Turkey Point Nuclear Plant adds 400MWs!
Florida Power & Light (FPL) is celebrating the completion of a major five-year upgrade program that has added over 500 MWe of capacity to four reactors at its Turkey Point and St Lucie sites.The...
View ArticleChina approaches reprocessing commitment
China is to reprocess used reactor fuel at a plant supplied by Areva, according to a letter of intent signed in Beijing yesterday.The agreement sets out the technical specifications of the future...
View ArticleOntario's Energy Transition
Energy transitionsOntario's approach is in stark contrast to that taken in Germany, which has a commitment to end the use of nuclear power and rely instead on renewable sources. This has seen...
View ArticleWorld Nuclear Energy Roundup #32
[OK, not "32" but I lost count of how many of these I did so there!]A few news items, mostly garnered from World Nuclear News. Love 'em or hate 'em, they do report on new builds, advances and setbacks....
View ArticleFamine in America in 2050
As America runs low on oil, America will run low on food.As America runs very low on oil, America will have widespread famine.
View ArticleWorld Nuclear Energy Roundup #33
Comment:First, the pertinent data on Vietnam's energy development;Vietnam has considered establishing nuclear power generation since 1995, and firm proposals surfaced in 2006. Russia has agreed to...
View ArticleGreen Nuclear Junk
[I had a small hand in this letter but it was drafted and finally put together by Ben Heard and Geoff Russell.--David Walters] Published at http://decarbonisesa.com/... and http://bravenewclimate.com...
View ArticleWorld Nuclear Round Up #34
[Continuing coverage of the world's nuclear renaissance. Here, the French designed EPR is coming on line, apparently on time and at budget. Go figure? This will be 2 reactors each 1700 MWs of...
View ArticlePlaying with Plutonium: This SONGS is over
Southern California Edison has finally admitted that their crippled rattletrap of a plutonium factory is no longer profitable enough, despite massive and continuing public subsidies, for them to keep...
View ArticleBob Inglis: Conservatives Have A Climate Solution
“Conservatives have the answer. We just need to raise our hands.” This statement is from Bob Inglis, former representative of South Carolina’s 4th District (1993-1998; 2005-2010). Inglis told me he...
View ArticleGETTING TO ZERO: Is renewable energy economically viable?
This diary is Part II of GETTING TO ZERO: Our non-fossil energy future.Human civilization depends on food, food depends on weather, and weather depends on climate. Every grain and every mammal on the...
View ArticleWrecked Fukushima plant springs highly radioactive water leak
Contaminated water in the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl is leaking from a storage tank at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.The storage tank breach of about 300 tons of water is...
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President Obama must seize the moment on Iran
There's been quite a bit of good news out of Iran this summer. It began with the election of Hassan Rouhani as president. Rouhani was the leader of Iran's nuclear negotiating team from 2003, when he...
View ArticleCopple policy #1: military and civilian use of nuclear power
Roger Copple, as one of his 27 policy initiatives, proposes:Dismantle all nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants, simultaneously and voluntarily, the world over as soon as possible. First of all,...
View ArticleFrank Giustra, President Bill Clinton’s Close Colleague, Joins US Oil Sands...
Frank Giustra - key power broker and close colleague of former President Bill Clinton – has taken a seat on the Board of Directors of U.S. Oil Sands, an Alberta-based company aiming to develop tar...
View ArticleOrwell had nothing on Abe: Secrecy law goes into effect in Japan
The Abe government in Japan has passed a ridiculously repressive government secrecy law that goes beyond anything the NSA could even dream about. According to japansubculture.com the state can now...
View Article“Oh Japan, How Could the Mauled Have Embraced the Beast!”
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster appears to be a simmering Global disaster. “Rachel, get your shoes back on, now!” yelled the tall, ragged looking father. He stood over the child as she...
View ArticleWhy I call myself a non-believer, rather than an atheist.
Atheist implies that I have aBelief System.That's not the case.Some folks might insist that I could make a list of what I feel is true, and what I feel is false, and they might then insist, that,...
View ArticleRadioactive Ocean Plume from Fukushima hits US West Coast - How Bad Is It?
The short answer is that no one knows.Much has been written recently about the radioactive ocean-water plume that is due to hit the west coast sometime this year, possibly as soon as next month. The...
View ArticleAccelerating Use of Renewable Energy
US energy policy is stuck on reliance on natural gas. Most Americans understand that by the middle of the century most of our energy will have to be supplied by renewables – wind, water, and solar –...
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