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Activists pay attention: the nuclear industry wants to rig your rates
It seems like every day we’re seeing stories like this one: Pilgrim’s owner pushes for market changes to help keep the nuclear plant open, indicating the nuclear industry’s public relations arm is hard at work pushing out its position that consumers should pay more for nuclear power than other sources of electricity just because it’s…
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Nuclear Newsreel, Thursday, March 13, 2014
The MOX plutonium fuel factory under construction at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, 2013. Photo from Friends of the Earth. Nuclear Power Is this one reason the UK has seemingly been among the more reluctant European nations to support imposing sanctions on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine? The Guardian reported Wednesday that…
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On the endangered reactors list: Pilgrim and Columbia?
Massachusetts Governor Patrick Deval told a group of anti-nuclear protestors yesterday that he supports shutdown of the Pilgrim reactor near Cape Cod. He added that he would write a letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commissioners asking them to close the reactor but said, “It doesn’t matter what I think.” Massachusetts’ Pilgrim reactor. The NRC quickly…
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Nuclear Newsreel, Monday, March 10, 2014
Nuclear Power The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) has filed a legal challenge at NRC over Florida Power and Light’s (FPL) St. Lucie reactors’ steam generators. As reported two weeks ago (Nuclear Newsreel, February 24 and 25), an unusual amount of wear has been experienced at the relatively-recently replaced generators, leading to concern that…
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The trend is clear: even Secretary Moniz admits renewables outpacing nuclear
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz In this brief interview, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz reiterates his support for nuclear power while acknowledging that its “long term trajectory remains quite uncertain” in the U.S. More surprisingly, Moniz predicts that renewables will supply 30-40 percent of U.S. power by 2030. That’s a lowball figure for the more optimistic among…
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Fukushima + 3: nuclear accidents have a beginning–but no end.
Fukushima in the aftermath of the onset of the accident three years ago tomorrow. Tomorrow, March 11, marks the third anniversary of the beginning of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. As the world learned at Chernobyl in 1986, and as has been reinforced at Fukushima, nuclear catastrophes do have a discernible beginning. What they don’t have…
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Nuclear Newsreel, Friday, March 7, 2014
Nuclear Power Leak in massive Hanford nuclear waste tank getting worse. The first signs of a leak in the one million gallon tank showed up in October 2011. But last week workers at the site confirmed via video inspection that a new leak has arisen, which is now the third leak positively identified. South Carolina…
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Two new reports blast NRC over failure to implement Fukushima lessons and enforce safety rules
New York’s Indian Point reactors. Photo from wikipedia. Two new reports from major environmental groups take the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to task for failing to implement regulations to address lessons from the Fukushima disaster as well as inadequate enforcement of the regulations that are on its books. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) says that…
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Nuclear Newsreel, Thursday, March 6, 2014
Nuclear Power On Monday (Nuclear Newsreel, March 3, 2014) we admitted we had no idea how China could say that two new Westinghouse AP 1000 reactors it plans to build would cost only about $2.5 billion each; after all, current cost estimates for the two reactors of the same design being built at the Vogtle…
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All of the Above: The good DOE budget news is followed by the bad DOE budget news
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz As we reported yesterday, the Obama Administration is seeking to end the expensive and dangerous MOX plutonium fuel program at South Carolina’s Savannah River Site. That’s the good news from the new federal budget the Administration released yesterday. Here’s the bad news: they’re continuing their silly and counterproductive insistence on an…
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