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Nuclear waste will last a lot longer than climate change
Nuclear waste will last a lot longer than climate change Preface. One of the most tragic aspects of peak oil is that it is very unlikely once energy descent begins that oil will be expended to clean up our nuclear mess. Or before descent either. Anyone who survives peak fossil fuels and after that, rising […]
Nuclear reactor issues
Nuclear reactor issues Preface. There are half a dozen articles below. Although safety and disposal of nuclear waste ought to be the main reasons why no more plants should be built, what will really stop them isbecause it takes years to get permits and $8.5–$20 billion in capital must be raised for a new 3400 […]
Germany Aims To Close All Nuclear Plants By 2022
Germany Aims To Close All Nuclear Plants By 2022 Germany is going forward with its plan to phase out nuclear reactors by 2022 as another nuclear power plant is going offline on December 31. Power company EnBW has said that it would take the Philippsburg 2 reactor off the grid at 7 p.m. local time on New […]
Boston Globe: the false promise of nuclear power
Boston Globe: the false promise of nuclear power Preface. This article raises many objections to nuclear power. Theoretically it could be cheaper, but the exact opposite has happened, it keeps getting more expensive. For example the only new reactors being built in the U.S. now are at Georgia Power’s Vogtle plant. Costs were initially estimated […]
Nuclear waste disposal drilled deep into earth’s crust
Nuclear waste disposal drilled deep into earth’s crust Preface. I suspect one the greatest tragedies of the decline of oil will be all the nuclear waste left for thousands of low-tech generations in the future. We owe it to them to clean up our mess while we still have excess oil energy to do it. […]
Getting Real About Green Energy: An honest analysis of what it CAN’T promise
Getting Real About Green Energy: An honest analysis of what it CAN’T promise I want to be optimistic about the future. I really do. But there’s virtually no chance of the world transitioning gently to an alternative energy-powered future. These Are The ‘Good Old Days’ I’m often asked where I stand on wind, solar and […]
Iran Will Be a Full Nuclear Power By the End of 2020: No Return to the 2015 Agreement
IRAN WILL BE A FULL NUCLEAR POWER BY THE END OF 2020: NO RETURN TO THE 2015 AGREEMENT French President Emmanuel Macron failed to promote successfully his Iranian initiative with the US administration despite the initial blessing of his US counterpart. This failure led Iran to make a third gradual withdrawal from its JCPOA nuclear […]
Book review of Jaczko’s “Confessions of a rogue nuclear regulator”
Book review of Jaczko’s “Confessions of a rogue nuclear regulator” Preface. After presenting a lot of evidence for why nuclear power plants are inherently unsafe, Jaczko concludes: “There is only one logical answer: we must stop generating nuclear waste, and that means we must stop using nuclear power. You would think that it would make […]
Chernobyl’s Deadly Effects Estimates Vary
Chernobyl’s Deadly Effects Estimates Vary April 26 marks the 33rd anniversary of the 1986 radiation disaster at Chernobyl reactor Number 4 in Ukraine, just north of Kiev the capital. It is still nearly impossible to get scientific consensus on the vast extent of the impacts. The explosions and two-week long fire at Chernobyl spewed around […]
Growing nuclear waste legacy defies disposal
Growing nuclear waste legacy defies disposal Spent nuclear fuel stored under water. Image: By US Dept. of Energy, via Wikimedia Commons Supporters say more nuclear power will combat climate change, but the industry is still failing to tackle its nuclear waste legacy. LONDON, 7 February, 2019 − The nuclear industry, and governments across the world, have yet […]
Living on a Quagmire Planet: This Could Get a Lot Uglier
Living on a Quagmire Planet: This Could Get a Lot Uglier Sixty-six million years ago, so the scientists tell us, an asteroid slammed into this planet. Landing on what’s now Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, it gouged out a crater 150 kilometers wide and put so much soot and sulfur into the atmosphere that it created what […]
Reports warn of disabling attacks to U.S. power grid that could wipe out “democracy” and the “world order”
Reports warn of disabling attacks to U.S. power grid that could wipe out “democracy” and the “world order” (Natural News) A pair of reports released in the past month from two separate federal entities both warn of dire, devastating consequences from the destruction or disabling of a substantial portion of the U.S. power grid. In […]
Woolsey Fire Started at Santa Susana Field Lab — Site of “[fourth] largest release of iodine-131 in the history of nuclear power”
Woolsey Fire Started at Santa Susana Field Lab — Site of “[fourth] largest release of iodine-131 in the history of nuclear power” In my Nov. 16 column, I reported on potential radiation risks posed by California’s Woolsey wildfire having burned over parts or all of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory—south of Simi Valley, Calif., 30 […]
Help Stop Radioactive Waste Dump and Thousands of Dangerous Shipments Across the US
Help Stop Radioactive Waste Dump and Thousands of Dangerous Shipments Across the US The private company Waste Control Specialists (WCS) or “Interim Storage Partners” wants to place a high-level radioactive waste dump site (called a “centralized interim storage facility”) in West Texas. If approved, opening this high-level waste dump would launch nation-wide transports of a […]
Nuclear Power Plants At Risk Of Direct Hit By Hurricane Florence
Nuclear Power Plants At Risk Of Direct Hit By Hurricane Florence North and South Carolina nuclear power plants are in line for a possible direct hit from Hurricane Florence. According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), there are twelve operating nuclear power plants in the Carolinas that make electricity by the continuous splitting of uranium […]
