The Nuclear category always has the latest posts. Current status of every U.S. nuclear power reactor is updated daily on the LAKE website from NRC data. Including Fukushima. The whole industry is like burning $20 bills to generate electricity. Georgia Power and Southern Company‘s boondoggle new nukes at Plant Vogtle that are holding us back […]
All U.S. nuclear power reactors could be replaced by LED lighting with a few clever on-off controls. More evidence Plant Vogtle is a boondoggle good for nothing but propping up profits for Georgia Power and Southern Company. Michael Kanellos wrote for Forbes 28 October 2013, Can LED Bulbs Make Nuclear Plants Obsolete? One $7 billion […]
From Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace and Matsutaro Shoriki founding the Japanese nuclear industry to Shinzo Abe’s international nuclear salesmanship, nuclear power has always been a whitewash for nuclear weapons, with “peaceful” nukes a boondoggle for big corps subsidized by taxpayers and ratepayers. Yet the sun is rising around the world, on Japan as well as […]
Georgia’s two nuclear sites got more than a safety violation a month over a dozen years, and now the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is shut down. Maybe we need power sources that don’t need so much safety inspection, like solar and wind and efficiency and conservation. AP wrote yesterday, 166 violations issued at Ga. nuclear […]
Nukes cost too much and are too centralized; sun and wind are the power we need and can afford. Andrew Sullivan on the Dish 8 December 2012, Ask McKibben Anything: What About Nuclear Energy? In October, Bill spoke to Marlene Spoerri of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs about his views on nuclear […]
One of the world’s largest nuclear reactors was shut down Sunday by jellyfish. Not a tsunami, not an earthquake, not a blizzard, not even hot water: jellyfish. And it’s not the first time or the first reactor. Tell me again how reliable centralized baseload power is? AP reported yesterday, Jellyfish force nuclear plant shutdown in […]
How is our local landfill like Fukushima? No, not radiation: nobody seems to be responsible. Colin P. A. Jones wrote for The Japan Times 16 September 2013, Fukushima and the right to responsible government, Rather, the means of holding a member responsible for bad judgments are internalized as part of the rules and discipline governing […]
TEPCO that lied about deadly levels of radiation at Fukushima is part of the industry Southern Company CEO Tom Fanning brags about as producing “nuclear power as a clean, safe, affordable solution for this world’s energy future”. SO and Georgia Power are building two new nukes at Plant Vogtle on the Savannah River, including parts […]
After Fukushima, Japan is now serious about solar power. From Miyama, Fukuoka (pictured), in the south of Honshu to northerly Hokkaido, Japan is building solar power plants, and now needs to upgrade its grid. Rooftop solar doesn’t need as many grid changes, since it delivers onsite at peak load. Hey, here’s an idea: solar panels […]
Decrepit nuke leaked radioactive water into Lake Michigan in May 2013, and “The same tank sprang a leak in 2012.” That reactor has been down so many times the reporter couldn’t count them all. When will we realize what Korea and now Japan has: the nuclear industry colludes to hide its mistakes from the public, […]