Big problems with small nuclear reactor proposals for Montana
Politicians and investor-owned utilities are now proposing small nuclear reactors in Montana to replace the old coal-fired power plants at Colstrip. For the last 44…
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Bangladesh power bill mounts amid plan to supersize already bloated capacity
Bangladesh is paying hundreds of millions of dollars in incentives to private electricity producers every year for electricity that’s going unused, a government report indicates….
Why Europe cannot afford to shun nuclear power
With the EU Parliament’s approval of the European Commission’s package of legislative proposals on climate and energy, the bloc’s ambitious emissions reduction targets of least 55% below 1990 levels…
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The US nuclear power plants ‘at risk’ of shutting down
Nuclear power plants generate more than half of the US’s low-carbon electricity. However, record low gas prices associated with the US fracking boom have made many existing…
Nuclear power is failing worldwide, it’s time for Hammond to back away
It must be hard being a civil servant. Think about the gyrations they must perform trying to justify the UK nuclear power programme. They cannot…
Nuclear Power is not “Green Energy”: it is a fount of atomic waste
Starting in 1971, I became a card-carrying member of the “nuclear priesthood.” I began as a licensed nuclear reactor operator and progressed through the industry…
Six years after Fukushima, much of Japan has lost faith in nuclear power
Tatsujiro Suzuki, Nagasaki University Six years have passed since the Fukushima nuclear disaster on March 11, 2011, but Japan is still dealing with its impacts….