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Latest Updates

• February 23, 2011

  Important new report from Union of Concerned Scientists. First-ever comprehensive look at taxpayer subsidies for nuclear power, historical and current. Among the report’s conclusions are that “in some cases it would have cost taxpayers less to simply buy kilowatts on the open market and give them away.”

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• February 11, 2011

  Why nuclear loan guarantees are more imprudent than ever. New economic analysis by Marc Cooper of Vermont Law School.

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• February 1, 2011

  Major World Wildlife Fund study on how to bring the entire planet to 100% renewables by mid-century; includes explanation of why nuclear power is no solution to climate change or world’s energy future. Worthwhile.

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• January 19, 2011

  New brief from IEER examines status of nuclear power projects as of January 2011—finds that the nuclear industry is not doing too well. Heavily footnoted and useful.

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• January 18, 2011

  Battle of the Grids. New Greenpeace International report subtitled “How Europe can go 100% renewable and phase out dirty energy.” Though Europe focused, its implications apply elsewhere. How smart grids, micro grids and super grids will enable the transition from nuclear and fossil fuels to renewables.

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• September 28, 2010

  New UCS report charges NRC is allowing reactors to release radioactive water with immunity.

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• September 9, 2010

  New study: French nuclear program plagued by escalating costs and prevents adoption of clean renewable energy technologies. And some would use this failure as a model for the U.S.? Study by Marc Cooper of Vermont Law School’s Institute for Energy and the Environment.

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• June 17, 2010

  New analysis from EarthTrack for Friends of the Earth details massive new taxpayer subsidies for new reactors in Kerry-Lieberman’s American Power Act.

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• June 1, 2010

  Physicians for Social Responsibility analysis of nuclear power provisions of the Kerry-Lieberman American Power Act. Long version. Two-page summary.

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• April 21, 2010

  Engineer's report and graphic illustrations of the chimney-effect during an accident.

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