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Nuclear Power

Nuclear power cannot address climate change effectively or in time. Reactors have long, unpredictable construction times are expensive - at least $12 billion or higher per reactor. Furthermore, reactors are sitting-duck targets vulnerable to attack and routinely release - as well as leak - radioactivity. There is so solution to the problem of radioactive waste.

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Entries from September 1, 2010 - September 30, 2010

Tuesday
Sep142010

Is the "Nuclear Renaissance" Dead Yet?

America's much hyped "reactor renaissance" is facing a quadruple bypass. In actual new construction, proposed projects and overseas sales, soaring costs are killing new nukes. And the old ones are leaking like Dark Age relics on the brink of disaster. Huffington Post.

Tuesday
Sep142010

Nuclear power is not the green power source it's made out to be

During the last 10 years, the nuclear industry spent $600 million on lobbying and donated $63 million in campaign contributions to convince lawmakers that nuclear power is the answer to America’s energy problems. This is the same industry that promised Americans that atomic power “would be too cheap to meter.” Patriot News Op-Ed.