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Radioactive water and the 2013 VA Governor’s Race
I have an article in today’s National Memo on the politics of uranium mining in this year’s race for the governorship of Virginia: Radioactive?: “Uranium Mining Ban May Become Hot Issue In Virginia’s Election.” There’s a huge uranium deposit in … Continue reading
Transmuting language: changing “risks” to “safety”
What is the basis of the claim by proponents of nuclear power that nuclear power plants can be operated safely? For decades, nuclear proponents have defended the safety of nuclear plants using what they claimed were mathematically-sound probability estimates of … Continue reading
Posted in Hiding the Hazards: Reactor Safety, Nothing Can Go Wrong
Tagged 1984, language, Newspeak, nuclear, Orwell, probability
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Obama Misses the Boat on Renewables in Inaugural
Just how fast can we get renewable sources of electricity online? Nuclear power propagandists like to argue that we need a crash program to build hundreds of new nuclear plants because such a program is the only way to quickly … Continue reading
An Ocean of Subsidies
Reader Michael Ingram reminds us that there are four investors in the two new nuclear plants in Georgia– Southern (Georgia Power), Oglethorpe, MEAG, and Dalton Utilities—and that the federal government’s loan would be shared proportionally among them. But distributing the … Continue reading
Posted in There Isn't Any Choice
Tagged loan guarantees, Southern Co., subsidies, Votgle
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Nuclear Socialism Strikes Again
The nuclear industry is all atwitter (in the ancient sense of the word) at the possibility that an American utility may soon receive permission to build the first new nuclear plants in more than 30 years. These plants may get … Continue reading
Posted in There Isn't Any Choice
Tagged Fukushima, NRC, nuclear renaissance, nuclear socialism, Souther Co, subsidies, Votgle
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Nukespeak is a classic!
Award-winning investigative journalist Karl Grossman interviews Nukespeak co-author Rory O’Connor on Grossman’s nationally-aired TV program, Enviro-Close-Up. Grossman has been a journalist for more than 40 years, and is a professor of journalism at the State University of New York/College at … Continue reading
Talking Nukespeak with The Catskill Review of Books
WJFF radio host Ian Williams interviews Rory O’Connor on his December 17, 2011 radio show, The Catskill Review of Books. Williams notes that he has a personal connection to the 1986 accident at Chernobyl, subject of one of the four … Continue reading
Unthinking the Thinkable
Nukespeak co-author Rory O’Connor joins long-time anti-nuclear campaigner and author Harvey Wasserman for the first studio interview on Wasserman’s Green Power & Wellness Show on the Progressive Radio Network. O’Connor and Wasserman review recent developments from the on-going catastrophe in … Continue reading
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Coal Swamping Nuclear in China
China is a poster child for the nuclear industry’s argument that “there isn’t any choice” but to build hundreds of new nuclear reactors worldwide if we want to stop global warming. The country has 14 reactors in operation, and more … Continue reading
Posted in There Isn't Any Choice
Tagged climate change, CO2, coal, Durban, global warming, J.R. McNeill
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Please Don’t Drink the Water
Japanese officials are hell-bent on using their own bodies to demonstrate how well the Japanese government is managing the fallout from Fukushima. Last April, we wrote about Japanese officials eating at a government cafeteria where the chef had topped the … Continue reading
Posted in Hotter than a $2 pistol, The Ministry of Truth
Tagged BSE, Cordelia Gummer, DDT, Fukushima, Japan, John Gummer, public relations, radiation, vCJD, Yasuhiro Sonoda
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