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
Nuclear safety costs in Japan surge to staggering heights
By
Suguru Kurimoto
Japan’s nuclear plant operators face ballooning costs for meeting safety requirements imposed six years ago, potentially throwing a wrench into the government’s policy of promoting the atom as a low-cost, reliable energy source.
The 7 reasons why nuclear energy is not the answer to solve climate change
By
Mark Z. Jacobson
There is a small group of scientists that have proposed replacing 100% of the world’s fossil fuel power plants with nuclear reactors as a way to solve climate change. Many others propose nuclear grow to satisfy up to 20 percent of all our energy (not just electricity) needs. They advocate that nuclear is a “clean” carbon-free source of power, but they don’t look at the human impacts of these scenarios. Let’s do the math…
Ministry eyes subsidy plan for nuclear energy generation
By
Tsuneo Sasai
The ministry plans to establish the subsidy system by the end of fiscal 2020 in line with the scheduled review of the “feed-in tariff” system that set prices for purchasing electricity generated by solar and other renewable sources.
Think tank puts cost to address nuke disaster up to 81 trillion yen
By
Atsushi Komori
In a startling disparity, a private think tank puts the cost of addressing the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster between 35 trillion yen and 81 trillion yen ($315 billion and $728 billion), compared with the government estimate of 22 trillion yen.
Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator–A Review by Glen Estill
By
Glen Estill
Gregory Jaczko was an outsider. He wasn’t from the industry. But somehow he was appointed to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, eventually becoming its Chair. His 2019 book, Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator, exposes the decision- making processes used in regulating the most toxic substance on earth. It is scary stuff.
Hitachi scraps £16bn nuclear power station in Wales
By
Adam Vaughan
Hitachi has scrapped plans to build a nuclear power station in Wales, becoming the second firm in two months to abandon a major nuclear project and triggering “a full-blown crisis” for the UK energy’s strategy. The £16bn Wylfa plant on Anglesey was meant to be the next in a line of new nuclear plants behind Hinkley Point C but the Japanese conglomerate failed to reach a deal with the UK government.
Koizumi says Japan must say ‘no’ to nuclear energy
By
Takashi Arichika
When he was prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi championed the use of atomic power to generate electricity. . . Koizumi, in office from 2001 to 2006, and widely regarded as one of Japan’s most popular postwar leaders, started reading up on the nuclear issue, and had a change of heart.
Hitachi set to cancel plans for £16bn nuclear power station in Wales
By
Adam Vaughan
The Japanese conglomerate Hitachi looks certain to cancel its plans for a £16bn nuclear power station in Wales, leaving Britain’s ambitions for a nuclear renaissance in tatters.
Japanese gov’t plan to export nuclear power technology floundering
By
Mainichi Japan
The Japanese government’s strategy to export nuclear power technology has run aground amid rising safety costs and deteriorating prospects for project profitability.
Hitachi may freeze British nuclear project due to swelling costs
By
Kyodo
If the Japanese conglomerate freezes the ¥3 trillion Wylfa Newydd plant construction, all of the overseas nuclear projects promoted by the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as part of his growth strategy would have faltered.
