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Antinuclear activist

NIRS firing flak at “pro-nuclear fanatics”

August 21, 2015 By Rod Adams 55 Comments

Among one group of friends, we comfort ourselves with the following mantra, “When you’re taking flak, you’re right over the target.” Aside: Several members of the group are old enough to have fathers who flew in WWII when the phrase was common among bomber pilots. End Aside. I thought about that reassuring thought when I […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, LNT

The Left Needs to Reconsider its Automatic Position Against Nuclear Energy

August 7, 2015 By Guest Author

by BILL SACKS and GREG MEYERSON As leftists who have studied the issue of nuclear energy for years, we want to reply to Robert Hunziker’s “Real Story” titled What’s Really Going on at Fukushima? (CounterPunch, June 15, 2015). It’s time for much of the left to reconsider a long-standing opposition to nuclear energy that often […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Atomic politics, Guest Columns, Health Effects, hormesis

FOE continues promoting fossil fuel by trying to force Diablo Canyon closure

July 28, 2015 By Rod Adams

As a literature major during my undergraduate years, I was fascinated by the variety of stories that can be told about the same topic depending on the author’s selected point of view. Here is a brief example. Friends of the Earth (FOE) has a page on its web site titled Shutting down Diablo Canyon. The […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Atomic history, Atomic politics, Diablo Canyon

WISE and NIRS promoting twisted campaign with slogan “Don’t nuke the climate”

June 17, 2015 By Rod Adams

It has been a long standing absurdity that the clean development mechanisms approved by the Kyoto treaty to reduce the risk of climate change exclude nuclear energy. This year there is momentum building to reevaluate and change a rule that virtually eliminates the option for nations to use the most effective tool available to permanently […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Climate change

Helen Caldicott explains important skill she learned in school

June 17, 2015 By Rod Adams

I came across the following quote worth sharing. Another activity I enjoyed was the debating class. We were taught how to develop a case even if it was the antithesis of our belief and how to sway others to our viewpoint. I had been given an important skill that would stand me in good stead […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist

Tale of two Chinas – One surging forward, one retreating

May 26, 2015 By Rod Adams

Two stories caught my attention this morning. One came from the Taipei Times, one from the Beijing Review. The first one focused on a future energy supply prognostication from an American “expert” who has a light educational and professional background in energy technology, manufacturing, engineering, economics and market dynamics. The second one documents recent progress […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Antinuclear activist, Fossil fuel competition, International nuclear, New Nuclear

Participation opportunity – Turkey Point EIS public meeting

April 15, 2015 By Rod Adams

One of the most prolific anti-nuclear activist groups, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE), is distributing posts encouraging their followers to oppose FP&L’s plan to build two new reactors at the Turkey Point Power station. SACE is encouraging people to submit negative comments via the public comment process for the draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Atomic politics, Climate change, New Nuclear, Nuclear Communications, Public meetings

Atomic Show #237 – Dave Lochbaum, UCS

April 3, 2015 By Rod Adams

On March 26, 2015, Cleveland.com published a story titled Perry refuels its nuclear reactor, critics concerned about storage (photos). The story described how a group of activists had tried to generate concerns and actions in response to First Energy’s decision to improve the Perry plant by adopting fuel designed to provide more energy per fuel […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Nuclear Performance, Nuclear regulations, Podcast

Contradicting Arjun Makhijani’s claim about bombs from power reactors

March 21, 2015 By Rod Adams

On March 3, 2015, Arjun Makhijani testified in front of a committee of the Minnesota Senate. The committee was conducting an investigation on whether or not it should recommend lifting the state’s current moratorium on building new nuclear reactors. Here is the presentation that he prepared and delivered. During his recorded testimony, Makhijani falsely stated […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Fuel Recycling, Nuclear Communications, Nuclear Waste

Irish people should ignore Arnie Gundersen because he’s wrong

March 18, 2015 By Rod Adams

A friend who often gets involved in discussions about nuclear energy stories with frightened people in his social media network contacted me to find out what I thought of an article titled Nuclear plant could be a ‘Chernobyl on steroids,’ says expert. Then the same story showed up on one of my daily news feeds. […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, AP1000 saga

Nuclear industry must remember that all politics are local

March 9, 2015 By Rod Adams

There aren’t very many people who can claim to more in favor of nuclear energy than I am. There are, however, many whose passion and amateur dedication to the technology equal mine. Unfortunately, both the nuclear industry and the regulatory agency that oversees the industry often overlook the fact that people who oppose nuclear energy […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Atomic Advocacy, Diablo Canyon

Agencies should not allow creation of a hostile environment at public meetings

March 5, 2015 By Rod Adams

On February 19, 2015, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) transported a substantial contingent of regulators to Brattleboro, VT to hold a public meeting about Entergy’s Post Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report (PSDAR) for the permanently shutdown Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. Brattleboro Community TV produced a video record of the event. Watching that video is […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Politics of Nuclear Energy, Public meetings

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