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Nuclear lobbyists' epic COP21 fail. Our next job? Keep their hands off...

The nuclear industry has had a disappointing COP21, writes Jim Green. Lobbyists were there en masse desperately trying to get pro-nuclear wording into the Paris Agreement, and they failed. The word...

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#COP 21 - Nous y étions pour clamer haut et fort "le nucléaire ne sauvera pas...

La COP 21 vient de s’achever. L’enjeu pour les antinucléaires : dénoncer l’instrumentalisation de ce processus par le gouvernement français et les industriels du nucléaire et contrecarrer la propagande...

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Only 16% of Fukushima residents knew of emergency declaration - AJW by The...

The government's declaration of a nuclear emergency on March 11, 2011, reached only 16.5 percent of residents in Fukushima Prefecture by the following day, according to a Cabinet Office survey.A key...

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (US): The experts on nuclear power and...

The stock market did not hear the call. The claim of four climate mousquetaires at a side event of the Paris climate talks that “nuclear has tremendous potential to be part of the solution to climate...

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Victory in Paris highlights a year of stunning setbacks for nuclear power –...

December 20, 2015Dear NIRS Supporter,A few days ago, I got back home from the global climate change summit in France. It is more clear to me than ever that, despite all the odds, we are on the verge of...

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Panic vs. Leadership – the international perception of the Energiewende |...

If you are active on Twitter among the energy and climate geeks like me, you run across international coverage on Germany’s energy transition almost every day. Compare that discussion with the original...

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Can Nuclear Power Slow Down Climate Change? An analysis of nuclear greenhouse...

Can Nuclear Power Slow Down Climate Change  (click title to access link to PDF of full report)By Jan Willem Storm van Leeuwen Ceedata ConsultancyCommissioned by the World Information Service on Energy...

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nukespeak :: New [Radiation] Protection Action Guidelines Will Leave You...

Dr. Rosalie BertelIn Dr. Bertell’s 1986 speech, she candidly describes the two tactics that she used to report radiological incidents and the release of radionuclides into the environment. “It’s become...

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Gunter: Cheap? Clean? Nuclear power is neither - Roanoke Times: Letters

The audacity of Michael Leigh to describe nuclear energy as cheap, clean and safe was breathtaking ("Want cheap, clean fuel? Go nuclear," Dec. 13 commentary)Construction costs for a single new nuclear...

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Looking back–for just one day | GreenWorld

Still got a long way to go….Vogtle Units 3 (left) and 4, July 30, 2015.At GreenWorld, we like to look forward. Forward to the day that nuclear power is a bad but fading memory and our planet is powered...

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Katsuya Hirano, "Fukushima and the Crisis of Democracy: Interview with...

Murakami Tatsuya is the former mayor of Tōkaimura or Tōkai village located approximately 75 miles north of Tokyo and 111 miles south of the Fukushima Daiichi plant. Murakami TatsuyaTōkaimura is...

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Mark Jacobson to James Hansen: Nukes Are Not Needed to Solve World's Climate...

Dr. James Hansen argues that nuclear power “must” play an important role in the future. However, there is no scientific basis for this statement and his claim does not address the problems with nuclear...

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State looking at criminal charges against former CPUC president - SFGate

...considering criminal charges against Michael Peevey, former president of the California Public Utilities Commission, for his private meeting with a Southern California Edison Co. executive about...

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Wind Power Guru: Nukes Fail to Gain Traction in Monumental Paris Accord

via ECOWATCHby Harvey WassermanPaul Gipe is one of the world’s great Solartopian pioneers. His early work on wind power helped make the industry possible. His website publishes some of the most...

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Nuclear radiation, Kierkegaard, and the philosophy of denial - The Ecologist

The torture imposed on logic, reason and observational data by the advocates of nuclear power has now reached the level of clinical psychosis - a thought disorder in which reality testing is grossly...

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EDF sinks to all-time low as nuclear waste cost estimate soars | Reuters

PARIS, Jan 12 Shares in French utility EDF sank to all-time lows on Tuesday after the country's Andra nuclear waste agency said that storage costs could be higher than EDF's estimates, although EDF...

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Nuclear no match for renewables | Opinion & Analysis | BDlive

SA has an immediate crisis in supplying reliable electricity. The government’s curiously oblique solution: eight new nuclear reactors, costing about R1-trillion. The inherent complexity of procurement,...

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Olsen: Nuclear shouldn't be the future of energy | Journal Times

...New nuclear is prohibitively expensive. They are trying to finish two new reactors at Vogtle in Georgia. It will be at least $18 billion. Here is the real cost data from Vogtle. Vogtle will double...

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Researchers: No doubt cleanup at Fukushima nuclear plant contaminated rice...

...In 2013, rice crops from areas of Minami-Soma were found with unexpectedly high radioactivity levels more than two years after the triple meltdown at the nuclear plant located 20 kilometers south of...

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Common Myths of the Nuclear Industry - Helen Caldicott, MD

Common Myths of the Nuclear Industry - Helen Caldicott, MD

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