There is a nuclear revival going on right now, but it’s a revival of rhetoric, not reality. The government and nuclear power industry’s saturation propaganda campaign is running 24/7 to promote a largely imaginary “nuclear renaissance” and dramatically expand the use of nuclear power.But for all the fast talk about fast-tracking new reactor construction, in…
Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) are the nuclear industry’s latest shiny dream. It is more hope than strategy. SMRs only exist in the imagination of the nuclear industry and its supporters. SMRs can only be found on glossy PowerPoint slides. That is why the Paris-based nuclear consultant Mycle Schneider dubbed SMRs “power point reactors.” There are…
Energy runs the world, and how energy is produced and used is undergoing a historic transformation. As UN secretary general Antonio Guterres recently said, “We are on the cusp of a new era. Fossil fuels are running out of road. The sun is rising on a clean energy age.” If we get on the right…
We know that both the Biden and Trump Administrations’ push for an “all the above” strategy for energy production includes nuclear power, with nuclear claimed to be a “green alternative” to fossil fuels. This is leading to increased uranium production and processing, along with attempts to solve the storage problem by pushing for a site in southeastern…
Despite some technical and political challenges, offshore wind power continues to be a key opportunity for achieving a safe and sustainable energy future in the US, especially off the northeast and west coasts. During the Biden administration, ongoing planning for offshore wind farms led to a commitment for 30 gigawatts (GW) nationwide by 2030 –…
This is a national crisis, building steadily over 75 years, with poorly managed and stored radioactive waste from nuclear weapons production and commercial energy from nuclear power plants cluttering our communities, highways and ports without a clear plan to resolve it. Nuclear energy supplies 18% of U.S. electricity, declining because of the surge in renewable…
In the anti-nuclear movement, victories don’t come that often. All the more reason for celebration this past October when Holtec International and Eddy-Lea Energy Alliance’s (ELEA) decided to terminate their plans to build a “consolidated interim storage facility (CISF)” for high level radioactive waste in southeastern New Mexico. This project would have constructed and then…
Sixty-seven percent of Massachusetts voted in a public referendum in 1982 to require several common-sense safety protections such as having safe disposal of radioactive waste, an evacuation plan, and a decommissioning plan—as well as citizen approval of any new nuclear power plant built in the Commonwealth. Now, Section 45 of H.4144—Governor Healey’s energy bill, “An…
Three days before the Clamshell Alliance peaceably occupied the nuclear plant construction site in Seabrook in 1977, New Hampshire Governor Meldrim Thomson called me a terrorist. “Our advance information indicates that the planned demonstration of April 30 is nothing but a cover for terrorist activity,” he said, quoted in a front-page, above-the-fold article in the…
