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News, views & musings for our nuclear-free, carbon-free future
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Citigroup: The revolution will not be televised
Am 8 MW solar parking lot at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Those hippies at Citigroup are at it again. In late March, they published a study asserting that 2014 was ushering in the “Age of Renewables” in the U.S. According to that study, electricity costs are being set primarily by the cost of natural…
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Same old story: Summer reactors delayed, overbudget
The Summer nuclear project, May 2014. Still a long ways–and a lot more rate increases–to go. A few years ago, back before the nuclear “renaissance” had fizzled down to construction of four southern reactors taking advantage of utility-friendly Public Service Commissions (PSCs) that allow the utilities to treat their customers as private banks, there was…
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Industry says EPA rule needs more nuke support
One thing you can always count on from the nuclear power industry: when it comes to greed, the industry has no shame whatsoever; no matter how much taxpayer and ratepayer support nuclear power receives, the industry will always ask for more. Kind of like my four year old, who sometimes would rather not get a…
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Nuclear Newsreel, August 6, 2014
Surfers near the now-shuttered San Onofre reactors in southern California. It’s the dog days of August; Congress is out of town (not that it does much when in D.C.); news is kinda slow…. But there are a few items that deserve some attention; so let’s first pause for a moment to recognize today’s 69th Anniversary…
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Why We’re Marching September 21, 2014
Nuclear-Free, Carbon-Free protestors at the July 29 EPA hearing on its Clean Power Plan in Atlanta. Here at NIRS we’re already in crazy mode organizing and mobilizing for the Nuclear-Free, Carbon-Free Contingent to the People’s Climate March in New York City on September 21, 2014. This is the largest public event organizing effort we’ve undertaken…
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It’s not utilities leading the energy revolution
It’s policy–not utility preference–that is enabling the renewable energy revolution. Last Friday, we noted that Ceres has released a major new report ranking the renewable energy production and energy efficiency programs of the 32 largest electric utility holding companies in the U.S. But that note came in a brief update to our post Exelon supporting…
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Exelon wants ratepayers to pay more for all Illinois reactors
Exelon wants its ratepayers to bail out not only its uneconomic Byron reactors, but all of its 11 reactors in Illinois. The Chicago Tribune this afternoon published an article indicating that the nation’s largest nuclear power utility, Exelon, is seeking to have its Illinois ratepayers pay more for all of its 11 reactors in the…
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Yep, wind is better than nukes/CCS for climate
Global wind energy capacity has been growing and continues to grow at a rapid rate….. It’s not like this will come as startling news to most readers–most of us already have a strong sense that renewables are far better than either nuclear power or carbon capture/storage (CCS) at addressing our climate crisis. After all, that’s…
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Exelon supporting solar power in Massachusetts? Um, nope.
Exelon’s Clinton reactor in Illinois. Decidedly not a solar plant. America’s largest nuclear utility, Exelon, says it is supporting an elimination of the net metering cap in Massachusetts. That position would seem to imply support for rooftop solar power in the state, a position seemingly at odds with Exelon’s ownership of 2,000 Megawatts of natural…
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Obama appoints two to NRC; NEI not happy. Magwood says staying as long as possible.
Stephen Burns President Obama Tuesday appointed two new Commissioners to the NRC. They will replace departed Commissioner George Apostalakis and outgoing and increasingly controversial Commissioner William Magwood. Already the Nuclear Energy Institute and some GOP congressmembers are raising concerns about both of them, although there have not yet been any outright calls for their confirmation…
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