Tag Archives: climate change

Why Nuclear Power Slows Action on Climate Change: Talking Points #1 via Beyond Nuclear

Posted on 2021/04/14 by nfield

An analysis by Amory B. Lovins Our new series of Talking Points begins with Amory Lovins’ work on carbon emissions + time + cost which, taken together, eliminate nuclear power as useful in addressing climate change All this is argued … Continue reading →

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Why Bill Gates is wrong via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2021/03/15 by nfield

Billionaire’s nuclear ambitions would make climate disaster worse By Linda Pentz Gunter In an interview for the Washington PostMagazine during his current book tour, billionaire Bill Gates, whom we are now expected to accept as an authority on climate change, said: “I’ll … Continue reading →

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Bill Gates, Climate Warrior. And Super Emitter. via The Nation

Posted on 2021/02/19 by nfield

The billionaire’s new book, a bid to be taken seriously as a climate campaigner, has attracted the usual worshipful coverage. When will the media realize that with Gates you have to follow the money? By Tim Schwab During the pandemic, Bill … Continue reading →

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US Nuclear Waste Sites Face Sea-Level Rise Threat via Yale Climate Connections

Posted on 2021/02/10 by nfield

[…] “We really focused in to say, ‘OK, well, how many plants might actually be subject to these risks?’” says Sarah Jordaan of the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Her team looked at 13 facilities along … Continue reading →

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Nuclear Power Is Not a Climate Solution via NEIS

Posted on 2021/02/05 by nfield
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This is your COVID wake-up call: It is 100 seconds to midnight via the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2021/01/27 by nfield

2021 Doomsday Clock Statement Science and Security BoardBulletin of the Atomic Scientists Editor, John Mecklin Editor’s note: Founded in 1945 by Albert Einstein and University of Chicago scientists who helped develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project, the Bulletin … Continue reading →

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The next ‘Great Tide’ via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2020/12/11 by nfield

Exposed to rising tides and storm surges, Britain’s nuclear plants stand in harm’s way By Andrew Blowers ‘It was now that wind and sea in concert leaped forward to their triumph.’Hilda Grieve: The Great Tide: The Story of the 1953 … Continue reading →

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Ørsted and Yara seek to develop groundbreaking green ammonia project in the Netherlands via State of Green

Posted on 2020/11/06 by nfield

By Ørsted, November 03, 2020 Ørsted, the world’s leading offshore wind developer, and Yara, the world’s leading fertilizer company, have joined forces in developing a pioneering project aiming at replacing fossil hydrogen with renewable hydrogen in the production of ammonia with … Continue reading →

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Losing paradise via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2020/11/02 by nfield

Atomic racism decimated Kiribati and the Marshall Islands; now climate change is sinking them This is an extract from the Don’t Bank on the Bomb Scotland report “Nuclear Weapons, the Climate and Our Environment”. Kiribati In 1954, the government of … Continue reading →

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Japan not eyeing new reactors to help reach 2050 carbon-neutral goal via Reuters

Posted on 2020/10/28 by nfield

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan is not considering building new nuclear power plants to help it become carbon-free by 2050, the government’s top spokesman said on Wednesday. For the world’s fifth-biggest emitter, reining in emissions from utilities that contribute about 4/5ths … Continue reading →

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