Green World Blog
News, views & musings for our nuclear-free, carbon-free future
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The most important state action this year
Exelon has raised the stakes. It’s time to take them on. And win. Today NIRS and our colleagues at Nuclear Energy Information Service (NEIS) in Chicago kicked off the most important state-level action we’ll be doing all year: taking on Exelon’s full-court press for a bailout of its aging, uneconomic nuclear fleet in Illinois. If…
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Sen. Alexander tilts at windmills
Yesterday, the Department of Energy released a major new report on wind power that, in its words, looks “at the future of wind power through 2050 and the economic benefits that come with a robust wind industry.” That future and those benefits are quite clear. DOE predicts that wind alone can provide 10% of our…
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Fukushima four years on
Today is, in case anyone forgot, the fourth anniversary of the beginning of the seemingly endless Fukushima nuclear disaster. Four years later, hundreds of thousands of people are still displaced from their homes and previous livelihoods; hundreds of tons of radioactive water continues to leak from the reactor site into groundwater and the Pacific Ocean;…
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Lamar Alexander’s nuclear fantasyland
Senator Lamar Alexander, R-TN. Photo from Wikipedia. Back in 2008, when presidential candidate John McCain was calling for construction of 45 new reactors in the U.S. (and presidential candidate Barack Obama was calling for “safe” nuclear power), Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander outdid his colleague: he issued a call for construction of 100 new nuclear reactors.…
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Deutsche Bank: solar has already won
For the past year, it’s been clear that the world’s major investment banks–or at least their analysts–already have decided that our energy future is renewable, and that nuclear power and fossil fuels are on their way out. Continue reading
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Watch it. Take action. Share it.
It’s been more than a year in the making and sometimes it felt like the project might never be finished. But here we are. Today, NIRS, Friends of the Earth, Sierra Club, Public Citizen and Greenpeace released our first major video–one we hope you’ll help us take viral. It’s at www.makenuclearhistory.org and tells a tale…
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Exelon’s nuclear bailout dream scheme
Exelon has threatened to close its GE Mark I reactors at Quad Cities. Yes, they’re uneconomic, but they’re not safe either. Exelon should make good on its threat; instead it’s seeking a massive ratepayer bailout to keep them open. After a year of making us wait with bated breath, last week Exelon unveiled its proposals…
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Exelon unveils its nuke bailout plan
Exelon’s allegedly uneconomic Byron reactors. Photo from wikipedia. After more than a year of laying the groundwork–well-documented in these pages–Exelon yesterday finally unveiled its plan to force ratepayers to bail out its allegedly uneconomic nuclear reactors at Quad Cities, Clinton and Byron. It’s a legislative proposal that runs about 100 pages, but can be summarized…
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NEI’s pitiful plea to Wall Street
NEI to Wall Street: Nothing to learn from here; let’s move along now. Pity those poor, sensitive souls at the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) and Exelon’s Nuclear Matters astroturf group. It seems that some people don’t like them, and aren’t afraid to say so. And it’s hurting their feelings. That’s the message NEI CEO Marvin…
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How rooftop solar can prevent the apocalypse
Our 20th century electric grid is more vulnerable to attack than you might think. And the results of attack could be catastrophic. I’m not normally interested in doomsday scenarios. The idea that Fukushima is some sort of “extinction-level” event (whatever that means) or is ending life in the Pacific Ocean, as I’ve seen people say…
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