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The 24th Carnival of Nuclear Energy Blogs is up at Idaho Samizdat.  It features blog posts from the leading U.S. nuclear bloggers.  It is a roundup of featured content from the nation's leading pro-nuclear blogs. If you want to hear the voice of the nuclear renaissance, this is where you will find it.

The 20th Carnival of Green Business blogs is up at Triple Pundit! It is a roundup of featured content from the nation's green business blogs.  This week's Green Business Blog Carnival includes the ANS Nuclear Cafe entry on Nuclear and the Renewable Energy Standard.

In July 2010 a software worm, which is malevolent computer code, appeared on the radar screen of cyber security firms when it was found to be targeting computers in Iran and several other countries running industrial control systems.

Fall is in the air! The temperatures are cool-the leaves are turning-and (after a childhood filled with repeated disappointment and utter futility) I get to watch my Philadelphia Phillies make their mark on another MLB post-season.

The American Nuclear Society (ANS) will be participating on Saturday and Sunday, October 23-24, at the grand finale Expo of the USA Science & Engineering Festival, to be held on the National Mall, in Washington, D.C.

The November/December issue of Radwaste Solutions will soon be available electronically to ANS members. This issue includes the fifth annual Buyers Guide, which is a directory of companies that provide products or services that relate directly to work at Department of Energy cleanup and remediation sites and civilian decommissioning projects, as well as to radioactive waste management in both the utility and specialized nonpower/nongovernment segments of the nuclear industry. This year's Buyers Guide includes information on nearly 400 companies listed in more than 150 categories.

Now that more comprehensive climate change policies such as cap-and-trade are on indefinite hold, the U.S. Congress is considering a national Renewable Energy Standard (RES) in an effort to do something on energy issues. The RES would require that 15 percent of all U.S. electrical generation be provided by "renewable" sources by 2020. Currently, the definition of "renewable energy" does not include nuclear. Similar policies are already in place in many states, such as California.

Export Control Reform

Clearly, our attempts to generate greater understanding of energy challenges exclude no member of the public. Young and old, Democrat and Republican, male and female-all must be the aim of public information about U.S. energy policy in general and nuclear energy in particular. Years of industry surveys, however, have quantified the large gender divide on acceptance of nuclear energy. For example, a survey last year by Ipsos Public Affairs showed that 54 percent of men support a stronger role for nuclear energy in the next few decades, while women's support was only 32 percent.

Notes & Updates from the ANS Professional Divisions

The Election Campaign

This is the weekly "best of" nuclear energy blogs. We hope you enjoy it.

Financing may dry up if nations don't act soon

My generation has been labeled Generation X, or maybe Y, I'm not sure. I don't even know what those labels mean. I think of us as individuals coming of age in the Information Age. We have been exposed to more information than any generation before and have been made all too aware of the problems facing our planet from a very early age.

Gail Marcus's new book, Nuclear Firsts: Milestones on the Road to Nuclear Power Development, is now available by visiting the online ANS Store.

Nuclear loan guarantees and the "credit subsidy cost"

The 21th Carnival of Nuclear Energy blogs is up at Next Big Future.  It is a roundup of featured content from the nation's pro-nuclear blogs.

If there's one lesson to be learned from recent elections, it's simply this:  every vote counts. Critical elections on the local, state, and even national levels can be won or lost over a very few votes.  The 2010 elections are already underway, and it's important that nuclear professionals do all that you can to participate and make your voice heard.