Why New Large and Small Nuclear Reactors are Not Green
Despite their considerable allure in the eyes of many, and despite being put forth as the cure to the energy crisis, nuclear reactors are not green.
Air pollution, global warming, and energy security are three of the biggest problems facing the world. Many have suggested that new nuclear reactors can help solve these problems. However, due to the long time from planning to operation alone, new reactors are useless for solving any of these problems. This is just one of seven issues with nuclear electricity that illustrate why it can’t be classified as “green.” Developing more clean, renewable energy is a viable solution.
Roadmaps to Situational Awareness
Like the proverbial frogs cozily immersed in the comfy warm liquid of daily existence in our seemingly stable world system, we are dangerously unaware of the gathering perils that are rapidly being brought into operation around us.
Fukushima Recovery Plagued with Setbacks
Japan is one of the most earthquake-prone areas in the world, and the regular quakes raise traumatic memories of the March 11, 2011, record-breaker that left 19,000 dead and smashed the six-reactor Fukushima-Daiichi site.
29 August: International Day against Nuclear Tests
Hindsight and history have shown us the terrifying and tragic effects of nuclear weapons testing, especially when controlled conditions go awry, and in light of the far more powerful and destructive nuclear weapons that exist today.
Renuclearization or Denuclearization?
According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, “Denuclearize is a transitive verb meaning: to remove nuclear arms from [or] prohibit the use of nuclear arms in. We don’t know who made the word a part of Mr. Trump’s vocabulary, but we’re glad it popped out of his mouth in his speech to the Davosians at the recent WEF 25 meeting…
Reflections on The UnHoly Trinity
The Nuclear Age Began With A Bang That Still Reverberates Today In Our Planetary Ecosystem and In Our Bodies and Genes.
The nuclear road not taken
The nuclear era started 80 years ago with the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki—and has continued to harm generations of people across the world to this very day.
There was another way.
Sacramento Report: Costs Are Climbing for Nuclear Waste Disposal at San Onofre
Lawmakers and residents call on federal regulators to speed up nuclear waste disposal.