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Nuclear energy has always been a controversial issue. With the meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi plant this spring, increased concerns about climate change, and a global debate over the future of energy, this year is no exception. Nuclear advocates argue that it is a low-carbon alternative to fossil fuels that ... keep reading
Written by Andy Mannle last month, about Emissions, Energy Saving, Nuclear, Pollution
Almost nothing to see here, move along. Eight months after Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s six reactor Daichi Fuskuhima complex was rocked by an earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale and subsequent tsunami, both Tokyo and TEPCO maintain that the effects of the disaster have been ... keep reading
Written by John C.K. Daly last month, about Children and Families, Emissions, Environmental Disasters, Health, Nuclear
Tokyo Electric Power Co asked a government-backed bailout body on Tuesday for an additional 690 billion yen ($8.8 billion) to help compensate victims of the nuclear crisis at its Fukushima Daiichi power plant. To help Japan's biggest utility, known as Tepco, meet costs running into trillions of yen ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in December 2011, about Children and Families, Environmental Disasters, Finance & Money, Health, Industry & Business, Nuclear, Politics & Government, Population
Two members of Japan’s Diet call for the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station to be nationalized. Writing in a Comment article in this week’s Nature, two Members of the House of Representatives, Tomoyuki Taira and former prime minister Yukio Hatoyama, argue that public ownership is essential to bring ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in December 2011, about Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Emissions, Industry & Business, Nuclear
Due to increasing costs of production, a slowed demand for electricity, and fresh memories of disaster in Japan, production of nuclear power fell in 2011, according to the latest Vital Signs Online (VSO) report from the Worldwatch Institute. Despite reaching record levels the previous year, global installed nuclear capacity----the potential ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in December 2011, about Children and Families, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Emissions, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Nuclear, Politics & Government
Kazakhstan's international energy image is now that of one of the world's rising oil exporters, an extraordinary feat given that, two decades ago its hydrocarbon output was beyond insignificant when the USSR collapsed. The vast Central Asian nation, larger than Western Europe, has now quietly passed another energy ... keep reading
Written by John C.K. Daly in November 2011, about Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Emissions, Environmental Disasters, Nuclear, Politics & Government, Pollution, Population
Japan's six reactor Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex has inadvertently become the world's bell-weather poster child for the inherent risks of nuclear power ever since the 11 March Tohoku offshore earthquake, measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale, triggered a devastating tsunami that effectively destroyed the complex. Ever since ... keep reading
Written by John C.K. Daly in November 2011, about Children and Families, Health, Industry & Business, Media, Nuclear, Politics & Government, Pollution, Population, Water
On 30 May, in the aftermath of Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that Germany would close all of its 18 nuclear power plants between 2015 and 2022, which produce about 28 percent of the country's electricity. Eight have now been taken offline, and with ... keep reading
Written by John C.K. Daly in November 2011, about Clean Technologies, Economics, Emissions, Environmental Disasters, Finance & Money, Green energy, Health, Industry & Business, Nuclear, Solar
German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced on 30 May that Germany, the world's fourth-largest economy and Europe's biggest, would shutter all of its 17 nuclear power plants between 2015 and 2022, an extraordinary commitment, given that they currently produce about 28 percent of the country's electricity. Underlining the ... keep reading
Written by John C.K. Daly in October 2011, about Children and Families, Climate Change, Design, Emissions, Environmental Disasters, Green energy, Industry & Business, Nuclear, Solar
Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, a leading proponent of Germany phasing out nuclear power, has said that in the wake of Japan’s disastrous 11 March Fukushima nuclear accident that the country can both phase out nuclear power and become a pioneer in sources of alternative energy. In an interview ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in October 2011, about Climate Change, Emissions, Environmental Disasters, Green energy, Nuclear, Politics & Government, Solar
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