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.
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.
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.
“They didn’t want to see us”
New Mexican downwinders, receiving financial compensation for the first time, reckon with the ongoing tragedy of the Trinity bomb detonation — and fight to ensure remembrance
Nuclear reactors stoke the climate they claim to cool
European program director, Pawel Czyzak, said: “Heatwaves will not go away—they will only get more severe in the future…Luckily, there is no lack of sunshine during heatwaves. The biggest opportunity is to store solar electricity…”
DOGE told regulator to ‘rubber stamp’ nuclear
A DOGE representative told the chair and top staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that the agency will be expected to give “rubber stamp” approval to new reactors tested by the departments of Energy or Defense, according to three people with knowledge of a May meeting where the message was delivered.