Jun 24, 2016
Diablo Shutdown Marks End of Atomic Era
California's Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) says it will shut its giant Diablo Canyon reactors near San Luis Obispo, and that the power they've been producing will be replaced by renewable energy.
PG&E has also earmarked some $350 million to "retain and retrain" Diablo's workforce, whose union has signed on to the deal, which was crafted in large part by major environmental groups.
Jun 17, 2016
5 More US Nukes to Shut: Is Diablo Next?
A rising tsunami of US nuke shut-downs may soon include California's infamous Diablo Canyon double reactors. But it depends on citizen action, including a statewide petition ( http://www.civilactionnetwork.org/cases.html ).
Five US reactor closures have been announced within the past month. A green regulatory decision on California's environmental standards could push the number to seven.
May 21, 2016
A RADIO HOUR FOR THE GREAT MICHAEL MARIOTTE
Apr 25, 2016
30 Ways Chernobyl is Killing Us All
Apr 25, 2016
30 Ways Chernobyl is Killing Us All
Dec 30, 2015
Boomers Turn 70 & Green
On New Year's Day, the first baby boomers will turn 70.
From Jan. 1, 1946, through the end of 1964, 76 million babies were born in the U.S., more humans than lived in this country in 1900.
With a little help from LSD and our friends, we've won a cultural and technological revolution.
But our earthly survival depends on beating the lethal cancer of corporate domination-and the outcome is in doubt.
The GIs coming back from World War II kicked Rosie the Riveter out of the factories and into the suburbs.
Dec 4, 2015
Is Dr. James Hansen Actually Anti-Nuke?
Nov 25, 2015
Nuke Power Makes ISIS an Apocalyptic Threat
As you read this, a terror attack has put atomic reactors in Ukraine at the brink of another Chernobyl-scale apocalypse.
Transmission lines have been blown up. Power to at least two major nuclear power stations has been "dangerously" cut. Without emergency backup, those nukes could lose coolant to their radioactive cores and spent fuel pools. They could then melt or explode, as at Fukushima.
Oct 14, 2015
ANOTHER US NUKE BITES THE DUST
ecowatch.com/2015/10/14/nuclear-power-bites-dust/
The chain reactor operator Entergy has announced it will close the Pilgrim nuke south of Boston.
The shut-down will bring the U.S. reactor fleet to 98, though numerous other reactors are likely to face abandonment in the coming months.
But Entergy says it may not take Pilgrim down until June 1, 2019-nearly four years away.
Entergy is also poised to shut the FitzPatrick reactor in New York. It promises an announcement by the end of this month.
About this blog:
NukeFree.org was founded in 2007 by Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Graham Nash and friends to stop a proposed $50 billion loan guarantee package meant to finance new nuclear reactor construction. Joining a successful national grassroots campaign, they established this website and recorded the YouTube video on the home page.
Editor Harvey Wasserman has worked with Bonnie, Jackson, and Graham since the late 1970s and the legendary Musicians United for Safe Energy (MUSE) concerts in Madison Square Garden. This website is meant to inform and inspire those who continue to work for a green-powered Earth, free from the plague of atomic energy. Please feel free to write Harvey with your comments and with URLs for articles you'd like to see appear on these pages.