Congress’s Nuclear Addiction
The “ADVANCE Act,” a bill to promote nuclear power, was passed 88-to-2 by the U.S. Senate last week. The ADVANCE stands for “Accelerating Deployment of Versatile, Advanced Nuclear for Clean Energy.” The only senators voting against it were Edward Markey of Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
LANL plans to release highly radioactive tritium to prevent explosions. Will it just release danger in the air?
Last fall, the international community rose up in defense of the Pacific Ocean. Seafood and salt purveyors, public policy professors, scientists and environmentalists, all lambasted Japan’s release of radioactive wastewater from the disastrously damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant into the sea.
Senate Nuclear Fetishists Take Lid Off of Pandora’s Box
In a lopsided 88-2 vote (with 10 not voting, including Sen. Richard Durbin), the Senate passed S.870 – the so-called ADVANCED Act, a bill which quite literally takes the lid off of the nuclear safety box, both domestically and internationally.
Holtec: Criminality, Corruption, Incompetence, and Inexperience
The administrations of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, and President Biden, are fine with enriching Holtec International to the tune of more than $15 billion, in taxpayer (state and federal) and ratepayer bailouts, subsidies, grants, surcharges, and giveaways. But does Holtec’s track record justify entrusting the company with the keys to the treasury?!
California legislators break with Gov. Newsom over loan to keep state’s last nuclear plant running
The California Legislature signaled its intent on Thursday to cancel a $400 million loan payment to help finance a longer lifespan for the state’s last nuclear power plant, exposing a rift with Gov. Gavin Newsom who says that the power is critical to safeguarding energy supplies amid a warming climate.
Small modular nuclear reactors get a reality check in new report
A new report has assessed the feasibility of deploying small modular nuclear reactors to meet increasing energy demands around the world. The findings don't look so good for this particular form of energy production.
SOS – An Antidote to Crackpot Neo-Nuclearism
The Nuclear Enterprise impacts virtually all sectors and institutions of our society and incorporates the mutually co-dependent nuclear energy and nuclear weapons production industries, their shared industrial base of extraction, milling, fabrication, transportation; an extensive infrastructure of education, research, labor training; the growing radioactive waste management industry; and a powerful lobbying arm with global reach. It is a ‘public-private partnership’ on steroids.
Unlearned Lessons – An Urgent SOS from the Nuclear Memory Hole
I offer these thoughts because I’m told by many that people, especially young folks, have little to no memory or knowledge of these essential learnings from Chernobyl and Fukushima. Understanding these hard lessons allows us to see through the demonic joke of ‘clean and green’ nuclear power supposedly saving us from climate change.