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Zombie Power: Abandoned Nuclear Projects Rise From Their 1970's Graves
Dave Levitan writing for SolveClimate has published an excellent survey of what the future may hold for the 'More than 60 proposed US nuclear projects, scrapped in the 1970s and early 1980s.' Some are
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No More Nucs - 'Say Hello To My Rewewable Friends'
Last year I laid out a case that we have nothing to fear from 'Clean Coal' a.k.a "CCS" because as a matter
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Friends of the Earth Launches Spooky Anti-Nuclear Ad Campaign
Prominent environmental organization Friends of the Earth has already made clear its opposition to the Obama Administration's support for the nuclear industry, which it is calling a "preemptive bailout." Now, the group has started running eerie TV ads
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Vermont Shutters Only Nuclear Plant Due to Radioactive Waste Leakage
Just a week ago, Obama announced that the first nuclear reactor to be built in the US in over 30 years was receiving an $8 billion loan guarantee. Today, Vermont has voted to shut down its only nuclear plant because of revelations that it
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There's a New Drive for Nuclear Power, But It's Still a Financial Dead End
DC has been just showering love on nuclear power these days, and there's been some on TreeHugger as well, but as recent articles over at Mother Jones and on Climate Progress point out, the increasing costs of and
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Why There's $54.5 Billion for Nuclear Power in Obama's Budget
Obama's budget for 2011 is filled with peculiarities. There are a few primary points of interest when it comes to energy--the empty cap and trade framework outlined within, the severing of multi-billion fossil fuel subsidies (which I'll
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A French Company Tries Nuclear in California
California's global warming law, AB32, calls for utilities to increase their use of renewable energy to at least 30 percent by 2020, and some say they may not make it. Enter Areva SA, a power developer largely owned by the French
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Will The New Decade Bring the US New Nuclear Energy?
The Obama Administration is on the verge of announcing new loan guarantees for the nuclear industry. According to news accounts, the Department of Energy will soon give a loan guarantee to Southern Energy to build 2 new nuclear
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New Uranium Mill May Be Coming to Colorado
It's been 25 years since a new uranium mill has been built in the United States, but that may be about to change if the state of Colorado says yes to an application for the Pinon Ridge plant, to be located about 200 miles west of
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French Nuclear Energy Policy - A Cake The US May Do Well To Not To Consume Too Much Of
Remember the whole "Freedom Fries" thing following France's refusal to support the US 2003 military incursion into Iraq? My how time flies. US politicians now cite the
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Britain to Build More Nuclear Power Plants - And Despoil the Namibian Desert in the Process
As part of new proposed low-carbon energy proposals, UK energy secretary Ed Miliband has outlined plans to build a fleet of new nuclear power plants. But as outlined in The Observer, the hidden costs of fueling those
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News From Mother Jones: October 29 - Why Did It Take Us So Long to Start Fixing the Climate?
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News From Mother Jones: October 22 - Policing Nuclear Power, Bicycling for 350 & Cute Sea Otters!
It's been a busy week over at Mother Jones: First, there's been quite a stir over the Yes Men pranksters' Chamber of Commerce shenanigans, and earlier this week MoJo blogger Kate Sheppard appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show to talk about the stunt.
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Nuclear Power: Climate Fix or Folly?
Image Source: Wikimedia Commons Can nuclear-generated electricity lead us off fossil fuels? After years of sitting in the energy dustbin, nuclear power is enjoying a renaissance. Countries such as France, Japan and China are furiously building nuclear
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Should US Commercial Nuclear Power Plants Be Located On Military Bases?
National Review Online has a short but fascinating post on the
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Low-Carbon Goods And Services Revenues Top Aerospace & Defense, Globally
Over the past two decades, US nuclear power plants have achieved increasingly higher capacity factors with the same or greater levels of safety. Image credit:Nuclear Energy Institute HSBC Bank is reporting higher cumulative global revenues from
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The Best of Fast Company: USPS Gets Efficient, An Astrofurf FAIL, and New Ideas for Existing Energies
This week at Fast Company, we looked at the U.S. Postal Service's cash-saving energy efficiency initiatives, the American Petroleum Institute's failed astroturf event, a natural gas taxi plan from T. Boone Pickens, and the future of modular nuclear
