Obama government pushes a slate of clean energy initiatives
In last minute dash, Obama administration pushes global clean energy initiatives http://www.utilitydive.com/news/in-last-minute-dash-obama-administration-pushes-global-clean-energy-initia/430430/Robert...
View ArticleExelon pushes bills in Illinois General Assembly to subsidise and save its...
Inside Exelon’s last-minute push to save its nukes and remake the Illinois power sector The Illinois legislature has a week to decide on a far-reaching energy reform bill that includes something for...
View ArticleNuclear propagandist James Conca shows the industry how to peddle its lies
From Media To Nuclear Power, Messaging Trumps Reality, Forbes, James Conca , 22 Nov 16 “……the nuclear industry, along with most others, must get with the program and learn to define itself first,...
View ArticleSavannah River Site could be stuck with stranded nuclear wastes from Canadian...
“We are concerned that DOE is planning to bring more HEU-related waste to SRS over the coming years, with no plan for their removal from South Carolina and without the public being properly informed...
View ArticleNew York State moves towards closing dilapidated Indian Point nuclear station
‘Most dilapidated’ US nuclear power plant to close?, DW, 22 Nov 16 New York state has taken a pivotal step toward shutting down what critics have called the US’ “most dilapidated and dangerous nuclear...
View ArticleThe absurdity of continuing nuclear power, with waste disposal unsolved
“The costs associated with rehabilitating WIPP – the only underground nuclear waste repository in the country – have ballooned since 2014.” whatever method proves the most advantageous in the US, site...
View ArticleClimate action in America’s cities, despite Donald Trump
How Cities Plan to Fight Climate Change in the Trump Years Local leaders learned how to take action when Washington couldn’t. Now they’re betting those efforts can survive an age of science-denying...
View ArticleProperty values getting threatened by sea level rise. Climate change IS...
Perils of Climate Change Could Swamp Coastal Real Estate [compelling photos] Homeowners are slowly growing wary of buying property in the areas most at risk, setting up a potential economic time bomb...
View ArticleNuclear contractors settle with USA Justice Dept over allegations of improper...
United States Settles Lawsuit Against Energy Department Contractors for Knowingly Mischarging Costs on Contract at Nuclear Waste Treatment Plant...
View ArticleNew York Court of Appeals approves right of the state to review Indian Point...
In major win for NY Gov. Cuomo, high court rules state can review Indian Point relicensing...
View ArticleClimate change in action – California’s six-year drought has killed 102...
102 Million Trees Have Died in California’s Drought http://www.enn.com/wildlife/article/50164 California’s six years of drought has left 102 million dead trees across 7.7 million acres of forest in its...
View ArticleMarshall Islands, ,nuclear bombed decades ago, still afflicted by American...
Bikini was just the beginning, bombs still threaten the islanders, New Internationalist DECEMBER 2016 John Pilger visits the Marshall Islands and its bomb survivors, still blighted by US nuclear...
View ArticleWorld anxiety at Donald Trump in charge of the nuclear weapons codes
Donald Trump will soon learn the nuclear codes. What will he do with them?, The Age, 27 Nov 16 Tim Johnson “……By all accounts, the nuclear briefings a president-elect receives before inauguration are...
View ArticlePilgrim Nuclear Station – a disturbing example of America’s radioactive trash...
“…….the slow and expensive process of transferring some of the older, colder fuel rods—no longer potent enough to efficiently power the reactor, but still hazardous for millennia—into dry casks. The...
View ArticleIt’s a little scary how many nukes are stored near major cities
So How Close Do You Live to a Nuclear Bomb? http://sploid.gizmodo.com/so-how-close-do-you-live-to-a-nuclear-bomb-1789472521 Casey Chan, 29 Nov 16 Hooray. If you live south of the Equator or in any of...
View ArticleThorough inspection of Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant by NRC
NRC Begins “Wide-Ranging” Inspection of Pilgrim Nuclear Plant http://www.powermag.com/nrc-begins-wide-ranging-inspection-of-pilgrim-nuclear-plant/ 11/28/2016 | Thomas Overton The U.S. Nuclear...
View ArticlePeople power, not Trump, has killed the Trans Pacific Partnership
The TPP wasn’t killed by Donald Trump – our protests worked https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/28/tpp-protests-mass-opposition-worked-trump-presidency We the people can create change by...
View ArticleNRC fines TVA for Browns Ferry violations
30 November 2016 The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has been given 30 days to pay a $140,000 civil penalty proposed by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for fire watch violations at the...
View ArticleExelon’s nuclear bailout in trouble
New trouble for Exelon nuke bailout as Rauner balks, Chicago Business, By STEVE DANIELS , 1 Dec 16, The calendar has turned to December, and a sudden wind has chilled the prospects for Exelon’s...
View ArticleClearwater takes legal action agasinst New York over subsidy to nuclear power...
Clearwater sues NY over nuclear bailout, Ploughkeepsie Journal Jon Campbell , Albany Bureau1 December 1, 2016 ALBANY – A multi-billion-dollar, ratepayer-backed bailout for three upstate nuclear power...
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