Nevada’s Nuclear Dilemma
Nevada’s Nuclear Dilemma: Trump Reignites the Debate Surrounding Yucca Mountain
Nevada’s Nuclear Dilemma: Trump Reignites the Debate Surrounding Yucca Mountain
United Nations Nuclear Weapons Ban Side Session-The Road Back to the Nuclear Brink On June 20 and 21, 2017, Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), joined by allied groups and hosted by the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations, presented two side sessions at the United Nations in New York City: Fission: Family,…
Overview Yucca Mountain is a ridge line composed of tuff (compressed volcanic ash) in Nevada, about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas, not far from the California border. The site has been targeted for development as a burial site for the nation’s most highly radioactive waste since the 1980’s, but it has been vigorously…
Seattle Committee Responds to Standing Rock
How is nuclear energy created? How does it work? Generation of electricity from nuclear power is fundamentally similar to other kinds of traditional power generation like coal, natural gas, and oil. All of these power sources are referred to as “thermal” power sources. Oil, coal, or natural gas is burned to boil water or to…
New Electrical Generation From Wind & Solar Is 21 Times Greater Than That Expected from Watts Bar 2 (prepared by the SUN DAY Campaign, October 2016) [Editor’s Note: GreenWorld is pleased to publish this guest post by Ken Bossong, of the SUN DAY Campaign. Ken puts the startup of the first U.S. nuclear reactor in…
Source: The Waste Control Specialists Overview Our Don’t Waste America campaign focuses on preventing decades of massive and dangerous high-level radioactive waste—irradiated fuel from nuclear power reactors—transport across the United States on our rails, roads, and waterways. Such large-scale transport, which could affect 100 million Americans who live within a mile or two of…
There are some questions that are simply unanswerable; for example, how is it that Donald Trump’s approval rating is not zero? What defect in the U.S. educational system has resulted in some actual adults, with actual grade school, high school, and perhaps even college degrees, believing that an egomaniacal, perennially publicity desperate billionaire has anyone’s…
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. In 2008, the nuclear “renaissance” was in…
China’s government tends to be ruled by a high degree of economic realism. The national economy comes first and has largely trumped other considerations, such as the environment, human rights, democracy, global public opinion, etc. The decision to enter into the climate pact with the U.S., to the extent that China intends to honor it…