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Nuclear trifecta: Rising seas, earthquakes and economics mean end is in sight for many East Coast reactors
The Pilgrim reactor. Much of this site would be under water if sea levels rise as predicted. Photo by cryptome.org The question of the day is not whether more U.S. reactors will permanently close over the next few years, it’s how many–especially on the East Coast–still will be operating by the end of this decade.…
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Nuclear Newsreel, Friday, May 16, 2014
Entergy’s Fukushima-clone GE Mark I FitzPatrick reactor is in trouble. Nuclear Power Entergy’s FitzPatrick reactor on the shores of Lake Ontario has had so many leaks in its cooling system that it had to reduce power 11 separate times just in the first three months of 2014. The leaks are in the Fukushima-clone reactor’s condenser…
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Your choice: small reactors or carbon reductions. You can’t have both.
When most people think of “small” reactors, they probably don’t envision huge nuclear sites like this rendering. But that’s exactly what the nuclear industry sees as their future. Dr. Mark Cooper, senior fellow for economic analysis at the Vermont Law School’s Institute for Energy and the Environment, this morning released a major new paper asserting…
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Greenpeace brings its energy (r)evolution to the U.S.
The Ivanpah concentrating solar power plant. For the past few years, Greenpeace International has published major reports under the moniker Energy (R)evolution detailing ways to move the European Union to a renewable energy future–an approach that has gained considerable traction within the EU. Now, Greenpeace has turned its attention to the U.S., with its release…
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Nuclear Newsreel, Tuesday, May 13, 2014
The existing Turkey Point facility consists of two reactors, two gas/oil plants and one combined cycle natural gas plant. But FPL is considering adding two new reactors to the site. A hearing is being held today in Florida on whether FPL should be allowed to build two new reactors at its Turkey Point site near…
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Nuclear Newsreel, Monday, May 12, 2014
Nuclear Power America’s most dangerous nuclear site? Three Fukushima-clone GE Mark I reactors inside a single building at Browns Ferry, Alabama. Photo from Wikipedia. If all newspapers took their job as seriously as the Chattanooga Free Press, we at NIRS might be able to work ourselves out of a job. Of course, not all newspapers…
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Will Exelon get out of the nuclear business?
Exelon’s Byron reactors are among those the company has said it may close for economic reasons. Will Exelon get out of the nuclear business? Columnist Joe Cahill, who follows the company closely for Crain’s ChicagoBusiness.com, thinks that Exelon’s current attempt to buy the Washington DC-area utility Pepco is the first step toward re-structuring Exelon away…
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A Modest Proposal: We need a clean energy PAC
A portion of a page from NEI’s most recent (3/31/14) filing with the Federal Election Commission. The time has come for the clean energy/anti-nuclear movement to get serious. Actually, it’s well past that time. By serious, I mean playing politics–for real. This movement, of which I’m proud to have been a part for more than…
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NEI’s Top 20
It’s no secret that the nuclear power industry gives money–lots of it–to candidates running for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, especially incumbents. In the ten-year period from 2003 through 2012, the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) gave a total of $2,006,624.74 to Congressional candidates, an average of about $200,000 year–including non-election years. In the…
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Media calls out nuclear industry front groups
Nuclear Matters, the Exelon-formed front group created earlier this year to try to prevent more reactor shutdowns, has been continuing its unprecedented public relations blitz in recent days. But now there’s a difference: the media has caught on to who they are, and is beginning to reveal their self-serving bias. In the long run, that’s…
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