I guess so.  I mean from a purely selfish viewpoint it would be a bummer not to have pretty trees, lovely fish and cool animals like hippopotami. I do appreciate that bacteria and cockroaches are super survivalists, but losing species that need pristine ...read more

There is another Super Storm coming. The weak political and economic state of the European Union gives the United States an opportunity to create our second global economic surge. To do this requires that the United States focus on itself.  The productivity ...read more

Hurricane Sandy is just the latest in a growing number of severe weather events. Last week was also a surprise quiz on what infrastructure stands up to extreme weather and what doesn’t. ...read more

As Hurricane Sandy made landfall in New Jersey, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued an alert about rising waters at the Oyster Creek Nuclear Plant (The Seattle PI). Alarmists may take it as reason to shut all nuclear power in America, but there's ...read more

With all the uproar over Iran’s nuclear weapons program, reckless speculation on attacks and the latest Iranian cyberthreat, does anyone care that Iran just brought up to full power the only commercial nuclear energy reactor in the Middle East? Of the ...read more

The cost of shutting down Germany’s nuclear program won’t fall on the back of heavy industry, like first feared. It will fall on the backs of citizens. Germany’s Renewable Energy Act (EEG) guarantees that renewables are taken onto the grid by the utilities ...read more

No one wants to make a decision on nuclear power in Japan. This is not surprising since the weak regulatory environment and complicity between government and industry in Japan led to the Fukushima disaster in the first place. ...read more

When I read John Funk’s post about a pair of goldfish found in a steam tunnel at a nuclear power plant, the first things that came to mind were Homer Simpson and PETA. Apparently, the same thing happened for many other people, too.  But not the NRC, the ...read more

The Obama Administration made a bold and correct scientific decision last month to allow risk-based decisions to guide responses to radiological events like a dirty bomb attack or a nuclear reactor accident. And not to treat it like a superfund site. ...read more