Faustian fission, U.S. Senate style

U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-MA) has called upon youth climate protection leaders to not worry about nuclear power expansion provisions in his Senate climate legislation. He told them that market forces would favor renewables and efficiency. What he didn't tell them is that the impending $100 billion or more in taxpayer subsidies for new nuclear would undermine those very market forces about which he speaks. Beyond Nuclear has analyzed Kerry's words, and his contradictory actions, and suggested what can be done to head off a dead end nuclear power expansion, a false solution to the all too real climate crisis.

Don't Nuke The Climate! Join the campaign! Sign the petition!

Go to Don't Nuke the Climate to sign the petition to be delivered to Copenhagen. Tell our leaders no inclusion of nuclear in any clean development mechanisms. Nuclear power does not belong in the climate change debate.

Amory Lovins busts the nuclear myths

In his new report, Four Nuclear Myths, A commentary on Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth Discipline and on similar writings, Amory Lovins, president of the Rocky Mountain Institute, exposes the faulty foundations on which Brand's assertions are based.

2008 Lieberman-Warner-Carper pro-nuclear amendment likely starting point for current industry money grabs and regulatory rollbacks

An amendment to the Lieberman-Warner climate change bill of 2008 is a likely starting place for current efforts to further subsidize the nuclear power industry and rollback "meddlesome" safety regulations. The Lieberman-Warner climate bill died a sudden death, when Senate Republicans filibustered it in June 2008. However, the pro-nuclear omnibus amendment would have been the first that Republicans, joined by Indpendent Lieberman and Democrat Carper, would have offered to the bill. A national coalition of environmental groups, including Beyond Nuclear, opposed the pro-nuclear amendment, taking a firm stand against any further taxpayer subsidies for the nuclear power industry.