Tag Archives: Nuclear power

Mapped: The World’s Nuclear Reactor Landscape via Visual capitalist

Posted on 2020/08/11 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Omri Wallach The World’s Changing Nuclear Reactor LandscapeView a more detailed version of the above map by clicking here Following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, the most severe nuclear accident since Chernobyl, many nations reiterated their intent to wean … Continue reading →

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U.A.E. Becomes First Arab Nation to Open a Nuclear Power Plant via The New York Times

Posted on 2020/08/03 by nfield

The launch is raising concerns about the growing number of nuclear programs in the volatile Middle East. By Vivian Yee BEIRUT, Lebanon — The United Arab Emirates became the first Arab country to open a nuclear power plant on Saturday, raising … 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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Uranium Atlas 2020 via Nuclear Free Future Foundation, Rosa-Luxemburg-Siftung, Beyond Nuclear, and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War

Posted on 2020/07/19 by nfield

The Uranium Atlas is free to download or to post to your website. View or download here. The Uranium Atlas tells the global story of uranium through maps, graphics and narratives covering every phase of the uranium fuel chain. The raw … Continue reading →

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Sinop Nuclear Plant: Turkey seeks an EIA without a company for a reference reactor via DiaNuke.org

Posted on 2020/07/05 by nfield

Pinar Demircan The final EIA process has been initiated for Turkey’s proposed second nuclear power plant project. However, the EIA which was started to evaluate the impact of the nuclear power plant to its surroundings neither has a valid agreement … Continue reading →

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UK Electricity: Renewables and the problem with inflexible nuclear via ianfairlie.org

Posted on 2020/06/21 by nfield

In recent years, the share of the UK’s electricity supplied by renewable energy (RE) sources has increased substantially to the point that RE is now the second largest source after gas: It now supplies 20% to 25% of our electrical … Continue reading →

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A World of Potential Bombs via PCU Nagasaki Council for Nuclear Weapons Abolition

Posted on 2020/06/18 by nfield

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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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New nuclear power plant planned for Suffolk coast would be devastating for wildlife via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2020/06/09 by nfield

EDF wants to plow ahead (literally) with its #SizewellC nuclear reactor plan on the Suffolk, UK coast (to be built on the beach virtually at sea level during a time of erosion and climate crisis), which would tear up and permanently destroy … Continue reading →

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Anti–nuclear resistance in Russia: problems, protests, reprisals via Russian Social Ecological Union/Friends of the Earth Russia

Posted on 2020/06/04 by nfield

Table of Contents: Introduction Nuclear energy: failures and lies Expired reactors Decommissioning problems Uranium mining protest Rosatom Importing uranium waste The Mayak plant: Rosatom’s dirty face Struggle against nuclear repository Rosatom’s ‘death plants’ A road through a radioactive graveyard Conclusion: … Continue reading →

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