In amongst all the coverage of and concern about the Fukushima nuclear disaster the fact that air pollution from coal power plants in normal operation kills far more people each year than does nuclear power rose to the top. As for the fallout of that

At 7:45 yesterday morning, a group of cyclists rode from Manhattan's Lower East Side to Grand Central Terminal. They were activists, wearing white jumpsuits painted with anti-nuclear slogans and pinwheels

The war of words between the now pro-nuclear George Monbiot and decidedly anti nuclear green veteran Jonathan Porritt continues. Having claimed that Monbiot was part of the problem for uncritically swallowing nuclear industry research, and ignoring

People take up some crazy hobbies out there: building elaborate model trains, collecting dusty old stamps, attempting to split the atom

I was sitting on the deck talking to a young nuclear engineer, J, who suggested that the Fukushima disaster may actually be good for the nuclear industry. He remembers reading

A new assessment by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission of the potential consequences of a nuclear power plant meltdown (the details of which have come to light pre-publication via the Union of Concerned Scientists and the New York Times) finds far lower

When feed-in tariffs for renewables were introduced in the UK, George Monbiot denounced them as a rip-off subsidy for the better off. Despite tumbling solar prices and rising

Take this as another indicator that the Fukushima nuclear disaster will continue to have greater impacts than is readily admitted: As the San Francisco Chronicle reports, the amount of cattle fed with hay contaminated by radiation from the Fukushima

According to a recent study released in June,

Doing an even better job than activist environmentalists might have done, a bloom of jellies has caused a UK nuclear plant to stay offline, since the jellies would clog up the intake of water for cooling. Reuters reports that

Photo: Flickr, CC 513 Yays, 79 Nays Here's a quick update on the situation regarding nuclear power in Germany. About a month ago, Brian wrote about a proposal by Chancellor Angela Merkel to phase out nuclear power by 2022. We also covered the resulting

The US nuclear industry recently commissioned a nationwide survey of adults living within 10 miles of 64 U.S. nuclear power plants. A total of 1,152 full-time residents were

TVA and reactor-maker Babcock and Wilcox have agreed to work together to see if they can build up to 6 "small reactors." Nuctuplets, then? They can knock these

Two reports out today on the lapses in oversight of the nuclear power industry in both Japan and the United States, and the resultant risks: The Guardian's Damian Carrington sums up the first quasi-independent

Power plants on rivers and lakes have usually been built with "once-through" cooling, where water is sucked in and dumped back into the lakes as much as 30 degrees hotter.

You probably could've guessed this: New York Times reports that immediately after the Fukushima nuclear power plant was stricken by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11th, radiation levels at the plant may have

The disaster at Fukushima looks to have sounded the death knell for nuclear power in Germany. Public opinion turned vehemently against the industry in the wake of that crisis, and Chancellor Angela Merkel

Germans saved plenty of fossils fuels on Saturday the 28th of May, as no cars could pass through the crowds marching through the centers of over 20 German cities. Over 160,000 people joined a coordinated demonstration under the