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Flirting With Catastrophe: Atomic Power in a Destabilized Climate

Flirting With Catastrophe: Atomic Power in a Destabilized Climate

By KEVIN KAMPS The nuclear power industry has spent a lot of money on public relations and national advertizing campaigns aimed at convincing the public and decision makers that atomic energy is a solution to the worsening climate crisis. But extreme weather, likely made more frequent and intense by theRead More

Germany: A cleantech case study for a post-Fukushima world

Germany: A cleantech case study for a post-Fukushima world

In the wake of the worst nuclear disaster in a generation, Germany doubled down on a decade of success, pledging to eliminate nukes by 2022 and switch almost exclusively to renewable power by 2050. A report from the front lines. CHRIS TURNER, Mother Nature Network   Even before the fullRead More

Don't believe the spin on thorium being a 'greener' nuclear option

Don’t believe the spin on thorium being a ‘greener’ nuclear option

Eifion Rees It produces less radioactive waste and more power than uranium but the UK would be making a mistake in looking to it as a ‘greener’ fuel. The Ecologist reports.   In a world increasingly aware of and affected by global warming, the news that 2010 was a recordRead More

A ‘Nuclear Renaissance’, Climate Change and the State of Exception

A ‘Nuclear Renaissance’, Climate Change and the State of Exception

In Jaitapur, we have already seen how the local village Panchayats (representative self-governance bodies) are gagged and overruled to clear way for Areva’s nuclear power park. Ironically, India’s nuclear deal with the US was touted as a deal between world’s oldest and biggest democracies. Read below Dr. Raminder Kaur’s brilliantRead More