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’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’s proposed Lee reactors, nuclear power and climate and more. Very useful!
Public opposition is growing to a private company’s proposal to ship radioactive waste from Italy to burn, “process,” “recycle,” transport and dump throughout the US. Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) and more than 40 national and local organizations* are calling on the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission to give the public more time to exercise…
Today, MidAmerican Nuclear Energy Company announced that it is cancelling its plans to build a new nuclear reactor in Payette County, Idaho. The company cited the poor economics of nuclear power for its decision, saying that its “due diligence process has led to the conclusion that it does not make economic sense to pursue the…
NIRS Southeast Regional Coordinator, Mary Olson traveled across the State of Florida in the first 2.5 weeks of January 2008. Olson gave a series of talks — “Expanding Nuclear Power is NOT a Solution to the Climate Crisis” NOTE: The Public Service Commission is holding a hearing in Miami on the planned nuclear expansion of…
A new report argues that the world’s supply of uranium ore is now so depleted that the nuclear industry may already have passed the point at which it is able to supply the energy needed even to dispose of its own wastes. In The Lean Guide to Nuclear Energy, A Life-Cycle in Trouble, British energy…
Jobs from Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency. New factsheet from Environmental and Energy Study Institute.
Resource Paper (including 2 pages of citations) by Mary Olson: “The New Nuclear Deal with India and the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership are Not a Solution to Nuclear Weapons Proliferation; Expanding Nuclear Power is Not a Solution to the Climate Crisis”
Resource Paper (including 2 pages of citations) by Mary Olson: “The New Nuclear Deal with India and the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership are Not a Solution to Nuclear Weapons Proliferation; Expanding Nuclear Power is Not a Solution to the Climate Crisis”