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Nuclear Newsreel, Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Nuclear “renaissance” in Indiana lasts less than 2 weeks; Senator withdraws bill to encourage new nukes. The chair of the state’s Senate Utilities Committee, James Merritt (R-Indianapolis), introduced...
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The ongoing debate on nuclear power and climate change
On January 8, 2014, 311 mostly grassroots organizations from around the world sent a letter to four climate scientists, including the well-known Dr. James Hansen, in response to their November 3, 2013...
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Nuclear Newsreel, Monday, February 10, 2014
Nuclear Power What those pro-nuke climate scientists just don’t understand: The unavoidable economics of nuclear power. Another on-target piece from economist Marc Cooper, who takes the small minority...
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Sen. McCain says he won’t deal with climate bills unless they include a lot...
A decade ago, Sen. John McCain was one of the Senate’s leaders on climate change–meaning that he actually co-sponsored (with former Sen. Joe Lieberman) a major bill to address climate that was to be...
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NY Times learns nothing from Chernobyl, evades reality of nuclear failure in...
The New York Times somehow thinks the lesson of the Chernobyl disaster is more nuclear power in the U.S. The New York Times has done probably the best reporting on Fukushima and its aftermath of any...
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Your choice: small reactors or carbon reductions. You can’t have both.
When most people think of “small” reactors, they probably don’t envision huge nuclear sites like this rendering. But that’s exactly what the nuclear industry sees as their future. Dr. Mark Cooper,...
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Nuclear trifecta: Rising seas, earthquakes and economics mean end is in sight...
The Pilgrim reactor. Much of this site would be under water if sea levels rise as predicted. Photo by cryptome.org The question of the day is not whether more U.S. reactors will permanently close over...
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Beware the nuclear/fossil fuel alliance and its upcoming climate split. Both...
Extraction industries are by definition polluting industries. Photo of Australia’s Ranger uranium mine from Wikipedia. What the nuclear and fossil fuel industries have most in common is that they are...
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Doh! We goofed. And other fallout on nukes/climate issue + poll!
Can EPA’s new carbon rules save Exelon’s uneconomic Clinton reactor? Doh! We goofed! More specifically, I goofed. In an Alert NIRS sent out yesterday on EPA’s new carbon rules and other nukes/climate...
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