Tag Archives: energy policy

Duke Energy’s shell game via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2020/09/21 by nfield

New plan touts carbon cuts, adds more gas and nuclear Duke Energy has said that it will submit a blanket request for Second License Extensions for all 11 reactors in its fleet, which would see these already aging, degrading and … Continue reading →

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After 2011 Disaster, Fukushima Embraced Solar Power. The Rest Of Japan Has Not via NPR

Posted on 2020/09/09 by nfield

By Kat Lansdorf Atop a small hill on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu sits a small solar farm with big, broad panels lined up in rows, tilting to catch the sun. Lush vegetation creeps over the edges of the … Continue reading →

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Shutdown of Iowa’s only nuclear power plant will mean less cancer via Des Moines Register

Posted on 2020/09/09 by nfield

By Joseph Mangano The Duane Arnold shutdown, at a time when safe, renewable wind power is growing rapidly, means a healthier future for Iowans. The derecho that slammed Iowa on Aug. 10 damaged the Duane Arnold nuclear reactor near Cedar … Continue reading →

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Commentary: Exelon’s nuclear hostage crisis tactics must end　via Chicago Tribune

Posted on 2020/08/28 by nfield

By DAVID KRAFT “Nuclear Hostage Crisis: Day 2,363” Yes, that’s right. It was March 9, 2014, when Exelon announced that it would close its nuclear plants if the Illinois legislature, under House Speaker Michael Madigan’s watchful eye, did not bail them … Continue reading →

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A dirty battle for a nuclear bailout in Ohio via the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2020/07/23 by nfield

By Shakiba Fadaie, M. V. Ramana, April 21, 2020 Last July, Ohio’s governor signed House Bill 6 (HB6) to provide FirstEnergy (now Energy Harbor), a large electric utility, with subsidies of nearly $150 million per year to keep its Perry and Davis-Besse … Continue reading →

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Environmental groups want controversial Ohio nuclear bailout bill reexamined; HB6 now at the center of FBI investigation via Cleveland.com

Posted on 2020/07/23 by nfield

By Emily Bamforth CLEVELAND, Ohio — Ohio House Bill 6 bailed out two FirstEnergy power plants and gave subsidies to coal plants, while dismantling mandates designed to move Ohio’s clean energy landscape forward. The controversial bill, passed last year, is now … Continue reading →

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Germany Gets Both: No Nuclear, Less CO2 via World Energy Opinion

Posted on 2020/07/07 by nfield

July 2020 M.V. Ramana and Solène Delumeau This May, a 1,100 megawatt coal-fired power plant was commissioned in Germany. On Twitter, in the thread started by Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager who inspired the climate strike, many responded by connecting … Continue reading →

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‘The Sizewell C plans are an insult to the people of Suffolk’ via East Anglian Daily Times

Posted on 2020/06/28 by nfield

Chairman of Together Against Sizewell C, Pete Wilkinson, has described it is a “battle for the soul and integrity of East Suffolk”. Here he explains why he is opposing the nuclear project. Anyone new to Suffolk, ignorant of EDF’s nuclear … Continue reading →

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Nuclear power uses market fix to stifle wind energy via Climate News Network

Posted on 2020/06/18 by nfield

June 18, 2020, by Paul Brown UK wind energy is forced to shut down to let more expensive nuclear stations go on operating at full power. LONDON, 18 June, 2020 − The United Kingdom’s nuclear industry is hindering the use of … Continue reading →

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It’s Not Techno-Angst That’s Driving East Asia to Abandon Nuclear Power via FP

Posted on 2020/06/17 by nfield

BY TED NORDHAUS, SEAVER WANG Western discussions about nuclear energy in East Asia usually start with the Fukushima disaster and end with efforts to address climate change. But anti-nuclear sentiment in Asia looks nothing like that in the West, where it was … Continue reading →

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