Today, the Georgia Public Service Commission, which regulates electric and gas utilities in the state, voted to approve continued construction of two nuclear reactors at Georgia Power’s Plant Vogtle. This decision is unsurprising because of the Commission’s utter failure to question the project throughout its ten-year history, but the decision is all the more ridiculous…
Until last month, it wasn’t clear whether U.S. President Donald Trump intended to follow through on his promises to promote dirty energy. The signs had been bad since the early days of his campaign–from bellicose claims about “bringing coal back” and intending to pull out of the Global Climate Agreement, to canceling the Clean Power…
Dirty Energy Industries Host National “Greenwashing” Lobby Week September 25, 2017 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Laura Haight 518-949-1797 lhaight@pfpi.net Washington, D.C.- A dozen environmental watchdog organizations wrote to Congress today warning that the so-called “National Clean Energy Week” in Washington, D.C. this week packages polluting energy industries such as coal, gas, nuclear, biomass,…
Image courtesy of Flickr. Irma and Harvey mark the first time on record that two category 4 or higher hurricanes have struck the U.S. mainland in the same year[1], let alone within one week of each other. To say this has been a destructive and costly hurricane season would be a gross understatement. Climate change…
Image courtesy of Wikimedia. Hurricane Harvey has been declared the most intense rain event in U.S. history. Houston and surrounding areas experienced 50 inches of rain over four days. This historic flooding event has left at least 33 people dead, hundreds of thousands displaced, and entire communities without running water and electricity. And two nuclear…
Overview: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission defines an advanced nuclear facility as “any nuclear facility for the production of electricity, the reactor design for which was approved after 1993.” There are four main “advanced” nuclear reactor types in use globally. The primary differences among these various designs are the different concentrations of uranium used for fuel, the different…
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,…
Tim Judson discusses the super bankruptcy of Toshiba Westinghouse, the last commercial maker of nuclear reactors.
NIRS’s Tim Judson presents on the importance of Stopping the Millstone Nuclear Bailout
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…