job is cleaning up nuclear waste at the Savannah River Site. They say the economy is so bad that just about any job sounds good.

"About $2 billion in federal stimulus money has been spent in Washington state, creating or retaining tens of thousands of jobs in the state, state officials said Monday. State and local government workers submitted an update to the federal government this past weekend to track stimulus spending. The federal government reported Friday that about 600,000 jobs have been saved or created under President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan. Gov. Chris Gregoire said about 45,000 jobs have been retained or created since the stimulus money first started being released early last year. About 14,000 of those have come since October. Job creation at a time when the state is in the midst of a 9.5 percent unemployment rate is especially important, Gregoire said."

The myriad arguments against Ontario's excessive reliance on nuclear energy aside, let's examine Premier Dalton McGuinty's $26 billion nuclear plan from a purely economic point of view. The project will create some 3,500 construction jobs over 10 years, with another 1,000 permanent jobs that will presumably last for the 35-year life of the reactors. That's the equivalent of 2,142 full-time jobs lasting 35 years each.

Don Gillispie's April 29 letter to the editor was breathtaking in its inaccuracies, misstatements, and flat out lies. If this is the best the chief executive officer of the company that hopes to jam a nuclear reactor in the heart of Elmore County farmland can offer, then the opponents of Alternate Energy Holdings, Inc., have grossly overestimated its challenge in fighting the reactor. Mr. Gillispie seems obsessed with stickers, having devoted much of his op-ed to who was wearing what kinds of stickers. It is well known in this community that Mr. Gillispie's green AEHI stickers were doled out to those who handed his company resumes or letters asking for jobs and being told to go inside to speak out in favor of the reactor in return. It is also well known in this community that the jobs they are seeking are illusory. Even in Mr. Gillispie's most fantastic imagination, no dirt will turn on the site for another seven to 10 years. Given the time it will take to identify a legitimate U.S. --certified reactor (he has none) and then to submit and process a power plant application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), there simply is no way it could happen sooner. The fact AEHI was trolling for job applications on April 22 before the County Commission hearing on the rezone application is the height of cynicism. If a generic department store were to come to Mountain Home and seek applications for a job at a store that would open in 2017, it would be laughed out of the county. The fact it's a nuclear reactor means it's no laughing matter.

"The United Steelworkers union has complained that a government-backed plan to build two nuclear reactors in Georgia will create jobs overseas that should go to American workers. Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This Image Erik S. Lesser/European Pressphoto Agency The Vogtle nuclear power plant in Waynesboro, Ga. A new project would create construction jobs at the plant. Construction vehicles at the Vogtle nuclear power plant in Waynesboro, Ga. Southern Company hopes to operate new reactors. President Obama announced the government's approval of an $8.3 billion loan guarantee for the construction of the reactors on Tuesday, saying that one benefit of the project would be to create jobs. But in a letter sent to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the international president of the union, Leo W. Gerard, said that he was concerned about "the potential foreign sourcing of components for these reactors," which he said "limits our nation's ability to address our unacceptably high unemployment rate.""

I have previously discussed the non-job-creating $50 billion in nuclear loan guarantees the Senate put into the stimulus (see "Can Obama stop the nuclear bomb in the Senate stimulus plan?" For the record it was Sen. Robert Bennett (R-UT), which I point out merely because R-UT perfectly describes thinking behind this farce. Not only won't these loans generate any jobs in Obama's first term, but as Peter Bradford, former member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, explained to me, it could actually kill jobs. How?

Construction of a new nuclear power plant in Michigan could cost the state jobs, according to Peter Bradford, a former Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner who toured the state last month. "No state has ever succeeded in improving its jobs picture by building unnecessarily expensive power plants," he said in a phone interview. "The reason is the impact of high rate on the customers in commercial and industrial class."

The Department of Energy (DOE) announced Tuesday that the Savannah River Site (SRS) will receive $1.615 billion in stimulus funds to accelerate decommissioning work and create as many as 3,000 jobs. "This is a tremendous opportunity for us to safely and efficiently create jobs," said Helen Belencan, Recovery Act project manager for DOE - Savannah River. "We have been given the public's trust to use the money wisely ... and with transparency." The projects will accelerate decommissioning of nuclear facilities and contaminated areas throughout the Site, including in-place decommissioning of two nuclear materials production reactors. Jobs financed with stimulus dollars are also aimed at early completion of clean-up programs and reducing the Site's protected area by 40 percent, or 79,000 acres, by September 2011.

USEC Inc. said Monday about 120 employees and more than 850 workers for suppliers have lost their jobs since the Energy Department delayed a final review of the company's application for a $2 billion loan guarantee to finance a uranium-enrichment plant in southern Ohio. USEC suspended work on the project in August after the government's decision over its plans for the American Centrifuge plant in Piketon. Job losses have occurred in eight states with Ohio and Tennessee having the largest losses. USEC said it is continuing with demonstration activities for the project and wants to be in a position to ramp back up should it be approved for the loan guarantees in 2010. The company said it hopes to update its application for the loan guarantee by early next year.

USEC Inc. said Monday about 120 employees and more than 850 workers for suppliers have lost their jobs since the Energy Department delayed a final review of the company's application for a $2 billion loan guarantee to finance a uranium-enrichment plant in southern Ohio. USEC suspended work on the project in August after the government's decision over its plans for the American Centrifuge plant in Piketon. Job losses have occurred in eight states with Ohio and Tennessee having the largest losses. USEC said it is continuing with demonstration activities for the project and wants to be in a position to ramp back up should it be approved for the loan guarantees in 2010. The company said it hopes to update its application for the loan guarantee by early next year.

"Connecticut has two sites for nuclear power reactors that can be used for the salvation of Connecticut's current inventory of high-wage unemployed manufacturing and construction workers, and for long-term, high-paying plant operations jobs after two 10 year periods of construction. Connecticut can have the low-cost power to bring manufacturing back to the state! Now that is job opportunity, direct and resultant. Can Dominion tell us what subsidy or guarantees it would t need to construct such plants? Will it? Can and will the appropriate White House czar certify the availability of such stimulus funds for a sure-thing job-creation initiative that fills Connecticut's future electricity demand free of carbon emissions? Will Connecticut act now? Will our state's manufacturing workers and worker unions demand it?"

Construction of a new Fermi 3 nuclear power plant by DTE Energy would boost jobs and tax base in Monroe County, but could harm the state's overall economy in the long run, a former federal Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner said Thursday. "The tax benefits, in particular, are uncontestable and the local job benefits as well," said Peter Bradford, who served on the NRC from 1977-82. But he said the resulting rise in electric costs could cause firms to flee the state and discourage others from settling in Michigan, ultimately eroding the state's overall tax base. "No state ever created a net increase in jobs by raising electric rates to commercial and industrial customers more than necessary to maintain supply," he said. "A new nuclear plant in Michigan also will do nothing to further the success of hybrid automobiles."

This is a table of listing dozens of job categories and the number of jobs created, either direct, indirect, or induced. It includes a total of the three. Note that nuclear power is one of the worst on the list.

The company building a new facility in Newport News to build components for nuclear reactors has decided to end its fuel-assembly production in Lynchburg and expand its operations in Richland, Wash. Areva said this week it will consolidate the two operations, resulting in a job loss of about 150 in Lynchburg. Areva has operated the Washington facility for 40 years. Areva spokeswoman Judy Thomas told the Tri-City Herald, a newspaper based in Kennewick, Wash., that the 150 employees in Lynchburg will be given first choice for 50 new jobs in Richland, where Areva has 700 employees. The French-owned energy service company announced last year it will build a $2 billion uranium enrichment plant at Idaho Falls, Idaho. It will produce a raw material for the Richland plant to turn into fuel assemblies for nuclear reactors. Areva plans to open its Newport News manufacturing plant, a joint venture with Northrop Grumman, by 2011 on the James River waterfront near the shipyard.

The company building a new facility in Newport News to build components for nuclear reactors has decided to end its fuel-assembly production in Lynchburg and expand its operations in Richland, Wash. Areva said this week it will consolidate the two operations, resulting in a job loss of about 150 in Lynchburg. Areva has operated the Washington facility for 40 years. Areva spokeswoman Judy Thomas told the Tri-City Herald, a newspaper based in Kennewick, Wash., that the 150 employees in Lynchburg will be given first choice for 50 new jobs in Richland, where Areva has 700 employees. The French-owned energy service company announced last year it will build a $2 billion uranium enrichment plant at Idaho Falls, Idaho. It will produce a raw material for the Richland plant to turn into fuel assemblies for nuclear reactors. Areva plans to open its Newport News manufacturing plant, a joint venture with Northrop Grumman, by 2011 on the James River waterfront near the shipyard.

Ex-official said to have sought jobs from firms while on panel A former member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission violated government ethics rules by directly contacting potential employers with business before the NRC before the end of his term in mid-2007, according to a report by the commission's inspector general. Jeffrey S. Merrifield twice cast votes on matters involving companies he had contacted about job prospects, the report says. The firms -- the Shaw Group, Toshiba's Westinghouse Electric and General Electric -- "could potentially have benefited financially from his votes . . . during the specific timeframes in which Merrifield was negotiating with the three companies," the report concludes.

Ex-official said to have sought jobs from firms while on panel A former member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission violated government ethics rules by directly contacting potential employers with business before the NRC before the end of his term in mid-2007, according to a report by the commission's inspector general. Jeffrey S. Merrifield twice cast votes on matters involving companies he had contacted about job prospects, the report says. The firms -- the Shaw Group, Toshiba's Westinghouse Electric and General Electric -- "could potentially have benefited financially from his votes . . . during the specific timeframes in which Merrifield was negotiating with the three companies," the report concludes.

Harold Copeland took an engineering job at the Hanford nuclear reservation in 1947, swayed by a recruiter's pitch that he would be paid a good wage and could live in a house with his wife in the government-owned town of Richland. He took the job and the house rented for $38 a month, which also included power, water, grass seed and handymen to change the light bulbs.

Harold Copeland took an engineering job at the Hanford nuclear reservation in 1947, swayed by a recruiter's pitch that he would be paid a good wage and could live in a house with his wife in the government-owned town of Richland. He took the job and the house rented for $38 a month, which also included power, water, grass seed and handymen to change the light bulbs.

U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the selection of Clemson University to receive up to $45 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for a wind energy test facility that will enhance the performance, durability, and reliability of utility-scale wind turbines. This investment will support jobs and strengthen American leadership in wind energy technology by supporting the testing of next-generation wind turbine designs. "Wind power holds tremendous potential to help create new jobs and reduce carbon pollution," said Secretary Chu. "We are at the beginning of a new Industrial Revolution when it comes to clean energy and projects like these will help us get there faster."

U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the selection of Clemson University to receive up to $45 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for a wind energy test facility that will enhance the performance, durability, and reliability of utility-scale wind turbines. This investment will support jobs and strengthen American leadership in wind energy technology by supporting the testing of next-generation wind turbine designs. "Wind power holds tremendous potential to help create new jobs and reduce carbon pollution," said Secretary Chu. "We are at the beginning of a new Industrial Revolution when it comes to clean energy and projects like these will help us get there faster."

Britain could miss out on 10,000 skilled engineering jobs because of the stranglehold of France's EDF on the plan to build new nuclear power stations, the UK's largest union warned. Dougie Rooney, national officer of Unite, said that unless EDF is forced to sell strategic parcels of land it has acquired, it would be very difficult for an alternative reactor maker to compete and would mean most of the skilled work for the construction of new power stations would be done in France. EDF took centre stage in the UK's plan to build new nuclear power stations when it agreed to buy British Energy in September for £12.4bn. British Energy owns the most attractive sites on which to build reactors.

HEAL Utah Outreach Director Job Description HEAL Utah is seeking a full-time Outreach Director to expand and strengthen our grassroots base, and to help ensure that the public has a voice in nuclear waste and energy policy issues in Utah. Potential candidates should be self-motivated and strategic thinkers, excellent communicators, and passionate about protecting the public health and environment of Utah.