Top 10 Reasons Nukes Won
Top 10 Reasons Nukes Won’t Save Climate. Article from Michael Mariotte, first posted on DailyKos.
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Comparison by PSR of current Clean Energy Development Administration
Comparison by PSR of current Clean Energy Development Administration (or “Clean Energy Bank”) provisions in House climate bill as passed and Senate energy bill still awaiting action.
Tell President Obama
Tell President Obama: Don’t Let the Senate Climate Bill Get Hijacked by the Nuclear Power Industry! NIRS Alert.
World’s environmental movement says
World’s environmental movement says "Keep nukes out of Kyoto Protocol": Press Release Press Advisory, including main statement List of organizational signers
EPR: The French Reactor. A Costly and Hazardous Obstacle to…
EPR: The French Reactor. A Costly and Hazardous Obstacle to Climate Protection. report from Greenpeace International on the problems with the French Evolutionary Power Reactor, proposed for Maryland, Missouri, Pennsylvania and New York in the U.S.
New study
New study (which reviews 103 previous studies and finds nearly all lacking) concludes that nuclear power is not carbon-free, and its carbon emissions, while far lower than all fossil fuels, are higher than renewable sources of energy. Published in Energy Policy, by Benjamin Sovacool, University of Singapore & Virginia Tech.
International Fury About Radioactive Baltic
Contact: +358 46 664 5130 Campaigners at the International Anti-Nuclear Festival in Finland reacted with dismay today at being presented with news that the Baltic Sea is already the most radioactive body of water in the world, even before the construction of the new facilities at Olkiluoto nuclear power plant. “The levels of anthropogenic radionuclides…
An important new article from Rocky Mountain Institute
An important new article from Rocky Mountain Institute: The Nuclear Illusion by Amory Lovins and Imran Sheikh. “Nuclear power is continuing its decades-long collapse in the global marketplace because it’s grossly uncompetitive, unneeded, and obsolete—so hopelessly uneconomic that one needn’t debate whether it’s clean and safe; it weakens electric reliability and national security; and it…
New report slams President Bush
New report slams President Bush’s Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) program, finding—among other problems–that no economic cost-benefit analysis has been done, the technologies proposed do not exist, and the program would be too slow and expensive to address climate change. Report is from Institute for Policy Studies, Friends of the Earth, Government Accountability Project and…
Testimony of former NRC Commissioner Peter Bradford to South Carolina PSC on the economics of Duke Power
Testimony of former NRC Commissioner Peter Bradford to South Carolina PSC on the economics of Duke Power’s proposed Lee reactors, nuclear power and climate and more. Very useful!