So Gas it is! by Isuru Seneviratne, Nuclear New York April 27, 2020 ______________________ New York’s electricity is a tale of two grids: the low-carbon upstate grid (81% powered by hydro and nuclear), and the high-carbon downstate one (70% powered by methane gas). Indian Point is responsible for 80% of downstate clean [...]
“Planet of the Humans:” Humanity’s Epitaph, or an Incomplete Tale? The recent documentary release by Michael Moore, Planet of the Humans, comes down hard on renewable energy, much to the dismay of that industry and of many environmentalists and “green” energy supporters. The film portrays renewables as failing miserably [...]
Learn the Facts The agreement to close Indian Point, announced in January 2017, capped decades of controversy over its safety and was seen as a victory for environmental groups and Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo, who had long opposed the downstate plant, despite supporting New York's upstate plants. [...]
Dear Governor Cuomo, We thank you for your leadership at this very difficult time. With New York’s number of coronavirus infections now exceeding 250,000, with 57,000 New Yorkers in the hospital and almost 15,000 deaths, we are facing the worst disaster in the state’s recent history and [...]
A Pandemic is the wrong time to shut down Indian Point This brilliant and eye-opening Opinion piece was recently published in the New York Post by Robert Bryce, A Pandemic is the wrong time to shut down NYC’s top source of electricity. Bryce makes an excellent argument for why Governor Cuomo should [...]
State, climate need benefits of plentiful, clean nuclear power Alan Medsker, a campaigner for Generation Atomic and a member of the Climate Coalition, authored an opinion piece entitled "State, climate need benefits of plentiful, clean nuclear power" for the Daily Herald, which is well worth reading. In it, he makes the case [...]
MM MM To meet the unprecedented challenge that is climate change, we need the broadest coalition demanding that zero-carbon energy grids be deployed to meet humanity's growing energy needs. The Climate Coalition is for those who are willing to work together with everyone who [...]
Swords into Ploughshares At the end of 2013, Susan Eisenhower reported the end of the Megatons to Megawatts program in which Russia would ship Low Enriched Uranium to the United States so that they could convert nuclear weapons into energy. This program costed no money to the United States tax payer, converted [...]
A message to the climate community. Friends, so many of you have posted wonderful pictures of celebrations, escapes into beauty, and reflections on both the joys and the sorrows of the past, while projecting and wishing good things for our future. In this moment of wishfulness and open introspection, [...]
U.N. Climate Talks End With Few Commitments and a 'Lost' Opportunity Following the Madrid climate talks, Somini Sengupta reports on the incredibly disappointing outcome in The New York Times in an article called “U.N. Talks End With Few Commitments and a 'Lost' Opportunity." Climate talks in Madrid ended on December 14th [...]
The Next Nuclear Plants Will Be Small, Svelte, and Safer Daniel Oberhaus published an article in Wired called “The Next Nuclear Plants Will Be Small, Svelte, and Safer," in which he illuminates the work done by an Oregon energy startup. NuScale Power, working on Oregon State University campus, developed a modular nuclear power reactor [...]
FirstEnergy Solutions to become Energy Harbor, keep headquarters in Akron Crain's Cleveland Business wrote an article entitled, “FirstEnergy Solutions to become Energy Harbor, keep headquarters in Akron," that explains the recent developments of a local business that owns many power plants throughout Ohio. FirstEnergy Solutions Corp. (FES) will be rebranding itself with the name [...]
Can a regulated asset model help deliver new investments? World Nuclear News published a viewpoint created by Edward Kee, Ruediger Koenig, Paul Murphy and Xavier Rollat called, “Can a regulated asset model help deliver new investments?" in which they explore the challenges faced by investments for a new nuclear power plant emit a left-wing [...]
Achieving Peak Pasture The Breakthrough Institute summarizes their report on the environmental impacts of pasture land in, “Achieving Peak Pasture. " Pasture is the largest human use of land in the world, accounting for more than twice the land used to harvest crops globally. Over the last 320 years, a space the size of North America [...]
World’s Emissions Gap Is Growing, with No Sign of Peaking Soon, UN Warns Leslie Hook published an article in Inside Climate News called “World's Emissions Gap is Growing, with No Sign of Peaking Soon, UN Warns," in which she highlights the jaw-dropping gap between the future emissions reduction necessary to meet the [...]
Italy to make climate change study compulsory in schools Gavin Jones reports on the breaking news that Italy will require students to study climate change in school in his article, "Italy to make climate change study compulsory in schools". According to Lorenzo Fioramonti, Italy's Education Minister, Italy will become the first country to [...]
Bipartisan Senate climate caucus grows by six members Rebecca Beitsch reports on the news that six new members will be joining the Climate Solutions Caucus in her article, "Bipartisan Senate climate caucus grows by six members". Three republican representatives, an independent, and two democrats have joined the bipartisan caucus which was created [...]
The new science fossil fuel companies fear Zack Colman published an article in Politico called “The new science fossil fuel companies fear,” in which he describes how Richard Heede spent a decade attempting to find out one thing: "how many greenhouse gases the world’s fossil fuel companies, cement-makers and other industrial giants had pumped into [...]
Nuclear Power Industry heading toward smaller, cheaper, faster build designs: Clear Path During a meeting in June with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Rich Powell-executive director of Clear Path- suggested that advanced small modular reactors (SMR) could be the key in overcoming the industry's biggest issues. The smaller size of these reactors [...]
Reps. McNerney, Shimkus Introduce Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act Congressmen Jerry McNerney and John Shimkus introduced a bill to safely deal with nuclear waste with using both temporary storage and permanent disposal. The bill will push the Department of Energy to continue their temporary storage of nuclear waste from decommissioned power [...]
Sign the Sustainable Nuclear Petition Kirsten Gogan from Energy for Humanity and others have posted a petition on the OpenPetition website directed at the European Commission Technical Expert Group. This petition endeavors to advocate for more informed, evidence-based and effective energy and climate policy in Europe. While not specifically about supporting [...]
Candidates Should Heed Obama and Clinton Paul Steidler has published an article in Inside Sources called “Candidates Should Heed Obama, Clinton on Nuclear Power," in which he bemoans the fact that none of the top 2020 candidates for the Democratic Party are strong nuclear energy supporters. All of the candidates highlight [...]
11 Reasons why DOE is all in on new nuclear On August 28, 2019, Dan Brouillette, the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, published a write-up of eleven ways that demonstrate the Department of Energy's commitment to nuclear energy and especially advanced nuclear, in support of the more than [...]
Why The World Needs More Nuclear Power In “Why The World Needs More Nuclear Power," by Robert Rapier in Forbes, Rapier reports on the current status of the nuclear energy industry and how important it is if we are going to decarbonize the world’s energy supply. Currently, the United States is [...]
It's Time to Embrace Nuclear Energy A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow, by Joshua S. Goldstein and Staffan A. Qvist, depicts two different paths of emission-free energy use: Germany and Sweden. The contrasting stories have Sweden on one side. The Swedish has [...]
We Demand a Green New Deal Focused on 100% Clean Energy We have launched a MoveOn petition demanding that the Green New Deal being discussed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez focuses on achieving 100% non-emitting clean energy. There are problems with demanding 100% renewables, because this ignores some of our best and [...]
Will Estonia be the first nation to deploy a 4th Gen Small Modular Reactor? [The below info comes directly from an announcement sent by Simon Newton of Moltex, which claims that it has designed and patented a reactor which is inherently safe, cheaper than fossil-fuelled power plants and uses nuclear waste as [...]
Nuclear Support is trending David Leonhardt, the New York Times' Pulitzer Prize-winning Op-Ed columnist, used his May 6th daily precise of relevant news which is sent to subscribers to review the status of how various individuals' and groups' within the Democratic party are changing their thinking and approaches towards addressing climate change, [...]
Who are the “titans” of nuclear? If you are someone who is trying to understand how to solve climate change in the short amount of time we have left, you may have heard that nuclear energy is clean, reliable, and can generate enormous amounts of energy at [...]
We are pleased to pass on this message from the IAEA: Dear colleague, As you may already be aware of, we would like to remind you that the IAEA is organizing later this year the first ever conference concentrating solely on nuclear power and climate change. The 2019 International Conference on Climate [...]
MMM The Hidden, Dirty side of Renewables Renewable energy has managed to benefit in popularity with a virtually unblemished brand. Through careful marketing efforts, consumers only see shiny, gleaming images of sparkling solar panels and snow white wind turbines on sunny days. We never get exposed to the hidden [...]
Wall Street Journal acknowledges need for nuclear energy to address climate change On January 11, 2019, the Wall Street Journal established itself as the media source willing to help environmentalists sharpen their pencils about the mathematical challenge posed by climate change and our dependence upon fossil fuels. In an article written by [...]
What Bill Gates has Learned Ring in the new year with these wise words from Bill Gates, which were extracted from a longer article that he posted at his blog, Gates Notes, called "What I learned at work this year" on December 29, 2018. "Global emissions of greenhouse gases went [...]
Examining the Record Jerry Brown, who is 80 years old, served as Governor of California twice, once as the 34th governor, serving two terms after the end of Ronald Regan's term, from 1975 to 1983 and then again 28 years later, as the 39th governor, again with two [...]
CO2 Emissions Reached an All-Time High in 2018 In “CO2 Emissions Reached an All-Time High in 2018," by Chelsea Harvey writing in Scientific American, Harvey reports on the findings by a panel of scientists who concluded that 2018 had the highest CO2 emissions ever. As the demand for energy continues to [...]
