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News, views & musings for our nuclear-free, carbon-free future
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NEI’s Exelon numbers don’t add up
There are two old and particularly dangerous GE Mark I reactors at Exelon’s uneconomic Quad Cities site. On May 29, 2014, the Illinois House, under pressure from the state’s largest utility Exelon, which is also the nation’s most nuclear-dependent utility, passed a resolution (HR 1146) that urged state agencies to prepare reports that would show…
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Nuclear heartburn: even IEA says solar could become world’s dominant energy source
IEA projections for solar PV by region. Sending chills down the spine of nuclear and coal utility executives across the world, the International Energy Agency (IEA) yesterday released two reports that assert solar power could become the dominant source of global electricity production by mid-century. This is the same IEA that has consistently and dramatically…
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The nuclear industry’s game plan: kill the competition and fleece the ratepayers
On Sunday we marched en masse, with a message of the solution to the climate crisis. The nuclear industry is fighting back. Photo by Paule Saviano. What was that we said just two days ago? Now that the climate march is over, the real work begins…. The past two days have demonstrated, in almost shocking…
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Nuke-Free photo gallery now online
NIRS has now posted a photo gallery of the massive Nuclear-Free, Carbon-Free Contingent at the People’s Climate March in New York City on September 21, 2014. The gallery is rather randomly ordered right now–something we hope to fix if and when we get a few minutes (hours) in the near future–and we also expect to…
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We made history; now the real work starts
The Cape Cod portion (and a few South Carolinians) of the Nuclear-Free, Carbon-Free Contingent preparing to march. No matter how you look at it, 400,000 is a lot of people. It’s not the largest crowd I’ve ever been in: that was the nearly two million at President Obama’s first inauguration. Nor the largest demonstration: that…
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This is going to be awesome
There are just four days left until the historic People’s Climate March in New York City Sunday, September 21. It will be awesome–and that’s a word I don’t use very often. The momentum for the Nuclear-Free, Carbon-Free Contingent is stunning; this Contingent is going to be awesome too. We’ve got 650 bright yellow with shining…
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Burns, Baran approved as NRC Commissioners over GOP objections
Sen. Reid vows this passage to Yucca Mountain will never be used. Will Steve Burns and Jeff Baran ensure this door will remain closed? President Obama’s two appointees to the NRC were confirmed by the full Senate yesterday on near-party line votes. Jeff Baran, a former top energy aide to California Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman,…
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What does Southern Co.’s CEO know that we don’t?
Southern Company CEO Thomas Fanning (left) selling former DOE Secretary Chu on the wonders of Vogtle, 2012. The question of the day is what does Southern Company CEO Thomas Fanning know that the rest of the world doesn’t? The question arises because on September 5th, Fanning sold nearly all his stock in Southern Company, more…
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UBS: It’s time to join the (solar) revolution
UBS: the falling costs of solar power and battery storage combined with increasing use of electric vehicles means the end of large power plants–faster than you might think. Already this year we’ve reported on several major investment banks and analysts that argue the future is solar power. First there was Goldman Sachs (Goldman Sachs sees…
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NRC approves radwaste rule; ends reactor licensing moratorium. Magwood phones it in.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commissioners today approved its controversial replacement for its “waste confidence” rule that was slapped down in 2012 by a federal court and also approved a resumption of new reactor licensing and license renewal activities. The new replacement rule essentially gives up on the notion of “confidence” that a permanent high-level radioactive waste…
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