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• Anti-Nuke Hypocrisies

  Barry Brook published a great piece on the contradictory thinking of anti-nuclear environmentalists . It was posted a few days ago and is now up to almost 100 comments. He’s found 32 hypocrisies so far (with the help of others) and below is a taste of a few: 1. They claim renewables can replace fossil fuels, then can’t see the problem with leaning on fossil fuel gas to back them up when they fail to... Posted Jan 19 2010, 07:00 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: NEI, opinion, activists, anti-nuclear, antinuclear, op-ed, hypocrisies

• Time Enough for Nuclear Energy

  Generally speaking, folks who dislike nuclear energy have lost their footing a bit because the pressing energy issue of the day – climate change – seeks solutions that nuclear energy readily provides. A fair number of former anti-nuclear   advocates have put the issues on the scale and found the risks of nuclear energy, as they perceive them, acceptable versus the potential fate of the planet... Posted Nov 19 2009, 11:03 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: activists, Nuclear, climate, Climate Change, antinuclear, power, energygy, nuclear blogs

• Stewart Brand and Amory Lovins Debate about Nuclear on NPR's OnPoint

  Tom Ashbrook from NPR's OnPoint got the two to cordially hash out their opposing views on nuclear . Though the conversation lasted for about 12 minutes, not much was actually debated. I guess a good debate is what the blogosphere is for. So far I haven't seen much praise for Lovins' latest piece, in fact it looks like in the comments section at Grist, his supporters were rather thin. Rod... Posted Oct 21 2009, 04:45 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: NPR, power generation, opinion, discussion, activists, Nuclear, antinuclear

• What Environmentalists Know

  Ken Edelstein over at Mother Nature News acknowledges that what we might call “classic” environmentalists, those raised on the Whole Earth Catalog and the No Nukes concerts, might have a bit of a problem . How much less politically radioactive nuclear power has become was underscored Oct. 11 in a Sunday New York Times op-ed co-written by Sen. John Kerry . As Massachusetts’ lieutenant governor and then... Posted Oct 19 2009, 05:15 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: New York Times, activists, extremists, no nukes, john kerry, mother nature news

• Is Greenpeace Lessening Its Anti-Nuclear Stance?

  Probably not in the U.S., but in the UK they may be lessening their anti-nuclear stance. World Nuclear News has the story : The latest manifesto from Greenpeace UK is the first ever with no explicit anti-nuclear policies. It was launched with the tagline "Change the politics. Save the climate." ... Most of the 12 goals were expressed in terms of 'low-carbon' energy, which should supply... Posted Oct 13 2009, 12:15 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Greenpeace, activists, policy, extremists, anti-nuclear, antinuclear, greenpeace uk

• Texas, Russia and Greenpeace Gripes

  Let’s peek in on some stories we’ve been following and see what’s what: The South Texas Project wants to build a new unit on its site and has found strong support from the San Antonio Express News: CPS customers pay rates that are routinely among the lowest of any major utility in the country. That's a key element in the Alamo City's affordability, lowering the cost of living for individuals... Posted Oct 05 2009, 03:41 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Greenpeace, South Texas Project, Russia, Texas, activists, STP, cps energy, rates

• Doubling Down on Nuclear with the EIA

  The Washington Times, which acts in DC as a counterweight to the more liberal (and far more influential) Washington Post, writes today about a report (the full report in PDF) from the Energy Information Administration on the Waxman Markey climate change bill. For the nuclear industry, its conclusions are pretty spectacular, especially since EIA’s reports are heavily referenced in Congress and help... Posted Aug 12 2009, 02:06 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Nuclear Energy, legislation, activists, Washington Times, waxman-markey

• The Unbending Squirrel

  Activism should be fun, pro- or anti-whatever, since the rewards of activism are often frustration, lost friends, and learning what it is to be called fanatic. So a bow to the unbending squirrel : A French anti-nuclear activist nicknamed the "unbending squirrel" managed to stop a train carrying uranium from a German processing plant in spectacular fashion, police said on Tuesday. Cecile Lecomte... Posted Apr 28 2009, 02:33 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Politics and Nuclear Power, Uranium, activists