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Who Won Storm’s Energy Reliability Test, Wind or Nuclear?

November 3, 2017 By thegreenmiles Leave a Comment

Former Dancin' With The Stars contestant and current U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry has a bonkers plan to force ratepayers to subsidize coal and nuclear power in the name of "reliability." Not because Republicans are beholden to existing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: clean-energy, energy reliability, nuclear-power, Pilgrim Nuclear Generating Station, Rick Perry, wind-power

Through MIT’s Nuclear Goggles

July 21, 2014 By gmoke 13 Comments

Switzerland came to the Boston area a week or so ago. There was a conversation with one of the political leaders of the country, Doris Leuthard, Councillor of the Swiss Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy, and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston, climate-change, ecology, energy, environment, mit, nuclear-power, Recommended, Switzerland, technology

Fukushima: Prayers and Petitions

April 3, 2011 By gmoke Leave a Comment

http://fukushima.greenaction-j... This petition is from concerned Japanese citizens, who would appreciate an international show of support. Radiological Impact of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster On March 11th, Japan was struck by a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: clamshell-alliance, ecology, energy, environment, fukushima, nuclear-power, radiation, random

The half-life of nuclear memory

March 24, 2011 By rep-lori-ehrlich 18 Comments

Here in the Boston area we sit in the geographic center of two aging nuclear plants and there's a third just over the border in Western Mass. The Pilgrim Nuclear plant and VT Yankee have the same General Electric Mark 1 reactor as the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: chernobyl, fukushima, japan, massachusetts, nuclear-power, nuclear-waste, radiation

Seesaw Coverage of Nuclear Power

March 23, 2011 By gmoke Leave a Comment

Wald:  First visited a nuke in 1979 at CT Yankee.  An alternative press reporter was indignant she didn't get to enter the reactor vessel.  General interest reporters don't usually understand mechanical things or complex … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: climate-change, energy, fukushima, harvard, media, nuclear-power, random

Drilling and nuclear power are neither safe nor clean

May 2, 2010 By dave-from-hvad 73 Comments

Announcing his off-shore oil drilling expansion plans on March 31,  Obama said:I want to emphasize that this announcement is part of a broader strategy that will move us from an economy that runs on fossil fuels and foreign oil to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: nuclear-power, obama-administration, oil-rig-disaster

Mr. President, can we afford to be misled about this?

February 24, 2010 By dave-from-hvad 33 Comments

The Boston Globe is reporting today that operators of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant lied to "misled" Vermont officials about the leak of the radioactive isotope tritium from the plant in 2005.Granted, the technology involved in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: nuclear-power, president-obama, vermont-yankee

Our nuclear president

February 17, 2010 By dave-from-hvad 3 Comments

But what about the nuclear waste issue?  The administration is reportedly looking for new waste dump sites now, after rulling out Yucca Mountain in Nevada, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's home state. I can't quite … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: barack-obama, nuclear-power

Our nuclear president

February 17, 2010 By dave-from-hvad Leave a Comment

But what about the nuclear waste issue?  The administration is reportedly looking for new waste dump sites now, after rulling out Yucca Mountain in Nevada, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's home state. I can't quite … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: barack-obama, nuclear-power

The Simpsons Movie: WHERE’S BLINKY?

July 22, 2007 By lori 3 Comments

This doesn't really have anything to do with the Simpsons Movie but the bridge has been built so alas, I will walk across.  For those of you in the Boston area, be sure to stop by The Museum of Fine Arts for the Hopper exhibit (click … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston, environment, homer, matt-groening, museum-of-find-arts, nuclear-power, random, simpsons-movie, truth-and-progress, vanity-fair

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