Nuclear Power

Toshiba tells San Antonio its new twin $13 billion nukes will cost $4 billion more! This looks like a job for clean energy.

San Antonio balks at Toshiba nuclear deal 0
Posted 1 week, 1 day ago
Nuclear nonsense

Stewart Brand’s nuclear enthusiasm falls short on facts and logic 159
Posted 3 weeks, 3 days ago Stewart Brand has a new book coming out, Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto. Brand argues, among other things, that environmentalists should reconsider nuclear power. Amory Lovins responds with a thanks, but no thanks.
The Odd Couple

Sen. Lindsey Graham crosses the climate rubicon 0
Posted 3 weeks, 6 days ago Last week, I struck a hopeful note after GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham expressed interest in a climate bill compromise that included a carbon cap in exchange for support for some nuclear power and coastal drilling. But my expectations it would really happen remained low.
Baby carrots

How Senate Dems should lure GOP to a climate bill 9
Posted 1 month ago The greenosphere is abuzz with the news that a few Republican Senators are open to the climate bill if certain conditions are met. In classic form, Senate Dems are signalling their willingness -- no eagerness! -- to give the Republicans whatever they want.
THE NUCLEAR OPTION

Are there GOP senators who will back the climate bill? 4
Posted 1 month ago In July I speculated that Sen. Lamar Alexander might lead some Republicans to back a climate protection bill if Democratic leaders made some concessions regarding nuclear power. Since then, Alexander has imploded and Sen. Lindsey Graham has emerged as the GOP's climate dealmaker.
A Walk Through the Week's Climate News

The Climate Post: Gentlemen, start your lawsuits 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago First Things First: The Environmental Protection Agency proposed a regulation that if approved would force the largest industrial emitters, including utilities, energy-intensive manufacturing, and refineries, to invest in the cleanest available technology for new projects or major renovations.
don't get in the way, congress!

Growth in renewable energy outpaces nuclear, fossil fuels 2
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago
Sen. Jeff Bingaman answers Grist’s questions on the climate bill [VIDEO] 2
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) is chairman of the Energy & Natural Resources Committee and a key player on energy issues. In June, his committee voted to approve S. 1462, the American Clean Energy Leadership Act, an energy bill that may or may not be combined with a climate bill from Boxer's Environment & Public Works Committee (and possibly an allowance allocation bill from Baucus's Finance Committee) into a comprehensive bill to match the House's. Sen. Bingaman was kind enough to answer a few of our questions.
Nuke it

Lamar Alexander loves the earth too much to support solar and wind 12
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
One of the few Congressional Republicans who talks about the need to address climate change makes an interesting argument against wind and solar energy. It's a bogus argument, but still interesting.
EP in the FT

Glaciers, cheetahs, and nukes, oh my! 0
Posted 3 months ago
Financial Times South Asia Bureau Chief James Lamont has written a flood of environment-as-political-dialogue stories this week!
Why CO2 regulation will lead to lower electricity prices 2
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
Excluding those who question whether we need a greenhouse gas policy at all, the debate is fundamentally one about where certainty is most important. What all agree on is that uncertainty is unacceptable. But do we really have that much uncertainty?
financial meltdown

Nuclear plans hurting power companies’ credit ratings 1
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
Power companies pursuing construction of new nuclear plants may find it harder to get credit -- meaning ratepayers could end up shouldering a greater financial burden for the costly and environmentally harmful projects.
nuclear in the clear

Is the proposed clean energy agency a dirty deal for taxpayers and the environment? 0
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
U.S. lawmakers are considering legislation that would create a new independent federal agency to promote government investment in clean energy. But watchdogs are concerned about its bias toward nuclear power.
Are new nuclear plants the answer? No.

Oh, those sexy building codes: More powerful than 100 nuclear plants 2
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
All of the other emissions-reduction approaches in the House climate bill pale in comparison to what the building energy codes will accomplish. Without them, we simply cannot meet the greenhouse-gas emissions reduction targets called for in the bill. We won't even come close.
Stewart Brand proclaims 4 environmental ‘heresies’ 2
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Nuclear Bombshell: $26 Billion cost — $10,800 per kilowatt! — killed Ontario nuclear bid 0
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
GOP calls for 100 new nukes, which would cost some $1 trillion

Lamar Alexander (R-TN) calls nuclear “the cheap clean energy solution” 0
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
France imports UK electricity as summer heatwave puts a third of its nukes out of action 0
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
100 nuclear plants: The answer? 15
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Architecture 2030 is working on a better answer.
Lamar Alexander (R-Oak Ridge)

Tennessee Republican comes out swinging against cap-and-trade bill 0
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Sen. Lamar Alexander's (R-Tenn.), a day after he announced that he is not willing to work with Democrats on a climate change bill and instead unveiled his own nuclear-power-heavy proposal, is going out of his way to be a thorn in the side of Senate Democrats.