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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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Study: Conventional drilling waste responsible for radioactivity spike in rivers
Treatment plants that handle conventional oil and gas waste water are causing a buildup of radioactive materials at the bottom of three Western Pennsylvania waterways, according to a new study from researchers at Duke.
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Radioactivity from O&G wastewater persists in PA stream sediments
DURHAM, N.C. – More than seven years after Pennsylvania officials requested that the disposal of radium-laden fracking wastewater into surface waters be restricted, a new Duke University study finds that high levels of radioactivity persist in stream sediments at three disposal sites.
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Fracking = Pipelines = Eminent Domain
Time to think about all the things that occur when fracking begins. Fracking doesn’t just mean pulling gas from the ground, bringing radioactive materials to the surface, increasing the number and severity of earthquakes a relatively short distance from a nuclear power plant, overuse and pollution of scarce water resources, […]
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Appreciates ‘banning toxic, radioactive fracking waste’
We wish to publicly thank New Milford Mayor David Gronbach and Town Council for banning toxic, radioactive fracking waste. Cancer-causing PCBs were previously abandoned in our town at the Century Brass Factory. This was remediated, after decades, with expensive clean-up.
http://www.newmilfordspectrum.com/news/article/Appreciates-banning-toxic-radioactive-12205890.php
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