A unanimous Los Angeles City Council has demanded the Nuclear Regulatory Commission conduct extended investigations before any restart at the San Onofre atomic power plant. Continue reading
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San Onofre to Boxer, Markey & the public: ‘Drop dead’
The bitter battle over two stricken southern California reactors has taken a shocking seismic hit. Continue reading
The tower that toppled a terrible technology
There it stood, 500 feet of insult and injury. And then it crashed to the ground. Continue reading
Fukushima is already harming our children
Thyroid abnormalities have now been confirmed among tens of thousands of children downwind from Fukushima. They are the first clear sign of an unfolding radioactive tragedy that demands this industry be buried forever. Continue reading
Showdown at San Onofre
Two stricken California reactors may soon redefine a global movement aimed at eradicating nuclear power. Continue reading
Nuke power’s collapse gets ever more dangerous
In the wake of this fall’s election, the disintegration of America’s decrepit atomic reactor fleet is fast approaching critical mass. Unless our No Nukes movement can get the worst of them shut soon, Barack Obama may be very lucky to get through his second term without a major reactor disaster. Continue reading
Romney might have won if it had all come down to Ohio
The simple truth of Barack Obama’s victory is that if it had just come down to Ohio, Mitt Romney might have won. Continue reading
The rust-bucket reactors start to fall
The US fleet of 104 deteriorating atomic reactors is starting to fall. The much-hyped “nuclear renaissance” is now definitively headed in reverse. Continue reading
Japan’s long atomic sayonara
As demonstrators from the Coalition Against Nukes prepare to descend on Washington, DC, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the world’s third-largest economy has taken a landmark step toward Solartopia. Continue reading
Murdoch’s Journal pushes tragic Fukushima flim-flam
With every atomic reactor disaster comes the inevitable whitewash. Continue reading
The devil STILL has us death dancing at Fukushima
Our lives still hang by a Devil’s thread at Fukushima. Continue reading
A transcendent Crosby, Stills and Nash
The power of music is one of the great unknowns in the human saga. For reasons we don’t quite understand (yet), its vibrations can lift us to great heights, drop us down into deep depression, liberate us, make us joyous, help us grieve, and so much more. Continue reading
Why should nuke guarantees cost less than home or student loans?
The Department of Energy wants to give the Southern Company a nuclear power loan guarantee at better interest rates than you can get on a student loan. And unlike a home mortgage, there may be no down payment. Continue reading
The nuclear industry has melted in Japan and France
There are zero commercial reactors operating in Japan today. On March 10, 2011, there were 54 licensed to operate, well over 10% percent of the global fleet. Continue reading
Atomic rate rape and the new China syndrome
Japan’s one remaining operating reactor (of 54) went dark Saturday. Japan is nuke-free for the first time in a half-century. Continue reading
America’s 2 new nukes are on the brink of death
The only two US reactor projects now technically under construction are on the brink of death for financial reasons. Continue reading
We may yet lose Tokyo . . . not to mention Alaska . . . and now Georgia, too
As the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approves a construction/operating license for two new reactors in Georgia, alarming reports from Japan indicate the Fukushima catastrophe is far from over. Continue reading
Court to Vermont: ‘Drop dead’
A federal judge has told the people of Vermont that a solemn contract between them and reactor owner Entergy need not be honored. Continue reading
2012 is the year to finally bury nuke power
The year 2012 has opened with news that Fukushima’s radioactive cloud may already have killed some 14,000 Americans, according to a major study just published in the International Journal of Health Services. Continue reading
An 11/11 masterpiece cries out for peace
As the numerologists noted our arrival at 11/11/11, our attention is better focused on this day as the anniversary of the end of the useless, worthless, horrifying war that turned so much of 20th Century into a twisted, violent mess. And on how we must prevent the same from happening to our shiny new millennium. Continue reading
Where Occupy and No Nukes merge and win!
The global upheaval that is the Occupy Movement is hopefully in the process of changing—and saving—the world. Continue reading
Will a failed solar loan guarantee kill new nukes?
Republicans up in arms about the infamous failed federal $535 million loan guarantee for the Solyndra solar panel producer are finally tasked to apply the same standards to nuclear power. Continue reading
Can we stop the next Fukushima times 10,000?
The horrible news from Japan continues to be ignored by the Western corporate media Continue reading
Don’t nuke the budget!
America’s budget crisis has the world economy at the brink. Social Security, Medicare, aid for needy children, environmental protection and much more are being chopped. Continue reading
Fukushima spews, Los Alamos burns, Vermont rages and we’ve almost lost Nebraska
Humankind is now threatened by the simultaneous implosion, explosion, incineration, courtroom contempt and drowning of its most lethal industry. Continue reading
Are we on the brink of burying nuke power forever?
This may be the moment history has turned definitively against atomic energy. Continue reading
Nukes to America: ‘We don’t need no stinking fire protection’
At the end of John Huston’s 1948 classic “Treasure of Sierra Madre,” armed bandits tell Humphrey Bogart they are federal agents. Continue reading
Is Fukushima now 10 Chernobyls into the sea?
New readings show levels of radioisotopes found up to 30 kilometers offshore from the on-going crisis at Fukushima are 10 times higher than those measured in the Baltic and Black Seas during Chernobyl. Continue reading
Our future depends on stopping an attack on Iran
Posted on November 22, 2011 by Harvey Wasserman
The global Occupy Movement has come to life just in time. Continue reading →