New report from Vermont Law School’s Dr. Mark Cooper finds large-scale deployment of "small modular reactors" would cost $90 Billion; choke off funding for renewables.
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New report from Vermont Law School’s Dr. Mark Cooper finds large-scale deployment of "small modular reactors" would cost $90 Billion; choke off funding for renewables.
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Yet another study, this one from Greenpeace, on how U.S. can attain a nuclear-free, carbon-free energy system by mid-century. Energy (R)Evolution: A Sustainable Energy USA Outlook.
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NRC cannot provide documentation of its claim in denying NIRS EPZ petition that "majority" of emergency exercises include natural disaster as initiating or concurrent event. Emergency workers remain ill-trained to respond to nuclear accident and natural disaster. E-mail exchange between NIRS and NRC available here. (pdf) Press release.
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Sun Day Campaign: EIA renewable energy projections range from: can’t pass the laugh test to unduly conservative. Press release.
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NIRS calls out nuclear industry front groups Nuclear Matters and Center for Climate and Energy Solutions; says they should come clean on industry funding sources. Press release, April 28, 2014
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New report from the Sun Day Campaign predicts U.S. will reach 16% renewables generation within five years–a level U.S. Energy Information Administration absurdly claims won’t be reached until 2040. Press release; full study. (both in pdf)
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Thorium Reactors: Their Backers Overstate the Benefits. NIRS factsheet written by Robert Alvarez of Institute for Policy Studies,
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Statement of Green Action, . Third anniversary of the 3.11 great East Japan earthquake: those responsible for the Fukushima accident not held accountable; Japanese government pushing for restart of nuclear power.
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Rocky Mountain Institute has published a new paper, The Economics of Grid Defection, that is well worth reading. Grid defection refers to the point when it is just as cheap for people to power their own homes than it is to remain connected to the utility grid. And that day is coming sooner that most people think–Hawaii is already there, but even in large states like New York and California, it will be a matter of years–not decades.
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