Are Nuclear Plants A Gun to Our Heads?
Circa 1976, an editorial cartoon from Bill Mauldin. File this under "everything old is new again"?...Posted on June 9, 2008 9:00 AM • 16 Comments •
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Nuclear Energy:
Safe Nuclear Power?
Nuclear power is so safe, it's frightening. Just don't plan ahead (or look downriver, as it were).Posted on February 5, 2008 8:00 AM • 0 Comments •
Nuclear Power Can't Curb Global Warming
And, we'd need 10 dumps the size of Yucca Mountain "to store the extra generated waste by the needed nuclear generation boom." (Full story through Reuters here.) This from a new report commissioned by the non-profit Keystone Center (whose website...Posted on June 20, 2007 8:20 AM • 12 Comments •
Environmental Justice (outside the West) and the Argument Against Nuclear Power
What can non-technical aspects of oil tell us about nuclear proposals?Posted on March 7, 2007 11:30 AM • 8 Comments •
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists endorses nuclear power as "an alternative energy source"
Why do anti-nuclear atomic scientists support the production of more nuclear material?Posted on February 13, 2007 12:07 PM • 15 Comments •
Besides Nuclear Energy, Other Quick Fixes that Didn't Pan Out So Good
A list:...Posted on December 19, 2006 10:06 AM • 8 Comments •
Wrong by 6 orders of magnitude? And you trust the nuclear folks why?
We end up examining political, cultural, economic, moral, environmental, and technical factors of nuclear energy in some of my courses here in the Engineering School. In the process of reviewing some older material, I once again came upon this wonderful...Posted on November 14, 2006 1:02 PM • 6 Comments •
Nuclear Conversation, Coming Up Friday, Webcast
"Can Nuclear Power be the Solution To Climate Change and Future Energy Demand?"Posted on October 26, 2006 1:09 PM • 0 Comments •
Dr. Octopus' freakingly huge new arms, or alternate energy source?
Let's hope it's the latter, or we'll for sure need some Superhero action, and certainly not the kind that the Wonder Twins espouse (hands down, lamest superheroes if you ask me). Anyway, what do you think? These would be pretty...Posted on October 6, 2006 8:24 AM • 2 Comments •
Rifkin on why we should invest in solar not nuclear
Here's Jeremy Rifkin in the LA Times on why we should pursue a range of decentralized energy technologies -- solar, wind, geothermal, hydro and biomass, for example -- and not the nuclear that's become in vogue of late. (For the...Posted on September 29, 2006 1:02 PM • 10 Comments •
Global Warming and Nuclear Power: It's Wrong
Global warming is bad; so is deteriorating environmental health. Forsaking the latter by introducing nuclear power in efforts to counteract the former is irresponsible.Posted on September 15, 2006 10:00 AM • 12 Comments •
