Green World Blog
News, views & musings for our nuclear-free, carbon-free future
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Lamar Alexander’s nuclear fantasyland
Senator 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 Barack Obama was calling for “safe” nuclear power), Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander outdid his colleague: he issued a call for construction of 100 new nuclear reactors.…
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Deutsche Bank: solar has already won
For the past year, it’s been clear that the world’s major investment banks–or at least their analysts–already have decided that our energy future is renewable, and that nuclear power and fossil fuels are on their way out. Continue reading
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Watch it. Take action. Share it.
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. Today, NIRS, Friends of the Earth, Sierra Club, Public Citizen and Greenpeace released our first major video–one we hope you’ll help us take viral. It’s at www.makenuclearhistory.org and tells a tale…
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Exelon’s nuclear bailout dream scheme
Exelon has threatened to close its GE Mark I reactors at Quad Cities. Yes, they’re uneconomic, but they’re not safe either. Exelon should make good on its threat; instead it’s seeking a massive ratepayer bailout to keep them open. After a year of making us wait with bated breath, last week Exelon unveiled its proposals…
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Exelon unveils its nuke bailout plan
Exelon’s allegedly uneconomic Byron reactors. Photo from wikipedia. After more than a year of laying the groundwork–well-documented in these pages–Exelon yesterday finally unveiled its plan to force ratepayers to bail out its allegedly uneconomic nuclear reactors at Quad Cities, Clinton and Byron. It’s a legislative proposal that runs about 100 pages, but can be summarized…
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NEI’s pitiful plea to Wall Street
NEI to Wall Street: Nothing to learn from here; let’s move along now. Pity those poor, sensitive souls at the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) and Exelon’s Nuclear Matters astroturf group. It seems that some people don’t like them, and aren’t afraid to say so. And it’s hurting their feelings. That’s the message NEI CEO Marvin…
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How rooftop solar can prevent the apocalypse
Our 20th century electric grid is more vulnerable to attack than you might think. And the results of attack could be catastrophic. I’m not normally interested in doomsday scenarios. The idea that Fukushima is some sort of “extinction-level” event (whatever that means) or is ending life in the Pacific Ocean, as I’ve seen people say…
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Clean energy vs nuclear: the battle intensifies
Former top Obama aide Rahm Emanuel is now Mayor of Chicago. And he’s joined forces with clean energy advocates who have a different vision of the state’s energy future than Exelon. Photo from Wikipedia. In theory, the “all of the above” energy policy has a certain amount of appeal: why should government pick winners and…
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Obama energy budget continues “all of the above” delusion
President Obama’s FY 2016 budget proposal released this week isn’t going to be adopted as is, that’s pretty obvious considering he’s facing a Congress that, if he suggested repealing Obamacare, probably would vote against it just because it was his proposal. But that’s on the big stuff–taxes, infrastructure, health care. When it comes down to…
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NEA wants a nuclear future (but isn’t likely to see one)
Not likely to a best-seller, except perhaps in the science fiction/fantasy category: the cover of NEA’s new report. Last week, the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), a subdivision of sorts of the International Energy Agency, composed of the remaining true believers in nuclear power, released a report calling on the world to more than double the…
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