Yesterday, New York became the first state to adopt a policy to subsidize aging, uncompetitive nuclear reactors. The state’s Public Service Commission, which regulates utility companies, passed a Clean Energy Standard that combines a 50% renewable energy standard by 2030 with massive subsidies to prop up uneconomical reactors. (You can download the whole PSC order…
Dear GreenWorld readers, As you have probably heard, GreenWorld’s founder, editor, and primary author, Michael Mariotte, passed away in May. That loss been difficult for all those who have known him, whether personally, professionally, or through his inimitable written voice. The blog has taken a needed and appropriate hiatus, as we adjust to life without…
Let us be clear: without Michael Mariotte’s decision in the mid 1980’s to devote his talents to stopping the nuclear industry, many things would be very different today. Michael could not do what he did without Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), and the many thousands of people who work with NIRS could not have…
Earlier this month, we reported that climate scientist Dr. James Hansen and the pro-nuclear Breakthrough Institute’s Michael Shellenberger had leaped–apparently on their own–into the battle over the future of some of Exelon’s unprofitable nuclear reactors in Illinois. In a nutshell, Exelon wants a taxpayer and/or ratepayer (it doesn’t really care where the money comes from)…
NIRS and AGREE submit extensive comments to New York Public Service Commission that show how New York can meet its 2030 carbon emissions goals without nuclear (and thus without nuclear subsidies).
Join the Virtual March on Washington! International Radioactive Waste Action Day is a call for coordinated resistance, another way we can work together to speak out about the dangers of radioactive waste, with the simple demand: Radioactive Waste: Stop Making It! This Fall, Action Day was Wednesday, September 29, 2010. It’s a lead-in to a…
Don’t Nuke the Climate! In December 2015, the world’s governments will convene at the COP 21 meeting in Paris to attempt to reach a global consensus on addressing our climate crisis. The nuclear power industry will attempt to use this forum to gather formal support for their obsolete, failed technology as a climate solution. But…
June 22, 2011: NIRS participates in NRC Stakeholder meeting on possible new rule to license reprocessing and associated activities. Workshop documents and additional information about how to weigh in on it here. December 9, 2008: 50+ organizations urge Obama to end Bush’s GNEP and reprocessing programs. Research Report No. 5, International Panel on Fissile Materials.…
While some potential legal challenges remain, the approval of the Exelon-Pepco merger by the Washington, D.C. Public Service Commission means that Exelon is now not only the largest nuclear powered utility in the U.S., it is the largest electric utility period. And with that steady stream of regulated, and non-nuclear, Pepco money filling its coffers,…
That nuclear power’s miserable economics are pretty much killing the industry, especially in the western world, is a reality acknowledged by virtually everyone at this point. After the first burst of reactor construction from the late 1960s until the early 1980s collapsed under the weight of multi-billion dollar cost overruns and lengthy schedule delays, a…