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News, views & musings for our nuclear-free, carbon-free future
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Greenpeace brings its energy (r)evolution to the U.S.
The Ivanpah concentrating solar power plant. For the past few years, Greenpeace International has published major reports under the moniker Energy (R)evolution detailing ways to move the European Union to a renewable energy future–an approach that has gained considerable traction within the EU. Now, Greenpeace has turned its attention to the U.S., with its release…
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Nuclear Newsreel, Tuesday, May 13, 2014
The existing Turkey Point facility consists of two reactors, two gas/oil plants and one combined cycle natural gas plant. But FPL is considering adding two new reactors to the site. A hearing is being held today in Florida on whether FPL should be allowed to build two new reactors at its Turkey Point site near…
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Nuclear Newsreel, Monday, May 12, 2014
Nuclear Power America’s most dangerous nuclear site? Three Fukushima-clone GE Mark I reactors inside a single building at Browns Ferry, Alabama. Photo from Wikipedia. If all newspapers took their job as seriously as the Chattanooga Free Press, we at NIRS might be able to work ourselves out of a job. Of course, not all newspapers…
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Will Exelon get out of the nuclear business?
Exelon’s Byron reactors are among those the company has said it may close for economic reasons. Will Exelon get out of the nuclear business? Columnist Joe Cahill, who follows the company closely for Crain’s ChicagoBusiness.com, thinks that Exelon’s current attempt to buy the Washington DC-area utility Pepco is the first step toward re-structuring Exelon away…
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A Modest Proposal: We need a clean energy PAC
A portion of a page from NEI’s most recent (3/31/14) filing with the Federal Election Commission. The time has come for the clean energy/anti-nuclear movement to get serious. Actually, it’s well past that time. By serious, I mean playing politics–for real. This movement, of which I’m proud to have been a part for more than…
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NEI’s Top 20
It’s no secret that the nuclear power industry gives money–lots of it–to candidates running for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, especially incumbents. In the ten-year period from 2003 through 2012, the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) gave a total of $2,006,624.74 to Congressional candidates, an average of about $200,000 year–including non-election years. In the…
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Media calls out nuclear industry front groups
Nuclear Matters, the Exelon-formed front group created earlier this year to try to prevent more reactor shutdowns, has been continuing its unprecedented public relations blitz in recent days. But now there’s a difference: the media has caught on to who they are, and is beginning to reveal their self-serving bias. In the long run, that’s…
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Nuclear Newsreel, Monday, May 5, 2014
Police use water cannons on anti-nuclear protestors conducting a die-in in Taiwan in April. The protests led to suspension of construction of Taiwan’s fourth nuclear reactor. Happy Cinco de Mayo! We couldn’t fit in a Nuclear Newsreel last week, so there’s a lot of news to catch up on; here are some of the highlights:…
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NY Times learns nothing from Chernobyl, evades reality of nuclear failure in U.S.
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 U.S. mainstream media outlet. This piece for example, published last week, paints a clear and disturbing picture of the…
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NRC can’t document assertions made in denial of nuclear emergency planning petition
Traffic on New York’s Tappan Zee bridge near the Indian Point reactors can be a nightmare under the best of circumstances. In a natural disaster–ice storm, snow storm, hurricane, earthquake, compounded by a nuclear accident, the transportation network may be nearly impossible to navigate. Yet the NRC doesn’t require emergency drills to train personnel to…
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