Tag Archives: Nuclear power

How the UK’s secret defence policy is driving energy policy – with the public kept in the dark　via The Fifth Estate

Posted on 2020/10/14 by nfield

The UK government has for 15 years persistently backed the need for new nuclear power. Given its many problems, most informed observers can’t understand why. The answer lies in its commitment to being a nuclear military force. Here’s how, and … Continue reading →

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#485 – BREAKING: Nuclear Football & Trump’s Covid + Meds – Garrett Graff + South African Award-Winning Climate Change Activist Makoma Lekalakala via Nuclear Hotseat

Posted on 2020/10/07 by nfield

by Libbe HaLevy | Oct 7, 2020 | BREAKING: Nuclear Football = Nuclear Launch Codes – What does it mean to international security when the President of the United States, who has sole, unimpeded access  and right to launch nuclear weapons, has an illness that often creates hallucinations and is on medication … Continue reading →

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Koide Hiroaki: A Message for Young People in Europe and Asia; The Fukushima Disaster and the Tokyo Olympics via Perspectives Asia, Heinrich Böll Stiftung　[小出裕章からヨーロッパ・アジアの若い人たちへのメッセージ]

Posted on 2020/10/06 by nfield

Commentary Nine years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, fundamental issues remain unresolved. In fact, the “Nuclear Emergency Situation” declared on 11 March 2011 has yet to be rescinded. Many domestic critics saw the Olympics as a ploy to distract from … Continue reading →

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Nuclear power: A gargantuan threat via Independent Australia

Posted on 2020/10/04 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By Karl Grossman At the start of 2020, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved its Doomsday Clock to 100 seconds to midnight — the closest to midnight, doomsday, since the clock started in 1947.  There are two gargantuan threats — the climate crisis and nuclear … Continue reading →

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A Look Inside the Shuttered, Cold War-Era Nuclear Plant on the Potomac via The Washingtonian

Posted on 2020/09/24 by nfield

By Jim Swift SM-1 was once part of plan for the military to generate its own power anywhere. Now it’s a decaying building filled with decaying radiation. Potomac boaters have seen, at least part of it, for decades as they … Continue reading →

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With climate change, aging nuclear plants need closer scrutiny. Turkey Point shows why via Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2020/09/14 by nfield

By Caroline Reiser, September 14, 2020 Last December, two nuclear reactors at Florida’s Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station, located 25 miles south of Miami, became the first reactors in the world to receive regulatory approval to remain operational for up to 80 … Continue reading →

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Frank Barnaby obituary via The Guardian

Posted on 2020/08/24 by nfield

Radiation physicist at Aldermaston who went on to warn of the dangers posed by the civil and military uses of nuclear energy […] In the early years of Margaret Thatcher’s government in Britain, and Ronald Reagan’s in the US, global investment in … Continue reading →

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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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