Archive | Nuclear

 The Flamanville fiasco shows once again that new nuclear power plants are not being built on time or on budget, diminishing the arguments in favour of them. (more…)

“The government has no choice but to change its energy policy in the direction of reducing Japan’s dependence on nuclear power and expanding the use of renewable sources.” (more…)

The Japanese people must simultaneously face the consequences of the earthquake, the tsunami and the Fukushima disaster. The Japanese crisis makes no exception to the rule: in time of humanitarian disaster class domination strengthens more than it is blurred in the name of solidarity.  (more…)

“I soon came to the conclusion that neither international cooperation nor technological advancements would guarantee human societies to build and safely run nuclear reactors”

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is rubber-stamping applications to extend the life of nuclear plants by 50%, with no independent safety review. The industry claims the reactors were not designed for a specific life span. They lie. (more…)

Time after time, the report finds missing measures obviously should have been in place. Unforeseen events are a certainty, with hugely costly consequences. That means nuclear power is not safe or, given the colossal clean-up costs, cheap. (more…)

Federal regulators have been working closely with the nuclear power industry to keep the nation’s aging reactors operating within safety standards by repeatedly weakening those standards, or simply failing to enforce them, an investigation by The Associated Press has found. (more…)

US nuclear expert: “We are finding hot spots further away than we had from Chernobyl, and the amount of radiation in many of them was the amount that caused areas to be declared no-man’s-land for Chernobyl. We are seeing square kilometres being found 60 to 70 kilometres away from the reactor. You can’t clean all […]

The land area rendered uninhabitable is 17 times the size of Manhattan Island … and dangerous levels of radiation extend 50 miles out to sea, contaminating a major source of Japan’s food. (more…)

Climate and Capitalism has frequently published articles by greens and socialists arguing that nuclear power is innately dangerous and must be stopped. Below, two veteran socialists argue that the anti-nuke position is based on “fear and fantasy,” and that only nuclear power can meet society’s energy needs. (more…)

The Fukushima disaster shows once again that for  capitalism,  the health and life of workers,  neighbouring populations, and the victims of the pollution is just an adjustable variable, like wages (more…)

Amory Lovins:“Nuclear is such a slow and costly climate solution, it actually reduces and retards climate protection” (more…)

British journalist George Monbiot has come out in favor of nuclear power. Do his arguments hold up? (more…)

Fossil and nuclear fuels are at war with the environment and with basic human rights. Until we shut down all the nuclear plants and get off of fossil and nuclear fuels, we’re not going to have any kind of social democracy. (more…)

Since 2003, the big Japanese private group Tepco has focused on “reduction of costs of maintenance” in order to render profits “secure” (more…)

The debate about nuclear power is primarily political, a debate society must have that ultimately poses a choice of civilization (more…)

Nuclear industry practices and government policies set the stage for the nuclear disaster in Japan (more…)