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It’s still 90 seconds to midnight
The Doomsday Clock, established in 1947 by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, when it stood at seven minutes to midnight, remains at 90 seconds to midnight, the closest the hands have ever been to zero hour. The Doomsday Clock was moved to 90 seconds to midnight a year ago, a reflection of the growing…
Read MoreDiablo rip-off
From San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace: The $1.1 billion federal aid package to support an additional five years of operation of the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant takes advantage of the nation’s taxpayers. Even those not served by PG&E or Diablo Canyon (with few exceptions), will be subsidizing an unprofitable, privately-owned utility that produces the most…
Read MoreHoltec is infamous for lying
[Tee shirt graphic art, above, by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies (AFES) in southeastern New Mexico.] Holtec is infamous for lying. Or at least for major reversals. Also known as con jobs. A few examples: (1.) Holtec said beginning in 2020 that it wanted to take over the Palisades nuclear power plant…
Read MoreMass Nuclear Layoffs
In Victorian times, cautionary tales were popular for deterring naughty behavior amongst children. Today, we are awash in such stories in the nuclear power sector — the latest regarding layoffs — and our politicians should be reading them. The latest example is NuScale, the company whose small modular reactor design was considered most likely to…
Read MoreMultiple nuclear giveaways backfire
An E&E article, “No takers for Biden’s nuclear bailout,” reports “[a] Department of Energy attempt last year to bail out struggling or recently shuttered nuclear plants failed to land a single qualified taker…DOE planned to announce the results of the 2023 bailout attempt by January 1, 2024, according to DOE’s March guidance for the second…
Read MoreCOP28’s tripling nuclear energy is unachievable
An opinion piece in the Boston Globe co-authored by Ernest Moniz, nuclear physicist and former US Secretary of Energy and Armond Cohen, lawyer and executive director of US-based Clean Air Task Force, defends tripling nuclear power capacity globally “as an essential part of mitigating climate change” to come out of the United Nations talks convened…
Read MoreEarthquake rattles Japan’s nuclear revival
The 2024 New Year’s Day 7.6 magnitude earthquake on Japan’s west coast with tsunami warning sirens sounding along the Sea of Japan brought back horrific memories of the devastating March 11, 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and the triple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear station. However, no radiation increases have been reported following the…
Read MoreFukushima fish a dicey diet for U.S. military
Why is the U.S. buying potentially cancer-causing Fukushima fish to serve service members and their families stationed in Japan? This is particularly ironic, given President Biden’s focus on admirable health initiatives that strive to understand and prevent environmental exposures, like the Cancer Moonshot. The United Nations and several scientists have voiced continuing concern about the…
Read MoreStanding room only at Nuclear-Free Future Awards
It was standing room only at the 2023 Nuclear-Free Future Awards and ‘Hope for the Future’ art exhibition held in New York City on November 28. The joint event, combining the long-standing Awards with an art exhibit focused on work by youth from the Marshall Islands, the Solomon Islands and Kiribati, took place at the…
Read MoreTriple nuclear plan lands with a thud
The Declaration to Triple Global Nuclear Capacity by 2050 made at COP28 has had its balloon further punctured by its post-COP reception. Only 22 countries — and just 17 with existing nuclear power programs as Sharon Squassoni points out in her excellent numbers crunch in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists — lined up to…
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