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Solar Power now Cheaper than New Nuclear in NC
Former Duke chancellor, economist cites “historic crossover” . says
solar costs keep dropping as nuclear costs climb – and that utilities
should stop rejecting solar
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Watchdog groups are warning about the BP oil spill’s potential damage to Gulf and Atlantic coast nuclear power plants that use seawater to cool pumps and other safety equipment.
Earlier this month, representatives of the nuclear watchdog groups
Beyond Nuclear, Three Mile Island Alert and Unplug Salem wrote a
letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission seeking details on
oil plume monitoring efforts to guard against damage to plants’ safety
systems. The letter was copied to the Coast Guard, Department of
Homeland Security, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration.
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May 28, 2010
Dear Friends,
About 3 pm yesterday, the House Appropriations Committee suddenly postponed its scheduled 5 pm meeting to consider the emergency supplemental funding bill, which right now includes a provision that would allow $9 Billion in new taxpayer loans for nuclear reactor construction.
The meeting has not yet been rescheduled, but will take place after the Memorial Day recess; most likely the week of June 14.
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On May 26, 2010, in San Luis Obispo, a three member Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) heard arguments from San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace (SLOMFP) on their legal challenge to Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s (PG&E’s) application for a 20-year extension of its operating licenses for the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant.
The current operating licenses for Diablo Canyon’s two nuclear reactors expire in 2024 and 2025, respectively. PG&E has applied to continue operations until 2044/2045.
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The New York Times
May 17, 2010
Water Adds New Constraints to Power
By ERICA GIES
SAN FRANCISCO — In the Mojave Desert, solar developers are scrambling
to secure permits to build vast expanses of new generating capacity.
But they are discovering that cost and carbon emissions are not the
only limiting factors in new energy decisions in California. They are
bumping up against water scarcity.
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GRASSROOTS CLEAN ENERGY/ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS:
KERRY-LIEBERMAN DIRTY ENERGY BILL
IS NO SOLUTION TO CLIMATE CRISIS
200 environmental, peace, consumer, religious organizations and small businesses today joined together to blast the Kerry-Lieberman “climate” proposal as a taxpayer bailout of the nuclear power industry and other dirty energy interests that would be ineffective at addressing the climate crisis.
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By BOB AUDETTE / Reformer Staff
Brattleboro Reformer Wednesday May 5, 2010
BRATTLEBORO — A former commissioner of the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission said loan guarantees for new nuclear power plants are too much of a risk to put on taxpayers.
Peter Bradford, who lives in Peru and was an NRC commissioner from
1977 to 1982, said nuclear loan guarantees are “a very
counterproductive approach to fighting climate change.”
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Published on Monday, April 26, 2010 by Environment News Service (ENS)
Chernobyl Radiation Killed Nearly One Million People: New Book
NEW YORK – Nearly one million people around the world died from
exposure to radiation released by the 1986 nuclear disaster at the
Chernobyl reactor, finds a new book from the New York Academy of
Sciences published today on the 24th anniversary of the meltdown at
the Soviet facility.
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By: Harvey Wasserman
April 26, 2010
This week 24 years ago, untold quantities of lethal radiation began
pouring into the atmosphere from the catastrophic explosion at
Chernobyl Unit 4. Nearly a million people have died because of it.
And on this horrific anniversary we have now seen the stumble of a
very bad climate bill. The events are directly related.
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Denis Hayes | Earth Day 2010 international chairman | Posted: Thursday, April 22, 2010 4:30 am |
Nuclear power has never lived up to the promises of its backers. Their latest claim — that nuclear energy represents an easy answer to global warming — has as much validity as that old industry chestnut of producing energy “too cheap to meter.” Let’s not be duped again.
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