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'Safe or disposable or something like that' McCain mystified by Obama's concerns over nuclear	David Roberts	07 Oct 2008	Gristmill
Besides Obama's prioritization of energy, there was another particularly striking moment in the debate. (And I'm not talking about McCain referring to Obama as "that one.") In the midst of an answer on climate change, McCain said: Now, how -- what's -- what's the best way of fixing [climate change]? Nuclear power. Sen. Obama says that it has to be safe or disposable or something like that. Look, I was on Navy ships that had nuclear power plants. Nu ...
Topics: climate change, energy, John McCain, nuclear power, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Go tell it on the mountain Will the push to open Yucca Mountain shift Nevada toward Obama?	Kate Sheppard	01 Oct 2008	Gristmill
The Bush administration is pushing full speed ahead with plans to store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain -- and that could affect the presidential race in the battleground state of Nevada, where John McCain and Barack Obama are in a dead heat. Last month, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission agreed to review the federal government's license application for the site, where it wants to store spent fuel from nuclear plants around the U.S. as well as military nuclear w ...
Topics: Barack Obama, John McCain, presidential race 08, nuclear power, energy, politics, Muckraker (all these topics)

Job mentality Where does McCain get his claim that nuclear will create 700,000 jobs?	David Roberts	29 Sep 2008	Gristmill
In this post, I questioned John McCain's claim that building 45 new nuclear reactors between now and 2030 would create 700,000 new jobs. I couldn't find any numbers to back the claim up, and plenty of numbers that cast doubt on it. I contacted the campaign, and they sent along a 2004 study called "U.S. Job Creation Due to Nuclear Power Resurgence in the United States," co-produced by the DOE's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory an ...
Topics: elections, energy, politics, presidential race 08, John McCain, nuclear power, economy, green jobs (all these topics)

Confusing future presidents, part 2 Physics For Future Presidents twists facts on electric vehicles and nuclear blasts	Joseph Romm	16 Sep 2008	Gristmill
The following post is by Earl Killian, guest blogger at Climate Progress. ----- Part 1 of this book review looked at the (mis)handling of climate science in two books by Professor Richard A. Muller -- his textbook and general public book, which, confusingly, are both named Physics for Future Presidents. Here I turn to portions of the general public book, such as the chapters on climate solutions, his treatment of terrorist nukes, and even his unsubstantiated dissi ...
Topics: books, electric vehicles, energy, hybrids, national security, nuclear power (all these topics)

Bipartisan nuke subsidies Gang of 20 energy bill contains 'most significant taxpayer-backed boost to nuclear power ever'	David Roberts	15 Sep 2008	Gristmill
There's heated debate in green circles about the Gang of 20 Senate energy bill -- the New Energy Reform Act of 2008 -- which would open up some offshore drilling in exchange for modest support for alternatives, paid for by closing tax loopholes that benefit the oil industry. What hasn't gotten much press is that the bill also offers unlimited taxpayer loan guarantees for new reactor construction, what Michael Mariotte of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service ...
Topics: energy, legislation, nuclear power, offshore drilling, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

A nuclear revival McCain's nuclear plan would cost $315 billion, with taxpayers risking over $100 billion	Joseph Romm	13 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Finally, a serious publication did the math: John McCain's plan to revive the U.S. nuclear power industry with 45 new reactors may cost $315 billion, with taxpayers bearing much of the financial risk. Who else should bear the financial risk? After all, taxpayers bear the meltdown risk thanks to the Price-Anderson Act. Why should a mature industry with 20 percent market share bear any risk at all? The Republican presidential nominee wants the plants built in ti ...
Topics: economy, energy, energy subsidies, John McCain, nuclear power, politics (all these topics)

Down in the Dump Over Nevadan objections, Yucca Mountain repository inches forward		08 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 2:38 PM on 08 Sep 2008 Nevada's Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump inched forward Monday as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission agreed to formally review the feds' license application for the site. It will likely take the NRC four years or so to peruse the Department of Energy's 8,600-page application and decide whether to give Yucca the go-ahead. Attorneys for the state of Nevada, which is highly disinter ...
Topics: Department of Energy, energy, Nevada, news, nuclear power, waste (all these topics)

Double pandered Media focuses on high costs of clean energy, but gives nuclear a free pass	Miles Grant	26 Aug 2008	Gristmill
When the media talks about clean energy, it usually deals with the cost issue with a rational, balanced analysis. Something along the lines of, say, 'It's so expensive!' Yet somehow, in Keith Johnson's Environmental Capital blog post today slamming greens for not supporting nukes, the cost issue is little more than an afterthought. The nuclear industry wants $50 billion in loan guarantees? Hardly seems worth mentioning. A full 320 words into a 346 word post, Johnson ...
Topics: energy, energy subsidies, mainstream media, nuclear power (all these topics)

Energy at the crossroads Carbon sequestration is a GM solution; we need a Honda solution	Guest author	25 Aug 2008	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay from Peter Montague, executive director of the Environmental Research Foundation. ----- Vaclav Smil is a historian of technical advances -- particularly in the field of energy -- and a Distinguished Professor at the University of Manitoba in Canada. Over the years, Smil has written more than 25 books and many dozens of articles. In recent years he has been examining human uses of energy over past millennia. As Smil says [PDF], " ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, energy, ethanol, nuclear power (all these topics)

The (renewable) electron economy, part 8 A choice of primary energies: nuclear power takes the silver	Michael Hoexter	25 Aug 2008	Gristmill
In light of concerns about climate change, some enviros as well as those within the nuclear industry have emphasized nuclear energy's carbon neutrality. In light of concerns about climate change, the role of nuclear power in a future or transitional energy system has been re-evaluated. Worries about nuclear plant safety, nuclear weapons proliferation, and nuclear waste are being balanced against the fact that nuclear plants, during their operation, do ...
Topics: nuclear power, energy, renewable energy (all these topics)

Is Obama's energy plan change we can believe in? Toward a sensible energy plan	Jon Rynn	20 Aug 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest post by Ted Glick, the policy director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network/U.S. Climate Emergency Council. He can be reached at usajointheworld@igc.org. He is author of 'Past Future Hope' columns. ----- On August 4, the Barack Obama presidential campaign released a comprehensive program for reform of the U.S. energy system. In the words of Obama supporter, climate blogger, and author Joe Romm, it was 'easily the best energy plan ever put forward by a ...
Topics: Barack Obama, carbon sequestration, climate, climate science, energy, nuclear power, presidential race 08, renewable energy (all these topics)

Brit's Eye View: Summer skirmishes A roundup of energy and climate news from the U.K.	Ben Tuxworth	18 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Ben Tuxworth, communications director at Forum for the Future, writes a monthly column for Gristmill on sustainability in the U.K. and Europe. ----- Like pretty much every other English person I know, I'm currently on holiday in France. The Vendee region makes for a pleasant alternative to Britain at this time of year, and just down the road is La Rochelle, which was part of England until, oh, about 500 years ago. The two nations are deep in a classic love-ha ...
Topics: climate, energy, France, nuclear power, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Nuclear energy is from Mars, part two Why is nuclear energy what 'real men' support?	David Roberts	18 Aug 2008	Gristmill
On Friday, I pointed to some survey results showing that more men than women support nuclear power, by a 72-40 percent margin. Today, I was reading a Lou Aguilar piece in National Review called "Real Men Vote for McCain" -- which as far as I can tell is not parody, though it's difficult to be sure these days -- and I ran across this: 3. McCain supports nuclear power. Obama backs wind energy. Put aside the merits. I want to focus on a specific question: ...
Topics: energy, nuclear power, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

The pretender Why McCain hates renewables but pretends he loves them	Joseph Romm	15 Aug 2008	Gristmill
McCain has been an opponent of renewable energy all his political life. Why? He is a conservative -- and that is what conservatives do. The GOP's ultra-rich big energy donors don't like competition and dole out millions to get their way. He has long been uncomfortable around cutting edge technology -- witness his Internet illiteracy. As a former FCC chair put it, 'Basically, John is a technological troglodyte, and proud of it.' And yet in his speeches an ...
Topics: energy, fossil fuels, John McCain, mainstream media, nuclear power, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Price subsidy How much of a subsidy is the Price-Anderson Nuclear Industry Indemnity Act?	Joseph Romm	09 Aug 2008	Gristmill
The answer is perhaps as high as a hundred billion dollars. First some background. I testified in front of the Senate Environment and Public Works committee in July. In my testimony, 'The High Cost of Nuclear Power,' I pointed out the obvious -- that nuclear is a mature source of power that has benefited disproportionately from government support to date: From 1948 to today, nuclear energy research and development exceeded $70 billion, whereas research and develo ...
Topics: energy, energy subsidies, legislation, nuclear power (all these topics)

Waste spending Nuclear storage spending at Yucca jumps 38 percent to $96 billion	Joseph Romm	08 Aug 2008	Gristmill
New nuclear power plants aren't cheap. Neither is storing their waste. E&E News ($ub. req'd) reports on at Yucca Mountain: DOE has spent $13.5 billion since 1983, and figures to spend $54.8 billion on construction, operation and decommissioning of the repository; $19.5 billion for transporting the waste -- including building the canisters for holding waste; and $8.4 billion for other program activities.The report notes that the expenses were based on a reposi ...
Topics: energy, nuclear power, waste (all these topics)

Expanding Waste Estimated cost of Nevada nuke-waste dump soars		05 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 3:46 PM on 05 Aug 2008 The total cost of dumping nuclear waste at Nevada's Yucca Mountain repository will hit $96.2 billion, the Department of Energy estimated Tuesday. The estimate has jumped 38 percent, excluding inflation, since 2001. And it assumes no new construction of nuclear reactors; to put that in perspective, John McCain is pushing for the U.S. to build up to 45 new nuclear plants by 2030. The Energy Department ...
Topics: Department of Energy, energy, Nevada, news, nuclear power (all these topics)

Radiation exposed Low doses of radiation can cause harm; coal plants worse than nuclear plants	Joseph Romm	02 Aug 2008	Gristmill
The effect of radiation is not a subject I blog on a great deal, although it is a subject I have studied a great deal. Indeed, my uncle, a former nuclear physics professor at MIT, started our family Radon testing business, which was sold off years ago. I asserted that people should be worried about low doses of radiation, especially cumulatively over time. Charles Barton of The Nuclear Green Revolution commented, 'Your low doses over time assertion has been repe ...
Topics: coal, energy, health, nuclear power (all these topics)

The nukes of hazard French independent nuclear commission reports four malfunctions in four plants in 15 days	Joseph Romm	31 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Just when you thought it was safe to build 45 new nuclear plants by 2030 as John McCain wants, comes this word from France's Independent Commission on Research and Information on Radiocactivity (CRIIRAD): 'In less than 15 days, the CRIIRAD has been informed of four malfunctions in four nuclear plants, leading to the accidental contamination of 126 workers,' CRIIRAD head Corinne Castanier told Reuters in an interview ... But the conservative francophile said last ...
Topics: energy, France, John McCain, nuclear power, toxics (all these topics)

FERC releases reports Feds note electric rate increases and high construction costs for nuclear and coal	Sean Casten	21 Jul 2008	Gristmill
An interesting new report [PDF] from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission seeks to explain why electric prices are currently increasing so dramatically. They lay most of the blame on rising fuel costs and rising commodity costs (copper, steel, etc.), which is certainly contributory, but in my opinion deceptive, since it suggests that -- but for commodity volatility -- things could be hunky-dory again. This implicitly diminishes the fact that we're entering a buil ...
Topics: coal, energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, nuclear power (all these topics)

Eiffel and I Can Get Up Greenpeacers climb Eiffel Tower in anti-nuclear protest		14 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 10:33 AM on 14 Jul 2008 About 15 Greenpeace activists scaled the Eiffel Tower Sunday and unveiled a banner to protest France's nuclear-energy policies. France uses more nuclear power than any other E.U. nation. "Since he was elected, President Nicolas Sarkozy has done everything he could to sell nuclear energy," Greenpeace said in a statement. "At the U.N., as head of the European council, or ...
Topics: energy, France, grassroots activism, Greenpeace, news, nuclear power (all these topics)

Waste line McCain on nuclear waste problem	Kate Sheppard	25 Jun 2008	Gristmill
With John McCain in Nevada today promoting, among other things, his love of nuclear power, Sierra Club is circulating this video of McCain talking about nuclear waste. McCain's a proponent of using Yucca Mountain to dispose of the waste, and a lot of Nevadans don't like that idea very much. In the video, though, he appears to say that despite his support of dumping in a neighboring state, he wouldn't feel comfortable with nuclear waste traveling through his home s ...
Topics: energy, John McCain, nuclear power, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics)

For Your Energy Information Global energy demand will grow 50 percent by 2030, says EIA		25 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 3:07 PM on 25 Jun 2008 The world isn't going to kick its energy-sucking habits anytime soon, the U.S. Energy Information Administration predicted Wednesday. By 2030, global energy demand will grow 50 percent, says the EIA report, mostly in China and other developing countries. Some 124 new nuclear plants will be built worldwide by 2030, and natural gas will be in demand to "replace oil whereve ...
Topics: coal, energy, natural gas, news, nuclear power, renewable energy (all these topics)

Nuclear deterrence, part two Lovins and Sheikh defend definition and record of micropower	Guest author	20 Jun 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest essay from Amory B. Lovins and Imran Sheikh of the Rocky Mountain Institute. It is part two of a series; see part one here. ----- Part two of David Bradish's critical look at 'The Nuclear Illusion' (PDF) raises two additional issues to which we respond here. As in his first critique, it appears that, unable to rebut and hence unwilling to address our paper's data and logic, Mr. Bradish must content himself with trying to manufacture an illus ...
Topics: Amory Lovins, energy, nuclear power, renewable energy (all these topics)

Big bad boom Radioactive deja vu in the American West	David Roberts	20 Jun 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest essay from Chip Ward, author and board member of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. It was originally published on TomDispatch and is republished here with Tom's kind permission. ----- In the American West, we take global warming personally. Like those polar bears desperately hunting for dwindling ice flows, we feel we're on the frontlines of the new weather regime. The West is drying up. For example, canyon-hugging conservationists ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, environmental movement, nuclear power, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

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