Unsatisfied by a set of federal loan guarantees, subsidies, and other trinkets and baubles that would make the greediest gold digger blush, the nuclear complex is demanding still more.
The Financial Times | Varun Sood and James Lamont | Posted 07.09.2009 | World
India is expected to launch a locally built nuclear-powered submarine later this month, making it one of only a handful of countries with the technolo...
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 07.08.2009 | Green
Will the climate change in the Senate over climate change legislation?; ExxonMobil pays up & pays out; Universal cell phone charger for the EU, but not for you!; Nuclear Power vs. Summer...
Lily Riahi | Posted 07.02.2009 | Green
A new global effort that aims to make renewable energy more accessible to every country in the world launched on July 1st.
Steve Kirsch | Posted 06.27.2009 | Green
Since nuclear is still our largest CO2-free power source (even after 30 years of not building a nuclear plant), I remain totally baffled why Congress isn't allocating the $3B to build a demonstration IFR plant.
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green
Job-starved southern Ohioans are being promised a shiny new nuclear plant. But the announcement has come with a cruel reminder, and the scent of a desperate hoax.
AP | TERRY KINNEY | Posted 06.18.2009 | Green
CINCINNATI — The site of a former uranium enrichment plant tucked away in the hills of southern Ohio has the necessary infrastructure for a nucl...
AP | DAVE GRAM and FRANK BASS | Posted 06.17.2009 | Green
VERNON, Vt. — The companies that own almost half the nation's nuclear reactors are not setting aside enough money to dismantle them, and many ma...
Michael Rose | Posted 06.14.2009 | Business
Michigan may become one of the early adopters of a new round of nuclear power plants, a move some say is not only dangerous but economically foolhardy.
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 06.11.2009 | Green
The GOP makes atomic energy the centerpiece of its strategy to deal with climate change.
AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 06.10.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — House Republicans are calling for a hundred new nuclear power plants to be built in the next two decades as part of an energy plan ...
Marcy Winograd | Posted 06.09.2009 | Green
The dirty little secret is that these not-so-clean energy bills would also provide financing for a new generation of commercial nuclear power plants.
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.29.2009 | Green
Areva hopes to build similar reactors in the US. Its boosters have promised cheaper, cleaner, faster nuke construction with standardized designs.
RIA Novosti | Posted 05.28.2009 | World
Russia and Cuba have agreed to renew their cooperation in nuclear research with Cuba's Nuclear Energy Agency, head of Rosatom Sergei Kiriyenko said on...
AP | DUNCAN MANSFIELD | Posted 05.28.2009 | Green
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander called Wednesday for doubling the number of nuclear reactors nationwide, a potentially $700 bi...
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 05.27.2009 | World
Baghdad, Monday, February 29, 2010, almost ten months in the future, and Israel has attacked Iran's nuclear facilities. What might the consequences be...
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 05.27.2009 | World
As North Korea restarts its main nuclear plant and Iran continues to flex its nuclear muscles, a less publicized nuclear renaissance is underway in the Middle East.
Christie Brinkley | Posted 05.13.2009 | World
I want to tell my children that I met the people who worked to free us all from the terror of nuclear weapons, the people who decided to change history and save history.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.13.2009 | World
Five days before President Obama was sworn into office, the outgoing president left him with a policy imbroglio of potentially staggering dimensions.
Carl Pope | Posted 04.29.2009 | Green
It is four weeks since April Fool's Day -- but foolishness is not confined, alas, to that one day a year. Here is a snippet from one of the stranger precincts of American politics and economics.
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 04.27.2009 | Green
Nulear reactor backers got Congress to pass the 1957 Price-Anderson Act to protect utilities from all but a tiny portion of the potential damage. That all melt-down liability on the federal government, meaning you and me.
AP | Posted 04.27.2009 | Green
LACEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. — The operator of the nation's oldest nuclear power plant has manually shut down its reactor after equipment failed on one ...
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 04.22.2009 | Green
Chernobyl "can't happen here" only if the reactors are turned off before they kill again.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 04.20.2009 | Business
A multiplicity of factors are in play that for the first time will begin to end the oil cabal's long and painful hegemony over our lives.
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 04.16.2009 | World
I spoke to Richard Falk, Chair of the Board at the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, about Iran's nuclear program and whether the Middle East is entering a nuclear arms race.
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Carl Pope | Posted 07.09.2009 | Green