On AlterNet: nuclear power

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When Scientists Go Rogue, Is Assassinating Them Ever Justified?

G. Pascal Zachary, Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes. April 8, 2012.

Someone has declared an unofficial war on Iranian nuclear scientists. Is violence aimed at scientists engaged in objectionable activities legitimate public policy?

15 'Near-Misses' at U.S. Nuclear Plants in 2011

Environment News ServiceFebruary 29, 2012.

Many of these 15 "near misses" occurred because reactor owners either tolerated known safety problems or took inadequate measures to correct them.

Nukespeak: The Selling of Nuclear Technology from the Manhattan Project to Fukushima

Richard C. Bell, Stephen Hilgartner, Rory O'Connor, AlterNet. January 26, 2012.

In the end, the answer to the mystery of why nuclear power in the United States is still afloat comes down to money.

Nukes at Risk as Floods and Fires From Extreme Weather Make Us Vulnerable

Tina Gerhardt, AlterNet. June 30, 2011.

Extreme weather may be no match for our aging nuclear fleet and that's bad news millions of Americans who live nearby.

How Nuclear Power's "Peaceful Atom" Became a Serial Killer

Chip Ward, TomDispatch.com. March 25, 2011.

The nuclear industry is a snake-oil culture of habitual misrepresentation, pervasive wishful thinking, deep denial, and occasional outright deception.

No Nukes Is Good Nukes: The Intrinsic Problems With Nuclear Power

Robert Scheer, Truthdig. March 17, 2011.

After the Japanese nuclear disaster, cavalier dismissals of the problems with nuclear power are no longer acceptable.

Cleanup of Radioactive Water at New Jersey Nuclear Plant Begins

Environment News ServiceSeptember 27, 2010.

Company officials outlined plans to control any further migration of the tritium plume which is currently flowing uncontrolled towards the plant's discharge canal.

Apocalypse Now and Next: From Gulf Spill to Nuke Disaster

Harvey Wasserman, AlterNet. June 10, 2010.

We just ignited a disaster beyond our technical control. Why are we on the brink of doing it again?

Book's Astounding Allegation: Chernobyl Radiation Killed Nearly One Million People

Environment News ServiceApril 26, 2010.

Emissions from this one reactor exceeded a hundred-fold the radioactive contamination of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki according to a new book.

How Much Will Obama's Nuclear Blind Spot Cost America?

Kate Sheppard, Mother Jones. March 8, 2010.

Is the administration ignoring the potential financial fallout of its plans for a nuclear expansion?

Nuclear Energy's Comeback Is Fueled By Lobbying Dollars, Not By Safer or Better Technology

Harvey Wasserman, AlterNet. February 25, 2010.

Over 10 years, the industry has spent $1 million per every U.S. Senator and Representative, plus another $100 million for the White House, courts and media.

GOP Goes off the Deep End, Proposes 100 New Nuclear Reactors in the U.S.

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.

Who Will Pay for America's Chernobyl? You and Me!

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.

The Worst Giveaway Yet: Another $50 Billion for Rust-Bucket Nukes?

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.

People Died Because of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident, Why Won't Corporate Media Admit It?

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.

Startling Revelations about Three Mile Island Disaster Raise Doubts Over Nuke Safety

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.

Three Mile Island: Exposing the Government's Cover Up of Our Most Infamous Nuclear Accident

Harvey Wasserman, AlterNet. March 30, 2009.

We mourn the deaths that accompanied the biggest string of lies ever told in US industrial history.

How Did $50B Worth of High-Risk, Job-Killing Nuclear Loans Get into the Stimulus?

Joseph Romm, Climate Progress. February 11, 2009.

The same budget gimmicks that got us into the credit mess are creeping into the stimulus.

Are the 'Winds of Change' Coming to Iran?

Karl Burkart, Mother Nature Network. January 5, 2009.

Activists in Iran are hoping to replace nuclear power with wind power.

6 Reasons Why Nuclear Power Can't Save Us

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.

Ultimate Nuke Hypocrites: That Would Be the U.S.

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.

Even the Government's Nuclear Agency Thinks an Atomic Renaissance Is a Bad Idea

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.

AlterNet's Weekly Zeitgeist: Phony Drilling, Afghan Escalation, Never-Ending Financial Crisis and Much More

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.

Don't Drink the Nuclear Kool-Aid

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.

A Nuclear Energy Renaissance Wouldn't Solve Our Problems, But It Would Rip Us Off

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.