Monthly Archives: August 2017

Nuclear power in the U.S. is dead, reactors shutting down – not built

Preface. This article focuses on reactors being shut down, other posts discuss why they’re not being constructed, despite the intense and well funded efforts of the nuclear lobby.  Since this article was published in 2013, 12 of the 37 at … Continue reading

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Nuclear Regulatory Commission accused of putting millions of lives and trillions of dollars at risk

[ Edwin Lyman and his co-authors in Science magazine have accused the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) of putting millions of American lives at risk, due to “pressure from the nuclear utilities and a Congress sympathetic to the utilities’ complaints of … Continue reading

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Theo Henckens: do we need mining quotas to prevent mineral depletion?

Preface: Ugo Bardi writes: “Currently, the problem of resource depletion is completely missing from the political debate. There has to be some reason why some problems tend to disappear from the public’s radar as they become worse. Unfortunately, the depletion … Continue reading

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