On AlterNet: nuclear power
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "nuclear power"
Harvey Wasserman, AlterNet. June 17, 2009.
But they fail to address who will pay for and insure them, where will the fuel come from and the waste go and who will protect them from terrorists.
Harvey Wasserman, AlterNet. April 28, 2009.
A little-known liability could derail attempts to revive our finances -- federal disaster insurance on 104 rickety atomic reactors.
Harvey Wasserman, AlterNet. April 10, 2009.
The latest demand for a $50 billion taxpayer handout to the nuclear power industry has been sleazed into the Senate budget bill.
Harvey Wasserman, AlterNet. April 6, 2009.
Thirty years after the melt-down, an Iron Curtain has formed between corporate and independent media, with nuclear power at its center.
Sue Sturgis, Facing South. April 3, 2009.
A growing body of personal and scientific evidence contradicts the official story that the accident posed no threat to the public.
Harvey Wasserman, AlterNet. March 30, 2009.
We mourn the deaths that accompanied the biggest string of lies ever told in US industrial history.
Joseph Romm, Climate Progress. February 11, 2009.
The same budget gimmicks that got us into the credit mess are creeping into the stimulus.
Karl Burkart, Mother Nature Network AlterNet: PEEK. January 5, 2009.
Activists in Iran are hoping to replace nuclear power with wind power.
Rob Hopkins, Chelsea Green Publishing. January 3, 2009.
A new book shows that it is not just the cost of nuke plants and their deadly waste that is the energy source's only problems.
George Monbiot, The Guardian. August 1, 2008.
By failing to disarm and breaking the rules when it suits them, nuclear states are driving proliferation as much as Ahmadinejad is.
Harvey Wasserman, CounterPunch. July 28, 2008.
An unlikely source has dealt a devastating blow to the much-hyped revival of nuclear power: the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Don Hazen, AlterNet. July 18, 2008.
From Bush's oil hoax to the New Yorker's sorry attempt at satire, our Zeitgeist list tracks the progressive issues of the week.
Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. July 17, 2008.
We can't let the nuclear power industry use global warming as an opportunity to sell its insanely expensive and dangerous power plants.
Christian Parenti, The Nation. May 6, 2008.
Talk of a nuclear renaissance is a dangerous distraction from the real changes we need to make to wean ourselves off oil.
Harvey Wasserman, AlterNet. November 29, 2007.
Nuclear power isn't just an environmental nightmare, it is also a security nightmare. But Congress doesn't seem to take either concern seriously.
Rebecca Solnit, Orion Magazine. July 25, 2007.
As the energy crisis heats up, you may need a refresher on the evidence against nukes.
Jim Motavalli, E Magazine. July 9, 2007.
Some prominent environmentalists are urging that we reconsider nuclear power. But they have been met with resistance from many who believe nuclear power never will be a solution to global warming.
