China is preparing to build three times as many nuclear power plants in the coming decade as the rest of the world combined, a breakneck pace with the...
Samuel S. Epstein | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
Federal health officials, who should be responsible for tracking cancer near nuclear reactors and analyzing their nuclear contaminants, have so far ignored the dangers.
Jimmy Seidita | Posted 04.30.2009 | Green
The 1987 moratorium on new nuclear plants in Illinois signaled that going nuclear was a huge mistake. It's made a mess of our electric system, our regulatory system, and worst of all, the state's economy.
Chicago Public Radio | Shawn Allee | Posted 12.26.2008 | Chicago
Illinois was once the cradle of the commercial nuclear power industry. In fact, utilities built so many reactors the Prairie State is still number one...
Alec Baldwin | Posted 09.10.2008 | Politics
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.
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
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...
New York Times | Keith Bradsher | Posted 12.16.2009 | World