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‘Disaster Capitalism at its Worst’: Nuclear Industry Lobbies Scramble for Bailout during COVID-19 Crisis

‘Disaster Capitalism at its Worst’: Nuclear Industry Lobbies Scramble for Bailout during COVID-19 Crisis

Friends of the Earth on Monday accused the nuclear power industry of exhibiting “disaster capitalism at its worst” after a lobbying group representing it reportedly asked the Trump administration for a 30% percent tax credit amid the coronavirus pandemic and pressed congressional lawmakers to include handouts in stimulus legislation making its way through the House and Senate.

How Nuclear Technology Has Changed the World & the Future: Bo Jacobs Speaking at Univ. of Chicago [Video]

How Nuclear Technology Has Changed the World & the Future: Bo Jacobs Speaking at Univ. of Chicago [Video]

Videos January 10, 2018 at 5:00 am 0 comments

Lecture by prof. Robert Jacobs, as part of the 75th anniversary of the first sustained nuclear chain-reaction experiment, CP-1, held as part of the Physics Colloquium of the University of Chicago on 26 October 2017. This experiment, conducted at Stagg Field at UC on 2 December 1942, midwifed both nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons. This lecture explores how the culture of competence among nuclear scientists and health physicists created a sense of mastery over nuclear technology. This culture facilitated the dismissal of health impacts from internalized radiation (fallout), and also the belief that humans can competently manage the storage of spent nuclear fuel for millennia.

Is nuclear the answer to India’s energy crisis?

Is nuclear the answer to India’s energy crisis?

India's Nuclear Expansion, Latest April 30, 2015 at 3:45 pm 0 comments

For India, nuclear energy is costly, unsustainable, unsafe, and no help with climate change, argues M. V. Ramana.