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Plutonium’s global problems are piling up

January 22, 2016

Plutonium’s global problems are piling up  The nuclear fuel carriers Pacific Heron and Pacific Egret in port at Barrow-in-Furness, England, before setting sail for Japan. Image: CORE Increasing worldwide stockpiles of surplus plutonium are becoming a political embarrassment, a worrying security risk, and a hidden extra cost to the nuclear industry. LONDON, 22 January, 2016 − Two […]

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“Radiation is Good for You!” and Other Tall Tales of the Nuclear Industry

September 8, 2015

“Radiation is Good for You!” and Other Tall Tales of the Nuclear Industry The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is considering a move to eliminate the “Linear No-Threshold” (LNT) basis of radiation protection that the U.S. has used for decades and replace it with the “radiation hormesis” theory—which holds that low doses of radioactivity are good […]

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Can U.S. Nuclear Plants Operate For 80 Years?

July 20, 2015

Can U.S. Nuclear Plants Operate For 80 Years? The nuclear industry in the United States has been at a standstill for several decades. After an extraordinary wave of construction in the 1960s and 1970s, the nuclear industry ground to a halt. A confluence of events killed off new construction, including high interest rates, cost overruns, […]

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Renewable Energy Will Not Support Economic Growth

June 5, 2015

Renewable Energy Will Not Support Economic Growth Container terminal image via shutterstock. Reproduced at Resilience.org with permission. The world needs to end its dependence on fossil fuels as quickly as possible. That’s the only sane response to climate change, and to the economic dilemma of declining oil, coal, and gas resource quality and increasing extraction costs. […]

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