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Fusion Breakthrough is a Nuclear Nothing Burger
FUSION BREAKTHROUGH IS A NUCLEAR NOTHING BURGER The U.S. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory kicked off its year-end Go-Fund-Me drive last week announcing a nuclear fusion breakthrough. “The fusion energy breakthrough by US scientists boosts clean power hopes. Net energy gain indicates technology could provide an abundant zero-carbon alternative to fossil fuels.” –Financial Times, December 11, 2022 […]
Nuclear Power Is No Solution For the World’s Energy Problems
NUCLEAR POWER IS NO SOLUTION FOR THE WORLD’S ENERGY PROBLEMS Nuclear power is no solution to the world’s energy problems. Not even close. It’s important for electric power but electric power is not even 40% of the world’s energy supply—nor is it expected to increase much over the next 30 years. IEA projects that nuclear […]
Experts Say Nuclear Energy as Climate Solution Is Total ‘Fiction’
A protestor gestures during an anti-nuclear demonstration on October 1, 2016 in Siouville-Hague, northwestern France. (Photo: Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images) Experts Say Nuclear Energy as Climate Solution Is Total ‘Fiction’ “The reality is nuclear is neither clean, safe, or smart; but a very complex technology with the potential to cause significant harm.” As global […]
US Experts to Trudeau: Your Nuclear Dream May Turn Nightmare
US Experts to Trudeau: Your Nuclear Dream May Turn Nightmare Rethink backing the Moltex reactor, urge nine non-proliferation heavyweights. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, DC. His government is backing a new generation of reactors US experts now warn could fuel nuclear weapons proliferation. Photo by Sean Kilpatrick, the Canadian […]
Gen IV SMR nuclear reactors
Gen IV SMR nuclear reactors Preface. Peak conventional oil, which supplies over 95% of our oil, may have peaked in 2008 (IEA 2018) or 2018 (EIA 2020). We are running out of time. And is it really worth building these small modular reactors (SMR) given that peak uranium is coming soon? And until nuclear waste disposal exists, they should […]
In Promoting New Nuclear Power, Biden-Harris Back Fiction Over Science
In Promoting New Nuclear Power, Biden-Harris Back Fiction Over Science Nuclear fuel assemblies being inspected before entering a pressurized water reactor in the United States – Public Domain Although possibly a sad comment on his predecessors, incoming U.S. president, Joe Biden, is offering the most progressive climate policy so far of any who have previously […]
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; […]
