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 [...]
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 [...]
Should Nuclear Power Qualify As a Renewable Source? According to Assemblyman Jordan Cunningham, yes it should. In a post entitled, “Bill introduced to allow nuclear power to qualify as a renewable energy source," produced by the staff of the Central Coast CBS Channel 6 affiliate, KSBY, we learn that new California [...]
HBO's "Chernobyl" greatly exaggerates the disaster's fallout risks The HBO mini-series “Chernobyl” has many people raving about it. Including those who support nuclear power. Yet, it also appears that the producers had to exaggerate the reality of the accident to produce the degree of emotional impact that they were seeking [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This is the text of the press release provided by Californians for Green Nuclear Power regarding the lawsuit they filed in the California Court of Appeals on October 24th. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Dr. Gene Nelson, Press Liaison Californians for Green Nuclear Power P: 805-363-4697 moreinfo@cgnp.org CGNP Files Court Appeal Challenging Shutdown [...]
Taiwan voters reverse nuclear ban Nearly 55% of Taiwanese residents turned out to vote on a referendum this past week which would determine whether or not Taiwan maintained its nuclear generation or ended it. In a result that surprised many observers, Taiwanese voters decisively rejected the government’s phase-out of nuclear power, 59% [...]
The release of a Union of Concerned Scientists report calling for policies to support continued operation of nuclear power plants marks a watershed. UCS is the first major environmental NGO to recognize that nuclear energy presently, and for the foreseeable future, is a key climate mitigation technology. It is also the first to publicly and explicitly call for policies to support nuclear energy.
How Safe Is Nuclear? Nuclear bombs are not safe. We don't support the use of nuclear weapons of any kind. On the other hand, nuclear energy is incredibly safe. Let's put this into perspective. There is really nothing that has been created by mankind that is 100% [...]
We are facing an existential crisis. If we all don't work together, everything and everyone will be impacted on the planet. We need everyone working to provide sources of clean energy to be properly valued and welcomed — without discrimination. This includes those working to improve and increase renewables as well as those working to improve and increase nuclear energy. Only by embracing and utilizing all available technologies, will we have a sufficiently diverse portfolio of options that can supplant fossil fuels and reliably power 100% clean energy grids in all the various geographies around the world.
