Editor's Blog

May 3, 2012

Atomic Rate Rot & the New China Syndrome


Atomic Rate Rape & the New China Syndrome 

By Harvey Wasserman

Small wonder the death knell of new US nukes may be upon us.

Apr 18, 2012

Obama's Atomic Solyndra?


 
The future of nuclear power now hangs on a single decision by President Obama---and us. 

His Office of Management and Budget could cave to the unsustainable demands of reactor builders who cannot handle the standard terms of a loan agreement.  

Or he could defend basic financial procedures and stand up for the future of the American economy. 

Apr 7, 2012

America's 2 New Nukes Are on the Brink of Death

 

The only two US reactor projects now technically under construction are on the brink of death for financial reasons.

If they go under, there will almost certainly be no new reactors built here.

The much mythologized "nuclear renaissance" will be officially buried, and the US can take a definitive leap toward a green-powered future that will actually work and that won't threaten the continent with radioactive contamination.

Mar 16, 2012

Nuclear Power's Green Mountain Grassroots Demise

 

In the wake of Fukushima, grassroots citizen action is shutting the worldwide nuclear power industry.

A Solartopian tipping point is upon us in the US, Europe and Japan which will re-define how the human race gets its energy.

States rights and local democracy are at the core of the battle.

The definitive breaking point looms in Vermont.

By mid-March a state board is likely to deny the Yankee reactor licenses to operate or to create radioactive waste.

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Feb 25, 2012

In NYTimes: "The Most Expensive Technological Failure of the Modern Age"

 

The Sunday, February 25, New York Times Opinion Page carries a pro-con debate on nuclear power.

Here is our entry, published as the first reponse to a pro-nuke letter:

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Feb 10, 2012

We May Yet Lose Tokyo....Not to Mention Alaska...and Now Georgia, Too



As the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approves a construction/operating license for two new reactors in Georgia, alarming reports from Japan indicate the Fukushima catastrophe is far from over.  
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Jan 24, 2012

Court to Vermont: "Drop Dead"



A federal judge has told the people of Vermont that a solemn contract between them and the reactor owner Entergy need not be honored.

The fight will almost certainly now go to the US Supreme Court. At stake is not only the future of atomic power, but the legitimacy of all deals signed between corporations and the public.  Chief Justice John Roberts' conservative court will soon decide whether a private corporation can sign what should be an enforceable contract with a public entity and then flat-out ignore it.

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Jan 24, 2012

Court to Vermont: "Drop Dead!"



A federal judge has told the people of Vermont that a solemn contract between them and the reactor owner Entergy need not be honored.

The fight will almost certainly now go to the US Supreme Court. At stake is not only the future of atomic power, but the legitimacy of all deals signed between corporations and the public. The corporatist court will be asked to decide whether a private corporation can sign what should be an enforceable contract with a public entity and then flat-out ignore it.
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Jan 3, 2012

2012 is the Year We Finally Bury Nuclear Power


The year 2012 has opened with news that Fukushima's radioactive cloud may already have killed some 14,000 Americans, according to a major study just published in the International Journal of Health Services. 
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Nov 25, 2011

Dewey Square Says No Nuke Attack on Iran


The wall-to-wall tents at Dewey Square make a bright, brilliant statement against the idea of yet another useless imperial war. Defying all odds, Occupy Boston has sustained its place in the sun. And with it comes the unmistakeable message that the 1% is dead wrong to think it can count on a free pass to attack Iran.

On a bright, sunny Sunday, for a full 90 minutes prior to the coming of the great Peter Tosh, the Occupy Movement, Boston Branch, made it clear that this spontaneous global grassroots uprising has come to be in the knick of time.

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