Green World Blog
News, views & musings for our nuclear-free, carbon-free future
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Looking back–for just one day
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 as safely, cleanly and affordably as possible with renewable energy and advanced 21st century efficiency,…
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The Paris Agreement on climate — a good start, but…
Paris, December 12, 2015 The international Don’t Nuke the Climate campaign had two major goals for COP 21: 1) to ensure that any agreement reached would not encourage use of nuclear power and, preferably, to keep any pro-nuclear statement out of the text entirely; and 2) along with the rest of the environmental community, to…
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Journalism at its best uncovers the ongoing deadly legacy of the atomic age
The unfinished MOX fuel facility at the DOE’s massive Savannah River Site, part of the nation’s nuclear weapons complex whose operation has resulted in the deaths of more than 33,000 Americans, according to a new report from McClatchy News Service. Radiation kills. That is a fact, established by scientific bodies like the U.S. National Academy…
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We Are Unstoppable: A Reminder of What COP 21 Should Have Been
Climate justice advocates break through at COP 21: We are unstoppable! Another world is possible! Civil society finally broke through with a loud voice yesterday at the COP 21 global climate summit. For a week-and-a-half, activists and independent energy and environmental groups had been relegated to the sidelines–literally. The only place where anyone could hold…
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On the ground at COP 21: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly … so far
The nuclear industry is well-represented inside the conference hall; anti-nuclear groups haven’t been allowed to set up information booths. Last Saturday, December 5, two NIRS staff arrived in Paris and joined anti-nuclear colleagues from across Europe for the United Nations climate conference. Officially, this is the 21st Conference of Parties on climate, or COP 21…
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The nuclear industry’s COP 21 dilemma: 100% renewables is attainable
“Nuclear power plant construction” by James Douch – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons – If you think you’ve been seeing a lot more pro-nuclear propaganda in the media than usual in the past couple of weeks, well, it’s not your imagination. The nuclear industry and its champions are out in force,…
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When a campaign strikes a nerve
Every successful campaign for social change causes reaction. After all, if the campaign weren’t hitting at vested interests, weren’t causing disruption for some entity, then there would be no need for a campaign–its goals would simply be adopted by acclamation. Indeed, campaigns that don’t generate reaction are campaigns that don’t succeed: that means they haven’t…
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Nuking clean energy: how nuclear power makes wind and solar harder
Average hourly load over a one-week period in January, April and July 2009. Credit B. Posner. This post first appeared on Power for the People, a blog focused on energy issues in Virginia, the home base of Dominion Resources–a company that is an industry laggard when it comes to renewable energy issues, and is still…
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The alternative is now the mainstream
According to Lazard, the most cost-effective options to reduce carbon emissions are wind and utility-scale solar. Rooftop solar might fit there, except that Lazard found that the cost of installing rooftop solar in the U.S. runs twice that of the rest of the world. It’s a truism perhaps most prevalent in the music scene: today’s…
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Dear John (Hansen)
James Hansen is a tireless climate campaigner, but he’s no energy expert… November 13, 2015 Dear John, Thanks for the e-mail yesterday from your PR firm, notifying me of the press conference you’re planning on December 3 in Paris, in conjunction with the COP 21 climate negotiations. Though I have to admit I was a…
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