This 161st edition of the Carnival of Nuclear Energy, presented at the ANS Nuclear Cafe, comes to you posted from the 2013 ANS Annual Meeting at the Hyatt Regency, Atlanta, Georgia.  Everyone here is excited and energized about this year's meeting, and we're proud to host the Carnival in its midst!

The 160th Carnival of Nuclear Energy is up at Meredith Angwin's "Yes Vermont Yankee" blog.  You can click here to access this latest edition in a long-running tradition (over three years now!) that showcases the best pro-nuclear blogs each week.

By Will Davis

The 159th Carnival of Nuclear Energy is up right now at Next Big Future.  You can click here to get to this latest edition of the nuclear blogosphere's flagship promotion.

The 158^th Carnival of Nuclear Energy is up at Atomic Power Review.  You can click here to access the latest edition of this long-running weekly compilation of top posts from the internet's nuclear blogs.

The news has finally come out on a long-awaited subject: the first determination by Japan's new Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) that a nuclear plant in Japan lies on a seismic fault determined to be active.

It's time for the 156th edition of the Carnival of Nuclear Energy Bloggers - a weekly compilation of the best pro-nuclear, English-language blogs and articles submitted by authors, editors and publishers.  As was pointed out by Entreprenuclear, this 156th edition actually marks a milestone THREE YEAR anniversary for this popular feature.  Congratulations to all of the steady contributors and hosts are in order on this important date.  Now, let's get to it!

Shortly after 11 a.m. on Tuesday, May 7, 2013, the operators at Dominion Resources' Kewaunee nuclear power plant opened its output breaker, disconnecting the turbine generator from the grid for the last time after just under 40 years of operation. Shutdown of the reactor followed, and the plant entered what for some is an uncertain (even if pre-ordained) future-a long-term storage period, followed eventually after many years by the complete dismantling and removal of the plant.

The 155th Carnival of Nuclear Energy is up right now at Next Big Future.  You can click here to access this latest edition of a long-running and very popular pro-nuclear feature.

The 154th Carnival of Nuclear Bloggers is available now at Atomic Power Review.  Click here to access this latest edition.

The ANS Nuclear Cafe is proud to host the 153rd edition of the Carnival of Nuclear Energy Bloggers today, April 22, as another Earth Day is celebrated focusing on our stewardship of the environment.

This week's announcement by Babcock & Wilcox that it had signed the long-awaited funding agreement with the Department of Energy has been taken by advocates of small modular reactors (SMRs) as just the latest good news on the inevitable path to construction of at least one prototype nuclear plant using SMR reactor technology in the United States. It is widely hoped that this is the harbinger of the rapid spread of the market for SMR plants.

The 152nd Carnival of Nuclear Bloggers is available now at "The Hiroshima Syndrome."  You can click here to see this latest edition, which contains a varied array of topics and authors sure to provide something of interest for everyone.

The 150th Carnival of Nuclear Energy appeared over the weekend at Atomic Power Review. Click here to access the latest edition of the Carnival.

The American Nuclear Society's ANS Nuclear Cafe is proud to host the 149th edition of the Carnival of Nuclear Energy.  Each week, the top English-language nuclear bloggers and authors contribute their best posts to the Carnival, which appears at one of a rotating number of sites.  Reading the Carnival each week is the best way to keep on top of the issues that experts in the nuclear blogosphere believe are most important, and keep up on all types of events and news.  With that, let's get right to it!

The 148th edition of the Carnival of Nuclear Bloggers is up now at Hiroshima Syndrome.  Click here to access the site; the Carnival is at the top of the page.

The debate over the continuing investigations into steam generator U-tube problems at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) last week entered a new phase of heightened publicity and public scrutiny as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) released Mitsubishi documents which detailed that company's investigations into the root causes of the problems.

The 147th edition of the Carnival of Nuclear Bloggers is available now at "Things Worse Than Nuclear Power."  Click here to get to this latest edition.

At about a quarter to three in the afternoon on March 11, 2011, a gigantic and unprecedented earthquake struck just over 110 miles off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture in Japan. The quake was followed, just over 40 minutes later, by the first of several rounds of tsunami, which inundated enormous areas and eradicated entire towns and villages. Over 19,000 people were killed or are still missing, and over 6,000 survivors were injured.

The 146th Edition of the Carnival of Nuclear Energy is up right now at Next Big Future.  You can click here to check it out.