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New public opinion poll finds that 70% of North Carolina oppose a utility plan to increase electric rates to pay for new nuclear reactor construction (also know as CWIP, or Construction Work in Progress). Press release. Poll data.
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Important new report from Union of Concerned Scientists. First-ever comprehensive look at taxpayer subsidies for nuclear power, historical and current. Among the report’s conclusions are that “in some cases it would have cost taxpayers less to simply buy kilowatts on the open market and give them away.”
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Why nuclear loan guarantees are more imprudent than ever. New economic analysis by Marc Cooper of Vermont Law School.
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Updated Greenpeace International report on Areva’s EPR design: A Dangerous Waste of Time and Money.
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The ASLB handed down three rulings in favor of the Interveners on the hydro ecological contention #4: – Order Denying Progress Energy Motion to Dismiss Parts of C4 as Moot – Order Denying Progress Energy Motion for Summary Disposition on C4 – Order Admitting Intervener’s Amended Contention C4A
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Major World Wildlife Fund study on how to bring the entire planet to 100% renewables by mid-century; includes explanation of why nuclear power is no solution to climate change or world’s energy future. Worthwhile.
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Major World Wildlife Fund study on how to bring the entire planet to 100% renewables by mid-century; includes explanation of why nuclear power is no solution to climate change or world’s energy future. Worthwhile.
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New NIRS Briefing Paper: Nuclear Energy is Dirty Energy (and does not fit into a “clean energy standard”). If the radiation released routinely from nuclear reactors were the color and texture of oil, no one would ever again confuse nuclear power with “clean.”
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45 organizations, including NIRS, 350.org, Greenpeace, etc. sign on to Friends of the Earth-sponsored letter urging President Obama not to support dirty energy technologies like nuclear power and coal in his 2011 State of the Union address. PDF More than 4,000 individuals also sent letters to Obama with that message in just four days.
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