Nuclear Power

Lafayette, Where Are You? Obama Needs You Now!

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 08.18.2008 | Green

Read More: France, Pres Sarkozy, De Gaulle, Oil, Aspen Institute, Mccain, Obama, NY Times, Democrats, E.P.R., Nuclear Power, Lafayette, Obama Energy Policy, Barack Obama Nuclear Power, Big Oil, Oil Prices, Green News
Raymond J. Learsy

One solution stands out that would be singularly effective in contravening our seemingly helpless dependency on fossil fuels.

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Treacherous Behaviour: Russia, China and Iran

Hannah Fisher | Posted 08.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iran, Nuclear Weapons, War With Iran, Nuclear Power, Politics, Russia, Iran Nuclear Program, China, Un, Eu, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Politics News
Hannah Fisher

Without hard-hitting sanctions, military action against Iran is inevitable. Dealing with the vice of Iran now is unpleasant, but dealing with a nuclear Iran will be a thousand times worse.

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Nuclear Power Could Fuel Chicago's Economy

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 08.14.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Energy, Reduce Carbon Footprint, John McCain, Exelon 2020, Chicago, Nuclear Power, Executives' Club of Chicago, Exelon, Nuclear Energy, John Rowe, Minority Economic Empowerment, Barack Obama, Chicago News
Esther J. Cepeda

Imagine the full weight of Chicago's corporate and governmental resources trained on a city full of young brown and black student cash cows - millions of dollars poured into neighborhood schools in 'hoods and townships across Illinois designed to build the next generation of resident engineers and skilled laborers tasked with building the next generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants across America!

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McCain's Michigan Melt-Down Madness

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 08.12.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Nuclear Power, Fermi Nuke, Tire Inflation, Mccain, Obama, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Green News
Harvey Wasserman

Leave it to John McCain to pick the site of a horrific atomic meltdown to symbolize his push for nuke power.

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Sierra Club RAW: Last Week's Campaign McMeltdown

Josh Dorner | Posted 08.11.2008 | Green

Read More: John Mccain Sturgis, John McCain, Enrico Fermi Generating Station, Nuclear Power, Mccain Gaffes, No Nukes Campaign, China Syndrome, Sierra Club, Move On, Three Mile Island, Nuclear Meltdown, Exxonmccain, Green News
Josh Dorner

The McCain campaign visited the Enrico Fermi nuclear generating station in Michigan -- the site of a 1966 partial meltdown that resulted in the coining of the phrase "China Syndrome."

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The Misconception of Nuclear Power

Alec Baldwin | Posted 08.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Energy, Energy Crisis, Clean Energy, Nuclear Power Plants, Energy Policy, Nuclear Power, Politics News
Alec Baldwin

The claim that nuclear power is clean is a lie, not only due to the carbon-heavy mining and refinement processes, but also the avoidance of what to do with the ever-increasing stockpile of its deadly radioactive waste.

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McCain Would Raise Energy Bills for Ohio and all America

Joseph Romm | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Energy, Energy Efficiency, John McCain, Nuclear Power, Barack Obama, Mccain Energy Policy, Big Coal, 2008 Election, Coal, Politics News
Joseph Romm

What happens when your country is 50% dependent on coal, and you foolishly adopt McCain's energy and climate plans. Your electricity rates and bills will soar, for several reasons.

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John McCain's Greatest Misses

Carl Pope | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Energy, Mccain, Gil Scott-Heron, Oil Drilling, Nuclear Power, Mccain Energy Policy, Offshore Drilling, Politics News
Carl Pope

It's hard to understand how McCain can pretend that he is doing anything other than chasing the polls -- and the oil and nuclear industry's increasingly abundant lubrication of his campaign.

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McCain and the Nukes of Hazard

Joseph Romm | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: France, John McCain, Nuclear Power, France Nuclear Power, Politics News
Joseph Romm

Forget the facts -- who doesn't want to be like the French when it comes to nuclear power? Other than, maybe, the French nuclear workers.

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Feds Say Nuke Reactor Revival NOT Ready for Prime Time

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 07.25.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Renewable Energy, Solartopia, Atomic Energy, Nuclear Power Plant, Nuke Propaganda, Nuclear Power, Energy Policy, Green News
Harvey Wasserman

Despite millions of dollars of high-priced hype, the "new generation" of "standardized design" power plants actually does not exist. All cost estimates are completely up for grabs.

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Avoiding War With Iran

Frida Berrigan | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Mccain, Iran, Nuclear War, Nuclear Power, Uranium, Bomb Bomb Iran, Politics News
Frida Berrigan

As the 63rd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki approaches, the world continues to face a litany of nuclear concerns.

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Al Gore Inches Toward Solartopia

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 07.21.2008 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Energy, Al Gore, Florida, T. Boone Pickens, Inconvenient Truth, No Nukes, Carbon Free, Florida Everglades, Turkey Point Nuclear Plants, Corporate Pollution, Solartopia, Charlie Crist, Green Power, Climate Change, Global Warming, Nuclear Power, Solar Power, Green News
Harvey Wasserman

I am told that Gore opposes atomic energy. But if so, his public silence -- and lack of action -- is deafening. If he really wants to have a lasting impact, he must join us in publicly opposing nuclear power.

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Exelon's Climate Plan: A Big Bupkis

David Sassoon | Posted 07.17.2008 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, Nuclear Power, Exelon, Environment, Green News
David Sassoon

Here's a litmus test. If all US companies emulated the standard Exelon just set, where we would be in 2020? In deep trouble.

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Cockroaches Inherit the Earth? What Wall E Gets Wrong About The Apocalypse

Slate | Daniel Riley | Posted 07.14.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Atomic Energy, Wall-E, Apocalypse, Cockroaches, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Energy, Atomic Radiation, Pixar, Green News

Pixar's post-apocalyptic love story Wall-E finished No. 2 at the box office over the Fourth of July weekend after hauling in $65 million the weekend b...

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Radioactive Pigs

Carl Pope | Posted 07.11.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Nuclear Energy, Yucca Mountain, Mccain, Nuclear Power, Mccain Yucca Mountain, Mccain Nuclear Power, Nimby, Green News
Carl Pope

More evidence of the hard-wired sloppiness that has plagued Yucca from the start popped up a week after DOE filed for its NRC permit. So how does this play out politically?

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The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Turns 40 Today

Tad Daley | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Politics News
Tad Daley

40 years ago today, our government committed itself to negotiate the elimination of its entire nuclear arsenal. And, in conjunction with the other nuclear weapon states, to abolish nuclear weapons forever.

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The Dalai Lama Sends Message to White House

Steven Crandell | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Dalai Lama, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Non-Proliferation Treaty, US Leadership for a Nuclear Weapons-Free World, Peace, Appeal to the Next President of the United States, Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Proliferation, Politics News
Steven Crandell

If US policy changes, the goal of nuclear weapons abolition becomes possible. Therefore, it makes sense to use education to spur public pressure for such a change in US policy

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Bush/McCain's Gas Price Scam is an Enron Re-Run

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 06.23.2008 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Efficiency, Enron, Solartopia, Renewable Energy, Mccain, California Electric Rates, Offshore Drilling, Bush, High Gas Prices, Atomic Energy, High Food Prices, Solar Energy, Utility Deregulation, Harvey Wasserman, Global Warming, Nuclear Power, Green News
Harvey Wasserman

Today, despite years of grassroots advocacy, Bush has done everything in his power to squelch the conversion to a green-powered economy.

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Nuke of Earl

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain National Security, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, John McCain, John McCain 2008, Nuclear Weapons, John Mccain Nuclear Power, Nuclear Power, Axis of Evil, Mccain Nuclear Power, Politics News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

McCain's hypocrisy lies in threatening "terrorist" countries with military strikes for pursuing the same nuclear programs that the Republican nominee to put in place.

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McCain: Build 45 Nuclear Reactors

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain 2008, Election 2008, Energy, John McCain Energy Plan, Nuclear Energy, McCain and Nuclear Energy, Energy Crisis, Energy Independence, Global Warming, Nuclear Power, Mccain Nuclear Power, Nuclear Power Plants, Politics News

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Sen. John McCain called Wednesday for the construction of 45 new nuclear reactors by 2030 and pledged $2 billion a year in fe...

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McCain's Nuclear Solution A Threat To Us All

Paul Peete | Posted 06.17.2008 | Home

Read More: Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Energy, Barack Obama, France, Mccain, Alternative Energy Sources, Energy Crisis, Obama, Nuclear, Energy Policy, John McCain, Nuclear Power, Home News
Paul Peete

Perhaps McCain misspoke by jumping on the nuclear bandwagon, playing into the Obama's strategic ambiguity on a complex, expensive, and dangerous solution to the country's energy problems.

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CON GAMES: "Nucons" Drink New Coke Of Conservatism

Michael Conniff | Posted 06.14.2008 | Home

Read More: Renewable Energy, Energy, Neoconservatives, Nuclear, Nuclear Weapons, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Power, Home News
Michael Conniff

We all know the neoconservatives would stop at nothing -- war, famine, pestilence -- to have their way in the Middle East based on a philosophy resist...

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The Butterfly Effect: From McCain's Lips To The New Mexico Desert

Susan Grant | Posted 06.10.2008 | Home

Read More: John McCain, Native American, New Mexico, Energy, Nuclear Power, Economy, Uranium, Mccain Uranium, Mccain Energy, Mccain Alternative Energy, Mccain Nuclear Power, Energy Policy, Home News
Susan Grant

McCain's energy policy emphasizes nuclear power and the uranium market is booming as a result. But in the south west, people are still cleaning their land of the radioactive waste from long-shut mines.

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Yucca Casts Short Shadow On Nevada Presidential Politics

Amanda Becker | Posted 06.10.2008 | Home

Read More: Nuclear Energy, Nevada, Yucca Mountain, John McCain, Amanda Becker, Nuclear Power, Barack Obama, Home News
Amanda Becker

The candidates talk about the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear storage facility, but people in Nevada are concerned about the economy. In fact, it's McCain's flip-flopping on Yucca that may cost him votes.

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King Fossil Loves Global Warming & Removes McCain's Mountaintop

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 06.09.2008 | Green

Read More: Solartopia, Efficiency, Cap and Trade, Boxer, Lieberman, Lieberman-Warner, Mccain, Greenwashing, Climage Security Act, Renewables, Filibuster, Mountaintop Removal, Warner, Nuclear Power, Global Warming, Mitch Mcconnel, Green News
Harvey Wasserman

King Fossil Fuel has ruled: there will be no Senate debate on global warming this year. And Joe Lieberman's greenwashed campaign gift for John McCain is a no-go.

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