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News, views & musings for our nuclear-free, carbon-free future
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Deregulation Without Direction: How Maryland’s Energy Debate Mirrors a National Problem
One of the biggest challenges facing deregulated states like Maryland, New York, and Illinois is that, while they’ve adopted renewable energy standards and climate policies, they’ve failed to implement meaningful system planning with enforceable requirements for utilities to actually meet those goals. California, by contrast, has taken a much more structured approach. The California Public…
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Trump’s Westinghouse Nuclear Fiasco: Wasting Money on a Corrupt Game of Hot Potato
On Tuesday, the White House announced an $80 billion deal with Westinghouse to finance construction of eight large new reactors in the U.S. There is not enough in the way of actual details about the deal, resulting in even more unanswered questions. But the promise of a large, direct investment in a pack of new…
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Same Playbook, Same Problems: The BWRX-300 and the Nuclear Cost Mirage
GE-Hitachi opted to pursue its first BWRX-300 project in Canada because CNC’s regulations allow construction permit applications to be submitted with much of the design still incomplete. Last year, GE-H and TVA tried to get the NRC to “align” its requirements for a construction permit application with CNC’s less stringent standards, but NRC refused. The…
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Australia Rejected Nuclear—Will the U.S. Finally Follow Suit?
Australia Rejected Nuclear—Will the U.S. Finally Follow Suit? In Australia’s recent national election, voters were given a rare and stark choice: double down on fossil fuels and gamble billions on nuclear energy, or commit to a clean, renewable future. The result? Australians overwhelmingly backed a rapid transition to renewables—and firmly rejected the nuclear distraction. The…
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Nuclear Power’s Political Takeover—and Why We Need to Shut It Down
In case you haven’t noticed, the nuclear industry’s political grip has reached truly absurd levels. Both parties have basically rolled out the red carpet for nuclear power, treating it like the climate panacea we never asked for. Governor Hochul’s recent push for new reactors in New York is alarming—but not exactly shocking. She’s just following…
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Maryland’s Aging Nuclear Fleet: A Looming Crisis
Maryland’s only nuclear power plant, Calvert Cliffs, is operating on borrowed time. With Unit 1 at 50 years old and Unit 2 at 48, these reactors have already exceeded the typical lifespan for nuclear facilities. Most reactors worldwide shut down before reaching this age due to: ❌ Structural damage & equipment failure ❌ Costly regulatory…
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A New Green World
If you pay much attention to energy and climate issues, you have probably seen a lot more news about nuclear power lately. Most report different takes on the same theme: that we are in the midst of an unprecedented revival of nuclear energy, and just in time to solve so many problems: climate disruption, energy…
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It’s All Spin by Tim Judson
If you pay much attention to energy and climate issues, you have probably seen a lot more news about nuclear power lately. Most report different takes on the same theme: that we are in the midst of an unprecedented revival of nuclear energy, and just in time to solve so many problems: climate disruption, energy…
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Greenworld Blog: PRIDE Edition: “The Climate Crisis Is Here–How Do We Save The Lesbians?” by Ann McCann
Lesbian households do and will continue to bear the brunt of the climate crisis and the wildly inflated costs of utility billing in the US, and as such must be at the frontline of our understanding of how to protect these frontline communities in our engaged activism. It is common understanding that women (and this…
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Germany’s Nuclear Energy Phase-Out, Explained
On April 15, 2023 utilities in Germany shut down the country’s three last remaining nuclear power plants. These closures mark the successful planned phase-out of German nuclear energy from the nation’s grid. What does this mean for Germany? What lessons should the U.S. take away from the German energy transition? Germany’s Energiewende (“energy transition”) is an overarching…
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