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After community uproar in Colorado, company withdraws all Rocky Flats fracking permits
This article discusses a company’s withdrawal of fracking permit requests in the face of significant resistance from local anti-fracking activists. The company wanted to frack for oil and gas close to the former nuclear weapons facility.
In a press release issued this afternoon, Highland Natural Resources has announced that they […]
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Report: Abandoning nuclear power plans ‘would push up carbon emissions’
This article discusses how abandoning nuclear power plans ‘would push up carbon emissions’. Report due to be published on Thursday warns of ‘folly of technological tribalism’.
Nuclear power has a downside, though, its waste. Since we currently cannot make the waste safe, what should we do?
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Are Coastal Nuclear Power Plants Ready for Sea-Level Rise? No.
This article discusses the nuclear power industry and sea level rise. As shorelines creep inland and storms worsen, nuclear reactors around the world face new challenges. Are they ready?
The outer defensive wall of what is expected to be the world’s most expensive nuclear power station is taking shape […]
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2018 Is Shaping Up to Be the Fourth-Hottest Year. Yet We’re Still Not Prepared for Global Warming.
This article discusses how the planet is heating up, and we are not doing enough to stop it.
This summer of fire and swelter looks a lot like the future that scientists have been warning about in the era of climate change, and it’s revealing in real time how unprepared […]
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WHAT ARE COASTAL NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS DOING TO ADDRESS CLIMATE THREATS?
This article discusses how, as shorelines creep inland and storms worsen, nuclear reactors around the world face new challenges.
The outer defensive wall of what is expected to be the world’s most expensive nuclear power station is taking shape on the shoreline of the choppy gray waters of the Bristol […]
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Study: Fearing climate change, experts in San Diego warn U.S. nuclear industry faces collapse
This article discusses the impending collapse of the nuclear energy industry. The United States is on the verge of losing more than half of its low-carbon energy as the fight against climate change reaches a critical point — a reality the country hasn’t fully grappled with.
That’s according to findings recently […]
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USGS: Small earthquake detected in Louisa
This article discusses a recent earthquake in Louisa County, near the Lake Anna Nuclear Power Plant.
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The 60-Year Downfall of Nuclear Power in the U.S. Has Left a Huge Mess
This article discusses the demise of nuclear power, and the problems it will leave behind. This article is a must read if you want to understand just how bad nuclear power clean-up is.
The demand for atomic energy is in decline. But before the country can abandon its plants, there’s […]
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US Renewable Energy Generation Now Close to Nuclear
The latest data from Bloomberg’s New Energy Finance (BNEF) shows renewables increased to 18 percent of energy generation in 2017—but natural gas is still king. While U.S. clean energy installations lagged, a record amount of capacity brought online in 2016 drove generation from renewables (including hydropower) in 2017 to […]
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WHY IS FRACKING WASTEWATER RADIOACTIVE?
Originally published on April 3, 2015. Filmmaker Josh Kurz and The Allegheny Front’s Reid Frazier created this explainer about why the wastewater created during fracking for oil and natural gas—flowback—is radioactive. And just where does that dirty, salty waste water go? It’s fracking amazing.
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