The nuclear industry is pouring money and political influence into selling the United States and Wall Street on the lie that nuclear power is the answer to climate change.
New nuclear “think tanks” are popping up like mushrooms in the muck. President Obama, who owes his political career in large part to the nuclear industry, favors nukes in his “all-of-the-above” Clean Power Plan. Nuclear is pegged for $12.6 million in guaranteed loans from the Department of Energy, compared to $4 billion for renewables.
Scratch below the nuclear hyperbole, and the pro-nuclear argument is thin.
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Recently, we visited Dartmouth College for a symposium on the 35th anniversary of the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor meltdown, an event held where the business school and engineering schools meet, deep in the pristine Ivy League campus. While I learned a lot, the ivory-tower atmosphere, the fact that...
Great stories by Olga Peters about the Brattleboro Retreat [News, Dec. 13]. Since I live in the Retreat neighborhood, and have heard stories “on the street,” I appreciate the fact-based reporting. Keep it up! Sadly, I cannot say the same about Andrew Stein's article on Entergy and the New...
With recordbreaking drought and heat waves this summer, the relationship between nuclear power and water has become crystal clear. Nuclear power plants use massive amount of water for cooling. Nuclear reactors in the U.S., including Vermont Yankee, were forced to reduce power or shut down this July because the river water was too hot going into the reactors to cool them sufficiently. And if the water is too hot going in, it's going to be hot coming out. Fifty to...