Nuclear Power

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View In: Nuclear PowerUS Nuclear Reactors Among The Oldest In The World The United States' 92 nuclear reactors currently in operation have a mean age of 41.6 years, the third oldest in the world. As Statista's Katharina Buchholz reports, the only nuclear fleets that are older are those of Switzerland (46.3 years) and Belgiu...

Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
View In: Nuclear Power“Make no mistake about it—while NRC is doing its part to serve nuclear industry needs, we should not lose sight of the fact that it is the aggressive pro-nuclear agenda of the Biden Administration that has unleashed a juggernaut of financial and PR support for new nuclear reactors.”

Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
View In: Nuclear Power“Instead of putting Diablo Canyon back on life support, dependent on a drip of taxpayer subsidies, California should turn a new leaf and lean into building the electric system of the future,” said one campaigner.

Counter Punch
View In: Nuclear Power“Guinea Pig Nation: How the NRC’s new licensing rules could turn communities into test beds for risky, experimental nuclear plants,” is what physicist Dr. Edwin Lyman, Director of Nuclear Power Safety with the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), titled his presentation last week. The talk was abou...

Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
View In: Nuclear PowerPoland picks nuclear power that energy agency says is “stagnating or in decline.”

Counter Punch
View In: Nuclear PowerCongratulations must go to Poland — and to US vice president, Kamala Harris, and US energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm for brokering the deal — for its commitment to purchase a triad of American nuclear lemons. With breathtaking myopia, the Polish government has signed a deal to partner with the U...