With its massive money and clout, Southern California Edison was ready to ram through a license e●ception for a reactor whose botched $770 million steam generator fix had kept it shut for a year. Continue reading
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Los Angeles to San Onofre: ‘Not so fast!’
A unanimous Los Angeles City Council has demanded the Nuclear Regulatory Commission conduct extended investigations before any restart at the San Onofre atomic power plant. Continue reading
San Onofre to Boxer, Markey & the public: ‘Drop dead’
The bitter battle over two stricken southern California reactors has taken a shocking seismic hit. Continue reading
The tower that toppled a terrible technology
There it stood, 500 feet of insult and injury. And then it crashed to the ground. Continue reading
Keystone XL Pipeline reeks of Koch
For the public, the entire Keystone XL (KXL) streamliner is washing down easier with a confidential Big Gulp of Koch. Continue reading
Keystone XL: DilBit through the heartland
Massive exploitation of Alberta Tar Sands (MEATS) . . . is it the biggest environmental crime in history? A new benchmark for sacrifice of public health to corporate profit? Continue reading
Showdown at San Onofre
Two stricken California reactors may soon redefine a global movement aimed at eradicating nuclear power. Continue reading
Nuke power’s collapse gets ever more dangerous
In the wake of this fall’s election, the disintegration of America’s decrepit atomic reactor fleet is fast approaching critical mass. Unless our No Nukes movement can get the worst of them shut soon, Barack Obama may be very lucky to get through his second term without a major reactor disaster. Continue reading
The rust-bucket reactors start to fall
The US fleet of 104 deteriorating atomic reactors is starting to fall. The much-hyped “nuclear renaissance” is now definitively headed in reverse. Continue reading
Japan’s long atomic sayonara
As demonstrators from the Coalition Against Nukes prepare to descend on Washington, DC, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the world’s third-largest economy has taken a landmark step toward Solartopia. Continue reading
Murdoch’s Journal pushes tragic Fukushima flim-flam
With every atomic reactor disaster comes the inevitable whitewash. Continue reading
The devil STILL has us death dancing at Fukushima
Our lives still hang by a Devil’s thread at Fukushima. Continue reading
Fukushima’s melted reactors 500 days on
SAN FRANCISCO—Dr. Paolo Scampa, PhD, a well-known physicist in the European Union, has prepared a radioactive inventory of Fukushima Daiichi’s destroyed nuclear power plants 500 days after the meltdown of three disemboweled, mangled reactors Continue reading
Mother Energy and hemp: Part Two
US prohibition of hemp farming is a national catastrophe. Addiction to fossil energy is a global, ecological catastrophe. Continue reading
Mother Energy and hemp: Part One
An all-pervasive energy is fundamental to the Cosmos. Not “empty,” vacuum space itself is an ocean of energy, the essence of nature. Continue reading
Why should nuke guarantees cost less than home or student loans?
The Department of Energy wants to give the Southern Company a nuclear power loan guarantee at better interest rates than you can get on a student loan. And unlike a home mortgage, there may be no down payment. Continue reading
Cuomo would allow fracking in struggling areas of southwestern New York
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s misguided administration is offering a plan to permit the deadly drilling method known as hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” in portions of several struggling New York counties along the Pennsylvania border, providing these communities express “support for the technology.” That support for technology generally comes from the generous buy-offs by natural gas companies for the land of near-bankrupt farmers or townships. It’s misery’s profit. Continue reading
The nuclear industry has melted in Japan and France
There are zero commercial reactors operating in Japan today. On March 10, 2011, there were 54 licensed to operate, well over 10% percent of the global fleet. Continue reading
Atomic rate rape and the new China syndrome
Japan’s one remaining operating reactor (of 54) went dark Saturday. Japan is nuke-free for the first time in a half-century. Continue reading
Rollo: Peak oil already wreaking economic disaster
City councilman says honest reckoning needed for transition to future
Peak oil production is at a crisis point but also is an opportunity to better the planet, Bloomington City Councilman David Rollo said in a talk, “Evidence and Consequences of Peak Oil,” sponsored by Green Drinks at the Upland Brewery banquet hall on March 28. Continue reading
America’s 2 new nukes are on the brink of death
The only two US reactor projects now technically under construction are on the brink of death for financial reasons. Continue reading
The ‘nuclear renaissance’?
Here we are almost a year away from the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima that happened as a result of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami on March 11 of last year, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announces that it is approving licenses to begin construction on the first nuclear power plants to be built in 30 years. The two new nuclear reactors will be in Georgia. Continue reading
We may yet lose Tokyo . . . not to mention Alaska . . . and now Georgia, too
As the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approves a construction/operating license for two new reactors in Georgia, alarming reports from Japan indicate the Fukushima catastrophe is far from over. Continue reading
Court to Vermont: ‘Drop dead’
A federal judge has told the people of Vermont that a solemn contract between them and reactor owner Entergy need not be honored. Continue reading
2012 is the year to finally bury nuke power
The year 2012 has opened with news that Fukushima’s radioactive cloud may already have killed some 14,000 Americans, according to a major study just published in the International Journal of Health Services. Continue reading
Tar Wars
On November 10, the President delayed permitting of the Keystone XL pipeline, sending the issue back to the State Department for a thorough re-review. Many analysts say this victory for life on Earth will effectively kill the Keystone XL project. Continue reading
Will a failed solar loan guarantee kill new nukes?
Republicans up in arms about the infamous failed federal $535 million loan guarantee for the Solyndra solar panel producer are finally tasked to apply the same standards to nuclear power. Continue reading
The Keystone XL pipeline: poison for America
The environmental group Friends of the Earth, has offered up a fistful of startling facts to take a swing at the Canadian oil and gas company, TransCanada: TC hopes to start building a new crude oil pipeline that would run close to 2,000 miles from Alberta, Canada, to Texas. If constructed, the poisonous pipeline, known as the Keystone XL, will carry one of the world’s dirtiest fuels: tar sands oil. Along its route from Alberta to Texas, this snaking pipeline could devastate ecosystems and pollute water sources, jeopardizing public health. Continue reading
Don’t nuke the budget!
America’s budget crisis has the world economy at the brink. Social Security, Medicare, aid for needy children, environmental protection and much more are being chopped. Continue reading
Fukushima spews, Los Alamos burns, Vermont rages and we’ve almost lost Nebraska
Humankind is now threatened by the simultaneous implosion, explosion, incineration, courtroom contempt and drowning of its most lethal industry. Continue reading
