Say Goodbye to Nuclear Power
It's the end of the world as we know it, but that is not a bad thing. This is the dawn of a new era in which the planet's residents finally realize that nuclear energy was a really bad idea. The...
View ArticleMore Illegally Dumped Radioactive Waste Found on Somalia’s Coast
Yesterday the BBC reported that radiation levels at the crippled Fukushima reactor site are ten million times normal levels. As the oceans near the damaged nuclear plant are becoming contaminated with...
View ArticleSwitzerland Abandons Nuclear Power
The Swiss government just voted on Wednesday to abandon nuclear power in their country; their last reactor will finally go offline in 2034. The nation's five remaining nuclear power plants will slowly...
View ArticleLegal Marijuana and Nuclear Free World = Economic Sustainability?
Britain's Guardian newspaper just published two very astute articles on different topics which both relate to our collective economic future. The first post, "Germany is Right to Opt Out of Nuclear",...
View ArticleNuclear Power, Japan and Hope
The United States national soccer team's dramatic come back in Germany last week against Brazil in the last seconds of the game is the stuff that legends are made of. The performance of the U.S....
View ArticleSan Onofre Nuclear Plant Helps Create International Blackout
On September 8th, 2011, just after 3:30 on a very hot summer afternoon, the entire electric power grid from Arizona to Mexico and southern California, went dark. A critical link in our nation's...
View ArticleNuclear Radiation Leaking from California’s San Onofre Reactor
The San Onofre nuclear power plant was shut down again this week, due to another radiation leak in one of its reactor's steam generators. The amount of radioactive water that was released is said to be...
View ArticleCalifornia’s Crumbling San Onofre Nuclear Plant Finally Closes for Good
In a huge victory for both clean energy and environmental advocates, the Edison Power Company announced on Friday that its troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant will be permanently shuttered The post...
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