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A humongous 3 GW nuclear plant is planned near Green River, Utah. It would use 53,000 acre feet a year of water for cooling. This would put further strain on the Green River, which is a major tributary of the already overused Colorado River. The developers say it will use 1% of Utah’s water [...] wikimedia commons Leaks have shut the San Onofre nuclear power plant in San Diego indefinitely. Germany and Japan are shutting down their nuclear plants and going to renewable energy. Scotland plans to be 100% renewable by 20202. The US and California need to do the same. California leads the nation in renewable energy but [...] Full body radiation checks begin across prefecture while TEPCO, as always, says everything is fine, just fine Meanwhile, in the US, authorities assure us there is no cause for alarm at the flooded nuclear plant in Nebraska, the fire-threatened Los Alamos laboratory, or at the Salem 2 nuclear plant, which is in hot shutdown [...] Bill Gates says] it doesn’t matter how efficient wind and solar technology become. Neither tech possesses the necessary oomph to “deal with our climate problem … because the climate problem requires more than 90% reduction of CO2 emitted, and no amount of efficiency improvement is enough.” For every one step forward developed nations make in [...] Japan needs massive amounts of new power fast. Those damaged nuclear facilities will probably never come back online. Toshiba’s 4S (Super Safe Small and Simple) reactors are 10 MW each, buried in the ground, can survive an 8.9 earthquake, and appear to be quite safe. Obviously, they would need lots of them. The huge [...] A new report out of Duke University says that solar energy and nuclear energy have passed a “historic crossover,” where decreasing solar energy costs and increasing nuclear energy costs have met, and then parted. Solar energy is now cheaper than nuclear energy and is getting increasingly cheaper every day The costs include construction, [...] Treehugger On Fareed Zakaria’s CNN show, GPS, Bill Gates gave a gloomy answer when asked about the prospects of the U.S. creating renewable energy projects at such a large scale that they will replace dirty fuel sources like coal and oil in the coming decade. Gates, normally sanguine on the power of [...] Hyperion Power mini-nuclear reactor Experts recognize the advantages that small reactors – sometimes called “grid appropriate reactors” – could bring to more resilient energy grid. The Department of Energy has established a small reactor program, and industry groups have held workshops on the topic. Foreign entities have embraced the idea; Toshiba has been marketing [...] A new type of nuclear reactor that could permanently “destroy” atomic waste is being developed by French scientists, according to the chief executive of Areva, the world’s largest nuclear energy company. The new technology works in a lab, now they’re working on making it scale. If they can, then it could be a huge [...] Wiki photo: Open pit uranium mine in Wyoming. President Obama this week announced a revival of the nuclear power industry with the first new planned new nuke plant in more than 30 years. Obama promised loan guarantees of more than $8 billion. Why can’t a nuclear power plant get built without the taxpayers promising [...] |  | ||||
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