There is a small group of scientists that have proposed replacing 100% of the world’s fossil fuel power plants with nuclear reactors as a way to solve climate change. Many others propose nuclear grow to satisfy up to 20 percent of all our energy (not just electricity) needs. They advocate that nuclear is a “clean”...
It was a perfect day for Strawberry Fest. It was a big crowd with a lot of curious folks who wanted to know about Indian Point and had never heard of a Citizens Oversight Board. It is an easy sell. Open or closed Indian Point needs supervision! Not one person disagreed with that. 50 people...
“And then Gary Shaw. On May 24, also after a long struggle with cancer. Gary, inseparable from his equally amazing wife Jeanne, was a cornerstone of the battle to close the Indian Point nuclear power plant in New York. Thanks to them and their many colleagues, they won! A rare moment in our movement. Did...
My friend and colleague Gary Shaw passed away on Friday, May 24th after a long battle with brain cancer. He was 69 and leaves behind a close family, many close friends and hundreds of people who knew him as a fantastic public speaker or a committed environmental activist. The environmental community lost an irreplaceable and...
The danger from climate change no longer outweighs the risks of nuclear accidents. By Gregory Jaczko, Washington Post, May 17, 2019https://tinyurl.com/y3ltubbx Gregory Jaczko served on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 2005 to 2009, and as its chairman from 2009 to 2012. The author of “Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator,” he is the founder of Wind Future...
At last an article that gets it right!. Please take a minute to like this article and support this journalist. “Replacement power does not have to be new generation. It can come from improvements in the transmission lines, increased efficiency where you get more work out of the same amount of electricity, or from something...
Dhould we subsidize uncompetitive old nuclear plants? Should we build (uncompetitive) new ones? One nuclear industry safety assessment figure claims risks are only one-tenth as great as the historic record shows they are. If the people in the industry know it, they are not admitting to a serious safety problem. If they don’t know it,...
The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) held a briefing on the federal oversight of the U.S. nuclear power industry. Experts spoke about the challenges of decommissioning a nuclear power plant. Former Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Chair Gregory Jaczko was among the presenters. Video: https://www.c-span.org/video/?460643-1/nuclear-power-oversight
The important thing to remember is that decommissioning has effectively been deregulated for the past twenty years. The current regs only categorize the licensee’s approach to decommissioning in the broadest possible terms, and they are not mutually exclusive. And none of them have anything to do with the storage of irradiated fuel. DECON means starting...
When referring to storage containers, the vendors are now trying to call their thin canisters “thick canisters” and “robust cask systems”, so it’s important to be more specific. Technically, the term “canister” is not used to define thick metal casks, but most people don’t know the difference between the word “canister and “cask”, so I...
This is one of the best article refuting the use of nuclear power for climate change that I have seen. It is also one of the few that say flat out that nuclear power is not carbon free and to clearly lay out the fuel cycle facts. All of the dirty lies the industry is...
