Nuclear Power

About That Nuclear Revival...

Carl Pope | Posted 07.09.2009 | Green


Carl Pope

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.

Nuclear Submarine To Be Launched By India

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...

Green News Report - July 7, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 07.08.2009 | Green


Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

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...

Should Renewable Energy Include Nuclear?

Lily Riahi | Posted 07.02.2009 | Green


Lily Riahi

A new global effort that aims to make renewable energy more accessible to every country in the world launched on July 1st.

Climate Bill Ignores Our Biggest Clean Energy Source

Steve Kirsch | Posted 06.27.2009 | Green


Steve Kirsch

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.

Big Nuke's Desperate Ohio Reactor Hoax

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green


Harvey Wasserman

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.

New Nuclear Plant Set For Southern Ohio

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...

Nuclear Plant Operators Too Low On Cash To Shut Down

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...

We Almost Lost Detroit: Round Two

Michael Rose | Posted 06.14.2009 | Business


Michael Rose

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.

The GOP's 100-Reactor/Trillion-Dollar Energy Plan Goes Radioactive

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 06.11.2009 | Green


Harvey Wasserman

The GOP makes atomic energy the centerpiece of its strategy to deal with climate change.

House GOP's Energy Bill Calls For 100 Nuclear Plants

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 ...

Clean the Dirty Energy Bills

Marcy Winograd | Posted 06.09.2009 | Green


Marcy Winograd

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.

The New York Times Finally Reports the Economic Disaster of New Nukes

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.29.2009 | Green


Harvey Wasserman

Areva hopes to build similar reactors in the US. Its boosters have promised cheaper, cleaner, faster nuke construction with standardized designs.

Russia, Cuba Nuclear Research Co-Op Resuming

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...

Sen. Alexander Pushes For $700B For Nuclear Reactors

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...

What if the Israelis Were to Bomb Iran?

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 05.27.2009 | World


Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi

Baghdad, Monday, February 29, 2010, almost ten months in the future, and Israel has attacked Iran's nuclear facilities. What might the consequences be...

Spurred by Iran, Arab World Witnesses Nuclear Renaissance

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 05.27.2009 | World


Ahmed Shihab-Eldin

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.

Nuclear Proliferation: A Mother's Legacy

Christie Brinkley | Posted 05.13.2009 | World


Christie Brinkley

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.

U.S.-U.A.E. Nuclear Cooperation Agreement: The Poisoned Chalice President Bush Left Behind

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.13.2009 | World


Raymond J. Learsy

Five days before President Obama was sworn into office, the outgoing president left him with a policy imbroglio of potentially staggering dimensions.

Building a Nuke Underwater?

Carl Pope | Posted 04.29.2009 | Green


Carl Pope

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.

Who Will Pay for America's Chernobyl

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 04.27.2009 | Green


Harvey Wasserman

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.

Oldest US Nuclear Plant Shuts Down A Reactor

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 ...

How Chernobyl Could Happen Here

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 04.22.2009 | Green


Harvey Wasserman

Chernobyl "can't happen here" only if the reactors are turned off before they kill again.

President Obama's Pledge to End "The Tyranny Of Oil"; "Peak Oil" Mutating to "Peak Consumption"

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 04.20.2009 | Business


Raymond J. Learsy

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.

First Iran, Now Arabs Going Nuclear (Q&A with Richard Falk)

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 04.16.2009 | World


Ahmed Shihab-Eldin

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.