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The nuclear industry’s COP 21 dilemma: 100% renewables is attainable
If you think you’ve been seeing a lot more pro-nuclear propaganda in the media than usual in the past couple of weeks, well, it’s not your imagination. The nuclear industry and its champions ...
At $65 billion and counting, this is a case study of nuclear power’s staggeringly bad economics
http://images.dailykos.com/... Georgia is one state that you would think would be wary of nuclear power economics. The first two reactors at Georgia Power’s Vogtle site, which came online in...
The EPA took nuclear out of the Clean Power Plan
http://images.dailykos.com/... An amazing thing happened Monday. Yes, President Obama's Environmental Protection Agency released the first real climate action policy in the U.S. ever. But that...
Lamar Alexander's nuclear fantasyland
Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-TN. Photo from Wikipedia. Back in 2008, when presidential candidate John McCain was calling for construction of 45 new reactors in the U.S. (and presidential candidate Ba...
Solar meltdown? New video shows two, very different, energy futures. Which one do you want?
It’s been more than a year in the making and sometimes it felt like the project might never be finished. But here we are. Yesterday, Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), Friends ...
America's nuclear power utilities seek big ratepayer bailouts
America's nuclear power utilities are increasingly saddled with aging, uneconomic reactors. Their operating and maintenance costs are rising, and in many locations they're no longer able to compe...
The nuclear industry's Nuclear Matters drifts further from reality
The very creation by Exelon earlier this year of Nuclear Matters, an astroturf group devoted to keeping existing nuclear reactors operating at any cost, was a sign of the desperation that charact...
Aging reactors: a failure to plan that will come back to haunt nuclear utilities
One reason that giant nuclear utilities like Exelon, Entergy, Duke and others are so aggressively taking extraordinary steps to force ratepayers to keep their obsolete, aging reactors operating a...
We're going all out for the People's Climate March
Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS)–and some 800 other organizations–are going all out this weekend to build support for the September 21, 2014 People’s Climate March in New Yor...
Not so fast on uncritical support for EPA's carbon reduction proposal. It needs improvement.
You surely know by now that the Environmental Protection Agency's long-awaited proposed rules to attain carbon emission reductions from existing power plants were released yesterday. Many envir...
NY Times learns nothing from Chernobyl, evades reality of nuclear failure in U.S.
The New York Times has done probably the best reporting on Fukushima and its aftermath of any U.S. mainstream media outlet. This piece for example , published last week, paints a clear and distur...
The nuclear industry thinks its under siege; but it brought it on itself
We couldn’t have written a better headline ourselves: Nuclear power industry under seige, FirstEnergy exec warns . Never mind the misspelling of “siege,” newspapers are having a hard enou...
2013’s Astounding Collapse of the U.S. Nuclear Power Industry: the New Normal
Less than nine months through, 2013 is already a remarkable year for the anti-nuclear power movement in the U.S. Where Germany is following a deliberate government-mandated path to phase out nu...
If not nuclear power, what?
A better mousetrap. A nuclear-free, carbon-free energy future is not only possible; it’s closer than you think… Governments in their death throes—those unable to adapt to change--tend to ...
Nuclear Power and Public Opinion: What the polls say
Public opinion on nuclear power matters. Should we build new reactors or not? If so, who should pay for them? Should we close existing reactors? Where should nuclear power rank among all the othe...
The largest, most important, anti-nuclear protest you don't know about is in southern India
Dr. S.P. Udayakumar (Kumar to his friends) is a longtime leader in the peaceful resistance to nuclear power in India, as well as a leader in the NIRS/WISE international network. The Indian govern...
The nuclear "renaissance" stalls with pending collapse of Calvert Cliffs
The flagship project to build a new nuclear power reactor in the United States—the one that provided the economic model for most new reactor proposals since—is in serious trouble and likely w...
Nuclear loan guarantees aren't just guarantees: they are actual taxpayerloans
President Obama’s announcement yesterday of a "conditional" $8.3 billion loan "guarantee" to the Southern Company for construction of two nuclear reactors in Georgia obscured an important fact ...
If this is a nuclear resurgence, what would a retreat look like?
More bad news for those who still believe that we’re about to enter a nuclear power renaissance, rather than the full-scale nuclear-powered retreat from those halcyon days of late 2007 that we�...
TOP 10 REASONS NUKES WON’T SAVE CLIMATE
Despite the nuclear industry’s lavishly-funded propaganda, which claims that nuclear power is at least a partial solution to the climate crisis, there are plenty of reasons why nuclear power ca...
Could A Clean Energy Bank Wreck the Economy? Well, yes......
These days, clean energy ranks right up there with Mom, apple pie and ice cream as an All-American attribute. You can barely sit through a TV show, listen to the radio, or even read a blog withou...
30 years after TMI, the system is broken again
Thirty years ago, Americans stood in shock watching unfold what had been officially deemed by federal officials as "incredible"—a major accident at a nuclear power reactor. Americans watched th...
$50 billion more for nukes?
The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee late on the night of January 27 snuck in a provision to President Obama's economic stimulus package that would allow as much as $50 BILLION of your dollar...
Tell Warren Buffett to stop new atomic reactors in NY, MD, PA, MO
A new campaign is forming to take on UniStar Nuclear and its plans to build giant new atomic reactors in New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Missouri.
"All of the above" equals no energy policy at all
We’ve heard a lot in this election campaign about energy policy—believe it or not, we’ve probably heard more than ever before—unfortunately most of the energy debate has not been particul...
Neither argued for a smart energy future
Let's face it, neither McCain nor Obama excelled in their discussion on energy policy in their October 7 debate. McCain renewed his call for massive construction of new nuclear power reactors whi...
McCain Estimate on Nuclear Power Jobs Not Even Close to Reality
In tonight’s presidential debate, Senator John McCain repeated his claim that building 45 new nuclear power reactors by 2030 would somehow create 700,000 new jobs in the U.S. This is simply w...
Unbelieveable..socialism, nuke economics and collapse
Two weeks ago, it would have been unbelievable that the George W. Bush Administration would preside over the most radical socialization of the American economy ever. Two weeks ago, it would hav...
Gang of 10 bill: Biggest boost for nuclear power ever
The Gang of 10 (now Gang of 20) offshore oil drilling bill, as it has been characterized, appears headed for a Senate vote late next week. While the bill apparently isn’t damaging enough to our...
THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF NUCLEAR POWER ECONOMICS
On the shores of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, next to two existing atomic power reactors and just down the road from a Liquified Natural Gas terminal, a company called UniStar Nuclear Energy L...