News & Articles on Nuclear Power

Nuclear is not renewable, but it’s listed here for organizational reasons. I wasn’t really interested in nuclear, didn’t think it had any future, and that it was effectively dead. I wasn’t writing about it. However, like a vampire, nuclear kept rising from the grave and stalking the land. Talk continued of reviving it one more time. This talk had a real effect on public policy in North America, especially in Ontario, Canada. Thus, I felt it necessary to include nuclear topics and this was the place on my web site where it was easiest to insert

“We Can Do It” Says German Environment Agency on Nuclear Phase Out

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Paul Gipe

  The Conservative German government has issued a 14-page document outlining how Germany can close all its reactors by 2017 …

Nuclear Expensive and Uninsurable Say Studies

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Paul Gipe

New Nuclear Costs as Much as German Solar Today–Up to $0.34/kWh in 2018–Nuclear Insurance Costs More than Electricity Says German Report

PV Magazine: True cost of nuclear insurance examined in new study-

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Sandra Enkhardt/alan Faulcon

East Bay Express: California’s Nuclear Future Is in Doubt

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Darwin Bondgraham

According to Thomas Wellock, historian for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, “PG&E envisioned many multi-plant sites all situated on the California coast about thirty to fifty miles apart. California utilities, particularly PG&E, had very ambitious plans for nuclear development.” At the time, the national mood was ambivalent toward nuclear energy. Communities mostly deferred to officials and industry.

Fukushima Nuclear Year-to-Year Reliability and German Wind

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Paul Gipe

German Wind more Stable Year-to-Year than Fukushima Reactors