No New Nukes at North Anna
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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, [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
April 8, 2010 Published reports indicate that Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsay Graham (R-SC) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) will unveil their new climate bill not long after their Spring recess ends April 12–probably the week of April 19. And these published reports also indicate that the bill will be larded with taxpayer giveaways to the [...]
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