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Russia’s New Floating Nuclear Power Plant Begins Delivering Electricity To The Arctic
Russia’s New Floating Nuclear Power Plant Begins Delivering Electricity To The Arctic On September 14, we reported that the world’s first ever floating nuclear power plant, the Akademik Lomonosov, reached the port city of Pevek in Russia’s Chukotka after covering a distance of more than 4,700km from Murmansk. Russia’s first floating nuclear power plant has two KLT-40S reactor units that collectively generate […]
Bernie Sanders’ Plan to Phase out Nuclear Power Draws Attacks — Here’s Why They’re Wrong
Bernie Sanders’ Plan to Phase out Nuclear Power Draws Attacks — Here’s Why They’re Wrong Senator and Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has released an ambitious climate proposal, one which champions of the status quo were quick to criticize. One line of attack, coming from many different sources, focuses on Sanders’ plan to phase out nuclear power, but the arguments, and who is […]
Nuclear Power Offers an Abundant Supply of Low-Carbon Energy. But What to Do With the Deadly Radioactive Waste?
NUCLEAR POWER OFFERS AN ABUNDANT SUPPLY OF LOW-CARBON ENERGY. BUT WHAT TO DO WITH THE DEADLY RADIOACTIVE WASTE? The race is on to develop new strategies for permanently storing some of the most dangerous materials on the planet. Photo of Chernobyl confinement structure © iStockphoto.com/E_Kryzhanivskyi There’s a small red hammer and sickle flag of the […]
High Cost of Nukes Even Higher If Medical Expenses Included
High Cost of Nukes Even Higher If Medical Expenses Included Nuclear reactor. Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Nuclear reactors are shutting in the U.S, and across the world. Reactors have always been dangerous, but over time they have also become more expensive than ever. A 2017 report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance estimates […]
Open Energy 4: Renewable energy versus nuclear: dispelling the myths
Open Energy 4: Renewable energy versus nuclear: dispelling the myths Don’t believe the spurious claims of nuclear shills constantly doing down renewables, writes Mark Diesendorf. Clean, safe renewable energy technologies have the potential to supply 100% of the world’s electricity needs – but the first hurdle is to refute the deliberately misleading myths designed to […]
Tomgram: Susan Southard, Against Forgetting
Tomgram: Susan Southard, Against Forgetting Let me tell you a little story about Hiroshima and me: As a young man, I was anything but atypical in having the Bomb (we capitalized it then) on my brain, and not just while I was ducking under my school desk as sirens howled their nuclear attack warnings outside. […]
Who Killed the Small Modular Reactor Programme?
Who Killed the Small Modular Reactor Programme? Posted on September 17, 2018 byGuest post by Andy Dawson. “Who Killed the Small Modular Reactor Program?” is an abridged version of a Global warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) briefing paper. In his Autumn Statement of 2015, the then Chancellor, George Osborne made an announcement that surprised and enthused many; […]
Why Can’t Japan Kick Coal And Nuclear?
Why Can’t Japan Kick Coal And Nuclear? Earlier this year we reported on a startling anomaly in the global energy market that even the experts couldn’t have predicted. Just one nation, alone against the greening tides, was turning back to coal–Japan. Now, half a year later, a newly released report shows that Japanese financial institutions […]
Visualizing The World’s Other ‘Aging’ Problem
Visualizing The World’s Other ‘Aging’ Problem While the world is becoming increasingly aware of the west’s looming (and current) demographic dystopia – solved in its globalist way via immigration and government-dependence – there is another ‘ageing’ problem that is potentially even more catastrophic… A total of 450 nuclear reactors are producing around 11 percent of […]
There are just two sources of energy
Global primary energy consumption by fuel or energy source, 1965-2016 There are just two sources of energy Our petro-industrial civilization produces and consumes a seemingly diverse suite of energies: oil, coal, ethanol, hydroelectricity, gasoline, geothermal heat, hydrogen, solar power, propane, uranium, wind, wood, dung. At the most foundational level, however, there are just two sources […]
Nuclear Keeps on Polluting, Long After Shutdown
Nuclear Keeps on Polluting, Long After Shutdown Photo by Nuclear Regulatory Commission | CC BY 2.0 Last month, the La Crosse Boiling Water Reactor, on the banks of the Mississippi River in Wisconsin, was found to be leaking radioactive tritium (the radioactive form of hydrogen) into the groundwater. Again, clean, safe, cheap nuclear power comes […]
Hanford’s Toxic Avengers: Department of Energy Suppresses Deadly Nuclear-Cleanup Flaws
Hanford’s Toxic Avengers: Department of Energy Suppresses Deadly Nuclear-Cleanup Flaws Your tax dollars are on the line. The DOE is set to extend a contract to Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) for another year at the Hanford Nuclear Site, despite numerous allegations of misconduct since the company won the initial contract for $7.1 billion in 2008. […]
Nuclear Companies are Just Happy to be in There Somewhere and They’ll Gouge the Ratepayers to Get There
Nuclear Companies are Just Happy to be in There Somewhere and They’ll Gouge the Ratepayers to Get There Photo by Lennart Tange | CC BY 2.0 That teeth-jangling noise you can hear are the fingernails of nuclear power corporations scraping across window ledges in a last, desperate attempt to cling on. It’s a lost cause. […]
Nuclear Nonproliferation, American Style
Nuclear Nonproliferation, American Style Photo by Gwydion M. Williams | CC BY 2.0 “U.S. Chases a Saudi Deal” ran the front page headline in the February 21 Wall Street Journal. The story continued: The Trump administration is pursuing a deal to sell nuclear reactors to Saudi Arabia despite the kingdom’s refusal to accept the most […]
Are Germany’s Energy Transition Plans Working?
Are Germany’s Energy Transition Plans Working? Considering the established political imperatives underpinning the German energy transition(Energiewende) and the overall push toward greater use of renewables in the energy mix, let’s look at some of the outcomes of this transition — specifically natural gas imports from Russia and fossil fuel consumption. A boost in renewables would […]
