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 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 ArticleIs Hanford Nuclear Waste Dump Our Next Fukushima Disaster?
Did you know that Washington state's Hanford Nuclear site contains 2/3 of all the radioactive nuclear waste in the United States? In addition to having the dubious distinction of being the first...
View ArticleIn Case of Earthquake, Japan May Build a “Backup” Tokyo
The Japanese government is always concerned about earthquakes, and rightly so. After all, it was an earthquake and the resulting tsunami that doomed the nuclear power station at Fukushima 3 years ago...
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